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Voldex, NASCAR launch dynamic racing experience in Driving Empire

Just in time for the Daytona 500, leading Roblox developer Voldex announced its partnership with NASCAR to bring a year of authentic NASCAR fun to top Roblox racing game, Driving Empire. Starting Feb. 14, Driving Empire players and NASCAR fans can look forward to high-octane updates and events, starting with the Daytona 500. Throughout the […]

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‘I’ve told Dad to be neutral’ – Fin Smith on split family Calcutta Cup loyalties

Fly-half starred in England’s victory against France and is now set to face Scotland, the country of his father’s birth

As Gregor Townsend sweats on the availability of Finn Russell for next Saturday’s Calcutta Cup there may be a few wistful glances in the direction of England’s fly-halves. For Fin Smith, man of the match on his first Test start against France, has Scottish blood in his veins.

His grandfather, Tom Elliot, was from Galashiels – like Townsend – and represented Scotland and the British & Irish Lions as a loosehead prop. Smith’s father, Andrew, is from Dunfermline and met his wife, Judith, Tom’s daughter, at the London Scottish clubhouse. Smith Sr has eight England caps of his own but as a child would marvel at his grandfather’s collection, he and brother Angus regularly trying them on.

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Sri Lanka thrash Australia by 174 runs to complete first one-day series whitewash

  • Tourists crumble again after being set 282 in Colombo
  • Steve Smith top scored with 29 in dismal reply

Sri Lanka have completed their first whitewash of Australia in a one-day series with a record-breaking 174-run victory at Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.

Set a challenging 282 to win, Australia were bowled out for just 107 in 24.2 overs on Friday to give Sri Lanka a 2-0 series sweep in a dreadful warm-up for the Champions Trophy beginning in Pakistan next week.

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Emma Raducanu takes another wildcard in Dubai in bid to stop losing run

  • Former US Open champion has lost four matches in a row
  • 22-year-old opts to bypass qualifying for tournament

Emma Raducanu will continue to try to arrest her losing run against the best players in the world after taking another wildcard into the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships.

The former US Open champion is enduring the worst sequence of her career having lost four successive matches. Raducanu failed to capitalise on wildcard entries into tournaments in Abu Dhabi and Doha over the last two weeks, losing in the first round both times, to Marketa Vondrousova and Ekaterina Alexandrova.

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Calum Nicholas: ‘I’m trying to inspire people from all backgrounds to look at F1’

‘It can be quite intimidating being the only black guy,’ says the Red Bull mechanic helping open up an overwhelmingly white business

“Asking for forgiveness rather than permission has been my philosophy for a while now,” Calum Nicholas says as he shows the conviction and daring which has made him one of the most recognisable faces in Formula One. Nicholas, who still describes himself as a mechanic, is the senior power unit assembly technician at Red Bull Racing where he has helped Max Verstappen win the last four drivers’ championships in a row, as well as being a key member of a team that clinched the constructors’ titles in 2022 and 2023.

Nicholas has also become famous as one of the very few black faces in the F1 pit lane and a minor star of Drive to Survive on Netflix. He is now an author, having written his first book without the help of a ghostwriter, and he smiles when I ask if he had to clear this new literary venture with Red Bull.

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