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Team Penske's Will Power is the defending winner of the Grand Prix of Portland, and one of only two repeat winners at the track since the IndyCar Series returned to the Pacific Northwest in 2018. If anyone knows the fastest way around the…
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McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown says the team knows it could open itself up to being beaten by an outside threat in a closer title race by not favoring one driver over another, but accepts that as a risk worth taking.Lando Norris emerged as a…
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Meyer Shank Racing’s collaboration with the Grateful Dead continues this weekend in Portland for the BitNile.com Grand Prix, and if the team’s licensing efforts are successful, fans will have new merchandise to buy featuring MSR’s multiple…
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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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