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Hendrick Motorsports’ William Byron became the first NASCAR Cup Series driver to advance to the Round of 8 in the Playoffs, thanks to his win on Sept. 24 at Texas Motor Speedway.Byron’s win was the 300th in NASCAR Cup competition for Hendrick Motorsports and team owner Rick Hendrick.The Round of 12 continues on Oct. 1 at Talladega and concludes at Charlotte on Oct. 9. Following the race at Charlotte, the field will be cut to eight.NASCAR Playoff StandingsAfter first of three races in Round of 12…
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Former W Series racer and British Karting champion Jessica Hawkins made history when she completed her first Formula 1 test session with the Aston Martin on Sept. 21.The 21-lap test came at the Hungaroring in Hungary, where the 28-year-old Hawkins became the first female driver to perform a test session since Tatiana Calderon tested for Sauber in Mexico in 2018.While Hawkins and Aston Martin team reps said all the right things after the test, there’s still no indication that Formula 1 is any clo…
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While NASCAR has yet to release it’s 2024 Cup Series schedule—yes, a full schedule release is already two weeks later than last year’s announcement—a few more dates have been revealed.On Thursday, NASCAR announced that the series will return to North Wilkesboro Speedway for the annual All-Star Race in 2024, and it will return to oval racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.The NASCAR All-Star Race will take place at North Wilkesboro Speedway as part of a doubleheader race weekend with the NASC…
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The Andretti Cadillac Formula 1 bid reached a milestone on Monday when it was granted approval to bring a new team to the F1 grid.The years-long process is now one step from the finish line. That step, however, is no guarantee of producing a positive outcome for Andretti. The bid must now by ratified by the Formula 1 teams (Formula One Management), and that group has been adverse to adding new teams it its 10-team series.The biggest argument coming from the existing F1 teams is that another entr…
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Three-time NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle champion Angelle Sampey is taking off the training wheels, ending the meetings, finishing off her testing and jumping into a Top Alcohol Dragster for real competition this weekend.Sampey’s racing debut on four wheels will be in the Texas NHRA Fall Nationals at the Texas Motorplex near Dallas, Oct. 12-15. The 53-year-old Sampey closed out her pre-debut training with a test session in the Michalek Brothers Racing’s A/Fuel Dragster on Oct. 4 at Lucas Oil Indiana…
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Carson Hocevar is currently driving in the Cup Series as a replacement for ousted Noah Gragson at Legacy Motor Club.At Spire Motorsports, Hocevar will replace Ty Dillon in the No. 77 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1.Hocevar is currently second in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series standings and one of eight drivers still eligible for the championship.Carson Hocevar is skipping a grade and graduating into the NASCAR Cup Series full time for 2024.Hocevar, who will turn 21 just a few weeks before the 2024 Dayto…
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The ABB FIA Formula E all-electric open-wheel racing series is returning to Portland, Oregon, in 2024.The series revealed the schedule for its 10th season today.Portland, which replaced Brooklyn on the schedule in 2023, returns for a second year to host the lone Formula E race in the United States.New on the schedule for 2024 at races in Shanghai, China, and the streets of Tokyo. Formula E will also return to Hyderabad, India, to give the series the distinction of being the lone major racing ser…
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The Formula 1 United States Grand Prix won by Max Verstappen was once again big in Texas—everything is big in Texas, right?—but not so much on televisions across the country.TV ratings for the F1 U.S. Grand Prix dropped for the third consecutive year. This year’s race, broadcast Sunday at 3 p.m., ET on ABC TV, pulled a rating of just 0.47 and an average viewership of 882,000, according to television ratings watchdog Sports Media Watch.The only other major racing action on Sunday was the NASCAR C…
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Leah Pruett isn’t making any apologies for her current standing as the points leader of the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Top Fuel charts with just two races remaining in the season.And, no, she’s not feeling bad for six-win Justin Ashley, who scored a series-leading six wins in this year’s regular season. After all, in the NHRA’s Countdown to the Championship, it all comes down to getting hot at the right time—specifically the last six races.Pruett, who has just two wins this season (at Norwal…
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On Monday in Valencia, Spain, an ABB FIA Formula E race car driven by Robert Shwartzman of the DS Penske team, stopped on the track during part of what was scheduled to be a three-day test session for the series. The Formula E car was taken back to the garage, where a battery from the car exploded and caused a fire in the garage, injuring one person.In July, Special ONE Racing lost two FIA World Rallycross race cars, a workshop truck, and valuable tools in a fire that occurred in the paddock of…
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To probably no one’s surprise, racing takes a back seat to football, both pro and college, this time of year.But here’s something you might have missed, Big 10 women’s volleyball is a big deal. In fact, FOX followed up its 1 p.m. football menu on Sunday with women’s college volleyball, and volleyball held its own in the TV ratings.Women’s college volleyball pulled a 0.9 rating and 1,659,000 viewers on average for the 4:50 p.m. ET broadcast on FOX. Those viewer numbers were bigger than the the F…
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