In racing, the checkered flag is the ultimate goal—making it there, and making it there before everyone else. Passing under that flag first is synonymous with sweet, sweet victory, but it wasn't ...

Correspondent. "CBS News Sunday Morning" and "48 Hours" Tracy Smith is an award-winning correspondent for "CBS News Sunday Morning" and "48 Hours," who joined CBS News in 2000. Smith has covered a ...

SPEEDWAY, Ind. — The checkered flag is an icon of racing. It decorates homes across Indiana in the month of May. But the two checkered flags that really matter will be in the hands of Aaron Likens on ...

The 2024 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Rolex 24 at Daytona didn't quite make it to 24 hours, after all. An officiating error caused the 24-hour endurance ...

DOVER, Del. — The moment in the virtual sun has arrived for simulated racing and the thousands of gamers who always wanted to race like Dale Earnhardt Jr. or Jeff Gordon at NASCAR tracks from Dover to ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — William Byron won the Daytona 500 with an agonizing final lap under a caution flag. He took the checkered flag on Sunday at the Circuit of the Americas at full throttle. Bryon ...

IndyCar racing was back at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis. Scott McLaughlin took the checkered flag. Alex Palou held onto his IndyCar points lead despite an electrical issue with his car. WEST ALLIS ...

This will be the final installment of Checkered Flags for 2010 since the racing season is wrapping up across the state. Thanks for your input over the past five months. Mike Ling, Mount Brydges, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gone are the checkered flags that once adorned the crosswalks outside Daytona International Speedway, but social media reactions ...

Daytona International Speedway has been told its checkered-flag crosswalks have to go as Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Trump administration push a crackdown on street art. The racing-themed pattern will ...