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[motorsport] Another runner-up finish moves Chastain closer to playoff advancement
Chastain and the entire Trackhouse Racing team have never been in this position before. He hasn't won a Cup race since April, but that fact can be misleading. The driver of the No. 1 Chevrolet has been in contention all year and leads the field in top-fives at 13 and top-tens at 19 (where he is tied with Chase Elliott). After narrowly escaping elimination after an unforced error in the ...Keep readingView the full article
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[motorsport] Martin Truex Jr.: "It's been one of those years"
Truex has yet to win a race this season but still managed to finish fourth in the regular season standings. However, due to the rash of winners this season, he was left out of the 16-driver playoffs. On Sunday, Truex appeared to be in a good position to earn a victory and extend his streak of consecutive seasons with a win to eight. But again, bad luck and bad timing intervened. Truex was ...Keep readingView the full article
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[autosport] NASCAR Cup Homestead: Larson dominates to beat Chastain, Allmendinger
The Hendrick Motorsports driver, who was eliminated from the playoffs after the round of 12 at Charlotte, was in scintillating form and completed a clean sweep of stage victories. Despite a run-in with Martin Truex Jr. on the 246th lap of 267 as both entered the pits under yellow-flag conditions, Larson was able to reclaim the lead from Denny Hamlin on the restart and held off advances from AJ ...Keep readingView the full article
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Denny Hamlin says NASCAR did the right thing drawing the line on retaliation
Denny Hamlin says NASCAR did the right thing drawing the line on retaliation. View the full article
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Chase Briscoe says he feels that penalties on retaliation need to be severe
Chase Briscoe says he feels that penalties on retaliation need to be severe. View the full article
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William Byron on the Bubba Wallace penalty
William Byron says the Bubba Wallace penalty shows where NASCAR stands when it comes to retaliation. View the full article
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Ryan Blaney on recent penalties handed down by NASCAR
Ryan Blaney says it is good that NASCAR has put the hammer down on things that it views as wrong. View the full article
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[motorsport] Larson beats Chastain and Allmendinger to Homestead Cup win
Following a run-in with Martin Truex Jr. on Lap 246 of 267 as both entered pit road, Larson came out with the lead for the final time. He quickly cleared Denny Hamlin on the restart and held off repeated challenges from A.J. Allmendinger and then Ross Chastain over the final 16 laps, finally clearing Chastain by 1.261 seconds to claim the victory at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The win is the ...Keep readingView the full article
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Kyle Larson dominates to win at Homestead-Miami over Chastain, Allmendinger
Kyle Larson dominates to win at Homestead-Miami over Ross Chastain and AJ Allmendinger. View the full article
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NASCAR playoffs: Larson wins Dixie Vodka 400
Kyle Larson dominated to win the Dixie Vodka 400 on Sunday in Homestead, Florida. Here are the top moments! View the full article
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[motorsport] Tanak announces Hyundai WRC departure following 2022 season
The 2019 world champion was contracted with the South Korean marque for next season, although the Estonian’s future at the team has long been uncertain. The 17-time WRC rally winner raised eyebrows earlier this month when he revealed that he could sit out the 2023 WRC season for personal reasons. In a release issued following Tanak’s run to fourth at Rally Spain, it was confirmed that ...Keep readingView the full article
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[motorsport] Ogier fined for "exhibition driving” after WRC Rally Spain victory
The eight-time world champion scored his first WRC win since Rally Monza last November after beating Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville by 16.4s on the Spanish asphalt roads. The victory helped Toyota secure a sixth WRC manufacturers’ title. However, WRC stewards have issued the 38-year-old with a reprimand and a 1500 euro fine for breach of the regulations for “exhibition driving” prior to ...Keep readingView the full article
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NASCAR playoffs: Dixie Vodka 400 top moments from Florida
The 2022 NASCAR Playoffs Round of 8 continues Sunday with the Dixie Vodka 400 in Florida. Here are the top moments! View the full article
