MARTINSVILLE, Va. – Front Row Motorsports confirmed Saturday afternoon that driver Matt Tifft has been released from a local hospital after suffering a “medical condition” at Martinsville Speedway.

Tifft, 23, was transported from the infield care center to a local hospital roughly half an hour before the scheduled start of opening practice Saturday morning.

He was replaced by NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series driver Matt Crafton for both practice sessions, and Front Row Motorsports general manager Jerry Freeze confirmed to FOX Sports that Crafton will continue in the interim driver role for both qualifying and Sunday’s First Data 500 at the .526-mile Virginia short track.

A team statement released as the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series race was beginning Saturday afternoon noted that Tifft had been released from hospital care.

“This morning, Matt Tifft was transported to a local hospital in Martinsville, Va., for further evaluations and tests after suffering a medical condition at the track,” the statement read. “Tifft was evaluated and released from the hospital and is returning home. Further updates will be sent when appropriate.”

Tifft is in the midst of his rookie season in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series and has one top-10 finish in 31 starts this year, a ninth-place finish at Daytona (Fla.) Int’l Speedway in July.

He underwent brain surgery in July of 2016 to remove a low-grade glioma tumor.

JEREZ, Spain – The action on the track at day one of the Lamborghini World Final was hotter than the temperatures that greeted the teams and drivers that reached almost 90 degrees.

When the pair of 50-minute races were over, a 16-year-old from Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America was halfway to becoming one of the youngest world champions in the series history while other cars from the series positioned themselves to also bring home a world title after Sunday’s action.

The first race of the day combined the AM and LB Cup teams from all three series, including North America, Europe and Asia.

Steve Aghakhani took the overall and AM class win in the first race and is now in a position to earn the title of youngest world champion in Lamborghini history. He has now won all three races he has run this weekend.

“It is a crazy feeling to think that,” the teenager said after the race. “I am excited to be out here and there are some good drivers out here that make each of these races challenging. It was a little hard trying to keep the tires safe (in the heat), but we were able to do that and come away with another win.”

Supercross champion Chad Reed earned the LB Class win. The native of Australia is in his first season of Super Trofeo and this was his sixth win of the year. He drove on his own after sharing a car with Justin Price in the last two races of the North American series on Friday.

“I’m trying to be a Lamborghini champion,” Reed said after his win. “It was fun out there, and that was the first race I have driven by myself. It was hard to find a rhythm today, but the other guys on the track had to do the same. So it was a good time today and we will see what happens tomorrow.”

McKay Snow finished second overall and in the Am class while Cameron Cassels was fourth in class.

The North American champion in the LB Cup – Mel Johnson – finished second in that class race with his teammate Thomas Lovelady.

Saturday’s second race featured the Pro and Pro AM class competitors. Sandy Mitchell and Andrea Amici finished a close second in the Pro race. Conor Daly and Brandon Gdovic in the No. 146, Precision Performance, Lamborghini Palm Beach entry was third.

Mitchell made a valiant effort to catch Europe’s Jonathan Cecotto at the end and crossed the line only .137 of a second behind the winner.

“That was one of the best battles I’ve had yet,” Mitchell said following the race. “We had a fantastic race finishing second and a great battle with the leading car. Plenty of door handle to door handle action. We looked like we were fast, so I am confident we can do well tomorrow. Starting on P2 tomorrow and ahead of our rivals. I think we are standing in good shape for tomorrow, and I’m looking forward to it.”

Damon Ockey and Jacob Edison, the North American Pro Am champions, finished second in class. Eidson drove the second stint and closed the gap, which was over 10 seconds at one point, to less than four seconds at the end on the eventual class winners – the No. 6 Imperiale Racing entry from Europe.

LUSAIL, Qatar – Jonathan Rea put a bow on another World Superbike championship season by winning the season finale Saturday at Qatar’s Losail Int’l Circuit.

The victory, Rea’s his 17th total victory between superpole and regular races, was far from easy as he had to battle with Ducati rider Alvaro Bautista for the honor of standing at the top of the podium to wrap up the season.

Bautista led the field into turn one, but he ran wide and opened the door for Rea to snatch the lead away after the opening corner. Rea and Bautista found themselves knee deep in a battle for the lead, but Rea continued to lead the way.

By lap four the battle for the lead had settled down with Rea in the lead and Bautista trying to stay in the hunt. Behind them, Chaz Davies was now running third and closing on the lead duo. Michael van der Mark and Alex Lowes were fourth and fifth, respectively.

Bautista tried to steal the lead away from Rea with 13 laps left, but run wide in turn one and again allowed Rea to take the lead back. Bautista tried again two laps later, but Rea continued to hold the race lead.

