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Kevin Harvick won the NASCAR Cup race at Atlanta, despite an early pitstop problem dropping him to 19th. The Stewart-haas driver suffered a wheelgun issue and had to make an extra stop, but it only took him 36 laps to reclaim the lead in a rain-delayed race. Brad Keselowski was second with Clint Bowyer third in a Ford 1-2-3… Haas junior drivers Santino Ferrucci and Arjun Maini will both race for Trident in Formula 2 this season. Ferrucci joined the team midway through 2017, while Maini finished ninth in the GP3 standings last year… Toyota plans to remain in the World Endurance Championship for the 2019/20 season, provided it commits to building a new LMP1 car when new regulations are introduced the following year. Toyota’s current commitment to the series runs until the end of the 2018/19 superseason. “We are interested in the 2020 regulations, which under the current discussions means GT Prototype cars,” said technical director Pascal Vasselon. “At the moment we don’t know enough about these regulations to really commit, but we are interested. If our interest is confirmed when the regulations are known, naturally we will be there [in 2019/20].”… A new endurance race planned at Monza next month has been cancelled due to a lack of entries. The Targa 6H Monza was due to be open to GT3/4, TCR and Group CN prototype machinery. “We believe an endurance race should not take place without a minimum starting grid of 20 cars,” the organisers said… World Touring Car regular Tom Coronel will compete in the new WTCR series this year with a Boutsen Ginion Honda Civic...