Kyle Larson paid a visit to the McLaren team he will race for in next year’s Indianapolis 500 during today’s practice session for this year’s race.
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Button calls his first NASCAR stint “embarrassing” after finishing 18th at COTA
NASCAR
Posted onJenson Button recovered from a poor start and endured heat exhaustion and contact with another F1 champion to finish 18th on his NASCAR debut.
Full-time NASCAR drive a “possibility” for Button if wildcard races successful
Other motorsports
Posted onJenson Button says it is a “possibility” that he could get the chance to compete in a full NASCAR Cup Series season in 2024 if his three guest appearances this year are successful.
Button to enter NASCAR races at COTA, Chicago and Indianapolis
Other Motorsport
Posted onJenson Button will make his NASCAR Cup debut later this month in the first of three appearances for the F1 champion in America’s leading motorsport series.
Albon ‘better than this time last year’ after appendicitis recovery
RaceFans Round-up
Posted onIn the round-up: Albon ‘better than this time last year’ after appendicitis recovery • 1991 Ferrari sold for £3.27m • Daly to enter Daytona 500
F1 will overtake NASCAR as America’s favourite motorsport “shortly” – Sargeant
2023 F1 season
Posted onAmerica’s new Formula 1 driver Logan Sargeant believes the series will soon outstrip NASCAR’s popularity in his homeland.
Which qualifying format is the best in motorsport?
Debates and Polls
Posted onOut of all the major motorsport series and the various qualifying formats they use, which is the best system used to determine the grid order?
Johnson will not continue full-time IndyCar campaign in 2023
IndyCar
Posted onSeven-time NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson has confirmed he will not contest a second full-time IndyCar season after finishing 21st in this year’s campaign.
Information overload? Which motorsport series has the most effective TV graphics package?
Debates and polls
Posted onMotorsport series are squeezing ever more information into their television coverage. Have some gone too far? Which strikes the best balance?
Raikkonen to make racing return in NASCAR at Watkins Glen
Other motorsport
Posted onKimi Raikkonen will return to racing later this year in a one-off appearance in NASCAR’s top-flight Cup series at former F1 venue Watkins Glen.
Ricciardo has “once in a lifetime” run in hero’s NASCAR as reward for win
2021 United States Grand Prix
Posted onDaniel Ricciardo did a demonstration run in a NASCAR previously raced by his hero Dale Earnhardt ahead of final practice at the Circuit of the Americas today.
NASCAR-style restart zones could prevent repeat of F1’s Mugello crash – Steiner
2020 F1 season
Posted onFormula 1 should consider using placing NASCAR-style ‘restart zones’ at circuits to prevent a repeat of the crash which stopped the race at Mugello, says Haas team principal Guenther Steiner.
Wolff compares reverse grid F1 races to NASCAR’s ‘Chase for the Cup’
2020 Tuscan Grand Prix Ferrari 1000
Posted onMercedes team principal Toto Wolff strongly criticised Formula 1’s plan for reverse grid sprint races: “This is not worldwide wrestling, it’s not Big Brother.”
“NASCAR Heat 5” reviewed
Reviews
Posted onDoes NASCAR Heat 5 offer a spectacle worthy of America’s most popular form of motorsport? We put the official game to the test.
NASCAR: Wallace “not the target of a hate crime” according to FBI
NASCAR
Posted onNASCAR driver Bubba Wallace was not the target of a hate crime according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the championship has announced.
Hugh Jackman tipped for lead role in Enzo Ferrari film
RaceFans Round-up
Posted onIn the round-up: Hugh Jackman tipped for lead role in Enzo Ferrari film • Ricciardo: Hamilton inspired me to speak out against racism • NASCAR drivers show support for Wallace
‘#WeRaceAsOne’ must make a difference the way ‘Racing Against Racism’ didn’t
Comment
Posted onFormula 1’s ‘#WeRaceAsOne’ initiative needs to be more than a social media slogan, and make a constructive difference to the diversity of participants in the sport’s top flight.
Noose found in garage of black NASCAR driver Wallace
NASCAR
Posted onNASCAR has begun an investigation after a noose was found in the garage stall of Bubba Wallace, its only full-time black competitor, yesterday afternoon.
NASCAR’s Bubba Wallace to race Black Lives Matter livery
NASCAR
Posted onNASCAR driver Bubba Wallace has revealed he plans to race a livery showing his support for the Black Lives Matter movement in today’s race.
Is this how motorsport will look in 2020? NASCAR returns at Darlington
Other motorsport
Posted onNASCAR drivers wore face masks and carried tributes to local medics as the championship held its first race for 70 days at Darlington Raceway yesterday.