MOTOR SPORTS

General Motors executive crashes pace car — The start of Sunday’s IndyCar race in Detroit was delayed half an hour after the pace car crashed into a wall. Both the driver, General Motors executive Mark Reuss, and a passenger, IndyCar official Mark Sandy, were taken to a medical center at the track but reportedly suffered no major injuries. The accident occurred as Reuss, GM’s executive vice president for Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain, steered the car around turn two of the parade lap at the Raceway on Belle Isle. He lost control of the 2019 Corvette ZR1, the retail price for which starts at around $120,000, and swerved hard to the left, hitting the wall. The manufacturer added that, “Many factors contributed, including weather and track conditions,” and it wrung a positive from the embarrassing situation by noting, “The car’s safety systems performed as expected.” Announcers during the race speculated that Reuss may have been surprised to see a racecar on the track ahead of him as he rounded the turn.

SOCCER

Timbers, others, take part in Social Change Cup — Fresh off a tense draw against the LA Galaxy, Portland Timbers defender Zarek Valentin took part in a different kind of competition on Sunday. Valentin and other representatives from the Major League Soccer club and the NWSL’s Portland Thorns joined in on the first Social Change Cup futsal tournament benefiting the city’s homeless and refugee populations. The event was put on by the local chapter of Street Soccer USA, a national nonprofit that seeks to look at community-level ways to address poverty through soccer. The program has spread to 15 cities and has helped some 15,000 kids and adults.

— From wire reports