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Gresini Won’t Replace Fermín Aldeguer At The Sachsenring, And MotoGP Doesn’t Require Them To
Fermín Aldeguer is hurt, the Sachsenring is this weekend, and BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP is rolling into the German Grand…
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Herrin Hacks Binder’s Points Lead With Double Victory At Ridge — And Yamaha Quietly Made Hooligan History
Josh Herrin didn’t just beat Darryn Binder twice at Ridge Motorsports Park this past weekend — he did it in…
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Georgia Sheriff’s Office Warns That Messing With Flock Cameras Will Get You Charged With a Felony
Barrow County, Georgia, sits roughly an hour northeast of Atlanta, and its sheriff’s office just used Facebook to deliver a…
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Racing Is About to Get Weird: Four Wildly Different 2026 Series Are Rewriting the Rulebook
Every few decades, racing quietly forks into something new while everyone’s still arguing about the last format change. Right now,…
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These Are NASCAR’s Richest Drivers Ever, and the List Has Barely Budged in Years
Ask a casual NASCAR fan who has made the most money in the sport’s history and you will probably hear…
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Red Bull KTM Signs Di Giannantonio And Alex Marquez For 2027, Wrapping Up MotoGP’s Earliest Silly Season Ever
Fabio Di Giannantonio and Alex Marquez just signed multi-year contracts to ride a motorcycle that doesn’t yet exist in raceable…
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Carlos Sainz Got Hit With F1’s Rarest Penalty, And Silverstone’s Weird Geometry Is To Blame
Somewhere in the Silverstone stewards’ room on Sunday evening, five officials had to reach for the FIA International Sporting Code…
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F1 Finally Stopped Talking About Its Female Fans and Started Building Something For Them
Walk the paddock at any Grand Prix these days and you’ll notice something that would’ve seemed strange a decade ago:…
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Richard Childress Accuses SVG of a Payback Wreck at Chicagoland – And NASCAR Let It Ride
Austin Hill didn’t need to watch the replay to know what happened. Neither did Richard Childress.Forty-seven laps into Sunday’s eero…
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Marc van der Straten Dies at 78 After Five Decades Building a Racing Empire on Two Wheels and Four
Marc van der Straten died at his home in Switzerland on July 5, at age 78. If your motorsport diet…
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Red Bull Borrowed Ferrari’s Wing Trick. Now It’s Putting Verstappen In The Gravel Twice.
Two crashes in two consecutive races, at two different circuits, both traced to the same part failing in the same…
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Dodge Can’t Bring Back the Real Viper GTS-R, So It’s Giving You One in Fortnite Instead
Stellantis can’t get a new Viper past federal crash standards. Pixels, it turns out, don’t need airbags.Starting July 2 at…