Due to persistent rain showers and thunderstorms, Saturday night’s Cup Series race at Martinsville was halted after 42 laps and has been postponed until 4 p.m. ET Sunday. The race will be broadcast live on Fox Sports 1. In addition, the remainder of Friday night’s Xfinity Series race will run at noon ET Sunday and…
The TV rights to broadcast NASCAR in the U.S. is one of the most expensive in all of American sports. The current contract, which was renegotiated in 2015, is split between NBC Sports and Fox Sports and is worth $8billion in total. How has NASCAR’s live TV coverage evolved? All NASCAR Cup races have been…
Chevrolet struggled last year even at 1.4-bar turbo boost for qualifying, with rookie Rinus VeeKay of Ed Carpenter Racing being the only Bowtie runner to qualify in the Fast Nine. Then come race day, at 1.3-bar turbo boost, the Chevys could match the Hondas but had to lean off the fuel mixture sooner into a…
Tsuboi ran second after taking over the #36 TOM’S GR Supra from teammate Yuhi Sekiguchi following a mid-race safety car period that shuffled the order, and was soon challenging the Rookie Racing car shared by Yamashita and Kazuya Oshima for the lead. Yamashita held firm around the narrow, technical Okayama track as Tsuboi tried to…
The Kiwi, best known for his long association with Porsche in sportscar and GT racing, is set to partner countryman Andre Heimgartner in the #7 KGR Mustang. It will mark a second Bathurst 1000 start for the two-time Le Mans winner, who finished fifth alongside Shane van Gisbergen in the 2018 edition of the Great…
Hamlin led a race-high 276 laps and had the speed to retake the lead on the final restart, but just couldn’t hold back Martin Truex Jr. as the laps ticked away. “I thought it was a matter of time,” he admitted. “With about 25 to go or so, he already got into my rear bumper,…
Busquets played as Spain drew 0-0 in a friendly with Portugal in Madrid on FridayDates: 11 June-11 July. Venues: Amsterdam, Baku, Bucharest, Budapest, Copenhagen, Glasgow, London, Munich, Rome, Seville, St Petersburg. Coverage: Live on BBC TV, BBC Radio 5 Live, iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app. Click here for more detailsSpain captain Sergio…
Paris St-Germain chief executive Nasser Al-Khelaifi says the French giants will never sell France striker Kylian Mbappe, 22. (AS – in Spanish)external-link Aston Villa are set to make a move for Southampton and England midfielder James Ward-Prowse, 26, a day after agreeing a club-record deal to sign fellow midfielder Emiliano Buendia from Norwich. (Guardian)external-link Southampton…
Gareth Southgate has some big decisions to make before England’s Euros openerWe asked you to put yourselves in Gareth Southgate’s shoes and pick England’s starting line-up to face Croatia in their Euro 2020 opener on 13 June. You did not disappoint – more than 275,000 teams were submitted. The results were very interesting, with some…
Last updated on 6 June 20216 June 2021.From the section European Football Lukas Nmecha (left) has made three senior substitute appearances for Manchester CityManchester City’s Lukas Nmecha hit the winner as Germany beat Portugal to win a third European Under-21 Championship. Nmecha, who spent 2020-21 on loan at Anderlecht, scored from a tight angle after…