After sweeping the weekend at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course just a few weeks ago, Cooper Shipman carried momentum into the New Jersey Lottery SpeedTour weekend to win the opening race for Formula 4 United States Championship on Saturday afternoon. In a race with intense competition and attrition, Shipman (No. 14 Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F422) kept his focus forward to minimize his mistakes and capitalize on the misfortune of others. Turn 2 was a gremlin for several competitors throughout the race, with both Demitri Nolan (No. 5 Crosslink Motorsports Ligier JS F422) and Alex Popow (No. 55 Dr. Michael Thompson MS DDS PPLS / MLT Motorsports Ligier JS F422) eliminated from competition after contact with the tire barrier. 

Kekai Hauanio (No. 29 N-E-Where Transport / Crosslink Motorsports Ligier JS F422) paced the field for most of the race, but a late-race restart changed everything, as Clemente Huerta Raab (No. 17 Velox USA / Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F422) pulled tight on his bumper and dove to the inside entering Turn 1. Hauanio dropped two wheels, giving the advantage to Caleb Campbell (No. 68 Kids Help Phone / Camtacc Properties / Legacy Foundation of Canada / LC Racing Ligier JS F422), who had darted forward from third. As Huerta Raab dropped all four wheels off the racing surface, Shipman slid into the runner-up position to take chase of Campbell. For the next three laps, Campbell and Shipman raced wheel to wheel, until finally, with just over four minutes left on the clock, Shipman drove deep into Turn 1 to complete the pass. When the checkered flag waved, Shipman led, with Campbell in second and Hauanio in third. 

Following the event, the stewards issued Campbell a penalty for causing a collision. The drive-thru penalty was converted into a 30-second time penalty, which dropped Campbell to fourth in the final results and promoted Huerta Raab to the third and final podium position. 

Notes of Interest: 

• Cooper Shipman earned his third-career F4 U.S. win during the opening race at New Jersey Motorsports Park to extend his lead in the points championship. 
• After finishing second in all three Ligier Junior Formula Championship races at NJMP last season, Kekai Hauanio finished second in F4 U.S.’s Race 1 to mark his seventh podium of the season. 
• Clemente Huerta Raab earned his third podium of 2025 with a third-place finish in Round 9. 

> SEE MORE: Race 1 Official Results

“It was a pretty crazy race out there,” said Shipman. “I thought we gave it away there in the beginning, but I just kept my head down and waited to capitalize from the mistakes. Thanks to the Kiwi Motorsport team for giving me a great car—one that allowed us to come through from the back. I’m super excited to win today and super proud of our effort.”

> WATCH THE STREAM: Stream Round 9 from NJMP

F4 U.S. returns to the track tomorrow morning at 10:25 a.m. ET for Race 2 from the New Jersey Lottery SpeedTour. The race will be live streamed on SpeedTour.TV.

BRISTOL, Tenn. — It was a red flag for Major League Baseball at Bristol Motor Speedway on Saturday night.

The Speedway Classic between the Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds was suspended in the first inning because of rain, soaking a record-breaking crowd for the first regular-season game in Tennessee. The plan is to resume the game on Sunday at 1 p.m. ET.

The first delay at the historic bullring of a racetrack came after the ceremonial first pitch featuring a pair of Hall of Famers in Johnny Bench and Chipper Jones, joined by NASCAR drivers Kyle Busch and Chase Elliott. The second with one out in the bottom of the first led to the game being pushed back a day.

Fans who stuck out the first delay of 2 hours, 17 minutes started heading toward the exits before the game was postponed with the Reds holding a 1-0 lead.

It was an unwelcome detour for the long-planned event mixing baseball and NASCAR.

“We’re going to suspend tonight’s game. … We are optimistic for a better weather forecast for tomorrow,” Michael Hill, MLB’s senior vice president of on-field operations, told Fox.

The rain made life difficult on the players before the suspension. A bat flew out of TJ Friedl’s hands as he led off for the Reds. A pitcher seemed to catch his footing going to cover first base.

The Speedway Classic was announced nearly a year ago as part of commissioner Rob Manfred’s push to take MLB to places where baseball isn’t played every day live. MLB played a game at the “Field of Dreams” movie site in Iowa in 2021 and 2022. Games have been held in Alabama and North Carolina too.

Reds pitcher Andrew Abbott showed up Saturday afternoon at Bristol wearing a cutoff version of a NASCAR race suit. Born in Lynchburg, Virginia, Abbott said he wanted something to wear in for a special game.

