Hamlin gets Xfinity victory

Denny Hamlin passed Joey Logano coming out of the final turn to win the Xfinity race at South Carolina’s Darlington Raceway.

Logano led the most laps, 58 of 147, to hold on to second. Kevin Harvick, who won the first two stages, wound up third after leading 54 laps. Erik Jones finished fourth, and William Byron, the first Xfinity regular, rounded out the top five.

In NASCAR Cup Series qualifying at Darlington, Kevin Harvick held off defending Darlington champion Martin Truex Jr. to capture the pole for Sunday’s Southern 500. Truex finished second and Kyle Busch will start third.

Full throttle at nearly 200 mph, his vision impaired by heavy rain pounding down on his shiny golden helmet, Lewis Hamilton pulled out a clutch performance to enter the F1 record books at Monza, Italy. He overcame a late challenge from rising rival Max Verstappen and claimed his 69th career pole position to break the Formula One record previously held by his childhood idol, Michael Schumacher.

Alexander Rossi won the IndyCar pole at Watkins Glen International in New York. Rossi ran a track-record time of 1 minute, 22.4639 seconds to edge Scott Dixon on his final lap around the 3.34mile road course. Points leader Josef Newgarden qualified third, followed by Takuma Sato, Charlie Kimball and Helio Castroneves.

Houston Rockets point guard James Harden said he will donate $1 million to the city of Houston to aid in Harvey recovery.