Teen driver Jones wins Xfinity race
Auto racing: Erik Jones could be driving for Joe Gibbs Racing in a Sprint Cup car at some point in the future.
For now, Jones, 19, is content driving for Gibbs in NASCAR’s Xfinity series and for Kyle Busch, one of Gibbs’ stars, in the trucks series.
That feeling might be expected from someone who capped the weekend with an Xfinity victory in the AttiCat 300 at Chicagoland Speedway on Sunday in Joliet, Illinois.
Jones had won Friday’s trucks race in Newton, Iowa.
According to NASCAR, Jones is the youngest driver to win two NASCAR national series races in the same weekend.
Jones took the lead from Blaney with 11 laps remaining in the 200-lap race, grabbing it on the lap 190 restart.
Jones also won a short track race in Berlin, Michigan, last Tuesday, making him 3 for 3 this week.
Pole sitter Austin Dillon finished third, 2.3 seconds behind, with Brendan Gaughan fourth and Xfinity series standings leader Chris Buescher fifth.
• Rosberg takes checkered flag: Nico Rosberg showed his championship potential by overtaking pole sitter Lewis Hamilton on the first turn to win the Austrian Grand Prix in Speilberg, Austria.
The German driver shot past Hamilton heading into the first turn in an eventful race featuring a heavy crash between Kimi Raikkonen and Fernando Alonso.
Rosberg’s third win this season took his career tally to 11, and cut Hamilton’s overall lead to 10 points.
• Hagan tops Funny Car field: Matt Hagan won the Funny Car final in the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals for his first victory on his home track in Bristol, Tennessee.
Richie Crampton won in Top Fuel, and Erica Enders topped the Pro Stock field.
2 Missouri athletes injured in crash
Miscellany: A football player and a women’s basketball player from the University of Missouri have been injured after their car flipped in Columbia, Missouri.
Harold Brantley, a defensive lineman, was seriously injured in the afternoon crash on U.S. 63. Madeleine Stock, a women’s basketball player, sustained minor injuries.
The report says Brantley overcorrected after driving off the left side of the highway. The car then slid off the right side of the road, struck a guardrail and overturned.
• Brazil dominates beach volleyball tourney: Agatha Bednarczuk and Barbara Seixas beat Juliana Felisberta and Maria Antonelli in an all-Brazil final of the $800,000 St. Pete Grand Slam in St. Petersburg, Florida, taking the gold medal in the first Olympic qualifier in the U.S. for the Rio Games.
Brazil also got a third-place finish from Taiana Lima and Fernanda Alves.