From the minute he became a Red Bull driver at the beginning of the 2014 season, Daniel Ricciardo—the self-styled Honey Badger—had established himself as Formula One's smiling assassin. The assassin bit was there for all to see at last weekend's Monaco Grand Prix, where Ricciardo produced one of the best performances of his career in search of his first win in two years and the team's second victory in succession. But the smile? That was long gone. Ricciardo had been incredibly disappointed with his fourth-place finish in the previous event in Spain, where he led the opening phase of the race before being compromised by an incorrect tyre strategy, and he was determined to make up for that missed opportunity in Monte Carlo. While...

Martin Truex Jr. outran his luck at Charlotte Motor Speedway, and nothing else came even close to stopping him in the Coca-Cola 600. Only once in the whole race did another car (Jimmie Johnson's Chevrolet) pass Truex's at speed. "Well, he passed me for about 100 feet," Truex said, nonplussed, afterward. It was a wonderful story...and a moribund race. A week after Joey Logano captured a spirited, if muddled, Sprint All-Star Race on the same track, Truex snuffed out optimism in the nicest way possible. "The Coke 600 is one of the races everybody wants to win," Truex said. "It's so huge. ... These are the races that define drivers' careers...But above all, for a guy like me to win a race like this is a big deal." The victory was the fourth o...

More than seven months after his last Formula One victory, Lewis Hamilton finally returned to the top step of the podium in Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix. With Mercedes gambling on the weather by extending Hamilton's first stint on extreme-wet tyres, and with Red Bull again throwing a win away with a disastrous pit stop for Daniel Ricciardo, there was certainly an element of luck about his 44th career victory. But the three-time world champion was keen to ensure everyone was aware of just how impressive his own performance was. Having lost a near-certain Monte Carlo win as a result of a pit-related blunder in 2015, Hamilton would have known how Ricciardo was feeling after being denied the winners' trophy through no fault of his own. And follow...

If you can’t win the greatest race (Daytona 500), and you can’t win the championship (at Homestead), you want to win the longest race. That's the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. And the way Martin Truex Jr.’s season had gone to date, he’d take a win in a spirited bout of Mario Kart. That was until his unilaterally dominant performance in Sunday’s 600. “You have got to drive the car into Victory Circle and he has been on his game tonight,” Darrell Waltrip said during the Fox broadcast. Truex led an unthinkable 392 of 400 laps after enduring some of the worst racing luck a driver can incur through 13 races. This win was the monkey he needed to eschew, and maybe now he asserts himself as a s...

Martin Truex Jr. turned in 600 miles of pure dominance to win the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday. He led 392 of the 400 laps and held off every challenge on his way to his fourth career win and first victory since June 2015, per Jeff Gluck of USA Today. NASCAR called the performance at the season's longest race "astonishing": It was a fitting win for the No. 78 car because he experienced heartbreak at the same race last year. RJ Kraft of NASCAR.com noted that "he led a race-high 131 laps in last year's race but ended up on the wrong side of a fuel-mileage affair en route to a fifth-place finish." Here is a look at Truex and the rest of the top finishers in Sunday's race, per NASCAR.com: The victor made ...

Lewis Hamilton claimed his first victory of the 2016 Formula One season in Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix. After an unfortunate start to the campaign, the three-time world champion suffered yet more reliability issues in qualifying and was forced to settle for third on the grid as Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo secured the first pole position of his career. But with a helping hand from the Mercedes pit wall and team-mate Nico Rosberg, who endured his least convincing race of the season in changeable conditions, Hamilton was able to take advantage of Ricciardo's slow pit stop and secure his first win since last October. Hamilton and Ricciardo were joined on the podium by Sergio Perez, who made up for Force India's slow start to 2016 by beating Ferr...

Alexander Rossi picked a great time to collect his first win as an IndyCar driver. The 24-year-old rookie prevailed Sunday in the Indianapolis 500. According to ESPN Stats & Info, Rossi is just the third driver in the last 50 years to win the Indy 500 on his first try. Andretti Autosport couldn't have envisaged a better result, as Rossi and teammate Carlos Munoz occupied the top two spots. Here's a look at the top 10 finishers Sunday, with the full results available at ESPN.com: Rossi and his crew decided to go for broke and gamble that his car would have enough fuel to finish the race. While other drivers near the top of the leaderboard opted for a quick stop on pit road to refuel, Rossi stayed out in hopes that he had enough lef...

Martin Truex Jr. dominated the field, leading a record 392 of 400 laps, to capture the checkered flag in Sunday night's Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway for his first win of the season after a couple of heartbreaking losses. The Coke 600 is the longest and most grueling race of the Sprint Cup season, but the driver of the No. 78 Toyota made it look easy by turning in one of the most dominant performances in NASCAR history. Truex's 392 laps led surpassed the previous track record of 335 set by Jim Paschal in 1967. His 588 miles at the front also set a NASCAR record for an individual race. Truex's dominance is sure to soothe the nerves of both the driver and his team after losing the Daytona 500 to Denny Hamlin in the closest finish ...

In 2015, a pit stop error cost Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton the Monaco Grand Prix. On Sunday, a mistake in the pits by the Red Bull team handed him a victory in the principality.  Pit stops are always important in Formula One, but that importance is magnified in Monaco's tight confines, where overtaking is so difficult. Despite looking quicker for most of Sunday's race, Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo was left sitting in his pit box for about 10 seconds, waiting while the team scrambled to find the correct tyres for his car. The delay allowed Hamilton to jump into the lead, where he stayed for the final 46 laps of the race. Hamilton's win is a welcome result for anyone hoping for a close fight in the drivers' championship. His team-mate, Nico ...

Usually, it takes a driver years of experience to conquer Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Struggles and heartbreaking near-misses typically culminate a lengthy journey to the sport's pinnacle. Not for Alexander Rossi. The 24-year-old took home the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, conserving fuel just well enough to stay on the track and top a loaded field of drivers. Mobil 1 The Grid shared a photo of Rossi's celebration following his victory along with his disbelief at the achievement: In his first race at the hallowed speedway, Rossi wasn't forced to pit on the last round of stops and won the race going away. He held a 4.5-second lead over second place Carlos Munoz and a 4.9-second advantage over third place Josef Newga...