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Michael Waltrip tells Daryl Motte why he's picking Johnny Sauter to win the Truck title, but is keeping an eye on Noah Gragson. View the full article

BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) Kyle Larson has won three straight NASCAR Cup Series races at Michigan. He'll try to make it four in a row Sunday. View the full article

Austin Dillon tells Daryl Motte why choosing racing over other sports like basketball was the hardest decision of his career. View the full article

The World Rally Championship title contender was beaten to the win by series leader Thierry Neuville, who snatched victory on the final stage.Moments before that turnaround, Ogier had left the end of the penultimate stage without the timecard that keeps a record of his progress.He was ordered by rally organisers to remain in position and wait for the vital piece of paperwork to be ... Keep reading View the full article

Austin Dillon tells Daryl Motte how he made his first dollar doing yard work at Richard Childress Racing. View the full article

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The Frenchman left the end of the penultimate stage without the timecard - the vital paperwork which keeps a running record of the progress of the Ford Fiesta WRC through the controls – aboard his car.With handling the timecard normally a task for co-driver Julien Ingrassia, Ogier said: "I never touched a timecard in my whole life, it didn’t happen again today - you are asking the ... Keep reading View the full article

The Volkswagen driver set the fastest time in each of the four qualifying sessions before winning semi-final one and the final from the front to take maximum points and further extend his advantage at the top of the table.Mattias Ekstrom made it into the semi-finals by the skin of his teeth, he was given a five-second penalty for contact with Petter Solberg at the joker lap entry in ... Keep reading View the full article

The duo was closely matched for the majority of Rally Italy, with M-Sport Ford's Ogier taking the lead in Friday afternoon's SS7.He led throughout Saturday but was under massive pressure from Neuville, with the gap between them remaining under 10 seconds during the afternoon.They were separated by 3.9s before Sunday's four stages, and Neuville continued to apply the pressure.The ... Keep reading View the full article

The problem is finding a common ground that fans, participants, team owners and the sport’s owners can learn to live with.It won’t be easy, because the issue is a difficult one. It goes to the heart of racing itself.Is it possible to have fast cars and entertaining racing at the same time?The issue has jumped to the forefront as part of the current debate on whether to expand the ... Keep reading View the full article

Austin Dillon held off RCR teammate Daniel Hemric on a restart with 37 laps remaining before a caution was displayed for rain and he was declared the winner of Saturday’s LTi Printing 250 at Michigan International Speedway.The race was officially called after 91 of the scheduled 125 laps.The win is the first for RCR in Xfinity since August 2016, when Michael McDowell won for RCR at ... Keep reading View the full article

NASCAR Xfinity Series Highlights: Austin Dillon holds off teammate Daniel Hemric on the final restart to win a rain-shortened race in Michigan. View the full article

BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) Brad Keselowski has never won a NASCAR Cup Series race at Michigan. View the full article

NASCAR Xfinity Series Highlights: Brandon Hightower quickly exits his vehicle after slamming the inside wall. View the full article

BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) The start of Saturday's NASCAR Xfinity race is being delayed by rain at Michigan International Speedway. View the full article

Latvala had been engaged in a tight scrap for a podium place with his teammate Esapekka Lappi, initially losing time before recouping several seconds late on.However, a hurried arrival at time control and constant engine revving indicated something was amiss aboard his Yaris WRC, which pulled away at racing speed before parking up on a road section between stage 16 and service in ... Keep reading View the full article

Reigning champion Ogier’s gap over Neuville had been cut down significantly before midday service, and he lost a further two seconds with a start-line stall in Saturday’s first afternoon test.Neuville then sustained a slow front right puncture, which him double what he had gained from Ogier’s earlier stall. He responded soon after, winning Saturday’s remaining two tests to claw back ... Keep reading View the full article

As has been the case for most of the season so far, Kristoffersson was handed a less-than-ideal outside grid slot from the Q1 draw, but made the best launch in his race and took the lead from the start to set the best time, the rear bodywork on his Volkswagen Polo smoking after contact to the rear in the first corner.Starting from pole position in the final race of the day ... Keep reading View the full article

The session was delayed by several minutes from early-morning showers and the session ended up getting cut short six minutes early by more rain in the area.In between, Harvick posted the fastest average lap speed of 200.719 mph to top the speed chart. Kyle Larson (200.083 mph) was the only other driver to top the 200 mph mark.Joey Logano was third-fastest, Clint Bowyer was fourth and ... Keep reading View the full article

Some Chevrolet NASCAR Cup Series teams are using the debut of the new Camaro as an excuse for poor performance this season, according to Kyle Larson View the full article

Ogier held an 18.9s lead overnight and increased that gap to 19.5s after the second stage of the day, but lost 14.6s to Hyundai’s Neuville in the Monte Lerno test.Championship leader Neuville confessed he was pushing hard to catch Ogier, but was surprised to see that he had whittled the Frenchman's lead down to less than five seconds.Behind the leading pair, there’s an intense fight ... Keep reading View the full article

Kristoffersson’s Polo R Supercar was thrown onto two wheels at the first corner of the final in Belgium last month, following side-by-side contact with Solberg’s sister car that forced him into the barrier.Two weeks later, the pair made heavy wheel-to-wheel contact in the braking area for Turn 1 in the semi-finals at Silverstone, sending Kristoffersson’s car hard into the inside tyre ... Keep reading View the full article

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) Johnny Sauter held off Stewart Friesen at Texas Motor Speedway on Friday night for his fourth NASCAR Camping World Truck Series victory of the season and 21st overall. View the full article

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Highlights: Johnny Sauter holds off Stewart Friesen to win at Texas Motor Speedway. View the full article

Stage 1Polesitter Stewart Friessen took the lead from the start in his Halmar Friesen Racing but rapidly fell to fourth as Noah Gragson moved his Kyle Busch Motorsports Toyota into the lead chased by teammate Todd Gilliland with Johnny Sauter third for GMS Racing. However the seventh lap saw Justin Fontaine into the wall with a puncture.Brett Moffitt was the highest-placed driver to ... Keep reading View the full article