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Portland Reopened IndyCar's Oldest Argument: What a Lapped Car Owes the Leader
Felix Rosenqvist and Will Power came off the podium asking for a real blue-flag rule. Alex Palou, who won the race, and his strategist made the case that the rule is fine as long as everyone lives under the same one.
Two Digger Engines and 406 MPH: Andy Green Has a Third Record
The JCB Hydromax averaged 406.320 mph at Bonneville on a pair of hydrogen-burning excavator engines, more than doubling a hydrogen combustion mark that had stood since 2004.
Ty Gibbs Waited 131 Starts for a First Cup Win. The Second One Took Four Months.
At Iowa, Gibbs took the final stage and held off Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Christopher Bell, turning a career that had produced nothing into two wins in one season.
Bearman Says Hamilton's Ferrari Revival Complicates His Own Title Dream
The Haas driver says he is in no rush for a Maranello seat, but admits Lewis Hamilton's turnaround season has changed the picture for any young Briton hoping to wear red.
Sami Pajari Wins Rally Finland as Toyota Sweeps the Podium
The Finnish driver took his second win of the season on home gravel, while championship leader Elfyn Evans extended his points advantage with third place.
Wayne Taylor Racing Snaps Winless Streak as Pfaff and Lamborghini Score a Historic First at Road America
Filipe Albuquerque and Ricky Taylor won a caution-strewn six-hour GTP race in the No. 10 Cadillac, while Pfaff Motorsports gave the new Lamborghini Temerario GT3 its first-ever IMSA victory.
Alex Palou Wins Rain-Delayed Nashville Race, Stretches IndyCar Points Lead to 83
Palou beat a trio of Team Penske drivers at Nashville Superspeedway for his fifth win of 2026, moving closer to a record-tying fourth straight IndyCar championship.
Alex Bowman Is Retiring From Full-Time NASCAR After 2027. He Wants You to Know It's Not the Injuries.
The Hendrick Motorsports driver — three Daytona 500 poles, eight Cup wins, a broken vertebra and a bout of vertigo along the way — says the decision is about what's next, not what's gone wrong.
IndyCar Is Replacing Its 14-Year-Old Chassis. Matt Damon Made the Announcement.
The Dallara IR-28 — about 100 pounds lighter, wider in the cockpit, and running a new hybrid system nearly 14 times the energy capacity of the current one — replaces the DW12 platform IndyCar has raced since 2012, arriving for the 2028 season after delays pushed it back a year.
Lando Norris Won a Race He Wasn't Even Leading for Most of It
Norris converted pole into his first victory of the season at the Hungaroring, but it took a mid-race retirement for teammate Oscar Piastri, a penalty-wrecked weekend for Lewis Hamilton, and 58 laps of somebody else running up front to get him there.
Corey Heim Just Became the First Part-Time Driver Ever to Win the Brickyard 400
Racing a partial Cup Series schedule ahead of a full-time 2027 move, the 24-year-old Truck Series champion led a race-high 58 laps and held off Christopher Bell by 0.287 seconds — the second-youngest winner in the race's history, behind only Jeff Gordon.
Rob Dahm Took His Three-Rotor RX-7 Up Pikes Peak — Not the Car You'd Expect
The rotary-engine YouTuber best known for a quad-rotor, all-wheel-drive RX-7 brought a different car to the 2026 Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb: a purpose-built, three-rotor hillclimber that finished 13th in the Pikes Peak Open division.
Antonelli Beat Leclerc by Under Two Seconds at Spa — and Hamilton's Penalty Handed Him a 45-Point Title Lead
The Belgian Grand Prix went to Antonelli for his sixth win of the season after Hamilton's Ferrari understeered into teammate George Russell's Mercedes on the opening lap and put Russell out on the spot.
Alex Palou Won Nashville by Less Than a Second and Stretched His IndyCar Points Lead to 83
A rain-delayed Music City Grand Prix went to Palou over Josef Newgarden by 0.8731 seconds — his fifth win of the season as he chases a fourth straight title.
Joey Logano Led 323 of 450 Laps to Win the First Cup Points Race at North Wilkesboro in 30 Years
The Window World 450 came down to a green-flag pit strategy Logano never lost, with Denny Hamlin unable to close the gap and only six cars finishing on the lead lap.
BMW's #15 Car Won in Brazil by Less Than a Lap's Margin, and Reopened the Whole WEC Title Fight
Kevin Magnussen, Dries Vanthoor, and Raffaele Marciello held off a late-race Ferrari charge at Interlagos, while their teammates in the #20 car retook the championship lead on points.
Adrian Newey Finally Got to Drive the Car He Sketched on a Christmas Break
The Red Bull RB17 hypercar ran under its own power in public for the first time at Goodwood — with the man who designed it, and no longer works for the team that built it, behind the wheel.
