Carlos Sainz Jr. signed a contract to remain with Toro Rosso shortly before this season's Austrian Grand Prix, but the questions surrounding his Formula One future are yet to stop. Talk of a potential swap deal with Renault, which would see the Red Bull B-team trade one of the most exciting talents on the grid for a cheaper engine supply in 2017, has polluted the paddock since Silverstone. And almost three months later, those rumours just won't go away. But Toro Rosso have finally moved to stop the speculation, insisting Sainz will not be allowed to leave at the end of 2016. As with Sainz, we all thought Haas' plans for 2017 were set in stone, with the American team seemingly happy to retain both Romain Grosjean and Esteban Gutierrez for a ...

There is a new leader atop the Chase for the Sprint Cup. Brad Keselowski now sits one point ahead of Martin Truex Jr. after Sunday's New England 300, also referred to as the Bad Boy Off Road 300. Keselowski finished in fourth place, with Kevin Harvick taking home the second race of the Chase. The win confirms Harvick will make it to the second round of the NASCAR playoff. "It’s definitely going to be nice," Harvick said, per Joe Menzer of Fox Sports. "One of our main goals this year was to not stress ourselves out so bad. I feel like the performance of the car and the things that we’re doing are good enough to be competitive, and we just need to not make mistakes and go from there.” As of right now, it's Kyle Larson hangi...

“You see in this system how much these wins mean,” NBCSN’s Jeff Burton said at the conclusion of the Bad Boy Off Road 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. He said that after Kevin Harvick, the race winner, burned up a towering cloud of vaporized rubber down the front stretch. The No. 4 driver used a titanic restart with five laps to go to grab the lead by the throat and choke it away from Matt Kenseth. Harvick's win was about as clutch as they come. He spent most of the TMNT 400 at Chicagoland a lap down with a car that could’ve competed for the win. He blew off reporters at the end of the race, but he regrouped this week and climbed his way through the field to capitalize in what was a NASCAR version of the bottom o...

Kevin Harvick utilized an excellent restart in the final few laps to take the lead and eventually earn first place in Sunday's Bad Boy Off Road 300. Matt Kenseth led 105 laps, compared to just eight for the winner, but he had to settle for second place after being passed late. Harvick's win clinched a spot in the round of 12 in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, where he'll join Martin Truex Jr. after his win last week. Here is a look at the finish from New Hampshire Motor Speedway: The race unsurprisingly played an important role in the Chase standings, with the top eight finishers all in the hunt for the championship. Here is a look at the standings after two playoff races: Harvick was far from dominant on a day when he was barely competitiv...

Kevin Harvick took advantage of a late-race restart to pass Matt Kenseth for the win in Sunday's Bad Boy Off Road 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and advance to the second round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup. Harvick, who won the 2014 Sprint Cup Championship, entered the race below the cut line to move on in NASCAR's playoffs and captured the checkered flag for the first time in 10 years at Loudon. Kenseth was looking for his third straight win at New Hampshire and led 105 laps on the day for a second-place finish. Kyle Busch, Brad Keselowski and Kurt Busch rounded out the top-five finishers.  The Chase continues next Sunday with the Citizen Soldier 400 at Dover International Raceway where the bottom four drivers in points will b...

McLaren have a recent history of chewing up and spitting out young Formula One drivers. With 24-year-old rookie Stoffel Vandoorne taking over Jenson Button's race seat in 2017, will the results be any different for the young Belgian than for Sergio Perez or Kevin Magnussen? Back in 2012, Perez came this close to winning a wet Malaysian Grand Prix, just his 19th F1 race. Ultimately, the then-22-year-old settled for second in Malaysia and scored two other podium finishes in Canada and Italy. In September, McLaren named him as their replacement for Lewis Hamilton, who was leaving for Mercedes. Unfortunately for Perez, his arrival coincided with a downturn in McLaren's form and (to that point) one of the worst season's in the team's histor...

Marc Marquez extended his lead at the top of the 2016 MotoGP standings on Sunday after overcoming a sluggish start to emerge as victor in the Aragon Grand Prix.  Three years after his maiden triumph at the Spanish venue, Marquez thundered back with a vengeance to defeat runner-up Jorge Lorenzo, while Valentino Rossi was forced to settle for third. Maverick Vinales made a very encouraging start to Sunday's race and held the lead for almost 10 laps before losing his way, ultimately having to settle for fourth, just shy of a place on the podium. Here's a look at the final 2016 Aragon Grand Prix finishers, where Marquez booked his fourth win of the year and increased his standings lead to 52 points over Rossi, courtesy of the official Moto...

Elliott Sadler navigated a crash-filled race to take home first place in the VisitMyrtleBeach.com 300 at Kentucky Speedway. There were a record number of caution flags Saturday night, according to the NASCAR Xfinity Series' official Twitter account. In total, there were 12 cautions holding up 64 laps, plus a red flag on the 193rd lap. Despite the madness, Sadler earned the win in the first race of the Xfinity Series playoffs, securing the top spot in the Chase standings while clinching a spot in the next round. Daniel Suarez also helped his cause with a second-place finish. Erik Jones led 100 laps, while Ty Dillon led 47, but the two competitors crashed with 11 laps to go and ruined any chance of earning the victory. Here is a look at the t...

Martin Truex Jr. leads the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series going into the second race of the Chase Sunday in what figures to be a Toyota-dominated Bad Boy Off Road 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Truex bested all drivers at the TMNT 400, punching his ticket and putting the rest of the field at a disadvantage. He and teammates wound up leading a silly 299 of 301 laps at this track earlier in the season at the New Hampshire 301. Still, the playoff format lends itself to upsets and surprises, so don't rule out other manufacturers yet. Here is everything to know about Race 2 of the Chase.          Viewing Details Where: New Hampshire Motor Speedway When: Sunday, Sept. 25, 2 p.m. ET Watch: NBCSN Live Stream: NBC Sports Tic...

The five red lights went out and Valtteri Bottas leaped off the line, instantly nudging ahead of Daniel Ricciardo's Red Bull and sidestepping Kimi Raikkonen's slow-starting Ferrari. As he sped past the piece of track reserved for the sister Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel, whose engine failure on the formation lap left him unable to start a race for the first time in his Formula One career, just two cars separated the man who started sixth from the lead of the Bahrain Grand Prix. It was at that point—as Lewis Hamilton, determined to make up for yet another poor getaway from pole position, hounded the rear of Nico Rosberg's car and positioned himself on the outside of his Mercedes team-mate—when Bottas faced a dilemma. With a large g...