ELKHART LAKE, Wis. – Pristine conditions welcomed drivers and teams competing in the second race of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America weekend on Sunday at Road America.

They took full advantage and put on a sparkling show that saw a pair of new winners this year among the four classes in the single-make series featuring Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo EVOs.

At the conclusion of the race on the 4.048-mile natural terrain road course, the No. 1 Prestige Performance with Wayne Taylor Racing, Lamborghini Paramus repeated its overall and Pro class win from Saturday, while the No. 09 US RaceTronics, Lamborghini Vancouver made it a weekend sweep in Pro-Am.

Meanwhile, the No. 33 Prestige Performance with Wayne Taylor Racing, Lamborghini Paramus rode to victory in the Am class, with the No. 88 GMG Racing, Lamborghini Newport Beach triumphant in LB Cup. It marked the first wins this season for the No. 33 and No. 88.

The entire 50-minute race ran under green-flag conditions, placing the emphasis on strong on-track performance and flawless mandatory pit stops. Starting from the pole position in the No. 1, Sandy Mitchell built a lead of more than eight seconds before the pit window opened with 30 minutes remaining. Meanwhile, the action was fast and furious behind the leader, including a sensational pass for third place on lap four by Jacob Eidson in the No. 09 on Corey Lewis in the No. 29 Change Racing, Lamborghini Charlotte.

Race leader Mitchell made his mandatory pit stop on Lap 11, turning over the wheel to co-driver Andrea Amici. Eidson waited longer to pit, taking the overall lead before stopping on Lap 13 so Damon Ockey could hop into the No. 09.

Once the pit cycle completed, the No. 1 with Amici driving returned atop the scoring pylon, ahead of the No. 27 Dream Racing Motorsport, Lamborghini Dallas. Ockey ran third in the No. 09.

It didn’t take long, though, for the charging No. 29 – with Richy Antinucci in the cockpit – to overtake Ockey for third. At the same time, the No. 43 Prestige Performance with Wayne Taylor Racing, Lamborghini Paramus – leader at the time in LB Cup – was handed a drive-through penalty because its pit stop didn’t fulfill the minimum time requirement. As the No. 43 was riding through pit lane, Thomas Lovelady was wheeling the No. 88 past the No. 22 Dream Racing Motorsport, Lamborghini Atlanta for the LB Cup lead.

When the checkered flag waved, Amici won in the No. 1 by 5.211 seconds over the No. 27 co-driven by Cedric Sbirrazzuoli and Paolo Ruberti. The No. 29 of Lewis and Antinucci rounded out the overall and Pro podiums.

The No. 09 of Eidson/Ockey held on for win in Pro-Am, with the No. 24 US RaceTronics, Lamborghini La Jolla driven by Ron Atapattu and Patrick Liddy second and the No. 69 Prestige Performance with Wayne Taylor Racing, Lamborghini Paramus and co-drivers Eric Curran and William Hubbell third.

Cameron Cassels drove the No. 33 to the win in the Am class, with the No. 63 Change Racing, Lamborghini Charlotte driven by McKay Snow – Saturday’s winner – in second and the No. 6 US RaceTronics, Lamborghini Beverly Hills piloted by Steven Aghakhani third.

Lovelady and Jeffrey Cheng won in LB Cup with the No. 88. Ashton Harrison made a sensational recovery from the drive-through penalty in the No. 43 to finish second in class with co-driver Stephanie Cemo. Third place in LB Cup went to the No. 3 Dream Racing Motorsport, Lamborghini North LA driven by Randy Sellari.

ELKHART LAKE, Wis. – It was a clear Sunday morning for sports car fans at Road America, but teams and drivers in the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge by Yokohama experienced a chaotic race two to wrap up the weekend’s doubleheader.

A full-course caution on lap one as the 45-minute race started was followed by several more, including a yellow with less than four minutes remaining that ended the race. With that, the checkered flag came the end of the second and final joint weekend of the season for the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge USA and Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Canada series.

Roman De Angelis in the No. 79 Kelly-Moss Road and Race Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car paced the field for the duration of the race, leading flag-to-flag for another weekend sweep of 2019 after winning race one on Saturday.

The 18-year-old from Belle River, Ontario, earned points towards both championships, swelling his lead in the USA title hunt to 68 points over Max Root and by 59 points over Jeff Kingsley in the Canadian championship.

