A week after winning his way into the next round of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs, Ryan Blaney will have to come from the rear of the field at Kansas Speedway.Blaney blew a tire early in Cup Series practice Saturday and hit the wall in Turn 2. Over the radio,...

Team Penske’s Will Power says he was cruising and saving fuel with the hope of deleting a late pit stop at the Bommarito Automotive Group 500 when the right-front tire lost pressure and sent the polesitter into the Turn 4 wall.Excessive damage to the right-side suspension on the No. 12...

Brad Keselowski has the best of both worlds going into the first elimination race of the NASCAR Cup Series postseason Saturday night at Bristol Motor Speedway.As the driver of the No. 6 RFK Racing Ford Mustang, Keselowski is solidly above the cutline. Sitting fifth on the playoff grid, Keselowski, the...

Lewis Hamilton says it is the teams and not Pirelli who are to blame for the recent tire failures that were seen in Azerbaijan, and wants to see guidelines better policed.Max Verstappen and Lance Stroll suffered high-speed blowouts in Baku, leading to a Pirelli investigation that concluded both Red Bull...

Red Bull Racing and Aston Martin Formula 1 drivers have voiced concerns about the Pirelli tires following the failures that occurred at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.Pirelli conducted an investigation into the failures suffered by Max Verstappen and Lance Stroll in Baku and found that the teams had followed the starting...

Pirelli believes Ferrari suffered two different tire failures on its cars in the closing stages of the British Grand Prix, following initial investigations.Kimi Raikkonen was running in second place when he suffered a left-front tire failure, with damage visible in the middle of the tire. While Raikkonen got back to...

Sebastian Vettel says the explanation for the tire failure that ended his race in Formula 1's Austrian Grand Prix remains "a complete question mark".The Ferrari driver retired from the lead of the race when his tire exploded at the start of lap 26 of 71, as he tried to stretch...

Ferrari Formula 1 team boss Maurizio Arrivabene says there was nothing "stupid or crazy" about the one-stop strategy that ended in tire failure for Sebastian Vettel when set for third.Vettel changed from softs to mediums on lap 14 of the 43-lap race and was trying to run to the finish...

Sergio Perez says it was "totally unacceptable" that he suffered a tire failure after a lock-up at last weekend's Korean Grand Prix.Amid a fresh debate among drivers about the impact of degrading tires on the racing in Formula 1, Perez thinks the real issue that needs look at relates to...

Pirelli motorsport director Paul Hembery says Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber are wrong to direct their anger at Formula 1's tire company.Alonso and Webber were both unhappy with Pirelli's aggressive tires during the Korean Grand Prix weekend, claiming that it is not normal for drivers to not be able to...