After a Denny Hamlin win at Watkins Glen and a brief hiatus, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series continues the march toward the Chase Saturday with the Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway. It's a historic night race, and one dominated by Joey Logano in recent years. With Dale Earnhardt Jr. battling for a spot and underdog names such as Chris Buescher hunting for the Chase, though, anything can happen given the wild, unpredictable ride this season has been thus far. All of four races separate the drivers from the Chase, so the pressure hasn't been higher. Bristol presents 500 laps of action Saturday night, laps that could permanently shape the Chase bids. Here's everything you need to know.           Vie...

Yamaha duo Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi made small gains on championship leader Marc Marquez in Austria last week, but the Honda rider remains a daunting 43 points clear at the top of the standings. Andrea Iannone and Andrea Dovizioso made up a Ducati one-two at the Red Bull Ring, with Lorenzo third, Rossi fourth and Marquez fifth. It was only the second time this season that Marquez has finished off the podium, and the Spaniard will be eager to get back on top this weekend at the Czech Republic Grand Prix as he goes in search of a third career MotoGP title in 2016. Read on for a closer look at the key riders for the race in Brno, Czech Republic, along with full scheduling and live-streaming details. Live streaming can be found a...

Renault were thought to have secured a major coup when they signed Kevin Magnussen on the eve of the 2016 Formula One season, but are the team set to drop the Dane already? Even when he was released by McLaren-Honda in the closing months of last season, Magnussen was widely regarded as a potential world champion, but his reputation has been battered behind the wheel of an uncompetitive, underdeveloped car this year. And with the team openly flirting with other drivers in the paddock, he has called for Renault to make a swift decision over their 2017 lineup. The leading contender to replace Magnussen is Sergio Perez, who despite holding a valid contract with Force India remains a significant player in the driver market. With four top-three f...

NASCAR is back at Bristol Motor Speedway for a midsummer night’s dream in Tennessee. This is the sprint to the end of the regular season, where the pressure is highest before the playoffs. Four races remain until we hit the Chase for the Sprint Cup. But first, drivers must navigate the short track of Bristol for the Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race. Five hundred laps of mayhem await these drivers as the available Chase slots dwindle week by week. Read on as we get ready to sprint though the final four races.Begin Slideshow...

After kissing the kerb of Turn 17 for the 66th time in the German Grand Prix, Sebastian Vettel lifted his right foot from the floor and coasted toward the Hockenheim finish line. As a lapped Renault disappeared into the distance, the four-time world champion took Formula One's tiresome debate surrounding track limits to a whole new level by ignoring the apex of Turn 1 and taking to the run-off area to pick up fragments of discarded rubber. At the end of another long, hard and forgettable race, Vettel's Prancing Horse was rolling around the tyre marbles with all the giddiness of a pig in you-know-what when something strange happened. With the now-familiar grumble of a Ferrari V6 turbo engine at full power, the Haas VF-16 of Romain Grosjean f...

It's all winding down now. Cue the theme music. Four races separate the NASCAR Sprint Cup regular season from the Chase for the Sprint Cup. The ultimate unease is that of Dale Earnhardt Jr., who can race his way in if he races at all. He has been going through concussion protocol and won't compete Saturday night in Bristol, Tennessee, where he has won before. In a Watkins Glen, New York, media conference on Aug. 5, Earnhardt said: I think my doctors have a good understanding of my history and what I have been through, and with their own personal knowledge that they have throughout their careers to give me a clear understanding of when I will be ready to go back and get into a race car. Our intentions are to get cleared and get back to...

Felipe Massa may have helped Williams finish third in the Formula One constructors' championship in 2014 and 2015, but there is a sense that if the team are to move to the next level, they need to sign a more fashionable driver. Williams have openly admitted their interest in 2009 world champion Jenson Button and Force India's Sergio Perez in recent weeks, undermining Massa's position within the Grove-based outfit. And the Brazilian, who is holding discussions with a number of teams about next season, has insisted he will retire from F1 at the end of 2016 if he doesn't feel valued by a team. If Massa is released by Williams, he could find a new home at Haas, who have close links to the Ferrari team he served so well between 2006 and 2013. H...

Ducati’s Andrea Iannone won a thrilling Austrian MotoGP Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring on Sunday following a pulsating battle with his team-mate Andrea Dovizioso.  Iannone started on pole for this one, although Dovizioso took over the lead midway through the race. However, the former showed great composure to retake top spot late on, winning for the first time in MotoGP. Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo came home in third, with his stablemate Valentino Rossi in fourth spot. Here's the moment the Italian crossed the line to take victory, per the MotoGP feed: Honda’s Marc Marquez, whose lead in the championship was chopped down to 43 points, capped off a tough weekend with a battling fifth-place finish. Here’s a recap of ...

Justin Marks took the checkered flag at the NASCAR Xfinity Series' Mid-Ohio Challenge at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on Saturday. It was his first career win on the Xfinity Series circuit, which showed the end of his winning performance: Here are the final results from the race and the updated driver standings: This was the first race of the Xfinity Series season in which a driver not affiliated with Joe Gibbs Racing had won the pole. Instead, Sam Hornish Jr. of Richard Childress Racing started at the top of the field Saturday. He led a pack that had to contend with a track that was anything but kind. For those that love white-knuckle, high-speed racing, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course didn't provide that, as the track holds 13 turns and no ban...

When Manor scored their first point in more than two years in July's Austrian Grand Prix, they were determined to ensure they wouldn't face another long wait for their next visit to Formula One's top 10. Pascal Wehrlein's logic-defying performance at the Red Bull Ring—where he spent 47 laps on the soft-compound tyres to finish 10th despite running last within 30 laps of the chequered flag—had gifted the team their first point since the late Jules Bianchi's ninth-place finish at Monaco 2014. And after joining his colleagues for the obligatory photocall in the pit lane, racing director Dave Ryan vowed Manor would hunt for more, rather than defending a one-nil lead over Sauber in the battle of the back of the grid. ...