BERLIN, Germany – Jean-Eric Vergne returned to the top step of the podium in Formula E competition Sunday at Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport while Antonio Felix da Costa locked up his first Formula E title with a runner-up result.

Vergne launched well from from the pole with da Costa following suit. Oliver Rowland fired off the line nicely and took a look at the lead pair on the run into turn one, but thought better of a move, whilst Mahindra Racing’s Alex Lynn completed a switchback on Felipe Massa to pinch sixth two turns later.

Down the order, da Costa’s closest rival Max Guenther got caught unsighted as the field bunched ahead of him, smashing the nose off of his iFE.20 and forcing the BMW i Safety Car into the fray.

A fairly calm restart followed with just more than 35 minutes to go. Thunderstorms were in the air as the field held station, as drops of rain fell in the pit-lane. The weather did hold off, though, leaving the drivers to it.

Rene Rast, Lynn and Felipe Massa were the first to jump into the Attack Mode activation zone, with Nyck de Vries following a lap later. The quartet fought over fifth with Lynn leading the way from de Vries, Rast and Massa when it all shook out.

The Nissan e.dams’ were next, with Rowland and Sebastien Buemi next opting to take the 35 kW boost, leaving them to slot back into that pack whilst Vergne and da Costa did likewise a lap later – the lead pair emerging first and third, now split by a charging Rowland.

Da Costa had enough in hand to retake second with a minute’s Attack Mode left to use, and sliced by Rowland on the next tour. The teamwork that both DS drivers referenced before the race was clear for all to see when the standings leader was allowed to trade places with Vergne for the lead at the half-way stage.

A little further back, Edo Mortara managed to squeeze by Panasonic Jaguar Racing’s James Calado into turn one for 12th, with BMW i Andretti Motorsport’s Alex Sims pulling the exact same move to pass Sam Bird for 14th – the BMW driver also sneaking by Calado to take 13th for good measure a lap later.

Mahindra’s Jerome D’Ambrosio was among the first to take a second dose of Attack Mode and made it count by stealing 10th and the final points-paying position from Rast. Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler’s Lucas di Grassi was also making up good ground – his latest move on Mitch Evans for seventh.

It was status quo at the head of the pack during the second phase of Attack Mode activations with the DS Techeetah duo of da Costa and Vergne leading the Nissan e.dams pairing of Rowland and Buemi, with di Grassi quietly dispatching Lynn to round out the top six with 10 minutes plus one lap to run.

The lead pair once again switched road order as they sought to optimise their remaining energy and fend off the Nissans just behind. Vergne now had the race lead from da Costa, Rowland and Buemi with de Vries joining the party. Di Grassi, meanwhile, was in a race of his own in sixth.

Massa flew up the inside of Evans into the final turn, repaying the Jaguar driver for a similar move earlier on lap 28. Tidily done from the Brazilian for seventh but Evans was able to make it back past as the clock ticked down, leading home Andre Lotterer and Lynn, whilst the ROKiT Venturi Racing man slipped to an eventual 10th.

Nissan e.dams employed the same team ethic as DS had displayed, as Rowland moved aside for Buemi who had more usable energy remaining and felt best placed to set about chasing the leaders.

Rowland was pipped by De Vries, however, with the Mercedes-Benz EQ man finding his way into fourth with a late dive half way around the final lap.

Vergne and da Costa were able to hold station under pressure from Buemi to take a DS Techeetah one-two, deciding the final destination of both the Drivers’ and Teams Championships in the process.

“I’m speechless. Sometimes I’ve been so close to giving up during the tough times, and thanks to the people around me I never did,” said da Costa. “I’m very grateful to these guys who believed in me and my capabilities, even when I was finishing nowhere near the podium. Massive thanks to JEV, I know this is hard for him, but he pushed me all the way and helped me out a lot and it’s mainly thanks to him I settled so quickly in the team. Today we had a plan and we executed it perfectly. JEV and myself helped each other out, but it was very intense at the end since both Seb and Oli were always there. Everyone was very fair today and raced as the champions they are.”

SONOMA, Calif. – Tyler Maxson completed a weekend sweep in TC America TCR competition on Sunday afternoon at Sonoma Raceway.

The third race of the TC America weekend started with a bang as MINI JCW Team teammates Mark Pombo and championship leader Tomas Mejia collided at turn two, giving flat tires to both cars and allowing Kevin Boehm and Tyler Gonzalez to fight for the class lead.

On lap two, Gonzalez would slip past Boehm for first with Clay Williams closing on the second-place car.

Williams wouldn’t take long to make his presence known as on lap three would get past Boehm at the final hairpin for second in TCA but going into the carousel half a lap later Bohem would get the position back. Jonathan Newcombe would also slip past Williams to grab the third position.

In TCR Maxson, in the No. 74 Copeland Motorsports Hyundai Veloster N, would once again run away from the field, grabbing his eighth-straight win on the season with Roy Block and Victor Gonzalez fighting for second position.

“I think we can carry this momentum forward and we have a great crew who will get us ready for Road America coming up,” said Maxson.

Block and Gonzalez would battle nose to tail for the remainder of the race with the Alfa driver besting the Honda to keep second position overall and in TCR.  C.J. Moses would come home fourth.

Back in TCA and with 19 minutes left on the clock, Williams would get past Newcombe for third in class with a nice move at turn three and use the clean air to catch the two leaders, who were 2.5 seconds up the road.

As the race went on, Boehm would pressure Gonzalez but the young Hyundai driver would not put a wheel wrong and go on to grab the TCA-class victory, his second of the weekend. Boehm would finish second with Williams and Newcombe coming home third and fourth.

