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The 2007 Formula 1 World Champion started 22nd in Sunday's race, and ran in the midfield for most of the day. However, after a late caution brought the field back together, he found himself in a perfect position to capitalize and gain track position. Having pitted just before the yellow flag, he stayed out and jumped up into the fourth position with less than ten laps to go. What followed ...Keep readingView the full article

Button's NASCAR Cup debut was far from easy, but in a race that went into triple overtime and saw numerous incidents, he was elated just to make it to the checkered flag. “It was an emotional rollercoaster," said Button. "First, it was terrible. I mean, I must’ve been last by the end of it. And I was just like, ‘Everyone: Go. I just need to drive and find a rhythm.’ I’ve never ...Keep readingView the full article

With a multitude of wrecks and the race sent into three two-lap overtimes, Busch had crawled his way up to second on the final restart of Sunday’s race and with an opportunity to challenge leader Tyler Reddick for the win. The irony was Busch was now driving the same No. Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet which Reddick took to Victory Lane three times last season, twice at road courses. As ...Keep readingView the full article

Reddick was the dominant driver all day, and led a race-high 41 laps. It was his first victory as a 23XI Racing driver, beating Kyle Busch in the car Reddick used to drive. It's Reddick's fourth career win and his third at a road course, all coming in the last 12 months. He also won the second stage at COTA, while Stage 1 went to William Byron. The race was slowed by eight cautions, with no ...Keep readingView the full article

Reddick and William Byron spent much of the race trading the lead but Reddick moved out front for the final time on Lap 64 of what was originally scheduled as a 68-lap race. To preserve the win, however, Reddick had to fight off repeated challengers in three two-lap overtimes to claim the victory in Sunday’s race at COTA, his first win driving 23XI Racing’s No. 45 Toyota. On the final ...Keep readingView the full article

The 2007 world champion is making his second race outing in the NASCAR Cup Series at Circuit of the Americas this weekend, rejoining the Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet team with which he made his debut at Watkins Glen last year. The Finn, who retired from F1 at the end of the 2021 season after making 349 race starts, will start 22nd in tomorrow's race, two positions ahead of NASCAR Cup rookie ...Keep readingView the full article

Allmendinger, who led 28 of the 46 laps including the first 14, almost saw his path to a win derailed when he got spun on a restart after contact with Aric Almirola on Lap 20. That sent Allmendinger back to 26th place and the fight was on from there. Allmendinger managed to work his way back to the lead after getting into then-leader Sheldon Creed on Lap 33 and sending him off the ...Keep readingView the full article

The 31-year-old sportscar ace will make his Cup debut Sunday at COTA, driving the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet for the injured Chase Elliott. Although he admits he “almost crashed the car” in his first two laps of practice on Friday, Taylor has been head-and-shoulders above the other notable outsiders entered in Sunday’s race in terms of performance. Also competing on Sunday ...Keep readingView the full article

Busch’s pit strategy got thrown out the window when Parker Kligerman’s stalled truck brought out a caution soon after Busch had claimed the Stage 2 win. Several contenders, including Smith, got on pit road before pit road closed for the caution and was able to complete his stop. Busch had to wait until pit road opened under the caution to make his pit stop. On the restart on Lap 30 of ...Keep readingView the full article

The 2007 world champion is making his second race outing in the NASCAR Cup Series at Circuit of the Americas this weekend, rejoining the Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet team with which he made his debut at Watkins Glen last year. The Finn, who retired from F1 at the end of the 2021 season after making 349 race starts, will start 22nd in tomorrow's race, two positions ahead of NASCAR Cup rookie ...Keep readingView the full article

Trackhouse are the defending winners of this event with Ross Chastain taking the checkered flag in 2022. Raikkonen made his Cup debut at Watkins Glen last August, starting 27th and finishing 37th after getting collected in incident exiting the bus stop chicane. He's back again this weekend, racing alongside fellow F1 World Champion Jenson Button for the first time since the 2017 ...Keep readingView the full article

Raikkonen and Button, the F1 world champions of 2007 and 2009, will start 22nd and 24th respectively for the first NASCAR road course of the season, while sportscar racer Jordan Taylor starred on his first outing subbing for the injured Chase Elliott at Hendrick Motorsports by setting the fourth-quickest time. 23XI Racing Toyota driver Tyler Reddick had topped Group B ...Keep readingView the full article

