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F1 driver Bottas raises $150k for charity with nude calendar​


Formula One driver Valtteri Bottas has raised $150,000 for men's health charity Movember after a 'Bottass 2024' calendar featuring photographs of him baring his backside sped off the shelves. An initial run of 10,000, with €5 ($5.46) from each going to prostate cancer research, swiftly sold out with more printed.

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Tony Stewart to replace wife Leah Pruett in NHRA dragster​

Leah Pruett will step away from the NHRA drag racing series in 2024 to focus on starting a family with Tony Stewart. Her NASCAR Hall of Fame husband will replace her next season in the Top Fuel dragster that Pruett drove to a career-best third-place finish in the NHRA standings this year. Pruett and Stewart married just over two years ago. Pruett won two races this season in the Dodge Top Fuel dragster driving for Tony Stewart Racing, which won the Funny Car championship with Matt Hagan. Pruett has 12 career Top Fuel victories. Stewart ran the full NHRA season in 2023 in the Top Alcohol Dragster class.

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Chase Elliott wins NASCAR most popular award in worst season​

Chase Elliott overcame the worst season of his career to maintain his hold on the NASCAR most popular driver award for the sixth consecutive year. Elliott missed seven races this season, failed to make the playoffs and wasn't required to attend Thursday night's season-ending awards ceremony at the Music City Center. But he showed to pick up the only award solely voted on by fans.

Elliott went winless in 2023 and failed to earn a berth in the playoffs for the first time in his eight Cup seasons. He missed six races with a broken leg suffered in a snowboarding crash early in the season, and was suspended for one race for deliberately wrecking Danny Hamlin in the Coca-Cola 600. He wound up 17th in the final Cup standings.

Bill Elliott, father of the 2020 Cup champion and a NASCAR Hall of Famer, won the most popular driver award a record 16 times before "Awesome Bill from Dawsonville" removed his name from the ballot.

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Noah Gragson joins Stewart-Haas Racing, says ban 'opened' eyes​

Noah Gragson has spent the past five months working on personal growth and maturity after his "like" of an insensitive meme of George Floyd nearly cost him his NASCAR career. He'll get a chance to show if he has truly evolved with Stewart-Haas Racing, which said Wednesday it has hired Gragson to drive the No. 10 Ford in the Cup Series. It's a second chance Gragson is not taking lightly after his career imploded in August. Social media users noted that a meme circulating of Floyd, a Black man who was killed in 2020 by white police officers, had been "liked" by Gragson. NASCAR suspended the 25-year-old and he parted ways with Legacy Motor Club, which had hired the Las Vegas native for his first full season racing in the top Cup level. Gragson, who had built a reputation as an aggressive driver both on and off the track in the second-tier Xfinity Series, reached out to good friend Brandon McReynolds and wondered why everything was falling apart in his life.

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Red Bull aiming to replace 'Cold War relic' wind tunnel by 2026​

Construction of a new Red Bull wind tunnel will get underway next year, team principal Christian Horner has confirmed, with the team hoping to have it up and running by 2026. The new wind tunnel is set to be built at the team's factory in Milton Keynes and will replace the facility it currently uses near Bedford, which is over 70 years old. The new facility is expected to be completed by 2026, but Horner doubts it will have an impact on the team's competitiveness until 2027.

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Ryan Blaney has Indy 500 hopes; Roger Penske says 'slow down'​

One NASCAR championship down and Ryan Bianey already has his eyes on another prize: the Indianapolis 500. Roger Penske said Thursday that NASCAR's reigning Cup champion had inquired about someday running "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing," but "The Captain" pumped the brakes. "It's interesting to me that Blaney said to me that he'd looked to go to Indy," Penske said ahead of Blaney and Team Penske's coronation as Cup champions. "I said we're going to have to slow down a little bit. We're going to have everybody coming to Indy."

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Paula Murphy, Hall of Fame drag racer, dies at 95​

Paula Murphy, a Hall of Fame racer and the first woman licensed to drive a Funny Car, died Thursday. She was 95. The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) announced Murphy's death on Friday. It did not provide any details. Murphy was a pioneer for women in racing. She had set a women's land speed record of 161 mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats for Andy Granatelli in 1963. It was Granatelli who sponsored a new Funny Car drag racing entry for Murphy, who became known as "Miss STP." Murphy was inducted into the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame in 1992 and the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2017.

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Cale Yarborough, three-time NASCAR champion in '70s, dies at 84​


Cale Yarborough, considered one of NASCAR's all-time greatest drivers and the first to win three consecutive Cup titles, died Sunday at the age of 84. Yarborough's crowning achievements include four Daytona 500 victories and five Southern 500 wins at his home track of Darlington Raceway. His championships in 1976, 1977 and 1978 made him the only driver to win three straight NASCAR titles until Jimmie Johnson's run of five in a row from 2006 to 2010. Yarborough and Johnson are tied on NASCAR's career wins list with 83. Yarborough competed in NASCAR's top series for more than four decades, making his debut in the 1957 Southern 500 and closing his career in Atlanta in 1988. He won his final race in Charlotte in 1985 and had 319 career top-10 finishes and 69 pole positions. A three-time Driver of the Year award winner, Yarborough was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2012.

