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RELATED: Full starting lineup | See the full field SPEEDWAY, Ind. – A sweep at Indianapolis Motor Speedway is nothing new to Kyle Busch.   But this year, he started early.   With a lap at 184.634 mph (48.745 seconds) in the final round of Saturday’s knockout qualifying, Busch claimed the pole position for Sunday’s Crown Royal 400 (3 p.m. ET on NBCSN, IMS, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).   Earlier in the…

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (July 23, 2016) — NASCAR and Chevrolet today announced the launch of the second annual NASCAR Chevrolet Diversity Scholarship Contest during a press conference at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Through this initiative, NASCAR and Chevrolet continue their longstanding commitment to Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM) education and promoting opportunities for college students pursuing technology related careers. The contest challenges students to identify a technology or innovation within NASCAR…

RELATED: Practice 1 results | Final practice results Kyle Busch closed out final NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice atop the leaderboard Friday afternoon, recovering from a spin earlier in the day and landing the fastest speed at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Busch, the defending race winner, lapped the track with a best speed of 184.619 mph in the Joe Gibbs Racing No. 18 Toyota as teams made mock qualifying runs ahead…

RELATED: Pictures of ‘Smoke’ through the years   Tony Stewart said Friday that he’s completely content with Jeff Gordon ‘s return taking away some of the spotlight on his final scheduled start at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. In fact, he said if the situation arose, he’d be open to a similar substitute role for his Stewart-Haas Racing team after his full-time career ends.   Stewart, 45, is set for what should…

ENLARGE Amid all the drama about how to punish the Russians for doping, here’s an uncomfortable truth—the Olympics are a far less entertaining event without them in Rio. We can all agree that it’s better to have a competition in which all the athletes are clean. As this week’s investigative report from the World Anti-Doping Agency showed, the Sochi Games certainly were not. Russian officials managed to swap out dirty…

A further 45 athletes have tested positive for banned substances after a second set of samples provided at the London and Beijing Olympics were reanalysed, the International Olympic Committee has announced. Related: Usain Bolt says Olympic ban on Russian athletes will ‘scare a lot of people’ The number of additional positive tests – comprising 30 athletes from Beijing and 15 from London – takes the total number of athletes who…

BRASILIA Brazil arrested 10 people on Thursday suspected of belonging to a poorly organized group supporting Islamic State (IS) and discussing terrorist acts during the next month’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The group, described as “absolutely amateur” by Justice Minister Alexandre Moraes, were all Brazilian citizens and in contact via messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Telegram. They did not know each other personally, the minister said. The…

Imagine the most stereotypically Russian way an Olympic doping scandal could play out. Are you thinking sketchy FSB agents? Passing urine samples back and forth through a hole in a wall … hidden behind a cabinet in a laboratory? And everything kinda sorta maybe ties back to Putin? Because then you’d be absolutely right. This morning, the Court of Arbitration for Sport made a ruling on Russia’s cartoonish state-sponsored skullduggery,…

x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sports’ Jeff Gluck looks ahead to the Brickyard 400 and the story lines that fans should keep an eye on leading up to this weekend’s race. USA TODAY Sports Tony Stewart will say goodbye to NASCAR Sprint Cup racing at the end of this season.(Photo: Jerome Miron, USA TODAY Sports) INDIANAPOLIS — Camera crews from the local television affiliates were mingling by the elevators,…

The list of blue-chip brands involved in NASCAR continues to grow. According to a recent internal analysis, the number of FORTUNE 100 companies investing in NASCAR has increased 5 percent year-over-year. Also, the number of FORTUNE 500 companies investing in the sport has either grown or sustained year-over-year since 2012. Overall, more than one in four FORTUNE 500 companies integrate NASCAR into their marketing strategies. A charter agreement with race…

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BRASILIA Brazil arrested 10 people on Thursday suspected of belonging to a poorly organized group supporting Islamic State (IS) and discussing terrorist acts during the next month’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The group, described as “absolutely amateur” by Justice Minister Alexandre Moraes, were all Brazilian citizens and in contact via messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Telegram. They did not know each other personally, the minister said. The…

By Lisandra Paraguassu and Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil arrested 10 people on Thursday suspected of belonging to a poorly organized group supporting Islamic State (IS) and discussing terrorist acts during the next month’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The group, described as “absolutely amateur” by Justice Minister Alexandre Moraes, were all Brazilian citizens and in contact via messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Telegram. They did not…

LAUSANNE, Switzerland/MOSCOW Sport’s highest tribunal rejected on Thursday Russia’s appeal against a doping ban for its entire athletics team from the Rio Olympics starting in 15 days’ time, drawing swift and angry condemnation from Moscow. The decision by the Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) increases the possibility that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will now exclude Russia from all sports, not just track and field, in Rio de…

LAUSANNE, Switzerland/MOSCOW Sport’s highest tribunal rejected on Thursday Russia’s appeal against a doping ban for its entire athletics team from the Rio Olympics starting in 15 days’ time, drawing swift and angry condemnation from Moscow. The decision by the Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) increases the possibility that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will now exclude Russia from all sports, not just track and field, in Rio de…

BRASILIA Brazil arrested 10 people on Thursday suspected of belonging to a poorly organized group supporting Islamic State (IS) and discussing acts of terrorism during next month’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Justice Minister Alexandre Moraes said. The group, described as “absolutely amateur” by the minister, were all Brazilian citizens and in contact via internet messaging groups such as WhatsApp and Telegram. They did not know each other personally, the…