Josh Berry in playoff peril after shocking Lap 1 wreck at Darlington

The Southern 500 was a bit of a mess for Hendrick Motorsports.Upon crossing the finish line in 21st, William Byron had crew chief Rudy Fugle in his ear with a message for his entire No. 24 team."We're embarrassed. We've got to execute a lot better all around. Nothing comfortable. We didn't do shit today. We've got to improve and get better and race our ass off every week or it's going to ...Keep reading

Christopher Bell suffered damage at Darlington that severely impacted the performance of his No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, but it didn't happen out on the race track.While exiting his pit box during a round of pit stops under caution, the driver who caused the yellow crossed paths with him at the worst possible moment. Bell was leaving his stall while Carson Hocevar was entering his own ...Keep reading

In a race where pit road blunders seemed to be the theme for the title contenders, and Hendrick Motorsports was surprisingly off their game, Chase Briscoe was near-perfect as he won the Southern 500 for the second consecutive year.However, there were seven Playoff drivers who finished 20th or worse, including Josh Berry, who wrecked on the opening lap.After 500 miles of racing at the track ...Keep reading

Chase Briscoe led 309 of 367 laps in the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota and swept the stages, but he nearly lost it all in the final corner. Tyler Reddick made a huge dive to the inside, but he couldn't quite get there, allowing Briscoe to earn his second consecutive Southern 500 -- doing so with two different teams.Briscoe is the first driver to go back-to-back in the crown jewel event since ...Keep reading

With the title race wrapped up and even second in the bag, there was little to race for but pride Sunday at Nashville Superspeedway. But that didn’t stop the NTT IndyCar Series field from putting together another hectic, unpredictable oval race to cap off the 2025 season.There were a few key prizes up for grabs - namely third in points and the Rookie of the Year award. But for most in the ...Keep reading

The 2025 NTT IndyCar Series finale didn’t go to plan for Louis Foster and the No. 45 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing team, but the British driver left the weekend with Rookie of the Year honours after a dramatic late race swing.Foster qualified a distant 23rd and spent most of Sunday’s race on the back-foot. The 22-year-old was lapped early and then hit with a penalty for a controversial ...Keep reading

The 2025 NTT IndyCar Series finale didn’t go to plan for Louis Foster and the No. 45 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing team, but the Briton left the weekend with Rookie of the Year honors after a dramatic late race swing.Foster qualified a distant 23rd and spent most of Sunday’s race on the back-foot. The 22-year-old was lapped early and then hit with a penalty for a controversial run-in with ...Keep reading

In a strange turn of events, Elfyn Evans’ World Rally Championship lead has been further reduced as a consequence following Hyundai’s decision to retire Adrien Fourmaux from Rally Paraguay after the finish of the rally.Fourmaux was on course to claim a podium, having held second heading into the final Power Stage before heavy rain affected the later runners, with Fourmaux and eventual ...Keep reading

Elfyn Evans’ World Rally Championship lead has been further reduced as a consequence following Hyundai’s decision to retire Adrien Fourmaux from Rally Paraguay after the finish of the rally.Fourmaux was on course to claim a podium, having held second heading into the final Power Stage before heavy rain affected the later runners, with Fourmaux and eventual rally winner Sébastien Ogier ...Keep reading

Many pointed to Josh Berry and the No. 21 Wood Brothers Ford as a first-round exit in the NASCAR Cup Playoffs, but Berry surprised many with a third-place qualifying effort at Darlington.Unfortunately, the momentum didn't carry over into the race. In the very first corner on the opening lap, Berry's car bottomed out and he snapped sideways, slamming the door of fellow playoff driver Tyler ...Keep reading

In the finale of a 2025 NTT IndyCar Series season defined by the things that went wrong, everything finally went right for Josef Newgarden at Nashville Superspeedway. “I’m just glad we got one without anything going wrong,” he said afterward.Newgarden snuck past Team Penske teammate Scott McLaughlin after he got into the wall with 21 laps remaining and survived the final run with ...Keep reading

Heading into Sunday’s Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix, Pato O'Ward and David Malukas were poised to square off from the front row. And for the 225-lap event’s first two stints, that’s exactly what they did.But by the time the race entered its final 100 laps, both drivers were out of the running.Malukas entered Nashville eager to impress, still rumored to be in the running to ...Keep reading

Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton will take a five-place grid penalty to his team's home race in Monza for infractions committed during the laps to the grid ahead of F1's Dutch Grand Prix. F1 stewards also ruled on teammate Charles Leclerc’s clash (below).On the usual reconnaissance laps 45 minutes before the start of the race, Hamilton was deemed to have driven too fast approaching the pitlane ...Keep reading

Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton will take a five-place grid penalty to his team's home race in Monza for infractions committed during the laps to the grid ahead of Formula 1's Dutch Grand Prix.On the usual reconnaissance laps 45 minutes before the start of the race, Hamilton was deemed to have driven too fast approaching the pitlane, contravening a specific request from the FIA's race director ...Keep reading

Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton will take a five-place grid penalty to his team's home race in Monza for infractions committed during the laps to the grid ahead of F1's Dutch Grand Prix. F1 stewards also ruled on teammate Charles Leclerc’s clash (below).On the usual reconnaissance laps 45 minutes before the start of the race, Hamilton was deemed to have driven too fast approaching the pitlane ...Keep reading

Crash.net's F1 driver ratings for the 2025 Dutch Grand Prix

Nightmare weekend for Lewis Hamilton as he picks up a grid penalty for Monza.

Our F1 reporter on the ground selects his winners and losers from the Dutch Grand Prix...