“I’m kind of disappointed with the way the weekend was, not for our performances, but racing wise,” said De Angelis. “As you guys all saw, there was a lot of chaos. I come here to race. I like racing, I like battling with people, I like passing, defending. None of that could really happen with all these restarts and yellow periods.”

While De Angelis was still pleased with the victory, he was thrilled for his teammate Alan Metni in the No. 99 Porsche, who scored his first overall podium finish in GT3 Cup Challenge competition and won the Platinum Masters class in both the USA and Canada championships. Metni finished second overall.

“I really just can’t congratulate Alan Metni enough,” said De Angelis. “Second overall and after the struggles and ups-and-downs over the last three years is pretty impressive. Not only to do it, but to do it and give me a run for my money – which I’m pushing pretty hard out there – so that’s pretty cool.”

“Like I said yesterday, I’m the luckiest guy I know,” said Metni, who on Saturday finished a then-career best finish of fourth. “I can’t believe I get to do this. I can’t believe all the wonderful people who are so focused on doing this and doing it better each and every time they come out that make this all work.

“I’m just really proud of my team and happy to be here. I always used to say, ‘The race is won in the practice,’ and our little team is the hardest-training, hardest-practicing team out there. My guys gave me a great car today. Not just today, but every day that we train so I’ve got to thank them.”

Rounding out the overall GT3 Cup Challenge USA Platinum class podium was Root in the No. 7 Wright Motorsports Porsche, besting his finish of seventh on Saturday.

Finishing second and third, respectively, in the GT3 Cup Challenge USA Platinum Masters class were Jeff Mosing in the No. 68 Topp Racing Porsche and Charlie Luck in the No. 45 Porsche for Wright Motorsports.

In the GT3 Cup Challenge Canada Platinum class, rookie Ethan Simioni in the No. 40 Policaro Motorsport Porsche repeated his best career finish of third, which he now has recorded three times all at joint GT3 Cup Challenge events.

Behind Metni in the Canadian Platinum Masters class were the No. 88 Mark Motors Racing Porsche of Marco Cirone in second and the No. 37 TPC Racing Porsche of Michael Levitas in third.

Meanwhile in the GT3 Cup Challenge USA Gold class, Sebastian Carazo won his seventh race of the season in the No. 27 Porsche for NGT Motorsport.

Ferriol – who won Saturday’s race at Road America – finished just 1.414 seconds behind Carazo for a runner-up finish in the No. 5 Moorespeed Porsche. He now sits second in the championship standings, 41 points behind Carazo.

Bart Collins earned two trophies on Sunday in the No. 22 MCR Racing Porsche – a third-place Gold class podium trophy and a Yokohama Tire Hard Charger Award, gaining the most positions by a Gold class competitor after starting last and jumping to third.

In GT3 Cup Challenge Canada, it was back-to-back Yokohama Tire Hard Charger Awards for Michael Fantin in the No. 14 Engineered Automotive Porsche who finished eighth in the Canadian Platinum class.

Maxwell Schultz locked up the Red-White-Blue championship on Thursday night at Wisconsin Int’l Raceway and SPEED SPORT contributor Nicholas Dettmann caught up with him to find out how he did it.

Luis Suarez struck in the final minute of the match as Barcelona came from behind to beat Arsenal 2-1 in the Joan Gamper Trophy at Camp Nou on Sunday.

Suarez came off the bench to turn home a lofted pass from Sergi Roberto in his first appearance of the summer. Ainsley Maitland-Niles' own goal had previously cancelled out Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's brilliant opener in front of 98,812 fans in Barcelona.

Barca aren't as far down the line in their preparations for the new season as Arsenal, who kick off their Premier League campaign next week against Newcastle United, and it told in the first half. Barca had plenty of possession, but aside from tame efforts from Riqui Puig and Jordi Alba they never came close to threatening Bernd Leno in goal.

Arsenal didn't create a lot but looked comfortable, with Unai Emery handing starts to Maitland-Niles, Joe Willock and Reiss Nelson ahead of their game against Newcastle. Alexandre Lacazette missed out with a knock.

Aubameyang was clinical when a chance eventually came his way. With Samuel Umtiti poorly positioned, the forward spun Jordi Alba and hammered past Neto to give the Gunners the lead 10 minutes before the break.

Ernesto Valverde's Barca side still have two weeks until their curtain-raiser against Athletic Bilbao and two more friendlies before then. They play Napoli twice in the United States this coming week.