“I grew up around NASCAR,” Abbott said. “Just went on eBay and found a couple options, and luckily that was the one that arrived in time. I had a couple of backups. I know who Rusty Wallace is too, so I actually do know the backstory behind it.”

Long before the fans departed in the rain, they were entertained by a 110-foot Ferris wheel along with food trucks, live music, pitching tunnels and batting cages. Fans also had a chance for photos with the Commissioner’s Trophy and Clydesdales outside the historic racetrack.

Inside, star Tim McGraw performed and was joined by Pitbull.

Before the weather moved over the area, players stood in the back of pickup trucks with their numbers emblazoned on the side and rode around the half-mile racetrack. Some used their phones to document the moment. For introductions, the Braves and Reds walked between a pair of cars decked out in Atlanta and Cincinnati colors.

Then the tarp came out as rain that had been falling around Bristol much of Saturday turned heavy and delayed the start.

The first delay led to the Braves switching starting pitchers. Spencer Strider, who grew up in nearby Knoxville, got a bigger ovation than Reds starter Chase Burns, who is from Hendersonville and played at the University of Tennessee. The Reds stuck with Burns despite the delay.

Strider warmed up. The Braves chose not to risk his third start in this situation coming off a second elbow surgery and turned to Austin Cox.

The rain stopped long enough to take off the tarp and start the game.

Michael Waltrip, who raced plenty at Bristol, restarted the festivities by quoting his brother Darrell: “Boogity, boogity, boogity. Let’s play baseball, boys!”

Atlanta went down in order in the top of the first inning. But there was another rain delay after Austin Hays hit an RBI single for Cincinnati in the bottom half.

MLB didn’t try to sell every ticket inside the speedway that drew 156,990 for the Battle of Bristol college football game in 2016. The track with a racing capacity of 146,000 could host 90,000 or more even with sections blocked off.

Officials announced Monday that more than 85,000 tickets had been sold, topping the previous paid attendance of 84,587 set Sept. 12, 1954, when Cleveland Stadium hosted the New York Yankees.

A batter has to clear 400 feet to hit anything out of center field, 375 in the alleys and 330 down each baseline. Pulling a ball down the line raises the prospect of a ball bouncing off the racetrack beyond the outfield wall.

“Honestly, my first thought: I can’t believe they did all this for one game,” Braves first baseman Matt Olson said of his first visit to Bristol. “To be able to set all this up, get a playing surface ready, set the stands up in order to have the proper viewing, it’s pretty incredible.”

United Kingdom’s Lando Norris holds off McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri of Australia to win Hungarian Grand Prix.

Lando Norris has held off McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri to win the Hungarian Grand Prix on a one-stop strategy and slash the Australian’s Formula One lead to nine points going into the August break.

Norris completed 39 of the 70 laps on Sunday at the Hungaroring on a single set of hard tyres while Piastri stopped twice and closed a 12-second gap to just 0.6 at the finish with a nail-biting chase to the chequered flag and a near-collision.

George Russell took a distant third, 20 seconds down the road, for Mercedes and his fifth podium of the season.

“I’m dead. I’m dead. It was tough,” gasped Norris, who started in third place – with Piastri second – and then went down to fifth after being squeezed at the start.

“We weren’t really planning on the one stop, but after the first lap, it was kind of our only option to get back into things.

“I didn’t think it would get us the win. I thought it would get us maybe into second.”

The win was Norris’s fifth of the season and third in the past four races to Piastri’s six. It was also McLaren’s seventh one-two in 14 races.

Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was a frustrated fourth after starting on pole position but losing out with a two-stop strategy and a five-second penalty for erratic driving as Russell challenged.

Fernando Alonso finished fifth for Aston Martin ahead of Sauber’s sixth-placed Brazilian rookie Gabriel Bortoleto.

Lance Stroll was seventh for Aston Martin ahead of Racing Bulls’ Liam Lawson with Red Bull’s reigning champion, Max Verstappen, and Mercedes rookie Kimi Antonelli completing the top 10 scoring positions.

Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton, an eight-time winner in Hungary, started in 12th place for Ferrari and finished there.

The Briton was lapped by the leaders six laps from the chequered flag.

Before the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season ended, it was confirmed that Rick Allen would be leaving the Cup Series broadcast booth on NBC (and USA Network) to make way for Leigh Diffey.

