KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Five teams who qualified inside the top-10 have had their qualifying times disallowed after failing inspection ahead of Saturday’s Digital Ally 400 at Kansas Speedway.

Aric Almirola, Daniel Suarez, Chase Elliott, Martin Truex Jr. and Kyle Larson, all of whom qualified inside the top-10, will now be forced to start at the rear of the field after their cars failed inspection Saturday afternoon.

Almirola was originally scheduled to start second, Suarez was slated to start fourth, Chase Elliott was going to line up fifth, Truex was scheduled to start sixth and Larson was set to start eighth.

In addition, the cars of Elliott, Larson and Logano all failed inspection a second time, resulting one crew member from each team being ejected from the track.

Kevin Harvick will still lead the field to the green flag Saturday, but he’ll now be joined on the front row by Clint Bowyer. The rest of the top-10 starters are now William Byron, Brad Keselowski, Alex Bowman, Erik Jones, Darrell Wallace Jr., Kyle Busch, Kurt Busch and Paul Menard.

Others who also failed inspection and will be forced to start the race from the rear of the field include Ty Dillon (originally slated to start 15th), Joey Logano (20th), Michael McDowell (23rd), Landon Cassill (25th), Joey Gase (38th) and Timmy Hill (39th).

NASCAR officials have not indicated why the teams failed inspection. Those who failed inspection will be lined up at the tail of the field based on owner points.

INDIANAPOLIS – Nothing was going to stop Simon Pagenaud from winning Saturday’s IndyCar Grand Prix on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Grand Prix circuit.

The driver of the No. 22 Menards Team Penske Chevrolet chased down Scott Dixon from more than five seconds back in the final laps and passed him on the penultimate lap to earn his first victory of the season.

Pagenaud started eighth in the 85-lap affair that featured varying levels of rain throughout the event. He charged from sixth in the final 18 laps on a slick track to hunt down Dixon, eventually beating him to the checkers by more than two seconds.

He first had to dispatch Matheius Leist and Jack Harvey, moving into second with five laps left. From there he quickly closed the gap on Dixon, who was doing his best to maintain a gap between himself and Pagenaud.

When the five-time series champion slid a little wide at the exit of turn seven on lap 84, Pagenaud pounced. He dove to the inside of Dixon’s No. 9 Honda and the two made slight contact. Pagenaud emerged from turn nine with the race lead and never looked back.

The victory, his third in the IndyCar Grand Prix, was his first in NTT IndyCar Series competition since the 2017 season finale.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- As the San Jose Sharks face the St. Louis Blues in the Western Conference final, much of the attention is on 39-year-old center Joe Thornton, who is chasing his first Stanley Cup championship in a career that began in 1997. Each round, there has been focus on that pursuit, Thornton's legacy in the NHL and the impact he has had on his franchise.

St. Louis forward David Perron says Thornton had an impact on his career, too. Though not exactly a positive one.

On Nov. 4, 2010, Thornton made contact with Perron's head on a huge hit in the neutral zone. Perron was carrying the puck after a pass out of the Blues' defensive end. Thornton had just emerged from the penalty box and collided with him. Perron dropped to the ice headfirst and was motionless.

The concussion he suffered on the play ended his season after just 10 games. He wouldn't return to action for the Blues until the following season, on Dec. 3, 2011. Thornton was given a major penalty and suspended for two games in a decision that was hotly debated around the NHL.

"I think about it all the time, because I think it's affected my life a lot. I really do think that," Perron told ESPN on Friday, on the eve of Game 1 between the Blues and Sharks in San Jose. "Other than that, I hope it's not going to be too much of a story right now. It's been a long time ago."

Perron and Thornton have competed against each other on numerous occasions since the incident, both in the regular season and the postseason -- including the 2018 series between the Sharks and Perron's Vegas Golden Knights. They met in the playoffs in 2012: Perron recalled getting some measure of vengeance when the Blues ousted the Sharks in five games, as Perron scored the winning goal in the clinching game.

"The next year, when I came back, we beat them in five games. I was thinking more about it then," Perron said. "But maybe after [this series], we'll see. I want to win. It doesn't matter if he's on the team or not."

He recalled Thornton reaching out to him after the incident. "He's really respected around the league. I really admire him as a player. The skills he has, when he passes the puck -- I always try to do some of those things, and it's not easy," Perron said.

"The way he plays was awesome. But I really didn't like that other part."

That concussion was the first major one of Perron's NHL career, but far from his last. The latest one cost him 24 games this season with the Blues.

"It's harder and harder every time," he told NHL.com. "It's so hard on the mental side of it to go through. Basically, you have some situations that heal up quicker, and some that linger and there's no reason why, and that's why it gets harder on you, it gets harder on your family. You start to wonder about other things and you get in your head a lot."

