NASCAR overturns Trucks victory

NASCAR overturned a victory for the first time under its toughened new policy on cheating when Brett Moffitt was declared the winner of the Truck Series race at Iowa Speedway after Ross Chastain failed a post-race inspection.

Chastain led the final 141 laps of Sunday’s 200-lap race, but series managing director Brad Moran said the winning No. 44 was too low when it was measured with NASCAR’s height sticks.

“The height sticks have warning yellows in them and reds, and it was right off of all of them, so unfortunately it was extremely low,” Moran said.

The disqualification was the first under strict new rules put into place at the start of this season to deter the culture of cheating — and it delivered a much-needed win for Moffitt, a native Iowan racing at his hometown track. NASCAR said the last driver to be stripped of a victory was Mike Skinner in a 1999 race at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Skinner led the final 41 laps, but NASCAR said the next morning his car had an unapproved cylinder head. The win was handed to Dave Blaney and Skinner was dropped to last in the field.

Christopher Bell won the NASCAR Xfinity series race at the Iowa Speedway, his fourth victory of the season and second straight in Newton.

Fernando Alonso won the 24 Hours Le Mans endurance race in France for the second straight year after the Toyota Gazoo team’s other car came unstuck. It was the two-time Formula One champion’s last race in the World Endurance Championship, and also sealed the WEC title.

Bob Tasca III raced to his first funny car victory in nearly seven years, beating 70-year-old John Force in the final round of the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol (Tenn.) Dragway. Mike Salinas won in top fuel for his second victory of the year. He beat Steve Torrence with a 3.836 at 325.69 to end the defending series champion’s five-race winning streak.