Many believed that this move came as a result of IndyCar’s new broadcast deal with Fox. With Diffey having served as the lead announcer for IndyCar races on NBC since 2013, the overarching belief was that NBC didn’t want to risk the popular Australian leaving for Fox to continue calling the open-wheel races.

Will Buxton ended up being named IndyCar’s lead announcer on Fox, with former NBC driver analysts James Hinchcliffe and Townsend Bell transitioning over to Fox to join him.

As a result of NBC’s proactive measure, Allen was replaced by Diffey beginning with the late August race at Daytona International Speedway, though he continued to call Xfinity Series races until the 2024 season concluded.

Rick Allen out at NBC entirely

But Allen, who had served in his lap-by-lap role for Cup Series races on NBC since 2015, had nowhere to go once the 2025 season began, and while retaining Diffey made sense, doing so at the expense of the longtime voice of NASCAR on NBC was an eyebrow-raising move, to say the least.

As a part of NASCAR’s news seven-year, $7.7 billion media rights deal, all Xfinity Series races were moved to the CW Network, and former Fox announcer Adam Alexander had been tabbed the lead announcer for those races.

Additionally, the Amazon Prime Video and TNT Sports broadcast booths for their respective five-race stints were announced as being the exact same, with Alexander leading those broadcasts alongside two of Allen’s former NBC colleagues, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Steve Letarte.

Earnhardt left NBC on his own after 2023 and took the year off in 2024, while Letarte is still set to serve as a driver analyst alongside Diffey and fellow analyst Jeff Burton on NBC. So the three-man booth is set to remain this year what it was from the August Daytona race up through November’s season finale at Phoenix Raceway last year.

Allen recently opened up about how crushing his exit was from NBC, and given the struggles experienced by a number of members of the Fox broadcast team, specifically at the Truck level, earlier this year, several NASCAR fans have called upon the network to make a move to secure his services for 2026.

But nothing has come to fruition yet, and so when NBC’s portion of the schedule begins with the Iowa Corn 350 at Iowa Speedway this Sunday, August 3, it will mark the first time that Allen has not been leading the way following the transition from another network’s portion of the schedule to NBC’s.

NASCAR converges on Newton, Iowa, this Sunday for the Iowa Corn 350, with the circuit coming off an exciting Brickyard 400 finish that saw Bubba Wallace first across the checkered flag. Racing action is set to start at 12:30 p.m. PT/3:30 p.m. ET (1:30 p.m. MT) on Sunday, August 3, 2025, with the broadcast available on USA Network and streaming live on demand.

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What TV channel is the 2025 NASCAR Iowa Corn 350 on? What is the start time?

Network: USA Network

When: 12:30 p.m. PT/3:30 p.m. ET (1:30 p.m. MT) on Sunday, August 3, 2025

Where: Iowa Speedway | Newton, Iowa

How to watch streaming live: You can watch the NASCAR Cup Series Iowa Corn 350 live for free with a free trial from DIRECTV.

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NASCAR at Iowa latest betting odds

• Ryan Blaney +450
• Kyle Larson +450
• Christopher Bell +475
• Denny Hamlin +750
• William Byron +800
• Chase Elliott +1100
• Joey Logano +1200
• Tyler Reddick +1600
• Chase Briscoe +1800
• Josh Berry +2200
• Ross Chastain +2500
• Chris Buescher +2500
• Carson Hocevar +3000
• Kyle Busch +3500
• Brad Keselowski +3500
• Ty Gibbs +4000
• Alex Bowman +4000
• Austin Cindric +5000
• Bubba Wallace +5000
• Ryan Preece +6000
• Daniel Suarez +12500
• John Hunter Nemechek +15000
• Ricky Stenhouse Jr. +15000
• Austin Dillon +20000
• Michael McDowell +20000
• Erik Jones +20000
• Justin Haley +25000
• Noah Gragson +25000
• Zane Smith +25000
• Todd Gilliland +35000
• AJ Allmendinger +35000
• Shane van Gisbergen +50000
• Cole Custer +50000
• Riley Herbst +100000
• Ty Dillon +100000
• Cody Ware +200000
• Joey Gase +200000
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The 2025 Iowa Corn 350 will be held on Sunday at Iowa Speedway. The race begins at 3:30 p.m. ET on Sunday and is scheduled for 350 laps. Iowa Speedway hosted the NASCAR Xfinity Series and the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series from 2009-19, and many of the drivers in the 2025 Iowa Corn 350 field are familiar with the relatively flat short track. That includes Tyler Reddick, who was top 10 in Iowa all three times he raced there in the Truck Series from 2014-16, and is listed for as high as +1600 to win outright on various online betting apps.