Lionel Messi will be back for those matches, but he didn't feature against Arsenal. Like Philippe Coutinho and Arturo Vidal, he only returned on Sunday following his participation in the Copa America.

Valverde used the game to give minutes to everyone else, though, and his side improved after he made seven changes at the break. Ousmane Dembele drilled just wide and Leno tipped over from Carles Alena as the home side pressed.

The game turned, though, when Maitland Niles rolled the ball into his own net in the 69th minute after a mix up with Leno. He was under no pressure after Suarez had miscontrolled an Antoine Griezmann pass.

Suarez then hit the side netting before Gabriel Martinelli had a rare chance for Arsenal, firing just wide with Marc-Andre ter Stegen beaten.

With the game heading to penalties, Suarez then stepped up at the end of a week which saw him return to training.

Jurgen Klopp was "completely happy" with Liverpool's performance in the Community Shield defeat to Manchester City on penalties, pointing out the character and fight shown by his side will fuel their pursuit of silverware.

Sunday's showdown at Wembley between the Premier League champions and the continental kings ended 1-1 in normal time with Joel Matip's header cancelling out Raheem Sterling's effort. Gini Wijnaldum was the only player to miss his kick in the resulting shootout, which Pep Guardiola's men won 5-4.

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City were slick and more clinical than Liverpool in the first half, but the Reds dominated the second period with eight shots on target to one. A Kyle Walker scissor-kick denied Mohamed Salah the winner on 93 minutes, with goalkeeper Claudio Bravo -- who Guardiola felt was the man of the match -- thwarting Xherdan Shaqiri shortly after.

"I'm completely happy about the full performance," Klopp said. "If you want to be prepared for Man City, you have to make a preseason game against Man City; no team plays like them. You saw that in a few moments in the first half, when they can do what they do. We struggled a little bit positioning-wise but that's normal. We changed that for the second half, which helped us a lot.

"Football-wise, the second half was just really, really good, the best way you can play against City. They are in the early stages [of preseason] as well. They will be in a different shape in a couple of weeks, for sure. But having this amount of chances we had today is a very good sign for us, absolutely. I liked the game a lot. I don't like the result, but I liked the game a lot, so for us it was very, very important.

"We will try everything. It's not as much important what I could say but what the boys showed today. I thought they looked pretty hungry.

"That doesn't mean it will work out, but we fought today after all the things that were said about the competition, both teams wanted to win it desperately, I saw that. My team is not in doubt about being satisfied or whatever, to stop working or stop running.

"The character of the team is still incredibly good. We had a difficult preseason but the boys did what they had to do and were affected by it.

"We played football games against really good teams and that didn't feel too good. It was very important we all gave ourselves and our supporters a sign of the performance today. Now let's carry on."

Only one point separated Liverpool (97) and title winners City (98) in the league last season and Guardiola expects Klopp's charges to be their greatest challengers again.

"We know who we will face [for honours]," he said. "Liverpool are champions of Europe. They are a top-class team. The difference is only one point ahead, one penalty. It's minimal. It's good to play them to show the guys, this is the team we're gonna face this season and how well prepared we have to be to win the titles."

Matthew Wade's Edgbaston century, a sparkling collection of attacking shots with a sturdy enough defence to survive, was an innings played unashamedly on his own terms. It was also an innings that quite a lot of prominent judges in Australian cricket would not have allowed him the chance to play.

One of the curious things about the rash of changes in Australian cricket following the Newlands scandal was the return of a couple of very recent national selectors to commentary roles. Mark Waugh, via Fox Sports, and Darren Lehmann, via the same network and also Macquarie radio, have been very outspoken in close proximity to their former spots alongside Trevor Hohns and Greg Chappell - Lehmann succeeded as coach by Justin Langer, and Waugh not replaced.

Among the strongest opinions expressed, via these outlets and also social media, was Waugh's that Matthew Wade's time as a Test cricketer for Australia was over. Wade hadn't made anywhere near enough runs for Australia in his most recent stint, the theory went, and he was too vulnerable to the moving ball. He should be considered for limited overs games, on the strength of his BBL displays for Hobart Hurricanes, but not the Test team.

You seriously think Matthew Wade is a test match no.4 or 5 at 31 yrs of age. Has had a very good season and should be in the frame for white ball cricket but not red ball cricket. Has played 22 tests with a batting average of 28.

