First-time NASCAR Cup Series winner William Byron has credited a ploy “to be aggressive” with helping him qualify for the playoffs in the regular season final round at Daytona. The Hendrick Motorsport driver cleared Denny Hamlin following a push from Clint Bowyer in a green-white-chequered finish and fended off a side-draft from Martin Truex Jr
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Scott Dixon admitted that reaching a half-century of US open-wheel victories was something he ‘never thought possible’ after beating Takuma Sato in the first of IndyCar’s two races at Gateway. The five-time series champion won his first CART race at Nazareth in 2001 for Bruce McCaw’s PacWest Racing team on only his third start after
Ferrari was left “disappointed and angry” by its display in Sunday’s Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix after failing to score any points, according to team principal Mattia Binotto. After slumping to its worst qualifying result of the season so far on Saturday, Ferrari’s struggles continued into the race at Spa as both Charles Leclerc and
12:31 PM ET George Russell said he felt thankful Formula One cars are equipped with a Halo safety device after crashing out of the Belgian Grand Prix. On the 10th lap Russell was forced to take evasive action to avoid Antonio Giovinazzi’s Alfa Romeo after the Italian driver lost control of his car at the
William Byron clinched his first NASCAR Cup victory at Daytona as a late race crash denied seven-time Cup champion Jimmie Johnson a place in the playoffs. Byron, Johnson and Matt DiBenedetto, the three drivers on the bubble in the fight to get into the Round of 16 as the field arrived at Daytona, all managed
Ferrari Formula 1 boss Mattia Binotto suspects his team’s struggles at the Belgian Grand Prix are a one-off caused by track characteristics. The Italian outfit has endured its most difficult race weekend of the campaign so far, with Charles Leclerc (13th) and Sebastian Vettel (14th) qualifying outside of the top 10. But even getting out
1:23 PM ET Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has questioned the priorities of “certain members of the Ferrari team” after it registered its worse qualifying performance of the season at the Belgian Grand Prix. Ferrari qualified 13th and 14th at Spa-Francorchamps on Saturday, 1.7s off the pace of Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton on pole position. At
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Scott Dixon fended off a late charge from Indianapolis 500 winner Takuma Sato at Gateway to record his 50th IndyCar career win and extend his championship points lead. The five-time series champion’s Chip Ganassi machine had jumped long-term leader Patricio O’Ward (Arrow McLaren SP) in the final green-flag pit-stops on lap 162 of 200 to
Daniel Ricciardo says Renault’s strong form at the Belgian Grand Prix is the result of his Formula 1 car feeling much “happier” in lower downforce trim. Just two weeks after Renault endured a tough time in Spain as both drivers failed to make it into Q3, Ricciardo qualified fourth at Spa-Francorchamps with team-mate Esteban Ocon
6:08 PM ET Associated Press MADISON, Ill. — Scott Dixon and Takuma Sato repeated their 20-lap duel from the Indianapolis 500 a week ago, with Dixon reversing the finishing order Saturday by winning at World Wide Technology Raceway outside of St. Louis. Sato held off Dixon a week ago for his second Indy 500 victory
Will Power scored his 59th IndyCar Series pole position for the first of two races at Gateway, while Indianapolis 500 winner Takuma Sato topped the times for Sunday’s second race. IndyCar opted to use the two-lap qualifying format first trialled at Iowa for the 1.25-mile Gateway oval, with the first lap setting the grid for
Williams is hopeful it can fight the beleaguered Ferrari squad during Formula 1’s 2020 Belgian Grand Prix after George Russell finished just behind Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel in qualifying. The team’s head of vehicle performance, Dave Robson, said Williams was encouraged after Ferrari appeared to show poor form during the FP2 long runs on
1:17 PM ET Laurence Edmondson Close F1 Editor • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Nate Saunders Close F1 Associate Editor • Previously worked in rugby union and British Superbikes • History graduate from Reading University• Joined ESPNF1 in February 2014 The story at the front of the grid for the Belgian Grand Prix is
Lewis Hamilton beat Esteban Ocon to take top spot in the final practice session for Formula 1’s Belgian Grand Prix, where light rain at Spa meant little running took place. Valtteri Bottas and Max Verstappen finished fifth and sixth after abandoning their final qualifying simulation efforts, as Ferrari’s Spa misery continued with Charles Leclerc finishing
