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Posted On June 10, 2017By Motorsports TribuneIn Breaking News, Formula One, Headline News

Ferrari Takes Charge in FP3 in Canada

Sebastian Vettel led a Ferrari one-two in final practice for the Canadian Grand Prix with the Drivers’ Championship leader finishing just under three tenths clear of team-mate Kimi Raikkonen. Lewis Hamilton was third for Mercedes 0.354s adrift of top spot. The early pace in the session was made by Red Bull Racing’s Daniel Ricciardo, with the Australian straight into the action in a bid to make up for time lost in FP2 due to an engine issue. However, Vettel was soon in control and on ultrasoft tyres he quickly workedRead More
By: Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service FORT WORTH, Texas – Christopher Bell, a self-described “dirt track kid” from Oklahoma, continued to show he’s pretty good on pavement Friday night at Texas Motor Speedway. Bell edged Chase Briscoe after a side-by-side, closing-laps battle to win the 21st annual winstaronlinegaming.com 400 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race. Bell, who started 21st in the 28-truck field, won under caution after a white-flag wreck involving Timothy Peters, Austin Self and Johnny Sauter on TMS’ repaved and re-profiled 1.5-mile oval. A 22-year-old native of Norman, Oklahoma,Read More
By David Morgan, NASCAR Editor Making his return to the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series for the first time since Red Horse Racing shut down earlier this year, Timothy Peters would have everyone talking about the way he finished Friday night’s WinstarOnlineGaming.com 400 at Texas Motor Speedway. Running in the No. 99 truck for MDM Motorsports, Peters had kept his nose clean throughout the night and was on his way to a top-10 finish, but heading to the white flag, Austin Wayne Self broke loose and spun ahead of himRead More
By David Morgan, NASCAR Editor It’s safe to say the finish of Friday night’s WinstarOnlineGaming.com 400 at Texas will still be getting discussed at the water cooler on Monday morning. With Chase Briscoe and Christopher Bell running neck and neck over the closing laps, the caution would fly for a vicious crash between Timothy Peters and Austin Wayne Self that saw Peters wind up on his roof on the frontstretch after flipping through the grass. Though Bell led at the start/finish line to take the white flag, it appeared BriscoeRead More
By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer Entering the WinStarOnlineGaming.com 400k at Texas Motor Speedway, Ryan Truex was coming off his fourth straight Top 10 finishes in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. This was also Truex’s second trip to the 1.5-mile speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. In the first practice Truex placed his No. 16 H.E.B. Grocery Store Toyota Tundra 10th on the speed charts for Hattori Racing Enterprises. Crew chief Scott Zipadelli continued to make improvements on the truck as Truex was ninth in the second practice and fifth inRead More
By Joey Barnes, Editor-in-Chief FORT WORTH, Texas – James Hinchcliffe isn’t sold on a second groove coming in for Saturday night’s Rainguard Water Sealers 600 at Texas Motor Speedway. Last year, the affable Canadian led six times for 188 laps en route to finishing runner-up to Graham Rahal by a slim 0.008 of a second. Although there would typically be some optimism in returning after such stalwart performance, a reconfiguration and repave to the 1.5-mile oval, which sees Turns 1 and 2 lowered from 24 to 20 degrees and widenedRead More

Posted On June 9, 2017By Motorsports TribuneIn Breaking News, IndyCar

Carpenter Leads Hectic Final Practice at Texas

By INDYCAR FORT WORTH, Texas – The final practice on race eve at Texas Motor Speedway has become known for nonstop action. This evening’s 30-minute session was no exception. Ed Carpenter was fastest with a lap of 224.682 mph in the practice that featured large groups of cars running together to get a better sense of what race conditions will be like for Saturday’s Rainguard Water Sealers 600 following the full track repaving and reconfiguration of Turns 1 and 2 on the 1.5-mile oval. A total of 957 laps wereRead More
By Adam Tate, Associate Editor With the rumors swirling around McLaren-Honda like vultures, Renault’s Nico Hulkenberg has gone on record saying he would welcome Fernando Alonso back to Renault should the two-time World Champ leave McLaren at season’s end. Speaking to Speed Week ahead of this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix, the German driver was very excited at the possibility of Alonso considering a Renault return. “I think it would be great,” said Hulkenberg. “It would be great not only for the whole team, but for me as well to compete with one ofRead More
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service LONG POND, Pa. – Running his fastest lap of the day in the final round of Friday’s knockout qualifying, Kyle Busch won the pole position for Sunday’s Axalta presents the Pocono 400 at Pocono Raceway (3 p.m. ET on FS1) by a comfortable margin. The only driver to top 179 mph in three rounds of time trials, Busch covered the 2.5-mile distance at the triangular track in 50.237 seconds (179.151 mph) to earn his second Coors Light Pole Award of the season, his thirdRead More
By Takuma Sato, Driver Columnist In his fifth column for Motorsports Tribune, Takuma Sato takes us inside the cockpit on how he won the 101st Running of the Indianapolis 500, the second consecutive for Andretti Autosport. He also carried that momentum into the Detroit doubleheader with two solid top five finishes and now sits third in the Verizon IndyCar Series championship standings as they ready for this weekend’s race at Texas. The Final Run to Victory It’s all about timing and it worked out perfectly. There was 22 laps to goRead More