— Mark Waugh (@juniorwaugh349) February 20, 2019

This view did not change even as Wade was regenerating himself as more of a specialist batsman than a utility gloveman, making technical and tactical changes in Tasmania through the help of the noted batting coach Jeff Vaughan, and also reassessing his personality and mentality through the prism of fatherhood and a growing maturity. Why there was such fixed opposition to Wade, with references made to him being too old at 31 to make a return, has been a source of curiosity.

But what is far less debatable is the fact that when Waugh and Lehmann were on the panel, they were part of a decision to choose Wade that had less to do with how the left-hander was performing at the time, and more to do with the state of panic in which Australian cricket then found itself. In November 2016, when the call was made to drop Peter Nevill and replace him with Wade, Australia had lost five Tests in a row, the selection chairman Rod Marsh had resigned, and the strong suggestion was that under a new captain in Steven Smith, Australia needed to be louder and more aggressive as a team, taking any means necessary to win.

Wade's recall, having not played a Test since 2013, epitomised this attitude shift more than anything, but it rather ignored the fact that in terms of performance, he was in the midst of the worst batting slump of his career. In the preceding Sheffield Shield season, Wade had made 167 runs at 27.83 with a top score of 41 not out, and in the one in which he was recalled, he returned just 113 at 28.25. These two seasons remain the least productive of Wade's first-class tenure since his very first all the way back in 2007-08.

So when Wade was thrust into the spotlight of Australian duty he was battling his own method and enthusiasm for the game, in the process of realising that a technique he had honed for years on the predictable MCG drop-in pitch was in need of augmentation if he was to be the high performing Test batsman that his talent always suggested he might be. Two centuries in his first international stint - against the West Indies in Dominica in 2012 and against Sri Lanka in Sydney in 2013 - both showed how good Wade could be, but they were displays he struggled to replicate in 2016 and 2017. Lehmann has, in recent times, conceded that Wade was not in a great frame of mind when chosen.

"In his last 10 Tests he did not have a great output but we played on some difficult wickets in the subcontinent," Lehmann told News Corp last month. "The big thing is he now believes in himself. He is playing more shots. (Previously) he was probably too fearful of getting out. Now he has released the shackles and said 'I am just going to play'. That is what happens when you get older. I remember Steve Waugh went for three or four years and did not want to get out but at the back-end of his career he played with more freedom."

That's not to say that Wade's performances were completely without merit - 196 runs at 32.66 in four Tests in India were creditable in a series Australia battled right to the finish. But when he offered only slim pickings in Bangladesh later in the year, Wade was discarded and clearly marked, by some at least, as never to play again. It was a decision compounded by the ructions of the Newlands scandal, for there had been few Australians more likely to agitate opponents than Wade had been.

But it was in accepting that he might not get another chance to play for Australia that Wade found the clarity he needed, something he spoke about eloquently on the day the Ashes squad was named in Southampton. All those who have seen Wade batting up close in recent months, scoring century upon century, have invariably reached the conclusion that he had to be included in Australia's best six batsmen for the Ashes, and he arguably sewed up a spot by making a century opposite Travis Head against the England Lions in Canterbury.

And it was in a similarly muscular, sure of himself vein that Wade played alongside Smith and Tim Paine on day four in Birmingham, clouting 17 boundaries and monstering anything that fell even remotely into his cover driving zone. On reflection, Wade was in no doubt that it had helped to be chosen when feeling sure of himself and his game.

"Weight of runs and time in the middle is everything for a batter so I certainly felt that my game was at a stage where I could perform at this level," Wade said. "It's as confident as I've been coming into a Test match for sure.

"That's the way we want it to be in Australia, we want guys piling on a lot of runs at first-class level to get an opportunity to play Test cricket, and when you get that opportunity you try and take it. So I felt confident in my game coming in, I'm at the age now where I know my game better than I did back then and playing as a specialist batter makes a difference as well, it takes a lot of pressure off you, you can chill a little bit more in the field and you're not concentrating for that long stretch of time like you do as a wicketkeeper. I've found that really good for my game.

"I'm confident in my game and if it doesn't work like it did in the first innings I still feel that on my day I'm good enough to score runs and I'm not chasing my tail as much as what I did when I was a younger player. I back my game now. Yeah, you've got to tinker a little bit here and there, but I certainly don't change too much."

While Smith's genius is beyond all dispute, there was far more conjecture to be had about the best players to keep him company and find runs in his slipstream. Perhaps the most telling description of Wade came not from a former selector, but a current one: Langer emphasised that Wade had done the time-honoured thing and simply made a truckload of runs, allied to a fighting countenance.

