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October 7, 2026

Michael Larrimore scheduled to fight unbeaten Nate Morrow on BKFC Clearwater card

Michael Larrimore, known as “Papa G,” is set to return to BKFC action while continuing to build his modeling career. He said he wants to keep booking modeling work after getting started when he stepped in for a model who fell through for his wife’s project, and he expects to keep chasing knockouts in the bare-knuckle ring. Larrimore also said he feels overlooked heading into his next fight and predicted a fourth first-round knockout.

Larrimore is scheduled to fight unbeaten Nate Morrow in the co-main event of BKFC Fight Night Clearwater. The card is scheduled for Oct. 23 at OCC Road House in Clearwater, Florida.

Larrimore has competed in BKFC since 2023, and his next appearance will come as he tries to balance both sides of his career.
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October 7, 2026

Max Verstappen heads to Singapore GP seeking first Marina Bay win

Max Verstappen heads to the Singapore Grand Prix on Oct. 11 with one final track victory still to complete in F1. He has never won at Marina Bay, one of the two current F1 venues where he remains winless, and he has called a Singapore win unfinished business.

Verstappen arrives after converting pole position into a comfortable win in Sepang, his first victory of the 2026 season. He said Marina Bay will be a very different challenge because of its tight, bumpy street layout, heat and humidity.

Helmut Marko said Verstappen believes he can win in Singapore and said recent upgrades have unlocked Red Bull’s car potential. Marko also said Red Bull’s earlier problems on tight street circuits were due to the chassis, while the team believes the RB22 should be competitive at Marina Bay.

The Singapore weekend is the final race of a triple-header that began in Baku and continued in Sepang, and it will also feature the final sprint race of the 2026 season. The event will serve as a benchmark for several leading teams, with McLaren under pressure after back-to-back disappointing weekends in Baku and Sepang and Mercedes uncertain whether its latest upgrade has helped or hurt.
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October 7, 2026

Kyle Larson has 95-point swing and leads Cup playoff race after Las Vegas

Kyle Larson took control of the Cup Series playoff race with a 40-point lead over Denny Hamlin after five postseason races, a 95-point swing from the start of the Chase when Larson was seventh and 55 points behind. Larson opened the playoffs with finishes of fifth, first, second, first and second, giving him a 2.2 average finish and 273 points through five races, both the best marks since the playoff format began in 2004. Racing Insights raised Larson’s title probability to 46.3% after Las Vegas.

Larson finished second in the South Point 400 at Las Vegas, extending his run to five straight top-five finishes. The No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports team has been the most resilient group in a postseason where 47 of 80 possible Chase-driver race appearances involved some kind of trouble.

The title fight remains tight behind Larson, with six drivers separated by fewer than 85 points, including Hamlin, Christopher Bell, Joey Logano and Ryan Blaney. The final five races will be at Charlotte, Phoenix, Talladega, Martinsville and Homestead-Miami, and those tracks are expected to decide the championship. Hamlin has strong track history at several of the final five venues, while Joey Logano, Christopher Bell and Austin Cindric have also improved their points production.
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October 7, 2026

R.J. Hampshire ends seven-season Husqvarna run, joins Ducati team

R.J. Hampshire has signed a multiyear deal with Troy Lee Designs Red Bull Ducati Factory Racing and will ride the Ducati Desmo 450MX beginning in 2027. The move follows Rockstar Energy Husqvarna’s shutdown for 2027 and ends Hampshire’s seven-season run with the team.

The deal also reunites Hampshire with Factory Connection staff members who worked with him on the GEICO Honda team early in his career. Hampshire won the 2024 Monster Energy AMA Supercross 250SX West championship, has three Supercross 250SX West wins and four AMA Pro Motocross 250 victories, and has added 11 top-five finishes and two podiums in the 450 class. He finished third in the 2023 SuperMotocross 250SMX standings, fifth overall in both the 2025 and 2026 AMA Pro Motocross championships, fifth in the 2026 450MX standings and seventh overall in 450SMX.

Team manager Josh Wisenor said Hampshire’s experience can help the young Ducati program take the next step, after the team’s first season produced an 11th-place Supercross finish and a best motocross result of fourth at Hangtown. Hampshire is scheduled to make his Ducati debut on Jan. 9 at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California.
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October 7, 2026

Cup, O’Reilly and Truck Series set qualifying orders for Charlotte Chase weekend

Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina will host the 2026 Charlotte Chase weekend for the NASCAR Cup Series, O’Reilly Auto Parts Series and Craftsman Truck Series, with the fall races returning to the track’s 1.5-mile oval for the first time since 2017. The weekend is race 6 of 10 in The Chase. Qualifying orders were set for Friday and Saturday, and no entries are expected to miss any fields because the car counts are below the track limits.

