There won't be a Stewart-Haas Racing in NASCAR next season now that Hall of Famer Tony Stewart has left the series and the four-car organization he co-owned with Formula 1 team owner Gene Haas. There also won't be a JTG Daugherty Racing team, but that's merely a rebrand under new ownership of the one-car organization that won Talladega in 2024 with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. There was no driver change for the No. 47 Chevrolet under what is now known as Hyak Motorsports.
GOVX will serve as Presenting Sponsor of NASCAR Miltix program
Daytona Beach, Fla. (Dec. 10, 2024) — NASCAR and GOVX, the online shopping platform exclusively for current and former military, first responders, emergency medical professionals, educators and other government service personnel, announced today an official multiyear partnership that strengthens NASCAR‘s longstanding commitment to the military and first responder communities. Through this new partnership, GOVX will […]
Harvick and Carmichael compare SMX to NASCAR
Kevin Harvick joins Ricky Carmichael to discuss the similarities and differences between SuperMotocross and NASCAR, breaking down the playoff formats of each sport and more.
F1 2024 awards: Max Verstappen joins the greats after hardest-won title
The Red Bull driver overcame an ‘undriveable monster', McLaren delivered and Lewis Hamilton ended win drought
With a fourth consecutive world championship, Max Verstappen deserves to be recognised as one of the greats, a place he has earned not least with this year’s title, his most hard-fought yet. After opening in a dominant Red Bull, he executed clinically to take four of the opening five races, keeping his head even as the controversy surrounding the team principal, Christian Horner, consumed Red Bull. However, McLaren’s upgrades at Miami launched a fightback from Lando Norris and after the Spanish GP with the McLaren a quicker ride, Verstappen had to buckle down and make the best of an unbalanced car that he described as an ‘undriveable monster’. He did so with the commitment and determination of an Alain Prost or Michael Schumacher. Repeatedly grinding out decent points between Spain and Brazil was vital and ultimately enough to ensure he closed it out, a champion’s performance. It was, however, one marked by an aggressive, uncompromising attitude on track that did him a disservice and for which he was penalised. That side of his character was not enhanced by his ill-tempered late-season spat with George Russell, nor the absurd dive he made on Oscar Piastri at the season finale in Abu Dhabi that meant nothing to him but could have affected McLaren’s championship challenge.
Continue reading...‘We will always be your people’: Wolff says emotional goodbye to Hamilton
- Mercedes team principal hails historic partnership
- Verstappen learns punishment for swearing in Singapore
Toto Wolff has bid Lewis Hamilton a heartfelt final farewell with what the Mercedes team principal called the most important message he has ever sent, as Hamilton prepares to join Ferrari next season.
Hamilton delivered a superb comeback drive at the season finale in Abu Dhabi on Sunday, after which he admitted his last race for Mercedes had been an emotional affair. The team are continuing to hold a week of celebrations for their driver and he will attend their bases in Brackley and Brixworth this week to say goodbye in person as they part ways after 12 years of unprecedented success.
Continue reading...‘Greatest honour of my life’: Lewis Hamilton bids farewell to Mercedes
- Hamilton admits ‘turbulent year’ was a challenging one
- Lando Norris feels ‘incredibly proud’ of win for McLaren
Lewis Hamilton described his time with Mercedes as the greatest honour of his life after the seven-time champion bowed out with his final race for the team at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. After a superlative drive at the Yas Marina circuit, Hamilton also admitted that, after a difficult year, it was good to bid farewell on a high.
Hamilton drove from 16th to fourth in Abu Dhabi, another mighty performance to sit alongside what has been an unmatched partnership of success with Mercedes since he joined the team in 2013. He has taken six titles with them and 84 wins over those 12 seasons and at his last race before he joins Ferrari next year, he took a moment to contemplate it all at the close when he was given a special place to park on the start-finish straight alongside the top three, where he knelt beside his car.
Continue reading...Lando Norris wins Abu Dhabi F1 GP as McLaren take first title since 1998
- Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri collide on first lap
- McLaren now have nine constructors’ championships
The wait has been long and torturous for McLaren but by the close of a victory for Lando Norris at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix it was worth it as the team celebrated their first Formula One constructors’ championship for 26 years – opening perhaps a new era for the team, just as another came to an end for Lewis Hamilton.
