8:25 PM ET ESPN News Services FORT WORTH, Texas — Pato O’Ward passed Josef Newgarden with 23 laps to go Sunday at Texas, and the Mexican-born driver stayed in front for his first IndyCar victory at what he considers his home track. O’Ward celebrated four days before his 22nd birthday while driving for Arrow McLaren
Month: May 2021
The series will follow Wallace in his first season with the newly formed 23XI Racing team, co-owned by NBA icon Michael Jordan and three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin. Wallace, 27, became an outspoken voice against racial injustice in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd. He also successfully advocated for the banning of the
Russell set his sights on scoring his first points for Williams after qualifying 11th on Saturday, finishing just half a tenth off a Q3 berth. But the race proved more difficult as Russell slipped back through the order, ultimately finishing one lap down in 16th place. Williams entered the 2021 season anticipating big peaks and
Formula 1’s second visit to Portimao came threw up vastly different conditions to its inaugural grand prix last October, but ended with the same race winner in Lewis Hamilton. The slip-and-slide opening laps from last year’s race may not have been repeated, but low-grip conditions again left drivers facing a unique challenge on a track
Miller didn’t make the start to life at the factory Ducati squad as was expected of him, the Australian admitting pre-Jerez that he was “in the shit” having come in for criticism for his performances to that point. But the Miller proved his doubters wrong at Jerez on Sunday with his first dry-weather MotoGP win,
12:16 PM ET Associated Press Bobby Unser, a three-time Indianapolis 500 winner and part of the only pair of brothers to win “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing,” has died. He was 87. He died Sunday at his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, of natural causes, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway said Monday. Unser won the Indy
O’Ward was in swaggering form all day, and looked set to take the lead of the race for the final 50 laps of the race when team-mate Felix Rosenqvist brought out a caution moments after the front runners had conducted their final pitstops as his right-rear wheel fell off. But Newgarden had performed a pit
DiBenedetto took the Stage 1 win under caution when a multi-car wreck erupted on the backstretch that sent Joey Logano’s #22 Team Penske Ford barrel-rolling down the track. Following a series of bumping moves, Logano appeared to get turned by Denny Hamlin’s Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. Logano’s car veered left and made slight contact with
Perez was running fourth in the early stages of the Portimao race but did not follow the same strategy as the three cars ahead of him when it came to the timing of his stop. While team-mate Max Verstappen was pitted on lap 35 in a bid to try to jump the Mercedes duo he
Unser won the Indy 500 in 1968, 1975 and 1981, making him the only other driver than Rick Mears to win the event in three different decades. He also made one Formula 1 start for BRM in the 1968 US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, when he retired with a blown engine. Born into a
The paddock stayed put at Jerez for a day of testing, although Yamaha’s Quartararo elected against running due to the arm-pump issue which cost him victory in the race and dropped him to an eventual 13th. The French rider has returned home for medical consultation to determine the best course of action for his arm
9:48 AM ET If the first three races of the 2021 season have taught us anything about this year’s championship battle, it’s that tiny mistakes have the potential to be very costly. It may seem unfair to point out errors rather than moments of brilliance from the racing we’ve seen so far (although we will
The Arrow McLaren SP driver passed Josef Newgarden late on in the second of the series’ two races on the 1.44-mile Texas oval on Sunday to secure the first win of his IndyCar career and the first for the team previously known as Schmidt Peterson Motorsports since its partnership with McLaren was formalised prior to
Busch, who celebrated his 36th birthday on Sunday, led the way on the final restart with two of 267 laps remaining. With the help from a push from team-mate Martin Truex Jr, Busch got clear of Ryan Blaney and Kyle Larson who made contact on the restart. The race remained green and Busch took the
Sainz led the midfield teams in qualifying to take P5 on the grid, and made a good start to pass Sergio Perez for fourth on the opening lap. But following a safety car period, Sainz slipped behind Perez and former McLaren team-mate Lando Norris before pitting for a set of medium tyres at the end