If you’re looking for a NASCAR longshot to bet in the 2025 Iowa Corn 350, Reddick is a solid option and has been included as one of our three best darkhorses to win NASCAR at Iowa. Ryan Blaney is the defending champion, and he’s listed at +500 to repeat, according to the 2025 Iowa Corn 350 odds. The SportsLine Projection Model has nailed eight outright winners in NASCAR this year, and you can use its picks this week to identify NASCAR at Iowa longshots and then use the latest bet365 bonus code to get $150 in bonus bets instantly after your first $5 wager.

SportsLine simulated the NASCAR Iowa Corn 350 10,000 times. Here are the three NASCAR longshots to target, according to the model:

Best NASCAR at Iowa longshots (odds subject to change):

• Tyler Reddick (+1800)
• Joey Logano (+1600)
• Josh Berry (+1700)

Tyler Reddick (+1800)

If he can avoid there being first-time winners three times or more over the next four races, Reddick will almost certainly get into the 2025 NASCAR Playoffs on points. He’s 75 clear of Alex Bowman, the next closest winless driver in the NASCAR standings. However, he’d probably prefer not to leave it to chance and would love to get a first win under his belt to build some momentum after winning multiple races in the last three seasons. Reddick made the championship finale last season, and he’s sixth in the NASCAR standings this season despite going without a win through the first 22 races. Several books have Reddick listed at +1600, but you can get a little extra juice from DraftKings, and the latest DraftKings promo code delivers an additional bonus with new users earning $150 in bonus bets instantly after your first $5 wager. Claim $150 in bonus bets right here:

Joey Logano (+1600)

Logano needed an awful lot of luck to win his third NASCAR Cup Series championship, with Alex Bowman failing a post-race inspection at the end of the Round of 12 to unexpectedly vault Logano back into the championship field. Now he’s all but assured to defend his title with a spot in this year’s postseason and he finished sixth in Iowa last season, his first career appearance there at any level in NASCAR. He’s already in his 18th season and at only 35 years old, he’s a 37-time Cup winner. Yet, he’s almost always available somewhere at 15-1 or higher and that’s a profitable price point for a guy who has seven seasons with three wins or more over the last 11 years. FanDuel is offering Logano at +1600 odds, but he’s listed as low as +1000 elsewhere, and with the latest FanDuel promo code, new users receive $150 in bonus bets if their first $5 wager is a winner:

Josh Berry (+1700)

Berry pulled off an unexpected win in Las Vegas but he is still exposed to being the bubble boy if there are first-time winners in each of the next four races. Beyond that though, the 34-year-old just wants to further establish himself as a serious threat and this is a track where he’s had a lot of success. He qualified third at Iowa last year and led 32 laps before finishing seventh. He also finished 12th and ninth in his two NASCAR Xfinity Series starts at Iowa Speedway and has been dialed in on short tracks that measure close to a mile, finishing fourth at Phoenix and third at Loudon. After that performance last season, Berry is priced as low as +1700 elsewhere, but you can get this listed price at DraftKings and potentially win even bigger as a new user with the aforementioned DraftKings bonus code:

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2025 Iowa Corn 350 odds, drivers, lineup

(odds subject to change)

Kyle Larson +430
William Byron +500
Ryan Blaney +500
Christopher Bell +650
Chase Briscoe +900
Chase Elliott +900
Denny Hamlin +900
Brad Keselowski +1300
Joey Logano +1600
Tyler Reddick +1600
Josh Berry +1700
Carson Hocevar +2200
Chris Buescher +2500
Ross Chastain +2700
Austin Cindric +2900
Kyle Busch +3100
Alex Bowman +3400
Bubba Wallace +4000
Ty Gibbs +4000
Ryan Preece +4400
Daniel Suarez +8000
Austin Dillon +11000
AJ Allmendinger +11000
Justin Haley +16000
Noah Gragson +19000
Erik Jones +19000
John Hunter Nemechek +25000
Michael McDowell +25000
Zane Smith +25000
Shane van Gisbergen +25000
Todd Gilliland +25000
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. +28000
Cole Custer +50000
Ty Dillon +50000
Cody Ware +50000
Riley Herbst +50000
Joey Gase +50000