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Welcome to the RACER Mailbag. Questions for any of RACER’s writers can be sent to mailbag@racer.com. We love hearing your comments and opinions, but letters that include a question are more likely to be published. Questions received…
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“I’m looking forward to coming back,” Lewis Hamilton uttered, at a barely audible volume. “Hopefully I’ll be back, yeah.”The second part of his answer – relating to the next race after Formula 1's summer break – was not as dramatic as it…
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Ryan Preece is living on the right side of relevance in the NASCAR Cup Series.“Our sport is really naïve to some things,” Preece tells RACER. “One of those things is if you’re not in the equipment or the situation that is right.”In his…
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Gabriel Bortoleto is “the best rookie of this generation” according to Fernando Alonso, after the Brazilian fought he and Max Verstappen on his way to a career-best sixth place in the Hungarian Grand Prix.Sauber has delivered a clear step…
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The name Francois Hesnault is not one with which you’re likely to be overly familiar. A fine driver in junior formulas in the early 1980s – third and second in two consecutive seasons of French Formula 3 – he appeared to find the step…
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Sixteen years ago, BMW Rahal Letterman Racing's two new M3 GT2s finished 1-2 in class at Road America, the first IMSA victory for BMW and its long-time North American racing partners.There are still two races left before BMW and Rahal…
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Lando Norris clinched a gutsy victory over Oscar Piastri to slash his championship deficit down to nine points ahead of the midseason break.Norris had looked down and out early in the race after dropping from third to fifth in the first two…
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With two laps to go in the Hungarian Grand Prix, Oscar Piastri jinked his car toward the inside of Turn 1 and Lando Norris just took the corner as if nothing was different to any other lap.Piastri was behind and trying to take victory,…
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Chase Briscoe’s done it again.One week after claiming the pole for the Brickyard 400, Briscoe laid down a quick lap of 136.933mph (23.093s) to take the top spot again for the Iowa Corn 350 at Iowa Speedway.The result is Briscoe’s sixth pole…
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Toward the end of qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix, if you're like me, you probably uttered the words, “Where did that come from?” Charles Leclerc finally broke Ferrari’s drought in Budapest, securing the team’s first grand prix pole…
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