Ingram was involved in arguably the biggest driver move of the silly season, switching from his long-time home at Speedworks Motorsport to join Exclr8 Motorsport, a relative new player in the BTCC having only joined the series in 2019. After seven years at Speedworks, where he drove Toyota Avensis and Corolla machinery, Ingram faces a
Espargaro launched from 13th on the grid but was unable to make much progress into the top 10, ultimately ending the race 11.7 seconds from the victory in 10th and trailing his Honda team-mate Marc Marquez. The Spaniard says he was “just feeling really bad” in the 25-lap Jerez race and was unhappy with the
10:38 PM ET Associated Press COMMERCE, Ga. — Antron Brown became the winningest Top Fuel driver in Atlanta Dragway history, racing his dragster to victory in the Lucas Oil NHRA Southern Nationals on Sunday. Brown got his fifth career win at the facility, beating reigning champion Steve Torrence in the final round with his 3.752-second
The Finnish driver made an impressive start to the race in Portugal, making up two places on the opening lap, but at the start of the second tour he ran into the rear of Giovinazzi, which ripped off his Alfa Romeo’s front wing and it became lodged under the front wheels of his car. Raikkonen
During the Portuguese GP weekend, the Swiss squad won the right to review the penalty handed to Raikkonen at the last race at Imola, when the FIA handed Raikkonen a 30-second post-race penalty for breaking rules under the red flag restart. On the lap prior to the restart, Raikkonen spun his Alfa Romeo at Turn
The Honda rider had a big tumble at the Turn 7 left-hander in FP3 on Saturday, which required a visit to the hospital after he had a brief memory problem. Marquez was cleared to race – though crashed again in warm-up on Sunday – and managed to finish the second grand prix of his comeback
6:29 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — A big crash in the back of the field took six IndyCar drivers out of Sunday’s race at Texas even before they were able to take the green flag. Pietro Fittipaldi hit Sebastien Bourdais from behind, knocking the four-time open-wheel champion into Alexander Rossi. The cars
Under a gloomy sky, the Genesys 300 contest got underway 35 minutes early as IndyCar attempted to squeeze it into the TV window – and without pushing back the first race of this double-header. With qualifying having been cancelled due to rain delaying practice, championship points ensured Alex Palou of Chip Ganassi Racing led the field
Hamilton was following his team-mate ahead of the race resuming after an early safety car period had been called so the Portimao track could be cleared of the debris thrown up by Alfa Romeo team-mates Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi colliding on the pit straight at the start of lap two, a clash that put
Bottas led the opening stages of the race after qualifying on pole position, but was overtaken by Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton during the first stint of the race. The Finn slipped to third after Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was able to get the undercut and make a pass, only for the Mercedes driver to catch
The 2020 championship runner-up endured a torrid start to the year in Qatar, but was a factor in the Portimao podium battle in fourth two weeks ago. At Jerez, having qualified second, Morbidelli struggled to run the pace of Yamaha stablemate Fabio Quartararo and eventual winner Jack Miller early on. But an arm-pump issue for
11:03 PM ET Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Kyle Busch blew a restart in overtime that should have cost him a race he’d dominated at Kansas Speedway. Given a second chance, Busch corrected his mistake and earned the 61st NASCAR Truck Series win of his career. The win Saturday night was the fifth straight
The three-time and reigning Supercars champion started only 15th after inclement weather compressed the Saturday schedule at Texas Motor Speedway and forced IndyCar to cancel qualifying, and instead base the grid on entrant points. However, he moved up through the field as several rivals pitted slightly early – just before the first caution for Sebastien
With little to choose in pace terms between the F1 title rivals at Portimao, the two teams are heading into the race on Sunday with completely different options available in their respective bids for victory. While both squads will be starting the race on the medium tyre, it is the compound that they switch on
Dixon dominated the Texas opener, leading almost all of the race and keeping clear of a late attack from Scott McLaughlin, who impressed on his oval debut to take second place. Perhaps most remarkably, Dixon’s success in the first race of the Texas Motor Speedway double-header means he has become the first driver to score