Busch DQed to give Cindric Xfinity win, later wins Trucks race

FORT WORTH, TEXAS » Kyle Busch celebrated a 10th NASCAR Xfinity Series victory at Texas, and then had it taken away.

Busch failed postrace tech inspection Saturday after finishing ahead of Austin Cindric, who was declared the winner for the third victory in a row after winning both Xfinity races at Kentucky.

NASCAR said the No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota was disqualified for failing heights.

It would have been the 98th career win for Busch in the series. Instead, Cindric got his fifth in 83 career starts despite crossing the finish line 0.949 seconds behind Busch.

After coming back through the field three times in the race, including an early speeding penalty on pit road, Busch built a 3.3 second-lead before a final caution flag when Joe Graf Jr. made contact with the wall. Busch led only 15 of the 201 laps.

Justin Allgaier regained the lead from Cindric when both pitted on lap 159, but was penalized for a blend line penalty when getting back on the track. After doing his pass-through penalty 10 laps later, he dropped two laps off the pace. and wound up finishing third, behind series points leader Chase Briscoe.

“I’d like an explanation, because that’s been the same way we’ve done it now for as long as I’ve been in NASCAR,” Allgaier said. “Disappointing. ... Win the two stages and know that we had a car that was capable of going for a win was really a solid afternoon.”

Cindric led three times for 44 laps. Allgaier, who won both stages during the race, was in front four times for 98 laps.

Busch wins trucks race after earlier DQ

FORT WORTH, TEXAS » Kyle Busch won the NASCAR Truck Series race 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 made a final green-flag stop with 36 laps to go, when he had to slam his brakes on entry to pit road to avoid a penalty. He then almost pulled into the wrong pit stall, initially pulling toward the No. 18 markers — the number of his Cup car — instead of the No. 51 Toyota truck.

It was a 1-2 finish for Busch’s team, with the owner finishing 0.777 seconds in front of 19-yearold rookie Christian Eckes, the driver of that No. 18 Toyota that Busch owns.

After he got out of the truck at the start-finish line, Busch quipped that technically he hadn’t won yet.

As long as it held up, it was the 212th career win for Busch in NASCAR’s top three series, one that he thought he had earlier in the Xfinity race. After finishing nearly a second ahead of Austin Cindric, the No. 54 Joe Gibbs Toyota failed postrace inspection because the left rear was too low. Cindric was declared the winner of that race, his third Xfinity win in a row.

Busch got his 59th career win in 155 Trucks Series starts. He still has 97 Xfinity wins, to go along with 56 Cup Series wins.

Newgarden gives Penske sweep of Iowa doubleheader

NEWTON, IOWA » Josef Newgarden led nearly wire-to-wire Saturday night to win the IndyCar race at Iowa Speedway, giving team owner Roger Penske a sweep of the doubleheader and his fourth victory across three series this weekend.

Newgarden, who started on the pole, thought he had the best car in the opener Friday night, and he was irate when a series of misfortunes left him fifth and well back of winning teammate Simon Pagenaud. But the two-time series champ left little to chance in Race 2, leading just about all of the 250 laps for his 15th career victory and first since last year’s race at Iowa.

Will Power finished second after wrecking out of the doubleheader opener. Graham Rahal was third for his first podium in more than a year, while Pagenaud again came from the back to finish fourth and series leader Scott Dixon was fifth.

Team Penske has 13 drivers completing in five series across two continents this weekend. Pagenaud and Newgarden have been joined in victory lane by Scott McLaughlin in Supercars in Australia and Austin Cindric in the Xfinity race at Texas with Ryan Blaney, Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano starting the Cup Series race Sunday.

Hamilton wins 8th Hungarian GP to equal Schumacher F1 record

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY » Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton won the Hungarian Grand Prix for the eighth time to equal Michael Schumacher’s single-venue record and take the championship lead on Sunday.

Hamilton’s latest victory from pole position was as comfortable as the nearly 9-second margin over second-place 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. Hamilton first won here in 2007 and his first success with Mercedes also came at the Hungaroring track in 2013, the year after replacing Schumacher on the Silver Arrows team.

Verstappen drove superbly to hold off Hamilton’s Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas, who finished less than one second behind him in third to relinquish the championship lead after three races.

Hamilton took a recordextending 90th career pole on Saturday to match Schumacher’s record for seven poles on the 4.4-kilometer (2.7-mile) track nestled among rolling hills outside of Budapest.