The emotional import of the moment was writ large at McLaren but no less for a visibly moved Hamilton, who brought his career at Mercedes to an end with an exceptional comeback drive from 16th to fourth, bowing out with the same determined panache that has secured him unprecedented success with the team.
Continue reading...Norris wins F1 Abu Dhabi GP as McLaren secure constructors’ title – as it happened
Lando Norris took the chequered flag at Yas Marina to help McLaren win their first F1 constructors’ title since 1998
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Continue reading...Lando Norris claims Abu Dhabi F1 GP pole but ‘idiotic’ error costs Hamilton
- Hamilton 18th in qualifying thanks to dislodged bollard
- Mercedes’ Toto Wolff apologises for ‘idiotic mistake’
Bidding farewell with a flourish was the optimistic hope for Lewis Hamilton as he entered his final meeting with Mercedes at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix but even fortune, it seems, would not favour the British driver for his swansong where he finished 18th in qualifying.
His final hot lap was scuppered by the poorest of luck as he picked up a stray bollard dislodged by Kevin Magnussen, condemning his finale to probably be something of a slog from the lower reaches of the grid.
Continue reading...Horner defends Verstappen in Russell feud as Formula One rift escalates
- Mercedes driver said world champion threatened him
- Red Bull principal also responds to Toto Wolff ‘terrier’ dig
The Red Bull team principal, Christian Horner, has defended his driver Max Verstappen in the world champion’s increasingly ill-tempered feud with Mercedes’ George Russell and dismissed their very public falling-out as part of an end-of-year “pantomime season” before this weekend’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Verstappen has already been crowned drivers’ champion, a success overshadowed at this finale by the spat he is now embroiled in with Russell. Their altercation ramped up in Abu Dhabi when the British driver accused Verstappen of threatening to put him “on your fucking head in the wall” and that it was time someone stood up to the Dutchman’s bullying. Verstappen has denied making the threat.
Continue reading...2025 NASCAR Cup season could be telling for three teams
RFK Racing, Trackhouse Racing and 23XI Racing have had similar results since 2022.
NASCAR’s worst crashes from the 2024 season
Relive the worst and most memorable crashes from the 2024 NASCAR Cup, Xfinity and Truck Series seasons.
George Russell claims Max Verstappen threatened to ‘put my head in the wall’
- Mercedes driver revealed tensions boiled over in Qatar
- World champion was ‘going to purposefully crash into me’
George Russell has claimed his Formula One rival Max Verstappen threatened him with violence during the escalating tensions between the drivers at the Qatar Grand Prix. The Mercedes driver said the newly crowned world champion told him “he was going to purposefully go out of his way to crash into me and ‘put me on my fucking head in the wall’”.
The accusations come after the Briton and Verstappen were embroiled in a dispute in qualifying for the race last weekend. The Dutchman lost pole position for blocking Russell during qualifying, with both drivers seeking out the stewards to discuss the incident. Verstappen – who vented his ire on Dutch television, stating he had “lost all respect” for the Mercedes driver – went on to win the race but only after a one-place grid penalty saw him start behind Russell.
Continue reading...Jordan’s NASCAR Suit ‘Baseless,’ CEO France Says in Court Brief
Disparaging the lawsuit brought by Michael Jordan-owned 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports as a “misguided attempt to dress up private business frustrations in antitrust garb,” NASCAR this week motioned a federal judge to dismiss the case altogether. NASCAR CEO Jim France, a co-defendant, separately filed a motion to dismiss, arguing that his inclusion is …
NASCAR recovers from early washouts to produce decent racing in season marred by antitrust lawsuit
NASCAR opened the season with near washouts in the first two races of the year that could have set the tone for a miserable 2024 campaign. There were 18 different winners, including Austin Dillon, who was disqualified from advancing to the playoffs for the aggressive driving that secured his victory. Joey Logano was the controversial Cup Series champion and triggered discussion about the fairness of the playoffs.