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2023 nascar superlatives: best race, rivalry, paint scheme
Perhaps it is not a coincidence that the 2023 stock car calendar kicked off with an exhibition race from Hollywood, because during this same time when moviemakers have become so obsessed with the idea of crisscrossing multiverse timelines, NASCAR spent an entire season doing the same. A celebration of the sport's past punctuated by what felt like a definitive changing of the starting grid guard. New venues mixed in with racetracks awakened after we had long ago left them for dead.


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Race of the year: Kansas Spring Race
I can already hear the complaints from people wanting a sexier selection. But what else could you possibly want than a record number of lead changes for a 400 mile intermediate event (37), a seemingly endless series of fantastic restarts, an overtime finish and somewhat controversial battle between two future Hall of Famers in Denny Hamlin and Kyle Larson, all finished off with chef's kiss pit road throw down between Ross Chastain and Noah Gragson? To quote the great NASCAR philosopher Maximus, "Are you not entertained?"
 

Carles Falcon, 45, dies from injuries sustained at Dakar Rally​

Spanish motorcycle racer Carles Falcon has died from injuries he sustained in a crash at the Dakar Rally a week ago, his team said Monday. The TwinTrail Racing Team said on Instagram the neurological damage caused by the cardiac arrest Falcon sustained in the crash in Saudi Arabia was "irreversible." The 45-year-old Falcon was taken from the site of the Jan. 7 crash by helicopter. He was later transferred to a hospital in Spain and had remained in critical condition. Falcon was making his second appearance at the Dakar Rally.

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jimmie johnson , crew chief among nascar hall of fame inductees
Johnson was honored for his career on Friday night when he and crew chief Chad Knaus, who he teamed up with to win a record-tying seven Cup championships, were inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame.


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The sports dominant duo, both first-ballot inductees, joined Donnie Allison, an original member of the "Alabama Gang," in a celebration at the Charlotte Convention Center as part of the 2024 class. Janet Guthrie, the first woman to race in the Daytona 500 and Indianapolis 500, was inducted as the Landmark Award winner for contributions to NASCAR.
 

GTP class rousing interest in IMSA, U.S. sports car racing​

Raging into the darkness, brake discs aglow in red, exhausts firing blue flames rearward as the hands of the clock spin past midnight and keep rotating through another 12 hours until 24 hours of endurance racing cruelty is complete. Weeks before NASCAR fans flock to Daytona Beach for its storied 500-mile oval contest, the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA), holds its annual celebration of heartbreak and glory for two straight days at the Rolex 24 At Daytona. It's one of one, a major event unlike anything else on the U.S. sporting landscape -- held this weekend, to be precise -- and it's on the rise. IMSA's festival of fatigue is run on the speedway's "roval" configuration, which utilizes some of the big oval's stock car corners and a road course built into the infield that combines for an seemingly unending lap that spans 3.56 miles. Carefully crafted teams of drivers fight to take the lead -- and to remain lucid from the waving of the green flag on Saturday at 1:40 p.m. ET to the checkered at 1:40 p.m. on Sunday -- using exotic sports cars that are punished without pause, all for our entertainment.

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IndyCar moves season finale due to NFL construction​


IndyCar will move its September season-ending championship finale from the downtown streets of Nashville to the superspeedway in Lebanon, Tennessee, because of construction surrounding the Tennessee Titans' new stadium, organizers announced Wednesday. Big Machine Label Group chairman and founder Scott Borchetta said he is now overseeing the IndyCar race, which in its fourth running was made the Sept. 15 season finale. The Big Machine Music City Grand Prix has been a smashing success as the event raced down lower Broadway and used the Korean Veterans Memorial Bridge as part of the tricky track layout. Borchetta said he spent the last several weeks reviewing the 2024 plans for the IndyCar race and determined the event had to be moved to Nashville Superspeedway. IndyCar ran eight times at the superspeedway, with Scott Dixon winning the final three races from 2006 to 2008.

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byron wins daytona 500 under caution to end hendtrick drought
Byron snapped Hendrick Motorsports' nine-race Daytona 500 losing streak Monday in the rain-delayed "Great American Race." The last Hendrick driver to win the Daytona 500 was Dale Earnhardt Jr. in 2014. The ninth Daytona 500 win for Hendrick Motorsports tied the team with Petty Enterprises for most in NASCAR history.

austin hill wins xfinity series daytona race again
Austin Hill won the Xfinity Series race at Daytona International Speedway for the third consecutive year in Monday's rain-rescheduled season-opener. Hill had to overcome a myriad of issues throughout the race -- from an early crash to issues on pit road -- to hold off former teammate Sheldon Creed by 0.591 seconds for the win.
 
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