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In the round-up: F1 hopes for South Americans “getting better” • Verschoor back to MP for fifth F2 season • Verstappen races in charity event

Martin Truex Jr. earned pole with a 26.718s lap, besting Joey Logano by 0.010s in the final round of qualifying. The veteran driver is set to retire from full-time competition at the end of the year, but he hopes to leave Joe Gibbs Racing with one last checkered flag after going winless through the first…

Christopher Bell was in the Championship 4 for 27 minutes before NASCAR removed him due to a safety violation, citing his accidental wall-ride. But what led up to that moment is what has Bell frustrated several days later.“I feel cheated,” said Bell. “I feel cheated out of a chance to compete for a championship. It…

No driver has won back-to-back Cup titles since the end of Jimmie Johnson’s unprecedented five-year run in 2010, and it’s never been done in this volatile knockout format. What would it mean to Ryan Blaney to accomplish such a feat? According to the Team Penske driver, it would be even bigger than the first.”There’s a…

Denny Hamlinwas sitting atop the speed charts after 30 laps of the early afternoon Cup practice at Martinsville Speedway. But his day quickly went sour when a piece of rubber jammed his throttle open, and in order to scrub speed from the car, he turned the steering wheel, sending his car crashing backwards into the…

William Byron has long described himself as just a “normal guy” — an everyman who likes to spend his free time hanging out with friends at home in Charlotte, North Carolina. But this weekend, the man behind the wheel of the Hendrick Motorsports No. 24 car has a chance to do something extremely not normal:…

Lonato (ITA), 5.11.2024: The entry list for the first of the two WSK Final Cup events at the South Garda Karting circuit in Lonato has reached 400 drivers, marking another important milestone in the 19th year of activity for WSK Promotion. Since 2006, WSK Promotion has been organizing a sporting history that is increasingly appreciated by all actors in…

Toto Wolff has revealed he did not try to persuade Lewis Hamilton to remain at Mercedes instead of switching to Ferrari and says he was concerned about the F1 driver’s “shelf life”.At the start of the year, Hamilton told Wolff he wanted to cut short his contract with Mercedes in order to join the Scuderia…

Hertz is in a heap of public relations trouble once again as a location manager threatened to have a customer arrested if he didn’t pay a $10,000 mileage overage charge for driving 25,000 miles in one month. That’s a ton of miles for a car to rack up in one month, basically doing around 1,000…

It can be challenging to gauge the relevance of any automaker, but you can generally feel it. For example, how many recent Jaguars do you see on the road? When was the last time you’ve seen anyone get excited for a Chrysler that wasn’t a 300? You know, the Chrysler 300, the vehicle famous for…