During preparations for the European Grand Prix in Baku, Azerbaijan, Mercedes executive director Toto Wolff said Ferrari and Red Bull were essentially level with Mercedes' performance. "The speed of both the Ferrari and Red Bull is pretty much where we are now," he said, per ESPN F1's Nate Saunders. "... We are seeing the convergence of performance between teams that naturally comes with stable regulations—and that has made the competition tougher than ever." That is true, to some extent. Ferrari and Red Bull are definitely getting quicker relative to Mercedes. But the results of Sunday's race in Baku showed it is premature to say the chasers are now on par with Mercedes (winners, lest we forget, of seven of the eight grands prix so f...

Nico Rosberg tightened his grip on the world championship in the first-ever Formula One race at the Baku street circuit, winning the European Grand Prix in Azerbaijan on Sunday. The German pacesetter powered home from pole position in a simple race for the Mercedes driver, as rival and team-mate Lewis Hamilton had to cut through the field to finish in fifth place after starting from 10th on the grid. Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari took second place on the podium as he chased Rosberg's tail for most of the race, and Sergio Perez battled through to claim third for Force India. Formula One confirmed the result in Baku and the new standings in the championship: The tumultuous start expected in Baku didn't materialise as the driver...

The Porsche No. 2 team of Romain Dumas, Neel Jani and Marc Lieb won the 2016 Le Mans 24 Hours race Sunday in the most dramatic finish in the event's history. The Toyota No. 5 trio of Anthony Davidson, Kazuki Nakajima and Sebastien Buemi looked to be in the clear with just three minutes to go, holding around half a minute on the eventual winners. But with Nakajima behind the wheel, the Toyota car lost power on the penultimate lap, allowing Jani to race past and take the title. Here are the final moments of the race and a look at the contrasting emotions in both teams as Porsche secured back-to-back Le Mans wins, via Eurosport UK: Davidson passed Lieb in the 21st hour and looked to have taken control of a three-way battle for the title; Toyo...

For the second week in a row, the No. 9 Toyota was the first truck to cross the finish line. William Byron, the 18-year-old rookie, won his second straight race with a victory at the Speediatrics 200 on Saturday at Iowa Speedway. Cole Custer came in second, while Cameron Hayley finished third. NASCAR Trucks took to Twitter after the teen won for the third time in nine races: Here's a rundown of the top 10: Pole-sitter John Hunter Nemechek finished in 12th after leading the first 53 laps of the race. Cautions were at a minimum halfway through the race, but the first one affected the leaderboard. Byron took the lead on Lap 54, and the rookie phenom maintained a nearly five-second lead before the race's second caution, per NASCAR Trucks...

Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg will start in pole position in Baku, Azerbaijan, at the European Grand Prix on Sunday after his team-mate Lewis Hamilton crashed out in the final qualifying session Rosberg will be chased by Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo and Ferrari man Sebastian Vettel, who will be in second and third, respectively. Force India's Sergio Perez posted the second-fastest time on Saturday, but he's facing a five-place grid penalty, while Hamilton was the 10th quickest in the session. Earlier in the day, Hamilton was fastest in final practice; the world champion also topped the timesheets in both stanzas on Friday at a circuit that has posed some intriguing tests for the drivers. Here are the results from qualifying and a re...

Lewis Hamilton will hope his renaissance in the current season continues as he chases down Formula One championship leader Nico Rosberg in the sport's debut in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Sunday. The current world champion has got back to winning ways after watching his Mercedes team-mate dominate the early battles, and now he sits just nine points behind the rapid German talent. The race will be held on a circuit dubbed the fastest street track in the world, according to James Galloway of Sky Sports. Here is how you can watch Sunday's big race:   Date: Sunday, June 19 Time: 2 p.m. (BST), 9 a.m. (ET) TV: Sky Sports F1 and HD, Channel 4 and HD, NBC Live Stream: Sky Go, ALL 4, NBC Sports Live Ex...

For the third year in succession, the same old questions were being asked of same old Williams in the aftermath of the Monaco Grand Prix. Their car had performed competently in the early weeks of the season, good enough for the team to be regarded as the best of the rest behind the usual suspects after Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa both scored points in each of the first five races. But when Formula One returned to the tight and twisty streets of Monte Carlo—the first truly slow-speed, maximum-downforce venue of the season—they were nowhere. Again. Having qualified as high as third just two races earlier, Bottas was classified a pitiful 12th—penalised for hitting another car little more than 24 hours after his FW38 thr...

The 2016 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the world's best-known endurance race, will take place on Saturday and Sunday. Once again, some of the greatest drivers in the sport will take to France's iconic Circuit de la Sarthe for the 84th running of the race. Porsche finally broke Audi's streak of five straight wins in 2015, and after a victory at 6 Hours of Silverstone in April and a second-placed finish at Spa-Francorchamps the following month, the team again find themselves in an excellent position for victory at Le Mans. Those two races are six-hour affairs, however, and Audi's superb track record in the longer races shouldn't be ignored. The race will start on Saturday at 2 p.m. BST (9 a.m. ET) and finish 24 hours later. Here's ...

Mercedes clocked the fastest times in practice ahead of Sunday's European Grand Prix, where Lewis Hamilton was quickest around the Baku track, although team-mate Nico Rosberg wasn't far behind. The German finished the session just 0.7 seconds slower than his fierce rival, but the biggest storyline of the day saw Rosberg withdraw 20 minutes early after reporting problems with his car. Ferrari drivers Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen each also experienced faults toward the end of the second practice session, finishing eighth and 12th, respectively. The drivers had their first chance to drive around the new city circuit in Baku, Azerbaijan, which is making its Formula One debut this weekend. Continue for a recap of how they fared....

Formula One is heading to new territory this weekend as the Azerbaijani capital of Baku hosts the European Grand Prix for the first time, but Lewis Hamilton is not exactly enthusiastic about the challenge. The three-time world champion has generally excelled at street circuits throughout his F1 career, but after sampling the Baku City Circuit in the Mercedes simulator, Hamilton has likened the track to a motorway. And he has questioned why city-based tracks are not made like Monaco, where he claimed his first win of 2016 less than a month ago. With the European GP set to be the second in a series of six races in the space of eight weeks, F1 is quickly heading toward its midseason stage, and teams will soon begin to think about finalising th...