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After 450 laps of racing at North Wilkesboro, Joey Logano secured his first win of the 2026 season, and jumped back above the Chase cut-line with a huge points day.
At the very top of the standings, Denny Hamlin extended his advantage after a mid-race incident for Tyler Reddick and a late-race speeding penalty for Ryan Blaney. Hamlin now holds a 68-point lead over Reddick, with Blaney 87 points ...Keep reading

Joey Logano led 323 of 450 laps (a new personal record) at North Wilkesboro, becoming the first driver to win a points-paying Cup race at the historic track since Jeff Gordon three decades ago.
He crossed the line 0.859s ahead of Denny Hamlin, who led a trio of Joe Gibbs Racing cars with Chase Briscoe third and Ty Gibbs fourth. Shane van Gisbergen matched his career-best oval finish in fifth ...Keep reading

There was no stopping Joey Logano in NASCAR's first points-paying Cup race at North Wilkesboro in three decades. The Team Penske driver led 323 of 450 laps, taking a commanding victory and his first of the 2026 season. That beats Logano's own personal record for laps led in a single race (previously 309 at Martinsville in 2018).
Logano now has 38 career wins, and that win vaulted him above the ...Keep reading

Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli celebrated his Belgian Grand Prix victory with a public birthday message for his father, Marco.
Antonelli, who started from pole position, secured his sixth win of the season at Spa-Francorchamps after fending off Ferrari's Charles Leclerc. Following his post-race interview, the 19-year-old signed the bottle of Moët & Chandon champagne with the message, "Happy ...Keep reading

There will be no IndyCar race on Sunday night. The race was originally supposed to go green around 5:35pm EST, but delayed well over an hour due to the FIFA World Cup Finals. Spain and Argentina were tied 0-0, putting the game into extra time, with Spain ultimately securing their first World Cup title since 2010 in a 1-0 victory.
But just as coverage wrapped for the World Cup on FOX, rain and ...Keep reading

One week on from Kimi Antonelli hitting trouble and George Russell being brought back into the fight, the tables turned once more in the Ardennes hills. Meanwhile, some of Mercedes' closest rivals all turned up with improved performance to add a little zest to the 2026 season.
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Bernie Collins and Karun Chandhok have praised Red Bull's Isack Hadjar after a stellar weekend at the Belgian Grand Prix.
The Sky Sports Formula 1 pundits applauded the French-Algerian driver for being the ultimate team player in qualifying and his charge from the back of the grid to finish sixth in the race.
Entering the 10th round of the 2026 season at Spa-Francorchamps, Hadjar faced a ...Keep reading

Negotiating traffic is a fact of life in Formula 1 racing, all the more so given the current pace differential between the front and back of the grid in a new regulatory era.
It was especially unfortunate for Charles Leclerc to be locked in a battle for the lead of the Belgian Grand Prix when he came up to lap one of the slowest cars on the grid – in a particularly awkward location on ...Keep reading

Matteo Nannini led a 1-2 finish for Cape Motorsports Powered by ECR in the Indy NXT round at Nashville Superspeedway.
After starting on pole, the Italian was able to fend off all rivals, including teammate Nikita Johnson, to win by 5.6449s at the 1.33-mile concrete oval. It’s Nannini’s third career win, and second of the season. 
“I knew that we had the car to stay up front,” ...Keep reading

Mercedes Formula 1 chief Toto Wolff revealed all Mercedes powered cars suffered with a lack of energy deployment at the Belgian Grand Prix start, with George Russell the biggest victim of an unknown battery glitch.
Russell started third at Spa-Francorchamps but soon fell back into the pack on the Kemmel straight as he lacked battery charge from Eau Rouge onwards, suffering a charging issue ...Keep reading

George Russell finds himself in "new territory" and must demand engineering answers to cure a severe straightline speed deficit, according to former Formula 1 driver and Sky Sports pundit Karun Chandhok.
Russell's Belgian Grand Prix ended on the second lap of the race at Spa-Francorchamps after a collision with seven-time champion and his former team-mate Lewis Hamilton. 
While evaluating ...Keep reading

Red Bull's Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix weekend turned out slightly better than expected. After all the struggles at Silverstone, team principal Laurent Mekies had anticipated another difficult weekend at what he described as an "energy-starved circuit", but in reality it proved less problematic.
Max Verstappen made a strong start to the weekend on Friday and followed it up on Saturday by ...Keep reading

Oscar Piastri expressed his disapproval regarding Belgian Grand Prix stewards’ decision not to even give Charles Leclerc a warning following their collision in Sunday’s Formula 1 race.
Leclerc and Piastri were battling for third place on lap eight when the McLaren driver positioned his car on the outside of the Ferrari coming into the braking zone at Les Combes. However, Leclerc’s ...Keep reading

The mechanic hit by Lewis Hamilton during Formula 1’s Belgian Grand Prix pitstop escaped without injury, Ferrari confirmed, with the team fined 30,000 euro for an unsafe release.
Hamilton came in under a virtual safety car on lap 20 to serve his only pitstop as well as a five-second hold for his role in the first-lap contact with George Russell.
After changing the tyres, a mechanic ...Keep reading

Both Lewis Hamilton and his Ferrari team boss, Frederic Vasseur, profoundly disagree with the five-second penalty he received for a collision with George Russell’s Mercedes on the opening lap of the Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix.
"I think it's mega harsh," said Vasseur after the race. "If you have a look on the corner, Russell had enough space on the left-hand side, it's not that he was ...Keep reading

Sami Pajari surprised himself with his dominance on the way to a maiden World Rally Championship win at Rally Estonia that came as a “big relief” after previously coming close to glory.
The Toyota driver led from start to finish, winning 12 of the 18 fast gravel stages on his way to sealing a memorable win by 19.5s from team-mate Oliver Solberg.
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Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli has been lauded for his maturity following a hard-fought victory at the Belgian Grand Prix, with former Formula 1 strategist and Sky Sports analyst Bernie Collins pointing to the vital role of his race engineer, Peter 'Bono' Bonnington.
Starting from pole position at Spa-Francorchamps, Antonelli delivered another strong performance to claim his sixth victory of ...Keep reading

Sky Sports F1 pundit Naomi Schiff has commended Kimi Antonelli for a "solid and well-deserved" drive to victory at the Belgian Grand Prix, while noting how entertaining it was to see Charles Leclerc keep the race winner on his toes.
Antonelli secured his sixth grand prix victory of the season at Spa-Francorchamps after starting from pole position and fending off Ferrari driver Leclerc ...Keep reading

Charles Leclerc avoided a penalty for a clash with Oscar Piastri during the Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix after the stewards judged the Ferrari driver didn’t deliberately instigate the contact.
On lap eight of the Spa-Francorchamps race, Leclerc and Piastri were battling for third place down the Kemmel Straight and into Les Combes. Under braking for the corner, Leclerc defended his position ...Keep reading

Ferrari has been summoned to visit the Formula 1 stewards' office following Lewis Hamilton's apparent unsafe release during the Belgian Grand Prix, in which he knocked down a mechanic as he left his pit box.
In his lap 20 pitstop under the virtual safety car, Hamilton had just served a five-second penalty as the stewards deemed him to be at fault for the first-lap contact with George Russell - ...Keep reading