With Rea and Bautista swapping the lead, Davies was suddenly right behind the leaders and in the hunt. Bautista, meanwhile, finally made a move stick and took the lead briefly in turn one. Rea returned the favor a few turns later, regaining the lead as Davies got ever closer.

Now back in the lead, Rea set about distancing himself from the Ducati pair of Bautista and Davies. He was aided by Bautista and Davies battling for second, with Davies emerging with the position with four laps left after slipping by Bautista in turn 15.

That proved to be the final pass for position in the top-three, with Rea holding serve to claim the victory in the season finale for World Superbike. Davies and Bautista completed the podium for Ducati behind the Kawasaki rider.

Behind the podium trio, Lowes crossed the line in fourth for Yamaha while Toprak Razgatlioglu finished fifth for Turkish Puccetti Racing.

The Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews is planning to add new women's changing facilities for the first time, according to BBC Sports.

This comes five years after a historic and overwhelming vote in 2014 allowed women to become members for the first time in the club's 260-year history. According to the BBC Sports report, women were not allowed to change in the clubhouse, instead using the Forgan House, just off the 18th green at St. Andrews.

The construction of the new facilities are part of a wider refurbishment, and will take "several years to complete."

"We are in the early stages of planning upgrades, including the installation of women's changing rooms," the R&A told BBC Sports. "We are consulting with members on the proposed changes before we finalize our plans. There is no firm timetable at this stage but it will be a phased program which will take several years to complete."

Barring an unforeseen setback, the New Orleans Saints plan to start Drew Brees at quarterback Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals, sources said.

Brees has been out since Sept. 15, when he suffered a torn ligament in the thumb on his passing hand as he made contact with the outstretched hand of Los Angeles Rams defensive lineman Aaron Donald. Dr. Steven Shin performed surgery on the thumb the following week in Los Angeles, and the expectation was that Brees would miss about six weeks.

The Saints had the option of letting Teddy Bridgewater make another start before the Week 9 bye. The Saints are undefeated in Bridgewater's five starts this season. But in a decision that reflects how much NFL coaches value every game and make no assumptions, the plan is for Brees to start.

"We have a good team," a source said. "No. 9 [Brees] makes us better."

Accuracy and ball security would be the most significant concerns with Brees, who returned to practice this week with the expectation of playing. The emphasis will be on Brees getting the ball out quickly and trusting an offensive line that has proved to be among the best in the NFL.

The decision is not without risk. Arizona's Chandler Jones and Terrell Suggs have combined for 13.5 sacks, eight strip sacks and 14 quarterback hits this season.

Not only that, but Arizona leads the league with 15 forced fumbles. The Cardinals have forced multiple fumbles in five games

Brees, who did not appear to have any limitations on what he was able to do during the portions of practice that were open to the media this week, said on Wednesday that he just wanted to make sure that he was as comfortable, confident and accurate as he needs to be.

He said the decision would come down to "just making sure I can be me."

When Brees was asked if there is any greater risk of reinjury now than there would be two weeks from now, he seemed to suggest that is not a factor in the decision.

"I mean, listen, it's not fully healed I think until three months. But that internal brace obviously provides some stability and support, as does the splint," Brees said of both an internal brace that was installed when he had surgery to repair the torn ulnar collateral ligament on Sept. 18 and an external splint that he is likely to wear when he returns.

Meanwhile, Saints running back Alvin Kamara's status remains questionable after he practiced on a limited basis both Thursday and Friday with knee and ankle injuries.

ESPN's Mike Triplett contributed to this report.

New Orleans Pelicans guard Jrue Holiday will miss Saturday's game against the Houston Rockets with a left knee sprain and should be day-to-day in his recovery, multiple sources told ESPN.

Holiday injured the knee on a drive with 5:18 left in the third quarter in Friday's loss to the Dallas Mavericks.

Holiday's ankle turned as he was fouled and his knee was injured in the process. He made both free throws and played the rest of the game.

Sources told ESPN that the Pelicans had an MRI done on Holiday's knee Friday night and it revealed no structural damage.

It was a relief for New Orleans, which is already without No. 1 pick Zion Williamson for six to eight weeks because of a torn meniscus.

Holiday has struggled from the floor in the first two games. He's averaging 10.5 points and 7.0 assists, but he's 8-of-26 from the floor and 1-of-9 from deep.

Holiday is spending a lot of his energy on the defensive end of the floor.

According to ESPN Stats and Information, Holiday, a first-team All-Defensive team selection in 2017-18 and a second-team honoree last season, is holding opponents to a 37.9 shooting percentage (11-of-29).

In the opener against Toronto, Holiday held Pascal Siakam to 0-of-5 shooting when he was the primary defender, and he held Luka Doncic to 3-of-9 shooting on Friday.

After playing at Houston on Saturday, the Pelicans host the Golden State Warriors on Monday night.