The hit remains one of the most contentious of the past decade. At the time, the NHL's "Rule 48" was newly introduced, banning "lateral or blind side hit to an opponent where the head is targeted." The Sharks and Thornton argued that the hit was a "north/south" one as Thornton stepped in front of Perron.

"I didn't intend to hurt or do anything bad to him," Thornton said at the time. "He kind of ran into me, to be honest with you. Last night and this morning I had about three dozen text messages from players around the league saying they can't believe I even got a penalty."

They also argued that the size disparity between the players was a factor -- Thornton, at 6-foot-4, is four inches taller than Perron.

"I guess being 5-9 was Joe's only solution to avoid this suspension," John Thornton, Joe's brother and agent, said at the time.

Perron was accused by some partisans of embellishing on the play, as he did return to the game after the hit. But he missed his next game for the Blues and, in the end, 97 total games until his return the following season.

"With head injuries, sometimes these symptoms show up a little later," John Davidson, the Blues' president at the time, said in 2010. "What's really disappointing is to know there were people out there actually being critical of him and questioning the validity of it."

A lot has changed in the nearly nine years since the hit. While "Rule 48" was in place in 2010-11, the NHL Department of Player Safety wasn't created until the following season. How the league deals with concussions has changed -- it's stomach-turning to think how quickly Perron returned to that game, knowing what we know now. How the league punishes hits that target the head has changed. And how the hockey world reacts to head injuries may have changed most of all.

"It was a different time, for sure," Perron said on Friday. "We've come a long way."

Manchester United "Class of 92" members Gary and Phil Neville, Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham are the co-owners of a Football League club after Salford City beat AFC Fylde 3-0 to win the National League playoff final at Wembley.

Goals from Emmanuel Dieseruvwe, Carl Piergianni and Ibou Touray mean Salford are elevated to the fourth tier of English football for the first time in their history after a final between two sides who have never played in the Football League.

Fylde created the game's first danger inside the opening minute when Alex Reid was just unable to get on the end of a low ball into the penalty area.

Salford soon hit back, Scott Wiseman firing narrowly wide from outside the area and Danny Whitehead blasting over.

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They made the breakthrough after quarter of an hour, Devonte Redmond's free-kick causing chaos in the Fylde defence and Dieseruvwe profiting to slide the ball in from close range.

Fylde brought on former Salford player Nick Haughton for the injured Luke Burke in an enforced early change and almost found themselves 2-0 down when a Nathan Pond header went just wide.

Andy Bond fired over for Fylde after a neat exchange of passes had freed him inside the penalty area, but Salford almost doubled their lead within seconds of the start of the second half, Dieseruvwe bulleting a header narrowly wide after a cross from the right.

And after Lois Maynard's shot was deflected over, they took a giant step towards the Football League, defender Piergianni thumping home a header from the resulting corner to make it 2-0.

On the hour it was game over, Touray getting down the left and his intended cross sailing over keeper Jay Lynch and going in off the far post to kick-start the celebrations among the watching former United stars.

Allan Cruz and Fatai Alashe each scored goals as FC Cincinnati presented interim coach Yoann Damet with a win his coaching debut on Saturday, courtesy of a 2-1 victory over the visiting Montreal Impact.

Darren Mattocks set up Cruz's tally in the seventh minute to end a five-game goal drought for Cincinnati (3-7-2, 11 points), which was playing in its first match since dismissing Alan Koch earlier this week.

Spencer Richey denied a point-blank chance from Anthony Jackson-Hamel in the 89th minute and finished with two saves for Cincinnati, which saw the 29-year-old Damet become the youngest head coach to walk the sideline in a Major League Soccer match. Damet served as the Montreal Impact Under-18 head coach prior to joining Cincinnati.

Orji Okwonkwo substituted into the match in the 63rd minute and scored in the 75th for Montreal (6-5-2, 20 points), which has lost two of its last three matches.

FC Cincinnati ended its scoring drought at 528 minutes after Mattocks worked deep into the left side of the box before sending a centering feed to Cruz, who flicked a left-footed shot that sailed past Evan Bush (zero saves) and under the crossbar.

Cruz's goal was his team-leading second of the season. Prior to the tally, Cincinnati scored an MLS-low eight goals from eight different players.

It also marked Cincinnati's first goal since Mattocks converted a penalty kick in a 1-1 draw against Kansas City on April 7. The win was the team's first since March 24.

Cincinnati doubled its advantage after Roland Lamah weaved inside before Alashe scored from the center of the box for his first goal of the season.

The Impact trimmed the deficit in the 75th minute, as Okwonkwo's diving header bounced past Richey.

Montreal nearly forged a tie at 1 in the 40th minute after Michael Ariza's through ball found Daniel Lovitz for an apparent goal, but officials deemed that the latter player was offside.

Richey preserved Cincinnati's 1-0 advantage by thwarting Samuel Piette's bid at the post in the 58th minute.