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AP Sports Week in Pictures

Mar. 26, 2024 08:11 AM EDT

The ongoing drama of college basketball’s March Madness in the United States. An incident-packed trip to South Korea for Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani. A match-winning goal at iconic Wembley Stadium in London that thrust Brazil teenager Endrick into the global consciousness. ...

Carlos Sainz wins F1 Australian GP after early exit for Verstappen with engine fire

Mar. 24, 2024 16:05 PM EDT

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz ended Red Bull’s Formula 1 winning streak Sunday when the Spaniard took advantage of Max Verstappen's early exit to win the Australian Grand Prix just two weeks after missing the previous race in Saudi Arabia due to an emergency appendectomy....

Verstappen an early retirement from Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton also out

Mar. 24, 2024 01:18 AM EDT

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An angry Max Verstappen was an early retirement from the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix on Sunday, with the Red Bull driver sustaining a fiery engine failure on the fourth lap of the race, enduring his first race retirement since Albert Park in Australia in 2022. ...

Controversies off the track follow Formula 1 to Australia for the season's third Grand Prix

Mar. 22, 2024 05:57 AM EDT

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — For the third Formula 1 Grand Prix in a row, controversies off the track are threatening to overshadow the almost predictable action on it. News this week ahead of the Australian GP that the FIA’s Ethics Committee had cleared its president, Mohammed...

AUTO RACING: NASCAR heads to Texas, Indy debuts all-star event and F1 heads Down Under

Mar. 19, 2024 14:17 PM EDT

All Times Eastern NASCAR CUP SERIES EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix Site: Austin, Texas. Schedule: Saturday, practice, 10 a.m., and qualifying, 11:30 a.m.; Sunday, race, 3:30 p.m. (FOX). Track: Circuit of the Americas ...

Column: F1 needs to take control of the Red Bull drama as Horner accuser files FIA complaint

Mar. 18, 2024 18:57 PM EDT

If Christian Horner had his way, this messy saga over an allegation of misconduct made against him by an employee would be forgotten by now. He was cleared of wrongdoing by parent company Red Bull ahead of Formula 1's season-opening race last month and Horner has delivered on his...

Max Verstappen cruises to victory at Saudi Arabian GP to extend dominant start to F1 title defense

Mar. 09, 2024 16:03 PM EST

Max Verstappen stayed firmly on course for another season of dominance in Formula 1 on Saturday by winning the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Even after just two races, and despite turmoil at Red Bull, Verstappen seems in near-total control on the track as he aims for a fourth consecutive...

IndyCar hopes competitive on-track racing captures audience as F1 season looks to be another snoozer

Mar. 08, 2024 16:46 PM EST

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — IndyCar finally snapped six months of dormancy with a Felix Rosenqvist-led spirited Friday practice session that Formula 1 wishes it could reproduce. As the IndyCar season sets to begin Sunday on the downtown streets of St. Petersburg, the series has a...

Ferrari's Carlos Sainz Jr. out of Saudi GP with appendicitis. Oliver Bearman steps up at age 18

Mar. 08, 2024 15:00 PM EST

Ferrari has a new British driver, and it isn't Lewis Hamilton. Carlos Sainz Jr. was ruled out of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix with appendicitis that required surgery on Friday and Ferrari handed 18-year-old Oliver Bearman his Formula 1 debut hours before qualifying. He placed 11th. ...

IndyCar resumes this weekend in downtown St. Petersburg following long and rocky offseason

Mar. 07, 2024 15:31 PM EST

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — It has been six months since Alex Palou closed the IndyCar season with his second championship in three years and the time off has not been the smoothest for America’s open-wheel racing series. Honda publicly aired grievances with IndyCar, team owners...