12:36 PM ET Lewis Hamilton has lauded the “incredible” boycotts of sporting events in the United States after the shooting of Jacob Blake, but said it would achieve little if he did the same at Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix. On Wednesday evening, three NBA playoff games were postponed after players refused to take to the
Carlos Sainz Jr says the “super quick” Renault Formula 1 team is too fast “for comfort” at the Belgian Grand Prix, as he reckoned Daniel Ricciardo’s practice pace was genuine. With Ricciardo having set the second fastest time in the second free practice session, despite a late hydraulic issue, Sainz believes that the Spa-Francorchamps circuit
9:45 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders After a double-dip of racing that saw Denny Hamlin and Kevin Harvick come away with victories last weekend in Dover, the NASCAR Cup Series heads back to Daytona for the Coke Zero Sugar 400 on Saturday (7:30 p.m. ET). It’s the final race before the playoffs. Who will take
Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner and four-time IndyCar champion Dario Franchitti will return to the cockpit this weekend at Gateway to drive Honda’s two-seat IndyCar at the start of the race. Franchitti was forced to end his 17-season Indycar career at least a year before he had intended after a huge accident at Houston in September
The FIA has finalised a package of Formula 1 aero regulation changes for 2021, creating an overall downforce cut of around 10%. Around half of that figure had already been accounted for by a change to the floor rules agreed earlier this year. However the British GPs prompted the FIA and F1 to make further
2:29 PM ET It’s the seventh race of the season and by now we should know better than to get excited by Friday practice times. Engine modes, fuel loads and differing run plans can all conspire to paint a misleading picture on practice day, but in 2020 there’s always a degree of intrigue when a
LCR MotoGP rider Cal Crutchlow admits “hesitantly” that he doesn’t believe Honda is working as closely with him in the 2020 season as it used to. Crutchlow joined the Honda stable in 2015 with LCR and has been contracted directly to Honda since 2018, with the Briton winning three grands prix in his time with
The pole position time for the Sakhir Grand Prix in December is set to smash a Formula 1 record that has stood for 46 years. On Friday afternoon, F1 confirmed its second race to be held in Bahrain will be run on the ‘oval’ layout of the circuit. F1 has estimated that qualifying times for
6:35 AM ET Formula One has confirmed the second of this season’s two races in Bahrain will be held on an alternative layout and as a night race. The sport announced this week that Bahrain would host two events this year, one on November 29 and one on December 6, ahead of the season finale
Formula 1 returns to action after a brief pause following the Spanish Grand Prix for the next triple-header, beginning in Belgium. After a dominant victory last time out at Catalunya, Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton leads team-mate Valtteri Bottas in the championship by 37 points ahead of this weekend’s Belgian GP at the iconic Spa. Thursday
1:38 PM ET Lando Norris joked that winning on the popular game Fall Guys is “nearly” as good as winning a trophy in Formula One. The game, a fun take on the battle royale genre, has become a phenomenon in recent weeks, holding the No. 1 spot on Twitch for most of August. Contestants are
Leading riders have called for greater consistency from MotoGP stewards following numerous incidents across the Austrian and Styrian Grand Prix weekends. Opinion was split on the pitlane start penalty awarded to Johann Zarco for the Styrian GP after his horror collision with Franco Morbidelli in the Austrian GP the week before. In the Styrian GP,
Lewis Hamilton says nobody but the drivers are “pushing Pirelli” about making better Formula 1 tyres, with Romain Grosjean revealing the GPDA recently discussed the issue with the manufacturer. After his dominant win last time out in Spain, Hamilton called on Pirelli to develop a stronger tyre construction for 2022 that would avoid the tyre
1:14 PM ET One year on from the death of Anthoine Hubert at Spa-Francorchamps, Formula One drivers Pierre Gasly and Charles Leclerc have paid tribute to their friend ahead of this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix. On Thursday, Gasly was among members of the F1 paddock who laid flowers at the corner where Hubert suffered fatal
Porsche works driver Simona de Silvestro will make her debut in the GT World Challenge Endurance Cup in next weekend’s Nurburgring round with the ROWE Racing team. De Silvestro was added to Porsche’s roster of factory drivers late last year when she took up a development role for the Weissach marque’s Formula E team, marking