Denny Hamlin earns Toyota’s 200th NASCAR Cup win at Gateway

It's that time of year again. The F1 circus is off sunning itself on its mid-summer break, drivers and teams alike are taking a much-needed and well-deserved breather from the frenetic nature of one grand prix after another - and everybody seems to be talking about who will be driving where in 2010. Here at Crash.net there is no exception, so we have put together a list of likely options and moves between this season and next, who is in favour and who is likely heading out of the door. The drivers have been listed in order of present championship position.

Global music superstars Beyonce, The Black Eyed Peas, Simple Minds, ZZ Top and N.E.R.D have all been lined up by F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone to rock the weekend of the Singapore Grand Prix next month - though ticket sales for the island city-state's second race are still struggling to get off the starting grid.

BMW has dropped hints that it may be willing to follow fellow German manufacturer Mercedes-Benz in supplying 'customer' versions of its engines to other F1 teams - with suggestions the Bavarian marque has Red Bull Racing as its prime target.

Flying in the face of the opinions expressed by both Ferrari and BMW over the past week, Ross Brawn has thrown his support behind the FIA's new optional ?40 million budget cap in Formula 1, warning that without it the top flight risks 'turning [engineers] into Swiss watchmakers' - but equally underlining that it will only be workable if it is embraced by all.

Porsche claimed its first World Endurance Championship Hypercar victory of the season in Austin as Laurens Vanthoor, Matt Campbell and Kevin Estre triumphed in a chaotic wet-weather race.Estre took the lead in the #6 Penske-run Porsche 963 LMDh with one hour and 45 minutes to go immediately after the sixth safety car of the race when he was able to put the Porsche’s nose alongside Alessandro ...Keep reading

Porsche claimed its first World Endurance Championship Hypercar victory of the season in Austin as Laurens Vanthoor, Matt Campbell and Kevin Estre triumphed in a chaotic wet-weather race.Estre took the lead in the #6 Penske-run Porsche 963 LMDh with one hour and 45 minutes to go immediately after the sixth safety car of the race when he was able to put the Porsche’s nose alongside Alessandro ...Keep reading

The countdown has begunYou never say never, but Denny Hamlin seems to know exactly when he is going to retire, which makes seasons like this and victories like Sunday at Gateway all the more rewarding.Hamlin will turn 45 the week after this season ends, and from the looks of it, that will leave just two more seasons after this one to accomplish all the things he wants before moving onto ...Keep reading

It's been an unusual year for Christopher Bell, who won three of the first four races this season. However, the driver of the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota hasn't been to Victory Lane in months — since March, to be exact.What makes that fact more unusual is his team, JGR, has gone on to win five races with Denny Hamlin and two with Chase Briscoe, including the first two races of the 2025 ...Keep reading

Two former NASCAR Cup champions had a surprising run-in with each other during Sunday's race at WWT Raceway (Gateway).While battling for fifth position near the end of Stage 2, Kyle Larson made an aggressive lunge to the inside of Ryan Blaney. He slid up the track and made contact with Blaney, fully sending the No. 12 Team Penske Ford around into a spin.While Blaney rebounded to finish ...Keep reading

Austin Dillon entered the NASCAR Cup playoff race at WWT Raceway eight points below the cutline, and desperately needed to make up ground.Unfortunately, both he and teammate Kyle Busch (who failed to make the playoffs) struggled with the balance of their Richard Childress Racing Chevrolets.Busch triggered the first caution of the race, spinning on his own at the exit of Turn 2. Dillon ...Keep reading

Austin Dillon entered the NASCAR Cup playoff race at WWT Raceway eight points below the cutline, and desperately needed to make up ground.Unfortunately, both he and teammate Kyle Busch (who failed to make the playoffs) struggled with the balance of their Richard Childress Racing Chevrolets.Busch triggered the first caution of the race, spinning on his own at the exit of Turn 2. Dillon ...Keep reading

After making the playoffs for the first time in his career, Josh Berry entered WWT Raceway hoping to rebound from a difficult outing at Darlington. After qualifying third for the Southern 500, he crashed on the opening lap.The wreck left him at the bottom of the standings, 19 points below the cut line. At Gateway, he was running solid in the early laps, up in 15th place. However, before the ...Keep reading

Winner: Max Verstappen Max Verstappen, Red Bull RacingPhoto by: Mark Thompson - Getty ImagesIn Budapest, right before the summer break, Max Verstappen said his Red Bull team wouldn't win any more races this year after the drubbing it received in the Hungarian GP.That win certainly wasn't going to come at high-speed Monza, the scene of its worst performance of last ...Keep reading

M-Sport-Ford’s Jon Armstrong scored an emotional maiden European Rally Championship victory in Wales to set up a three-way fight in next month’s title decider. Ireland’s Armstrong and co-driver Shane Byrne emerged from Rali Ceredigion’s 12 tricky asphalt stages to take the win by 29.2s from reigning Junior WRC champion and M-Sport team-mate Romet Jurgenson. ERC points leader Miko ...Keep reading

Bill Davis was a staple in the NASCAR garage for two decades, operating a winning NASCAR Cup Series team between 1993 and 2008.The team won five Cup races, including the 2001 Southern 500 and  2002 Daytona 500 with Ward Burton. Burton is responsible for all five Cup wins for Bill Davis, earning the team's first victory at Rockingham in 1995, as well as its finish win at New Hampshire in ...Keep reading

Mercedes Formula 1 chief Toto Wolff reckons McLaren's call to ask Oscar Piastri to let Lando Norris past during the Italian Grand Prix after a slow stop for Norris was a "very difficult precedent to undo".As Norris and Piastri were on course to finish second and third behind dominant winner Max Verstappen, McLaren allowed Piastri to make his only pitstop before Norris to help defend his gap to ...Keep reading

Mercedes Formula 1 chief Toto Wolff reckons McLaren's call to ask Oscar Piastri to let Lando Norris past after a slow stop for Norris in the Italian Grand Prix was a "very difficult precedent to undo".As Norris and Piastri were on course to finish second and third behind dominant winner Max Verstappen, McLaren allowed Piastri to make his only pitstop before Norris to help defend his gap to ...Keep reading

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