Jeremy Clements wins Xfinity race despite late spin

Jeremy Clements battled Matt Tifft down the stretch at Road America before pulling away to the finish line after the two leaders spun out near the end of the second-to-last lap for his first career Xfinity Series victory at Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.

Working with fresh tires down the stretch, Clements chased down Tifft after pitting with nine laps left to surrender the lead. Clements finally caught up with Tifft on the 44th lap, with their cars spinning into the dirt on last tu of the 14-tu road course.

The 32 year-old Clements recovered first and sped away on the last lap to capture the checkered flag for the first time in 256 Xfinity series races. Michael Annett passed Tifft to take second, 5.8 seconds behind Clements. Tifft settled for third.

Series leader Elliott Sadler finished 14th.

Formula One

Lewis Hamilton celebrated his record-equaling 68th pole position with victory at the Belgian Grand Prix, trimming championship leader Sebastian Vettel’s lead to seven points.

Hamilton clinched his fifth win of the season and 58th overall, having equaled Michael Schumacher’s pole record.

Vettel finished second, about 2 seconds behind Hamilton.

It was a comfortable win for the British driver, although it got a bit tense toward the end.

With about 10 laps left, Vettel almost overtook his challenger as they emerged from behind the safety car.

Vettel got his Ferrari alongside Hamilton on a long straight, but Hamilton edged his Mercedes into the coer just in time.

Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo was third ahead of Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen, with Hamilton’s teammate Valtteri Bottas fifth.

After 12 races, Vettel has 220 points to Hamilton’s 213 heading into next weekend’s Italian GP in Monza.

IMSA

Jan Magnussen and Antonio Garcia won at Virginia Inteational Raceway for their third IMSA SportsCar Championship victory of the season.

Garcia took the lead in the No. 3 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R with just over 12 minutes remaining in the 2 hour, 40-minute race when Alexander Sims who had dominated with Bill Auberlen in the No. 25 BMW made a late pit stop. Garcia finished 12.031 seconds ahead of the No. 67 Ford GT of Ryan Briscoe and Richard Westbrook, and they increased their season lead to 16 points over Sims and Auberlen.

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