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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Lewis Hamilton often races with a rainbow sticker on his helmet and especially when he’s driving in a place where he feels LGBTQ rights are being infringed upon, including at the 2023 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in April. Florida now qualifies as such a place to the British superstar. Hamilton, who drives the No. 44 car for Mercedes-Benz in Formula One, will don his rainbow sticker once again this weekend at the 2023 Miami Grand Prix, making a statement against the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act, often referred to as the “Don’t Say Gay” Bill by critics. “It’s not g......

Eighteen people, including a child and a pregnant woman, were killed in a powerful explosion that destroyed much of the Hotel Saratoga, a luxury hotel in the historic center of Havana, and left several people injured, Cuban authorities said. The blast, which happened around 11 a.m., kicked up a plume of smoke and ash and shocked passing pedestrians in one of the busiest spots in the Cuban capital. The death toll, initially reported at four, increased as search and rescue efforts continued into the evening. In the afternoon, Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel confirmed the deaths of nine people. By......

ORLANDO, Fla. — Tony Mouriño has been a NASCAR fan for over two decades and now he gets to enjoy it so much with his family that they even created a podcast called “Let’s Go Racing Family” where they talk “about our love for NASCAR and motorsports racing.” “I’ve been a fan of NASCAR since the late ‘90s, early 2000s. I kind of grew up as a kid following NASCAR as a sport. I invited my girlfriend — now wife — to go with me to the 2004 Pepsi 400. And that was our first race together. And we just love the sport. And as we naturally had kids, they grew up in the sport, and it’s our family sport. It......

Martha Earnhardt, matriarch to one of the most well-known families in stock-car racing, has died. Her grandchildren, Kelley Earnhardt Miller and Dale Earnhardt Jr., confirmed in a statement that she passed away on the evening of Dec 25. She was 91. “As we grieve her loss and begin to imagine life without our beloved ‘Mamaw,’ we find solace in knowing she is at peace in eternal glory and in joyous reunion with her husband Ralph and sons Dale, Randy and Danny,” their statement read. Martha Earnhardt was married to famed dirt-track racer Ralph Earnhardt from 1947 until his death in 1973. She was ......

The next step in NASCAR's COVID-19 detection protocols comes with four paws and a tail. Two highly trained dogs will greet roughly 1,000 crew members, officials, and essential racing personnel at Atlanta Motor Speedway ahead of this Sunday's Cup race to determine whether they have the virus prior to entering the track's garage area. It's a method of virus detection NASCAR is testing out just after the sport passes the one-year mark of its pandemic shutdown. "It is a matter primarily of speed," NASCAR managing director of racing operations Tom Bryant told The Charlotte Observer. "When you combi......