Dillon pulls away down the stretch
Austin Dillon took charge after a restart with two laps to go and won the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 Sunday in Forth Worth, Texas.
The wild finish to the race featured several restarts. Dillon held off rookie teammate Tyler Reddick down the stretch.
Dillon led 22 of the 334 laps in the Richard Childress Racing No. 3 Chevrolet, shaking up the playoff picture by sealing a postseason berth. His first win at the 1.5-mile Fort Worth track was the third of his Cup Series career.
Joey Logano finished third with Kyle Busch fourth and Kevin Harvick claiming the last top-five spot.
Seven-time series champion Jimmie Johnson registered his sixth straight finish outside the top 10 after a Stage 2 scrape of the wall and a pit-road penalty sent him several laps in arrears. He finished 26th in the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet.
A major stack-up shortly after the start of Stage 3 forced a red flag, knocking teammates and early leaders Martin Truex Jr. and Kyle Busch from contention. Almirola's contact with Busch's No. 18 then hooked Truex's No. 19, clogging the track near the entry to Turn 1. Cole Custer, Ryan Preece, Matt Kenseth and Chris Buescher were among the others involved.
Kenseth finished 18th.
Formula One: Lewis Hamilton won the Hungarian Grand Prix for the eighth time to equal Michael Schumacher's single-venue record.
Hamilton's latest victory from pole position was as comfortable as the nearly 9-second margin over secondplace Max Verstappen suggested. The British driver's 86th GP win moved him just five behind the German great Schumacher's F1 record of 91.
Schumacher won the French GP eight times when it was held at Magny-Cours.
“It would have been so far-fetched to believe that could possibly come true. I remember watching Michael on TV win all his races,” Hamilton said. “Now I'm getting closer to the amount of wins he has, it just reminds me of the dominance and excellence he showed for so long. I can understand the position he was in and I can understand the pressures he had. It's pretty remarkable.”
Verstappen drove superbly to hold off Hamilton's Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas, who finished less than one second behind him in third
NHRA: Rain washed out the final rounds of the Lucas Oil Summernationals at Lucas Oil Raceway in Indianapolis.
The event will be completed during the NHRA U.S. Nationals at the track Sept. 3-6.
First-time finalists T.J. Zizzo and rookie Justin Ashley advanced to the Top Fuel final. In Funny Car, points leader Jack Beckman will face teammate Matt Hagan, the winner last week at the track in the series' return from a break because of the coronavirus pandemic.
NASCAR Trucks Series: Kyle Busch won the Gander Outdoors Truck Vankor 350 at Texas on Saturday night, getting the victory in his second race of the day after a postrace disqualification took away an apparent Xfinity Series win.
Busch's truck victory did stand, one when he retook the lead after a somewhat chaotic final green-flag stop with 36 laps to go. He had to slam his brakes on entry to pit road to avoid a penalty, then almost pulled into the wrong pit stall. He initially veered toward the No. 18 markers – the number of his Cup car – instead of the box a few yards further ahead for the No. 51 Toyota truck he was driving.
It was a 1-2 finish for Busch's team, with the veteran finishing 0.777 seconds in front of 19-year-old rookie Christian Eckes.
IndyCar: Josef Newgarden was seething after a fifth-place finish in the opener of the IndyCar doubleheader at Iowa, insisting he had the best car of the night and it was merely misfortune that cost him the win.
The two-time series champion left nothing to chance Saturday night.
Newgarden started from the pole and led nearly wire-to-wire to win Race 2, giving team owner Roger Penske a sweep of the two IndyCar races after Simon Pagenaud's win in the opener.