Cup Series qualifying is scheduled for Saturday at 2:05 p.m. ET on truTV, O’Reilly Auto Parts Series qualifying is scheduled for Saturday at 11:35 a.m. ET on ESPN Unlimited, and Craftsman Truck Series qualifying is scheduled for Friday at 2:05 p.m. ET on FS2. BJ McLeod was listed first in the Cup qualifying order, JJ Yeley was first for the O’Reilly series and Timmy Hill was first for the Truck Series.

The Cup entry list includes Ross Chastain, Kyle Larson, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Tyler Reddick and Shane van Gisbergen, with the No. 44 listed as TBA and several part-time entries marked with an “i.” The O’Reilly entry list includes Justin Allgaier, Sheldon Creed and Jesse Love, with the No. 153 listed as TBA. The Truck Series entry list includes Austin Hill, Grant Enfinger, Corey LaJoie, Ty Majeski and Ben Rhodes, and the No. 22 entry is listed as TBA.
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October 7, 2026

Yago Dora, Gabriela Bryan lead title races into Portugal

The Rip Curl Pro Portugal at Supertubos opened the Championship Tour’s fourth quarter with the men’s and women’s world title races still in play. Three events remain after the Portugal stop, and the postseason field will be cut to 22 men and 14 women after the event. Gabriela Bryan leads the women’s rankings and Yago Dora leads the men’s standings heading into the final stretch.

Several contenders face key opening-round heats in Portugal. Erin Brooks will meet Tyler Wright, Liam O’Brien will face Filipe Toledo, Italo Ferreira will meet the winner of Jack Robinson and Joao Chianca, Carissa Moore will surf Teresa Bonvalot, and Molly Picklum will take on Yolanda Hopkins.

Brooks, Moore, Picklum, Ferreira and Medina all need strong results in Portugal to improve their title chances before the tour narrows further. The event is the first stop in the final push toward the season’s deciding contests.
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October 7, 2026

Williams recovers from disastrous 2026 F1 winter but says losses remain

Williams spent much of its 2026 Formula 1 season trying to recover from a winter that James Vowles called “disastrous.” Vowles warned Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon in December and again in January that the team was in trouble, and Williams missed the first pre-season test and the Barcelona shakedown. The team started the season with the FW48 28kg overweight after intentionally giving up aerodynamic performance so it could direct cost-cap resources toward the foundations for 2027. Vowles said he accepted responsibility for the winter mistakes, and Sainz and Albon responded by asking how they could help before flying to the UK to lift morale during a difficult period.

Williams made some progress late in the year. The team introduced a brand-new chassis at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in late September, and the Baku upgrade package brought its best qualifying result of the season when Sainz took ninth. Williams also scored its first point since Monaco. Vowles said the car is now carrying ballast, which shows the weight problem has been fixed, but he added it was too late in the season to recover all of the performance lost earlier in the year.

The team was ninth in the Constructors’ Championship with 12 points after finishing fifth the previous year. Vowles said software and process changes, along with the arrival of Piers Thynne in August, will make a significant difference, and that the 2027 chassis is already being built and should reduce the workload next winter. He said the full impact of the development work will not be clear until the first race next year, but he is confident Williams will not repeat the 2026 disaster in 2027.
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October 7, 2026

Kasey Kahne set for full-time NASCAR return with Spire Motorsports in 2027

Kasey Kahne will make a full-time return to NASCAR in 2027 with Spire Motorsports, driving the No. 77 Chevrolet Silverado RST in the FedEx Freight Truck Series. It will be his first full NASCAR season since he retired from full-time competition in 2018 because of health complications, and he is scheduled to open the season Feb. 19 at Daytona International Speedway in the Fresh From Florida 250.

Kahne brings a strong record to the Truck Series, with five wins in six starts. One of those victories came at Charlotte in 2015 and gave Chevrolet its 200th Truck Series win. He also has eight wins in the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series and 18 Cup Series victories, and he was named one of NASCAR’s 75 Greatest Drivers in 2023.

His most recent NASCAR start came in 2025 in the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series. Since leaving NASCAR full time, Kahne has raced open-wheel cars and spent more time working with Kasey Kahne Racing. Kahne said the return was appealing because he believes Spire Motorsports can win.
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October 7, 2026

C.J. Leary claims first USAC Silver Crown championship

C.J. Leary won the 2026 USAC Silver Crown championship, earning his first title in the series and his second USAC national crown. The driver from Greenfield, Indiana, had previously won the 2019 Sprint Car National Championship.

Leary put together a steady season, finishing in the top five in nine of the 10 races, winning three times and leading a series-best 204 laps. He completed all 911 laps on the year and never finished worse than eighth, then sealed the championship by 105 points, the largest margin in the series since 2015.

Team AZ/Petty-Rossi/Curb-Agajanian Racing won the entrant championship with the No. 21. Leary’s title run came after the death of his father and longtime crew chief, Chuck Leary, in March 2025. Leary got married in December 2025, and he and Kristy Bemmes were expecting a son in early 2027.
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