Listen to this article The 2007 Formula 1 World Champion started 22nd in Sunday’s race, and ran in the midfield for most of the day. However, after a late caution brought the field back together, he found himself in a perfect position to capitalize and gain track position. Having pitted just before the yellow flag, he stayed out and jumped up into the fourth position with less than ten laps to go. What followed could only be described as chaos, with multiple incidents and several late-race restarts. Raikkonen fought for every spot in the full-contact racing, but faded and would…
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Listen to this article Button’s NASCAR Cup debut was far from easy, but in a race that went into triple overtime and saw numerous incidents, he was elated just to make it to the checkered flag. “It was an emotional rollercoaster,” said Button. “First, it was terrible. I mean, I must’ve been last by the end of it. And I was just like, ‘Everyone: Go. I just need to drive and find a rhythm.’ I’ve never gone through a corner too wide, so often. And trying to place my car in the right place – I just got it wrong…
Listen to this article With a multitude of wrecks and the race sent into three two-lap overtimes, Busch had crawled his way up to second on the final restart of Sunday’s race and with an opportunity to challenge leader Tyler Reddick for the win. The irony was Busch was now driving the same No. Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet which Reddick took to Victory Lane three times last season, twice at road courses. As the field battled its way up the hill and into Turn 1, Busch made contact with Alex Bowman which sent both briefly off course. That allowed Reddick…
Listen to this article Reddick was the dominant driver all day, and led a race-high 41 laps. It was his first victory as a 23XI Racing driver, beating Kyle Busch in the car Reddick used to drive. It’s Reddick’s fourth career win and his third at a road course, all coming in the last 12 months. He also won the second stage at COTA, while Stage 1 went to William Byron. The race was slowed by eight cautions, with no stage breaks. There were 16 lead changes between seven different drivers. As for the ringers, 2009 F1 World Champion Jenson…
Listen to this article Reddick and William Byron spent much of the race trading the lead but Reddick moved out front for the final time on Lap 64 of what was originally scheduled as a 68-lap race. To preserve the win, however, Reddick had to fight off repeated challengers in three two-lap overtimes to claim the victory in Sunday’s race at COTA, his first win driving 23XI Racing’s No. 45 Toyota. On the final restart with Reddick in the lead, Kyle Busch got into Alex Bowman entering Turn 1 which helped Reddick clear for the lead and he made it…
Listen to this article The 2007 world champion is making his second race outing in the NASCAR Cup Series at Circuit of the Americas this weekend, rejoining the Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet team with which he made his debut at Watkins Glen last year. The Finn, who retired from F1 at the end of the 2021 season after making 349 race starts, will start 22nd in tomorrow’s race, two positions ahead of NASCAR Cup rookie Jenson Button after they were only 0.033s apart in lap times. Speaking in Austin ahead of the race, Raikkonen said one of NASCAR’s main appeals was…
Listen to this article Allmendinger, who led 28 of the 46 laps including the first 14, almost saw his path to a win derailed when he got spun on a restart after contact with Aric Almirola on Lap 20. That sent Allmendinger back to 26th place and the fight was on from there. Allmendinger managed to work his way back to the lead after getting into then-leader Sheldon Creed on Lap 33 and sending him off the course. Despite repeated attempts by William Byron to try catch him in the final 14 laps, Allmendinger fought off each challenge and held…
Listen to this article The 31-year-old sportscar ace will make his Cup debut Sunday at COTA, driving the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet for the injured Chase Elliott. Although he admits he “almost crashed the car” in his first two laps of practice on Friday, Taylor has been head-and-shoulders above the other notable outsiders entered in Sunday’s race in terms of performance. Also competing on Sunday are two former Formula 1 champions – Jenson Button and Kimi Raikkonen, IndyCar driver Conor Daly and seven-time Cup champion Jimmie Johnson, who has competed in IndyCar the past two seasons. Of the group,…
Listen to this article Busch’s pit strategy got thrown out the window when Parker Kligerman’s stalled truck brought out a caution soon after Busch had claimed the Stage 2 win. Several contenders, including Smith, got on pit road before pit road closed for the caution and was able to complete his stop. Busch had to wait until pit road opened under the caution to make his pit stop. On the restart on Lap 30 of 42, Smith led the way while Buch lined up 17th. He made up seven spots in one lap and moved into second on Lap 36…
Listen to this article Trackhouse are the defending winners of this event with Ross Chastain taking the checkered flag in 2022. Raikkonen made his Cup debut at Watkins Glen last August, starting 27th and finishing 37th after getting collected in incident exiting the bus stop chicane. He’s back again this weekend, racing alongside fellow F1 World Champion Jenson Button for the first time since the 2017 Monaco Grand Prix. In qualifying, they were only 0.033s apart in lap times with Raikkonen qualifying 22nd and Button 24th. Read Also: The Finnish driver spoke with the media on Saturday about his continued learning…