There is normally a tinge of sadness when Formula One's annual summer break begins. With a whole month separating one race from the next, teams, drivers and spectators are usually left twiddling their thumbs for four weeks, counting down the days until the Belgian Grand Prix—one of the highlights of a given season—arrives. But this year, the sport's Spa weekend can wait a while. Following one of the most intense periods in the history of F1, which saw six races held in the space of eight weeks, there was a palpable sense of relief when the latest chequered flag dropped to signal the end of Sunday's German GP. After being dragged from Canada to Azerbaijan, from Austria to Britain and from Hungary to Germany, those in the paddock ...

Chris Buescher won his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Pocono Raceway's Pennsylvania 400 on Monday. And he certainly had Mother Nature to thank, at least in part, for his victory. With a dense fog settling over the race track and more rain threatening a race that had already been postponed Sunday, race officials called the race with 22 laps to go around 4 p.m. ET on Monday afternoon. That made Buescher, who waited to take a pit stop and was in first place when the race was called, the winner. FS1 provided the race highlights: "It's a tough way to end the race for a lot of people," Buescher said, per Joe Menzer of Fox Sports. "But it's a great way for us." He and his crew certainly enjoyed their win, regardless of the context, after...

Chris Buescher did what Austin Dillon, Kyle Larson, Ryan Blaney and Chase Elliott—all young drivers with far more hype—have failed to do: win a race. It doesn’t matter how he did it. When folks remember the 2016 version of the Pennsylvania 400, they’ll remember the weather, and they’ll remember Buescher bathed in Bud Light at the end. Buescher stayed out during a series of pit stops as the fog rolled in with 22 laps to go. After a lengthy wait on pit road, NASCAR finally declared Buescher the winner. “When they give you that trophy, there’s no asterisk on it,” NBCSN’s Jeff Burton said. “He’s a good kid and an XFINITY champion,” Tony Stewart told NBCSN. “It doesn&r...

Three fans were hospitalized after being struck by a drive shaft that entered the stands during a demolition derby in Utah on Saturday night. According to a report from Xoel Cardenas of KSL, a collision between a truck and another vehicle created such a force that it dislodged the drive shaft and sent it into the stands. The incident delayed the derby 30 minutes as medical professionals attended to those injured, and all safety precautions were followed. “We have the cars inspected,” said Director of Parks and Recreation Tom Bonner. “We have professional inspectors, mechanics that inspect these cars to make sure these cars are following the rules and that they are safe to be in the arena. It just is an unfortunat...

Less than 24 hours after finishing fifth in the German Grand Prix, Sebastian Vettel was back behind the wheel of a Formula One car on Monday as Pirelli's preparations for 2017 began. With wider tyres set to be introduced alongside major bodywork changes next year, Pirelli needs all the information it can get to prepare for F1's season of change, with Ferrari, Red Bull and Mercedes providing modified cars to aid the data-gathering process. And Vettel became the first driver to sample the 2017-style tyres on Monday, when he completed a number of laps at Ferrari's Fiorano circuit. While Vettel was trundling around the Italian track, Lewis Hamilton was probably still recovering from the celebrations of his victory in the German GP. The three-ti...

The kidnapped mother-in-law of Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone has been released without any of the $36.5 million (£28 million) ransom being paid, as confirmed by Elisabete Sato of the Sao Paulo police. Aparecida Schunck, the mother of Ecclestone's wife, Fabiana Flosi, was taken from her home in Sao Paulo 10 days ago, but police have now confirmed she's been freed, as reported by BBC News. Police reportedly descended upon the property where Schunck, 67, was being held, but no shots were fired before she was freed and two suspects were arrested, per Neal Baker, Yasmin Jeffery and Janet Tappin Coelho of the Sun. Schunck said of her kidnappers, per the BBC report: "I only ask for these bandits to be jai...

Lewis Hamilton claimed his sixth victory of the 2016 Formula One season in Sunday's German Grand Prix at Hockenheim. As at last weekend's Hungarian GP, the British driver missed out on pole position at the climax of a fiercely contested qualifying session, but enjoyed yet another strong start to pass Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg and dominate from the front. Joining Hamilton on the podium were Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen, who worked together to secure Red Bull's first double-podium finish in more than a year on a day Ferrari were confirmed as the third-best team on the 2016 grid. With a look at a strong result for Force India's Nico Hulkenberg, a day to forget for Williams' Felipe Massa and a bittersweet afternoon for McLaren-Hond...

Lewis Hamilton claimed his sixth victory of the 2016 Formula One season in Sunday's German Grand Prix at Hockenheim. As at last weekend's Hungarian GP, the British driver missed out on pole position at the climax of a fiercely contested qualifying session, but enjoyed yet another strong start to pass Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg and dominate from the front. Joining Hamilton on the podium were Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen, who worked together to secure Red Bull's first double-podium finish in more than a year on a day Ferrari were confirmed as the third-best team on the 2016 grid. With a look at a strong result for Force India's Nico Hulkenberg, a day to forget for Williams' Felipe Massa and a bittersweet afternoon for McLaren-Hond...

Everything was falling into place for Nico Rosberg to end Lewis Hamilton's three-race winning streak at Sunday's German Grand Prix and reclaim the lead in the Formula One drivers' championship that he had lost to his Mercedes team-mate the week before in Hungary. On Saturday, Rosberg qualified on pole (he won the German race from the front of the grid in 2014), but things started to go wrong as soon as the race began. Hamilton and the two Red Bulls swamped Rosberg on the run to the Hockenheimring's quick first turn and Hamilton immediately began to pull away. It would only get worse for Rosberg. On Lap 29, he made a clumsy, perhaps desperate, passing manoeuvre on Max Verstappen at the hairpin, forcing the Red Bull driver off the track. Rosb...

Everything was falling into place for Nico Rosberg to end Lewis Hamilton's three-race winning streak at Sunday's German Grand Prix and reclaim the lead in the Formula One drivers' championship that he had lost to his Mercedes team-mate the week before in Hungary. On Saturday, Rosberg qualified on pole (he won the German race from the front of the grid in 2014), but things started to go wrong as soon as the race began. Hamilton and the two Red Bulls swamped Rosberg on the run to the Hockenheimring's quick first turn and Hamilton immediately began to pull away. It would only get worse for Rosberg. On Lap 29, he made a clumsy, perhaps desperate, passing manoeuvre on Max Verstappen at the hairpin, forcing the Red Bull driver off the track. Rosb...