Top seed Roger Federer continued his quest for a 10th Swiss Indoors title with a 6-4 6-4 semi-final victory against Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece.

Federer, 38, has won his home title in four of the last five years.

In his 16th Basel semi-final, the world number three saw off seventh-ranked Tsitsipas, 21, in one hour, 18 minutes.

He faces 20-year-old Australian Alex de Minaur in Sunday's final, after he beat USA's Reilly Opelka 7-6 (7-2) 6-7 (4-7) 7-6 (7-3) in two hours, 33 minutes.

World number 28 De Minaur maintained his 100% record against the 6ft 11 American 22-year-old with his fourth victory against him this year.

Seven of the 10 sets they have contested have gone to tie-breaks.

Since his surprise defeat to Tsitsipas at the Australian Open in January, Federer has beaten Tsitsipas in their last two matches.

Whilst he conceded only six games in his two previous wins in the event and received a walkover in the semi-finals following an injury to Stan Wawrinka, Tsitsipas had contested two tie-breaks and his last two matches both went to a deciding set.

A single break was enough to give Federer the first set and he made an immediate break at the start of the next in building a 2-0 advantage.

Tsitsipas had a point to level at 5-5 but Federer soon secured his 50th victory of the season with a typically assured serve and volley.

The 20-time Grand Slam singles champion has won titles in Halle, Miami and Dubai this year.

MARTINSVILLE, Va. – He may be a new face when it comes to the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series, but Tanner Gray was a quick study during Friday’s practice rounds at Martinsville Speedway.

Gray, the outgoing NHRA Pro Stock champion, is making his Truck Series debut this weekend at the .526-mile paper clip and already has one of the likely keys to Martinsville success figured out, even if he hasn’t quite mastered the skill just yet.

“This place is really hard; it’s not easy at all. In fact it’s probably one of the more technical places I’ve been,” Gray told SPEED SPORT. “It seems to be super line sensitive and just takes a lot of discipline to run well. So, that’s something I’m still working on and that I need to get better at.

“For the most part, I think we’ve been okay. Even there in the last practice, I think we could be a little bit better, but we’ll just keep working at it and see how good we can get it. We were obviously quite a ways off Todd (Gilliland) and whatnot, but the realistic goal has been to come here and run top 12, and I think we can do that.

“We just have to get it a little bit better and I need to do a little bit better job of staying disciplined.”

Gray is no stranger to racing, having grown up as the grandson of noted NHRA Funny Car driver Johnny Gray and the son of NHRA Pro Stock driver Shane Gray, but as he put it, “circle-track racing was always where I wanted to be.

“Even when I was a kid and people would ask me at drag races if that was what I would do later on, I always told them, ‘I plan on going NASCAR racing.’ It took a little bit to get there, but hey, we’re here now.”

Somewhat jokingly, several people on social media have called the Martinsville track a good launching point for Gray’s NASCAR national series career, as it’s in essence “two drag strips and two U-turns.”

Gray rebutted that it’s far from that simple, however, adding that he’s spent a lot of time in preparation for this event and wants to be as successful as he can be at the end of the day.

“We got to test here (at Martinsville) once before this, and got a little bit of time on the simulator, so that definitely helped a ton,” Gray explained. “It’s always different when you show back up though, compared to being on the simulator. It’s not quite the same.

“I think it took me a minute to get back going again, so I need to do a little better job of adapting and picking it up faster.”

Gray picked things up fast enough to be fastest – briefly – in final practice before his time was later supplanted, but it was a fleeting moment of confidence for the 20-year-old.

“I actually saw it (on the scoreboard), but I knew it wouldn’t last,” Gray admitted. “Even at that point, we weren’t very good on that mock run. We actually came in and did another one. But yeah, I guess it’s cool for a minute to come and see your name up there, but I knew at the end of day it wasn’t going to stick. I was just focused on getting a little bit better.

“I’m excited, and I think we’ll be fast. Hopefully we can keep making it a little bit better and I can go out there and make some noise.”

Though he’s been on the national stage since he first broke into the NHRA drag racing ranks at 17, Gray admitted that he’s still got butterflies going into his first NASCAR race at the top levels of the sport.

“I’m definitely feeling a lot of nerves, for sure,” Gray said. “I wasn’t sure if I was even really ready to run this race or ready to make the step up. So it’s been lot of nerves to say the least, but I’m excited too. After getting the first practice sessions out of the way and kind of seeing where everything shook out, you know, I’m feeling good about what we have. I think I can be a little bit better than where we ended the day on Friday, and I think we can leave here with a really good run, as long as I go out and do my job.

“Everybody from DGR-Crosley has brought a really fast truck, and they prepare their stuff really, really well. So if I can go out there and do what I believe I can and stay out of trouble, then we’ll be all right.”