Colton Herta will begin the final IndyCar Series race of the season from the pole. (Photo courtesy of INDYCAR)
By John Sturbin | Senior WriterRacinToday.com
Mercurial rookie Colton Herta celebrated his newly-secured future at Andretti Autosport Saturday with a salute to his father while upstaging the 2019 NTT IndyCar Series championship contenders during qualifying for the season-ending […]
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By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor
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Kevin Harvick collected his second-straight easy victory Sunday as he won the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Harvick led 209 of 267 laps in the event in his Stewart-Haas Racing Ford and his win came a week after he also dominated in winning at Atlanta […]
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Kyle Larson of Ganassi Racing led a race-dominating 142 of 200 laps in winning Saturday’s Xfinity Series event at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Pole-sitter Christopher Bell finished second while Justin Algaier was third in a race conducted under extremely windy conditions.
“That was a blast,” Bell said. “That was as good as it gets right there. It […]
Ryan Blaney posted the fastest lap of the day to earn the pole on a windy Friday for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Blaney drove the No. 12 Team Penske car to a fast lap in 28.200 seconds (191.489 mph).
“Our team did a great job of getting us ready from round […]
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Kyle Busch won one for hometown fans on Friday night and has his sites set on collecting two more NASCAR victories at Las Vegas Motor Speedway this weekend.
Friday’s win came in the Camping World Truck Series event. Next up for the Las Vegas native is Saturday’s Xfinity Series race and then on Sunday, the main […]
By John Sturbin | Senior Writer
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Perhaps Formula One tire supplier Pirelli needs to develop a compound for snow.
American-owned Haas F1 Team wrapped up a weather-plagued first week of testing for the 2018 FIA Formula One Word Championship Thursday with Kevin Magnussen turning 96 laps at Circuit de Barcelona – Catalunya. A combination of snow, rain […]
By Jonathan Ingram | Senior Writer
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NASCAR in 280 characters (or less):
It’s eternally amazing that Atlanta Motor Speedway, one of NASCAR’s greatest tracks, lost one of its two dates. (The veteran drivers love the high-speed AMS events where they can better control their own destiny due to the wide and worn surface.)
Many in social media were dissed […]
A weekend filled with raw emotion ended with tears of victory and relief Sunday for John Force Racing at the 34th annual NHRA Arizona Nationals. Courtney Force headed back to Yorba Linda, Calif., with the Funny Car Wally trophy while father/16-time world champion John Force exited another hospital after a violent accident.
“Brute” Force’s day at […]
By Jeff Hood | Senior Writer
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HAMPTON, Ga. – Eight Things We Learned at Atlanta:
Kevin Harvick’s dominating victory in Sunday’s QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway was his way of serving early-season notice that he will be a force to be reckoned with to capture this year’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series title. The all-time lap […]
By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor
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It took Kevin Harvick 17 years to get his second NASCAR Cup Series victory at Atlanta Motor Speedway but when he secured that win on Sunday, it came with considerable ease and a bit of emotion.
Harvick, whose first win at AMS came in his first race after taking the driver’s […]
Preseason testing for the 2018 FIA Formula One World Championship gets underway Monday at Circuit de Barcelona – Catalunya, with the series’ only American team returning for its third campaign featuring the same driver lineup from last year amid relatively unchanged technical regulations.
Haas F1 Team’s Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen will take the wheel of […]