Reddick, in the No. 45 Toyota for 23XI Racing, had topped Group B qualifying in the first round Saturday with a track record lap of 94.210 mph. However, he wasn’t able to repeat the performance in the final round as Byron topped the speed chart with an average lap speed of 93.882 mph to earn his first pole of the 2023 season. Reddick ended up second-fastest (93.763 mph) and Austin Cindric ...Keep readingView the full article

Erik Jones, who drives the No. 43 Chevrolet, finished eighth last weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway – his first top-10 of the season while his teammate, Noah Gragson in the No. 42 Chevrolet, ended up 12th, his best finish of the 2023 season. Entering Sunday’s race at Circuit of the Americas, Jones is 21st in the series standings and Gragson, a rookie, is 27th. Since last November when ...Keep readingView the full article

Erik Jones is 21st in the series standings, after finishing eighth at Atlanta Motor Speedway last weekend in his first top-10 of the season, while rookie team-mate Noah Gragson is 27th following his a personal best finish of 12th. Since last November when the former Petty GMS Racing team announced its new part-owner in seven-time Cup Series champion Johnson, the rebranded ...Keep readingView the full article

The 2009 Formula 1 world champion is making his NASCAR debut this weekend aboard the #15 Rick Ware Racing Ford Mustang, with technical support from Stewart-Haas Racing. In the only 50-minute practice session this weekend, he ran 13 total laps and logged the 28th quickest time out of 39 entries. He was 1.770s slower than pace-setter Tyler Reddick's 23XI Racing Toyota, but ahead of 2007 F1 ...Keep readingView the full article

Button, 43, is driving the No. 15 Rick Ware Racing Ford Mustang with support from Stewart-Haas Racing. In the only 50-minute practice session this weekend, he ran 13 total laps and went 28th quickest out of 39 entries. He was 1.770s off pace-setter Tyler Reddick, but ahead of fellow F1 World Champion Kimi Raikkonen by about half a second. His steep learning curve began even before exiting ...Keep readingView the full article

In the final 15 minutes of the 50-minute session, Reddick posted the top average speed (92.988 mph) in a group of cars that went out on new tires. Kyle Larson ended up second-fastest (92.618 mph) and Ross Chastain – who won this race a year ago – was third (92.519 mph). Kyle Busch was fourth and Chastain’s Trackhouse Racing teammate, Daniel Suarez, rounded out the ...Keep readingView the full article

Among the 39 entries for Sunday’s race at COTA are past Formula 1 champions Kimi Raikkonen and Jenson Button, Le Mans 24 Hours class winner Jordan Taylor and IndyCar racer Connor Daly. Team Penske racer Cindric, the 2022 Daytona 500 winner, had an extensive sportscar background himself before embarking on his full-time NASCAR career. While he began with an advantage on road courses from ...Keep readingView the full article

Cracking America can be a gamechanger for any business, which is why the advancement of plans for the USA to join the World Rally Championship in 2024 is significant. The WRC has targeted a round in the USA since 2018 and it appears those plans have taken a significant step forward following last week’s announcement that Chattanooga in Tennessee will host a demonstration event from 7-8 April. A ...Keep readingView the full article

The Toyota driver finished a distant fourth in the first gravel round of season last weekend, 1m55.3s adrift of rally winner and team-mate Sebastien Ogier. Rovanpera was faced with the challenge of starting second on the dusty gravel stages on Friday, before becoming the effective road sweeper during the morning loop after passing an ailing Ott Tanak, suffering from a turbo failure. The ...Keep readingView the full article

The two-time Dakar Bikes class winner posted a teaser on Instagram this morning that showed him chasing a Red Bull Formula 1 car on dirt roads in what looks to be a Red Bull video shoot. Price was on four wheels for the shoot, behind the wheel of his Finke Desert Race-winning Mitsubishi-skinned Trophy Truck. The F1 car was one of the Red Bull RB7s that spent time in Australia earlier this ...Keep readingView the full article

Top Performer - Sebastien Ogier and Vincent Landais Two record-breaking victories from two WRC events contested and the championship lead. It has been a perfect start to the year for Sebastien Ogier and new co-driver Vincent Landais. But it was the manner of the Toyota driver's latest triumph in Mexico which confirmed Ogier is driving at his very best. Armed with a favourable road ...Keep readingView the full article

The Rally Sweden winner endured an eventful rally that ultimately ended with the Estonian recovering from losing 12 minutes to a turbo failure on Friday, to finish ninth, while claiming four bonus championship points on the powerstage. Tanak had started the rally winning Thursday night's two superspecial stages before drama struck on stage 3. The 2019 world champion, who also faced the ...Keep readingView the full article