The 2024 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Rolex 24 at Daytona didn't quite make it to 24 hours, after all. An officiating error caused the 24-hour endurance ...

SPEEDWAY, Ind. — The checkered flag is an icon of racing. It decorates homes across Indiana in the month of May. But the two checkered flags that really matter will be in the hands of Aaron Likens on ...

A rain delay hit the Indianapolis 500 this year and that set the stage for a dramatic day of racing. Multiple caution periods punctuated the 200-lap race in Speedway, Indiana. After 500 miles of ...

The misunderstanding that took place on the closing laps of the 2018 Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix may have seemed like a small hiccup to some, but waving the checkered flag on the wrong lap isn’t ...

IndyCar racing was back at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis. Scott McLaughlin took the checkered flag. Alex Palou held onto his IndyCar points lead despite an electrical issue with his car. WEST ALLIS ...

DOVER, Del. — The moment in the virtual sun has arrived for simulated racing and the thousands of gamers who always wanted to race like Dale Earnhardt Jr. or Jeff Gordon at NASCAR tracks from Dover to ...

When, where and how did the checkered flag come to be used at the end of racing events to indicate the winner and the end of the race? Some housekeeping first: People. People. People, people. Ever ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — William Byron won the Daytona 500 with an agonizing final lap under a caution flag. He took the checkered flag on Sunday at the Circuit of the Americas at full throttle. Bryon ...