NASCAR Cup Racing Returns to North Wilkesboro for Points — First Time Since 1996
The Window World 450 on July 19 is the first Cup Series points race at the legendary short track in 30 years, run at 450 laps on a circuit that didn't exist in its current form until a 2024 repave.
Ferrari Backed Out of a Handshake Deal. Ford Spent Millions Getting Revenge at Le Mans.
Henry Ford II tried to buy Ferrari in 1963. When Enzo Ferrari pulled out at the last minute, Ford's response was to build a car specifically to beat Ferrari at its own race.
For Four Years, Rally Cars Had Almost No Rules. Then It All Ended in One Season.
Group B let manufacturers build 500-horsepower, sub-2,000-pound monsters with almost no restrictions. Two crashes in 1986 ended the entire class in a matter of weeks.
Cadillac's No. 31 Just Made It Two Straight GTP Wins at Watkins Glen
Jack Aitken, Earl Bamber, and Frederik Vesti led 143 of 182 laps from the pole to win the Sahlen's Six Hours of the Glen — the Whelen Engineering Cadillac's eighth consecutive GTP podium.
Marc Marquez Just Matched a 50-Year-Old Record — and Cut His Title Deficit From 102 Points to 18
Marquez led every lap of the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring for his 10th premier-class win at the circuit, tying Giacomo Agostini's all-time record for wins at a single track — and turning a season that looked lost a month ago into a real title fight.
Bubba Wallace Was Second at Atlanta. A Yellow-Line Violation Sent Him to 29th.
Ryan Blaney swept pole and win at the Quaker State 400, but the race's defining moment was NASCAR stripping Wallace of a career-boosting runner-up finish over a final-lap boundary call his team spent 31 minutes contesting.
Gabe Newell's Son Just Made His Le Mans Debut in the Family Aston Martin
Gray Newell didn't start racing until he was 23, after giving up on a video game studio. This June he lined up at Le Mans in a factory Aston Martin GT3 for the team his father built to fund children's hospital research — and finished third in class.
Goodwood 2026 Recap: An All-Electric Shootout Podium, and Adrian Newey Drove the Car He Designed for the Team He Left
The 33rd Festival of Speed ran under a 'Rivals' theme, and the closing Sunday Shootout delivered one of its own — a battery-powered Mustang beating a Formula E prototype to the line, with the fastest combustion car more than three and a half seconds back.
A Year After Breaking His Back at This Track, Tom Dillmann Won There Again
Dillmann and Jeremy Clarke took Inter Europol Competition's ORECA to the overall win at the Chevrolet Grand Prix — twelve months after a mechanical failure put Dillmann into the Turn 3 wall at the same circuit.
Emelia Hartford Just Became the Fastest Woman to Ever Race Up Pikes Peak
In a 'base' Corvette ZR1 with no hybrid boost and no all-wheel drive, Hartford beat the previous women's record by more than six seconds — a record that had already been lowered earlier the same day.
Chase Briscoe Ends His Slump With a Joe Gibbs Racing Sweep at Chicagoland
Briscoe's first win since Talladega led a JGR 1-2-3 finish in NASCAR's return to Chicagoland — and seven Toyotas finished in the top ten, a manufacturer record.
Antonelli Passes Hamilton at the Midpoint to Win the British GP Sprint
Hamilton started from pole at Silverstone but was overtaken mid-race — finishing 2.745 seconds behind as the home-crowd storylines piled up.
Scott Dixon Is Leaving Chip Ganassi Racing After 24 Years
The six-time IndyCar champion turned down a multiyear extension to join Arrow McLaren for 2027 — and he's not the only headline name changing seats this off-season.
Ai Ogura Ends a 22-Year Drought With His First MotoGP Win
No Japanese rider had won a MotoGP race since Makoto Tamada at Motegi in 2004 — until Ogura came from behind at a chaotic Dutch TT.
Ogier Wins a Dramatic Acropolis Rally as Neuville's Double Puncture Costs Him the Lead
"The Greek gods finally supported me," Ogier said afterward. Neuville lost 53.5 seconds to a puncture on the second-to-last stage and still finished second.
Romain Dumas Wins Pikes Peak Again, This Time in a 1,400-HP Electric Mustang
The 104th Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb went to Ford's Super Mustang Mach-E in 8:18.202 — Dumas's sixth King of the Mountain title, and revenge for a windy 2025 that went to a prototype instead.
Toyota Wins Le Mans 2026, Ending Ferrari's Five-Year Hypercar Streak
Conway, Kobayashi, and de Vries brought the #7 GR010 home first after 381 laps — Toyota's sixth overall win at the Circuit de la Sarthe.