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[motorsport] Latvala hails "shared desire for success" in Toyota WRC title clean sweep
Toyota completed a clean sweep of WRC titles this year by wrapping up the manufacturers' crown in style, and with a round to spare, after Sebastien Ogier clinched victory at Rally Spain, with Kalle Rovanpera finishing third. The coveted manufacturers' title followed one round after Toyota pairing Rovanpera and Jonne Halttunen secured the drivers' and co-drivers' world titles in New Zealand ...Keep readingView the full article
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[motorsport] WRC Spain: Ogier clinches victory, Toyota seals manufacturers’ title
Ogier and co-driver Benjamin Veillas managed to stave off a challenge from Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville and Martijn Wydaeghe on Sunday to seal victory on Spain’s asphalt roads by 16.4s. The eight-time world champion, competing in a partial season this year, took the rally lead from new world champion teammate Kalle Rovanpera on Stage 3 during a rain-affected Friday morning. However, he ...Keep readingView the full article
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[motorsport] WRC Spain: Neuville eats into Ogier lead while drain cover causes drama
Ogier lost six seconds to Neuville across Sunday morning’s two stages, but the eight-time world champion headed to the mid-morning service armed with a 14.1s lead. Kalle Rovanpera was lucky to end the loop in third overall, 28.8s adrift, after the world champion was one of three drivers to suffer a puncture from a protruding drain cover on Stage 17. Ott Tanak avoided the drama to hold onto ...Keep readingView the full article
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Kyle Larson of if he's received an apology from Bubba Wallace
Kyle Larson says he felt good after Vegas, no effects from the accident. He has not talked nor texted with Bubba Wallace. View the full article
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Daniel Suárez: Incidents won't change how I handle things
Daniel Suárez says NASCAR handing penalties for the Custer and Wallace incidents won’t change how he handles things because he wouldn’t have handled them that way. View the full article
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Joey Logano on the messages that have been sent from NASCAR
Joey Logano says NASCAR has sent messages the last couple of weeks of where the line is as far as conduct that could result in penalties. View the full article
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Denny Hamlin on Bubba Wallace suspension
Denny Hamlin says the team supports NASCAR’s action and was glad that they didn’t necessarily leave it in the team’s hands to decide whether to suspend Bubba Wallace. View the full article
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[motorsport] Gragson secures shot at Xfinity title with Homestead win
Gragson had dominated much of Saturday’s race at Homestead-Miami Speedway but a late-race caution for an accident sent the leaders to pit road and bunched the field one final time. Gragson’s No. 9 JR Motorsports team got him off pit road first and he easily cleared for the lead on the restart with five of 200 laps remaining. He held off a late charge by Gibbs by 0.550 seconds to earn his ...Keep readingView the full article
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Noah Gragson wins at Miami, advances to Championship 4
Noah Gragson wins at Miami, advances to Championship 4 with Josh Berry at Phoenix Raceway. View the full article
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[motorsport] Ty Majeski cruises to Homestead Trucks win over Zane Smith
Majeski dominated the final stage in Saturday’s race at Homestead-Miami Speedway and cruised to a 4.524 second win over Zane Smith, his second series win in the last three races. Majeski is the only driver who advanced to next weekend’s title race at Phoenix Raceway by winning his way in. “Man, this is awesome,” Majeski said. “This place is so hard to read in practice ...Keep readingView the full article
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Ty Majeski wins at Miami, advances to the Championship 4 at Phoenix
Ty Majeski wins at Miami, advances to the Championship 4 at Phoenix with Chandler Smith, Zane Smith, and Ben Rhodes. View the full article
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[motorsport] NASCAR Truck Series Championship 4 grid set
Ty Majeski was the only driver who came into this race already locked in, courtesy of his first-career victory at Bristol. The Homestead race saw trouble find title contenders early with John-Hunter Nemechek hitting the wall, cutting a tire down and falling off the lead lap. He was among the four drivers eliminated, along with Grant Enfinger, Stewart Friesen, and Christian Eckes. Reigning ...Keep readingView the full article