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How could this happen? The decision by race control to call a Full Course Yellow shortly after Marco Mapelli, Ben Dorr, and Ricardo Feller entered the pit lane propelled the trio to the front - and robbed Nicki Thiim of his first Aston Martin victory in the DTM at the Lausitzring on Saturday. It brought back memories of Oschersleben 2024, when an unfortunate FCY phase moved Marco Wittmann from ...Keep reading

There is dominant, and then there is historical.
Alex Palou is rapidly pushing his career into the latter category.
The reigning and four-time IndyCar Series champion added yet another milestone to his legendary resume on Saturday, capturing the pole position for Sunday’s XPEL Grand Prix at Road America. 
Driving the #10 Chip Ganassi Racing (CGR) Honda, the 29-year-old Spaniard clocked ...Keep reading

NASCAR enthusiasts are familiar with what happens to tires at Bristol when the ambient temperature drops below 60 degrees -- the tires get chewed-up and it becomes a beach of marbles on both sides of the racing surface.
As it turns out, the same thing is happening this weekend at Naval Air Station North Island, as better articulated by Chase Briscoe.
"It's as if Darlington and old Atlanta ...Keep reading

Christian Lundgaard will have his work cut out for him in tomorrow’s IndyCar Series round at Road America after narrowly missing out on the Fast 12 during a frustrating qualifying session. 
The 24-year-old Danish driver has endured a rough weekend to this point at the 4.014-mile, 14-turn natural terrain road course. While he ended up next to last in the second practice session, it was ...Keep reading

Alex Palou and Chip Ganassi Racing's magical qualifying run continued as he stormed to pole for the XPEL Grand Prix at Road America.
The reigning and four-time IndyCar Series champion delivered a stellar flying lap of 1m43.6615s in the final minute of qualifying to go to the top, which was enough to hold firm at the 4.014-mile, 14-turn natural terrain road course. It marks his sixth pole of ...Keep reading

Shane van Gisbergen earned his sixth career pole and second of the 2026 season on Saturday, rocketing to pole position around NASCAR's all-new 3.4-mile street course at Naval Base Coronado. He even touched the wall twice on his fast lap, pushing to the absolute limit.
"A little bit (surprised)," said Van Gisbergen, who went out with the first group of qualifiers. "I thought the track would be ...Keep reading

Fans at the Lausitzring had to wait a long time, but more than four hours after the end of Saturday's DTM race at the Lausitzring, McLaren driver Ben Dorr was retroactively declared the winner. The McLaren youngster takes his first DTM triumph because the provisional winner Marco Mapelli received a 15-second penalty for speeding under Full Course Yellow.
The Italian Abt Lamborghini driver drops ...Keep reading

Fermin Aldeguer feels not having the latest Ducati GP26 is a handicap after finishing a distant 11th in the Czech Grand Prix sprint.
It has not been an easy sophomore year in MotoGP for Gresini youngster Aldeguer so far.
The Spaniard, who finished as the best MotoGP rookie last year and scored his maiden premier class win in Indonesia, suffered a serious injury to his left leg during ...Keep reading

On Friday, 50-year-old Jimmie Johnson made his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series start in 17 years. He qualified up front, led a couple of laps, but a couple of mid-race spins derailed his day before mechanical gremlins put him back to 30th.
The seven-time Cup Series champion is the most successful NASCAR driver of the 21st century, and is known for his fair style of driving, almost always ...Keep reading

Marco Bezzecchi will not be allowed to start Sunday’s Czech Grand Prix after MotoGP stewards penalised him for ‘pushing and striking’ a marshal in the sprint race.
The championship leader was running in fifth place when he crashed at Turn 3 on the penultimate lap of the Brno sprint.
After ending up in the gravel, Bezzecchi ran towards his hobbled Aprilia RS-GP and was seen assaulting a ...Keep reading

Lochie Hughes captured his first win of the season in the opening race of the doubleheader weekend for Indy NXT at Road America. 
The winning move by the Aussie came on a restart with 12 laps to go, where he made an outside pass on pole-sitter Alessandro de Tullio into Turn 1. It was the closest anyone would be to Hughes the rest of the race, as he set off to win by 0.778s at the 4.014-mile ...Keep reading

NASCAR has penalized Jesse Love and the No. 2 Richard Childress Racing team ahead of Saturday's NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series race.
The Sanctioning Body has rules about how thick the lug nuts cane be on the cars. NASCAR deemed that the RCR lug nuts on the No. 2 were too narrow and do not meet minimum size specifications.
As a result, the No. 2 Chevrolet won't be allowed to qualify, and ...Keep reading

Ai Ogura will start a MotoGP race from pole position for the first time in this Sunday's Czech Grand Prix.
The Trackhouse rider has been rapid all weekend at Brno, setting the fastest time in practice on Friday before topping Saturday morning's qualifying session by over two tenths of a second.
Joining him on the front row will be VR46's Fabio di Giannantonio and factory Ducati rider ...Keep reading

Marc Marquez says that his team-mate Francesco Bagnaia’s victory in the Czech Grand Prix sprint proves that Ducati’s 2026 MotoGP bike is capable of winning the title.
Lining up third on the grid, Bagnaia grabbed the lead at the start on his factory Ducati, passing both polesitter Ai Ogura and VR46’s Fabio di Giannantonio on the run down to Turn 1.
For the remainder of the race, the ...Keep reading

Jorge Martin says he is far more interested in solving his current dip in performance than the fact that he edged closer to the championship lead at Brno on Saturday. 
Martin was running third among the four Aprilias in the sprint when points leader and factory team-mate Marco Bezzecchi crashed ahead of him, allowing him to close his points deficit to 15.
But as another middling weekend ...Keep reading

Former Formula 1 driver Daniel Ricciardo has opened up about his first visit to the Indianapolis 500, describing the experience of being a fan as bringing back "childhood feelings" in a heartfelt open letter to his fans. 
Since stepping away from F1, the eight-time grand prix winner has embraced a different lifestyle. Alongside enjoying the perks of being a Ford Racing ambassador, Ricciardo is ...Keep reading

Pedro Acosta’s crash in the Czech Grand Prix sprint was caused by a malfunctioning ride-height device that failed to disengage from the very beginning of the MotoGP race.
Qualifying eighth on the grid, the KTM star gained two places on the opening lap and spent the first half of the sprint battling with the factory Aprilias of Marco Bezzecchi and Jorge Martin.
He was doing enough to hold ...Keep reading

Overlooking Turns 2 and 3 of the 3.4-mile street course at Naval Base Coronado, there sits the massive USS Carl Vinson. Up on the bridge of the 1,092-foot vessel is where you can find the broadcast booth for this Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race.
The Anduril 250 is the fifth and final race in Prime's five week stretch as a broadcaster for NASCAR, following FOX Sports and preceding TNT ...Keep reading

World championship leader Marco Bezzecchi has admitted that his Saturday mistakes are becoming a concern following his fourth sprint crash of the season at Brno.
Today's accident came in the ninth sprint of 2026, meaning Bezzecchi has thrown away points in almost half of the Saturday races thus far. He fell out of the lead in Thailand and subsequently crashed out in the USA and Spain.
The ...Keep reading

Former Williams deputy team principal Claire Williams believes that only a select few drivers in Formula 1 history have the personality type to transform a team.
Speaking on the High Performance Racing podcast, Williams reflected on Lewis Hamilton's second season at Ferrari. With the seven-time champion recently securing a landmark 106th career victory, his first for the Maranello outfit ...Keep reading