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Seven-time Formula One champ Lewis Hamilton calls out attack on Roe v. Wade<em></em>

Ahead of the first Formula One Grand Prix event in the United States this year on Sunday, the sport’s seven-time champion, Lewis Hamilton, has spoken out against a draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade....

by Staff Report|Racing - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | DeadspinFormula One

|Fri May 06 2022

Punches thrown after NASCAR driver takes umbrage with excessive rubbing while racing

Fists flew on pit row during NASCAR’s Xfinity Series race at Martinsville. Rivals Sam Mayer and Ty Gibbs, the grandson of Super Bowl winning coach and NASCAR team owner Joe Gibbs, were the combatants in the altercation after Friday night’s race....

by Eric Blum|NASCAR

|Sat Apr 09 2022

Formula 1 expands its footprint in America, but please don’t make me watch

Formula 1 is coming to Las Vegas, and “the fastest growing sport in America” is so popular I want to avoid it entirely. There’s nothing wrong with car racing — I played a couple of the Gran Turismo games, and they were fun — I’m just not going to add it to the never-ending list of sports I follow....

by Sean Beckwith|Formula 1

|Thu Mar 31 2022

Let’s go Brandon? Let’s stop the nonsense

Brandon Brown is the most famous race car driver in America, an incredible thing for a 28-year-old in the second-tier NASCAR Xfinity Series who has won exactly one race since moving up from the NASCAR truck series, where he was winless with only one top-10 finish in 22 races over four seasons....

by Jesse Spector|Bob Pockrass

|Fri Jan 07 2022

The ending to the F1 season was impossible

It’s the kind of ending to any contest that feels scripted (and Mercedes might yet claim that it actually was scripted). It’s the thing you’d reenact in your living room when you’re a kid. Then, it’s not just the final AB in the bottom of the ninth. It’s the bottom of the ninth of Game 7 after comin...

by Sam Fels|Mercedes

|Sun Dec 12 2021

Horse racing should be put out of its misery

In yet another measure of how irrelevant horse racing has gotten, Kentucky Derby “winner” Medina Spirit collapsed and died at Santa Anita yesterday. He had a heart attack after a workout, which 3-year-old horses don’t tend to do. It does happen, though, but is rare. ...

by Sam Fels|Horse racing

|Tue Dec 07 2021

F1 season will come down to bonkers last race after bonkers race in Saudi Arabia

You don’t need to know much about F1 racing, or racing in general, to know that a race that had to be started three different times, and had an incident that saw the race’s leader attempt to give the lead to his closest competitor only to have the whole thing end in a collision, to know that Sunday’...

by Sam Fels|Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

|Mon Dec 06 2021

Racing - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | DeadspinHawk Harrelson would love this horse

I don’t know what the future holds for horse racing, or if there’s much of one to hold. It feels like it could be consigned to the past within the next decade. Or maybe sports gambling will revive interest as more tracks get their own sportsbook to go with the slots they needed years ago. Or maybe t...

by Sam Fels|Hawk Harrelson

|Sun Aug 29 2021

Police track down, arrest Tour de France spectator who caused massive crash

The sign looked like a joke....

by Dustin Foote|Tour de France

|Wed Jun 30 2021

Piss Poor de France safety conditions have cyclists fed up

At the start of Stage 4 of the Tour de France, riders dismounted their bikes and stopped the race for a full minute to protest for safer racing conditions. ...

by Dustin Foote|the Tour de France

|Tue Jun 29 2021

SEE IT: Fan causes pile-up at Tour de France [Updated]

One unlucky fan will have to live forever knowing they sparked an epic, but terrifying, pile-up at the Tour de France — just trying to cheer the riders on....

by Rich O'Malley|Tour de France

|Tue Jun 29 2021

Bob Baffert’s attorney gets eviscerated on CNN

After Kentucky Derby winner* Medina Spirit failed his first drug test, his trainer, Bob Baffert, did the media rounds to blame cancel culture and everybody besides himself for his horse’s unusually high levels of betamethasone....

by Dustin Foote|Bob Baffert

|Thu Jun 03 2021

Racing - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | DeadspinRyan Lochte is on a redemption tour no one asked for, and Bob Baffert will assuredly be next

Just two months before the Tokyo Games are scheduled to begin, the White Privilege Olympics have already started, as the baton that Tim Tebow was carrying has now been passed to his caucasian brothers “in the struggle.”...

by Carron J. Phillips|Bob Baffert

|Tue May 18 2021

Bob Baffert inexplicably blames ‘cancel culture’ for horse-doping controversy

Trainer Bob Baffert’s horse, Medina Spirit, who won the Kentucky Derby on May 1, tested positive for a banned substance. Apparently, according to Baffert, this happened because one of the groomers decided to take a piss on the hay in the horse’s stall after taking cough medicine, and the horse consu...

by Jon Helmkamp|Bob Baffert

|Mon May 10 2021

What happens if Medina Spirit is disqualified?

Only one horse has been disqualified for a drug test after winning the Kentucky Derby. That happened in 1968, when Dancer’s Image was DQ’d for testing positive for a banned anti-inflammatory. But Forward Pass, who finished in second was not declared the official winner until 1972....

by Dustin Foote|Medina Spirit

|Mon May 10 2021

Bob Baffert cries wolf again

You have to ask if there’s anything left of horse racing to kill. Perhaps it’s entrenched so deeply into irrelevance, outside of four or five days a year, that just about nothing can make it worse. This is an industry basically surviving on the courtesy of state governments, really....

by Sam Fels|Bob Baffert

|Sun May 09 2021

A definitely-winning guide to betting the 2021 Kentucky Derby using only horse names and how badass they look

First of all, I have indeed been to the Kentucky Derby (which is, like, a WHOLE other story, and I’ll never write it as well as Hunter S. Thompson, so just read his). ...

by Rich O'Malley|Kentucky Derby

|Sat May 01 2021

Undefeated favorite Essential Quality has everyone asking: Wait — how many gray horses have won the Kentucky Derby?

There’s this phrase in thoroughbred racing, it goes one of two ways: “always bet the grays” or “never bet the grays.” [Ed. note: My uncles were firmly in the “never” category — R.O.]...

by Dustin Foote|Horses

|Fri Apr 30 2021

SEE IT! NASCAR's Joey Logano does big flip at Talladega

To paraphrase a line from the great Ricky Bobby — Yup. Joey Logano is flying through the air. This is not good....

by Racing - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | DeadspinDustin Foote|NASCAR

|Sun Apr 25 2021

Michael Jordan, Bubba Wallace unveil Chicago Bulls-themed design on new car

The 23XI racing team took another step closer to diversifying NASCAR when they announced a new design this past weekend....

by Donovan Dooley|Cars

|Sun Nov 01 2020

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