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Full highlights from Saturday's NASCAR Xfinity Series at Las Vegas Motor Speedway where Ty Gibbs held off Noah Gragson on a late race restart to win his first race of the season. View the full article

Christopher Bell claimed his first Cup Series pole, beating out reigning series champion Kyle Larson on the front row. Kyle Busch was the only driver to not set a time after crashing in practice earlier in the day. There were no incidents during qualifying. Denny Hamlin and Kyle Larson claimed victory at LVMS in the two races there last year. Brad Keselowski has the most wins of all active ...Keep readingView the full article

Bell held on in the final round of Saturday’s qualifying to post the fastest average speed (182.673 mph) among the 10 cars. “I feel really good about (our car), that’s for sure,” said Bell, who has failed to finish the first two races of the 2022 season. “In practice, it took probably two runs to get the balance to where I was comfortable but I knew first run out that we were pretty ...Keep readingView the full article

Larson, the reigning Cup Series champion, went out late in the 35-minute session for a flying lap and posted an average speed of 181.183 mph. Larson won the first of his 10 races last season at Las Vegas. Christopher Bell ended up second-fastest (180.771 mph) and Ryan Blaney third (180.000 mph.) William Byron was fourth and Joey Logano rounded out the top-five. Read Also: NASCAR Cup ...Keep readingView the full article

During inspection on Friday night, five teams failed twice and were forced to eject a crew member. Practice on Saturday went smoothly for most teams, but not for Las Vegas native Kyle Busch. He lost a left-rear tire and slammed the outside wall, forcing Joe Gibbs Racing to break out the backup car. Greg Biffle also had a moment after touching the apron in Turns 1 and 2, but was able to ...Keep readingView the full article

Julius Seebach admits he had a lump in his throat when Audi’s ground-breaking RS Q e-tron off-roader rolled away from the startline at the Dakar Rally in January. “Stephane Peterhansel was the first to start as he was the winner last year [in a Mini JCW buggy],” explains the managing director of Audi Sport, “and it was a very emotional moment given the car had only been finished just ...Keep readingView the full article

With Cup practice and qualifying scheduled for Saturday morning, NASCAR conducted pre-qualifying inspection for teams Friday evening. The cars of Kevin Harvick, Chase Elliott, Harrison Burton, Todd Gilliland and Josh Bilicki all failed inspection twice. As a result, each team had a crew member ejected – car chief Robert Smith on Harvick’s team; car chief Matt Barndt on Elliott’s team; ...Keep readingView the full article

The 19-year-old beat out Zane Smith and KBM boss Kyle Busch to take the checkered flag. Chandler Smith now has three victories in the CWTS. The race was slowed by ten cautions. Read Also: Chandler Smith out-duels Zane Smith for Las Vegas Trucks win Cla # Driver Manufacturer Laps Time Gap Interval Laps ...Keep readingView the full article

On a restart with three of 134 laps remaining in the race, Zane Smith powered into the lead past Kyle Busch to grab the lead. With one lap remaining, Chandler Smith passed Zane Smith for the lead, only to see Zane Smith quickly move back out front. Chandler Smith quickly did a crossover move to reclaim the lead and held on for his first victory of the 2022 season. The win is the ...Keep readingView the full article

Full highlights from Friday night's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series highlights from Las Vegas Motor Speedway in a wild finish between Kyle Busch, Chandler Smith, and Zane Smith. View the full article

The 25-year-old native of Byron, Mich., already has more top-five finishes in two weeks (one) than he did in the entire 2021 season (none). Many things have changed since last season for Jones. His Richard Petty Motorsports organization merged with GMS Racing to produce a two-car team in the Cup Series called Petty GMS Motorsports. In addition, Jones got a new crew chief in Dave Elenz, who ...Keep readingView the full article

How to watch NASCAR at Auto Club Speedway All three national divisions will take to the track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Reigning Cup Series champion Kyle Larson took victory in California ahead of Austin Dillon and Erik Jones. It was a race that saw many interesting names towards the front of the field, including Tyler Reddick, who won both Stage 1 and 2 before a tire failure derailed his ...Keep readingView the full article