"I saw it during the summer, and we thought a real reward was being picked in the Australia A side because there was a lot of talk about Wadey and his form, and where he was batting and wicketkeeping," Langer said in Southampton. "And he just keeps doing it. He's got three hundreds on this tour already and I think he's batted six or seven times. He's doing everything that we've asked of Australian cricketers. He's making runs, he's making big runs, he's knocking that hard and he's got that look in his eye. Coming into a tough series like this, you like to see those sort of fighting instincts."

England saw those instincts on day four at Edgbaston, and they did not have much of an answer.

Andre Russell's decision to withdraw from the T20I series against India and play in the Global T20 Canada is "part of his rehabilitation plans" according to Cricket West Indies chief executive Johnny Grave.

"We cleared him fit to play in Canada as a batsman," Grave told ESPNcricinfo. "To monitor his fitness every day, a couple of our physios are over in the GT20, so we've got that oversight with Andre and his knee.

"But there's a massive difference between playing in domestic cricket to international cricket. Our fans really want to see Andre Russell at a 100% while playing here against India: batting at 100%, bowling at 100%, fielding dynamically outside the circle at 100%."

Some eyebrows were raised when Russell suited up to take the field for Vancouver Knights on Friday, minutes after West Indies Carlos Brathwaite spoke at a press conference, where he backed Russell for continuing to attempt to take the field for West Indies in spite of his injury history.

Grave likened it to many other athletes competing at a step below the highest level to build-up match fitness. "His injuries are probably not going to be ones that are ever going to be fully solved," Grave said. "Like many other sportsmen, like the Beckhams and the Ibrahimovics that have knee injuries, daily rehab is going to be part of his life for the rest of his playing career. We hope that he just takes our medical advice, strengthens his knee and hopefully when he's back to 100% fitness he'll be back wearing maroon."

Despite the support offered by CWI through medical advice and physio consultations, Grave was also mindful of Russell being a freelance T20 cricketer. "He's not contracted to us so we can't tell him what to do," he said. "He listens and takes on our advice, I know it for sure. I know that he hasn't played in every game, he hasn't bowled yet. So hopefully he's listening to that medical advice and this is part of his rehab.

"He can then hopefully have a break, continue strengthening his knee. He then has the CPL and we can assess him after that. The surgery was successful and hopefully playing a few matches as a batsman in Canada is part of his rehabilitation. As he strengthens that knee, he can get back to full fitness and the player that we want him to be."

Grave also didn't think Russell may have to curb his bowling altogether to prolong his future. "We're positive and thinking for the best," Grave said. "Our thought for the moment is we want Andre to fully recover and get back to full fitness as the dynamic allrounder, but if Andre Russell has to become just a batsman, then the selectors will select him based on his performances and on that criteria.

"But at the moment, I know he wants to continue. He loves bowling. He wants to be an allrounder and hopefully he's doing everything he can to ensure that happens by following his rehab, listening to the medical advice and taking it easy. So it's good to see him not playing every game in Canada, managing his knee and managing his rehab."

PITTSBURGH -- New York Mets star Robinson Cano limped off the field after straining his left hamstring while rounding first base.

Cano grabbed at the back of his leg and pulled up after lining a hit to right in the fourth inning Sunday against Pittsburgh, his third hit of the game and ninth hit in his last 15 at-bats. Melky Cabrera threw to shortstop Kevin Newman, who tagged out Cano.

In his first season with the Mets after being acquired from Seattle, the 36-year-old Cano was limited to one game between May 22 and June 16 because of a strained left quadriceps. He is hitting .252 with 10 homers and 32 RBI.

NEW YORK -- New York Yankees center fielder Aaron Hicks has been placed on the 10-day injured list with a flexor strain in his right elbow, the latest blow to an injury-ravaged team leading the AL East nonetheless.

After getting hurt on a throw Saturday night, Hicks had an MRI on Sunday and New York considered the results pretty good news because the team feared he had a torn ligament that could require season-ending Tommy John surgery.

Yankees manager Aaron Boone says Hicks will be shut down from throwing for a week to 10 days but is expected back this season -- although it was too soon to project a time frame. The ligament is intact, however, and Tommy John surgery has been ruled out.

Hicks becomes the 16th player on the Yankees' current injured list, joining a pair of slugging first basemen who just went down: Edwin Encarnacion broke his right wrist when he was hit by a pitch Saturday, and Luke Voit has a sports hernia.