Austin Dillon and Tyler Reddick have proven to be extremely competitive to start the 2022 season, particularly last weekend at Auto Club Speedway in California when both drivers had a chance to win the race. Both had fast cars in the season opener at Daytona but neither was able to complete all the laps, with Dillon finishing 25th and Reddick 35th. Last weekend, saw far better results for ...Keep readingView the full article

The New Zealander will pilot a Hyundai i20 N Rally 2 car, backed by Hyundai New Zealand, in selected events this year before contesting a full season in 2023. Paddon announced he will reunite with long-time co-driver John Kennard for the programme, a rekindling of a partnership that claimed victory at Rally Argentina when competing as a factory Hyundai driver in 2016. The 34-year-old ...Keep readingView the full article

After its debut in the non-championship Busch Light Clash at the LA Coliseum on February 6, the Next Gen car has now seen full-blooded Cup Series competition at Daytona and Fontana. This weekend’s race, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, is the first for the car on a 1.5-mile oval – the kind of track that makes up the majority of the schedule. Harvick says his Stewart-Haas Racing team is ...Keep readingView the full article

On Wednesday, NASCAR announced Cup teams will not be split into two groups for practice this weekend, as they were last weekend at Auto Club Speedway. Instead, there will be one 35-minute practice in which all cars can participate on Saturday. The practice will run from 1:30 p.m. to 2:05 p.m. ET. Cup Series qualifying will begin at 2:15 p.m. ET Saturday and will still be split into two ...Keep readingView the full article

Traditionally, the WRC has factored a snow event into its calendar, with Sweden the spiritual home of the winter rally, having only be absent from the schedule on four occasions since the championship's inception in 1973. Sweden returned to the WRC calendar this season, in a new location of Umea, 800km northeast of its previous home in Karlstad, following a COVID-19 induced lay off last ...Keep readingView the full article

Take a listen to the sights and sounds from Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race from Fontana where Kyle Larson took home this first win of the season. View the full article

The No. 38 FRM team becomes the third team this year to be penalized for losing a wheel in the Next Gen era. NASCAR switched to a center-locking wheels with a single lug nut for the 2022 season. Gilliland's crew chief Seth Barbour, as well as crew members Jourdan Osinskie and Tanner Andrews have been suspended from the next four points-paying events. Previously, both the No. 31 ...Keep readingView the full article

Reigning series champion Kyle Larson won the race, but not without controversy and he certainly didn’t dominate, leading just 28 of the 200 laps. Here are three takeaways from Sunday’s race as the series heads to Las Vegas Motor Speedway and the Next Gen car’s first visit to a 1.5-mile track. 1 ) Auto Club Speedway is a perfect example of why all track owners should shelve – at least ...Keep readingView the full article

The Finn took over Toyota's third GR Yaris he will share with eight-time world champion Sebastien Ogier this season for the first time last weekend. The snow event also marked his return to the Toyota factory team he drove for in 2017 and 2018 and only his second top-flight start since 2020. Despite limited time at the wheel of the new hybrid GR Yaris compared to his teammates and rivals, Lappi ...Keep readingView the full article

Top Performer - Kalle Rovanpera and Jonne Halttunen There is a case to be made for Kalle Rovanpera's third WRC win, alongside co-driver Jonne Halttunen, as his best yet and perhaps the most telling for the future. Rovanpera scored a maiden win on gravel in Estonia and blitzed the field at his Acropolis debut last year, but this win is his first having to open the road on an event. Eight-time ...Keep readingView the full article

Kyle Larson and crew chief Cliff Daniels break down their winning day in Fontana on Sunday afternoon after a run in with Chase Elliott. View the full article

The season-opening Daytona 500 had pit stops, of course, but most were done under green-flag conditions and without a full field of cars on pit road at the same time. Sunday’s race in Fontana, Calif., couldn’t have been more different. With the track’s old and abrasive surface and a record-tying 12 cautions, Cup series’ pit crews got tested to the max with repeated full-field ...Keep readingView the full article

The race came alive on the restart on lap 179, when Chase Briscoe, who didn’t pit, led the way followed by Elliott, Alex Bowman and Larson. Using a three-wide move, Larson quickly powered to the lead after the restart as Bowman tagged the outside wall, but there was no caution. On the next lap, Larson clashed with team-mate Elliott and sent his car up the track and into the wall.With 10 laps ...Keep readingView the full article