“I just took this race corner by corner and hit my marks today. Copeland Motorsports does an amazing job, and I can’t thank them enough,” said Gonzalez.

INDIANAPOLIS – The Hoosier Hundred at the Indiana State Fairgrounds is returning to the USAC Silver Crown Champ Car Series schedule on Sunday, Aug. 23.

Originally the 2019 edition of the event was to be the last at the Indiana State Fairgrounds as there were plans in place to turn the track into an all-weather surface made of crushed limestone.

However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic those plans have been put on hold. That opened the door for auto racing to return to the Indy Mile.

Tyler Courtney won the 2019 edition of the Hoosier Hundred, which was at the time billed as the final race for the track.

Tickets will be available online for the Hoosier Hundred beginning at 10 a.m. ET on Tuesday, Aug. 11 at www.usactickets.com. Capacity is limited to 25 percent for the event. More information and event details will be available soon at www.trackenterprises.com and www.usacracing.com.

The weekend of racing will begin Aug. 21 with the Dave Steele Carb Night Classic at Lucas Oil Raceway in Clermont, Ind., featuring the USAC Silver Crown Champ Car Series and the Road to Indy presented by Cooper Tires.

SAN FRANCISCO – Tiger Woods finished his week on a high note with a closing 67 at the PGA Championship and said after his round he was encouraged by the progress he made in just his second start since February.

Both his driving and his putting improved on Sunday and he also took some encouragement that he was able to physically endure a grinding week in cold and damp conditions.

“I kept layering up, made sure that I stayed on the warm side, if anything, and tried to make sure I stayed, if anything, sweaty, kept loose. Overall the body reacted pretty good,” said Woods, who was tied for 41st when he completed his round.

Woods said he would now turn his focus to the FedExCup Playoffs and the possibility he would need to play three events in a row, depending on his post-season performance.

Currently 48th on the playoff points list, he would likely need to play the post-season opener in Boston and the second event in Chicago for a realistic chance to qualify for the Tour Championship, which he missed last season and won in 2018.

“That's potentially what could happen [three in a row], and we've been training for that,” Woods said. “Trying to get my strength and endurance up to that ability to making sure that I can handle that type of workload. This week off will be no different. We'll be pushing it hard to make sure that I can stay strong and have the endurance to keep on going.”

Woods hasn’t played a full post-season schedule since 2018.

Tiger Woods saved his best for last, and it wasn’t particularly close. Turns out competitive rust is a real, tangible thing. Tiger had only played four tournament rounds on the PGA Tour since February and here, at the PGA Championship, it took him three days to finally feel right and hit the shots he wanted to hit.

Better late than never, I suppose. Tiger shot a final-round 3-under 67 and ended at 1-under 279 for the championship, a stated goal after Saturday’s dismal round.

Here are my final thoughts as we leave TPC Harding Park and take a week off before entering a busy “postseason” stretch:

• Tiger made five birdies and two bogeys. The first two birdies were back-to-back at Nos. 4 and 5, and he added another at No. 7. Those all felt like a bonus because he didn’t make a birdie until the 16^th hole on Saturday.

• Still, even though he was 3 under after the seventh hole it felt like it could’ve been more. He opened with an approach to 10 feet on the first hole and missed. Actually, putts from 38- and 30-feet respectively on the second and third holes were both close to going in.

• Sure, there were two bogeys, but there was never a stretch of bad golf on Sunday. Anywhere. The same cannot be said for the previous two days. The bogey on the par-3 eighth hole was just because of a tough tee shot that found a bunker. He was not able to get up and down. He bogeyed the last hole when his tee shot leaked right and found the rough, leaving a treacherous approach from outside 200 yards. He left it short, chipped to 18 feet and two putted.

• It’ll be interesting to see which putter Tiger shows up with next. Will it be the old trusty Scotty, or the newer Scotty? It was clear he was committed to sticking with the newer version for the full week at the PGA, but to say it provided mixed results would be an understatement.

• The thing Tiger was most proud of Sunday was that he got back to under par overall for the championship, saying: “That’s kind of what I wanted to do. I make it happen today.”

• As for the week overall? He can just tell you what he thought of his performance. “What I got out of this week is that I felt I was competitive,” he said. “If I would have made a few more putts on Friday early on, and the same thing with Saturday, I feel like I would have been right there with a chance come today. It didn’t happen, but I fought hard.”

• Tiger hit nine of 14 fairways, 10 of 18 greens and needed 25 putts, six less than he had in both the second and third rounds. When he finished, he was not on the top 25 of any of the major statistical categories for the week.

• What’s next? Tiger said he’d take a week off and get back at it, indicating that he plans to play the first FedExCup Playoff event, The Northern Trust outside Boston. He has some work to do if he wants to qualify for the Tour Championship at East Lake.

Phil Mickelson walked off the course Saturday and into the broadcast booth with CBS Sports.

He wasn’t there to talk about his third-round 70. Instead, he spent more than an hour calling the action alongside Jim Nantz and Nick Faldo.

“It just worked out,” Mickelson said Sunday at the PGA Championship, where he was tied for 70th. “I made the cut, so I’m going to be here. I had an early tee time, so I had this afternoon to spend time or to waste time, and it just kind of worked out.”

Mickelson said he’s always been tight with the CBS crew – he plays in a fantasy football league with some of the producers and commentators. The move was curious for its timing, fueling speculation that Mickelson, 50, might be auditioning for a future role.

“It just worked out; I don’t know what else to say,” Mickelson said. “Just, ‘Hey, what are you doing tomorrow?’, that kind of thing.”

There were a couple of awkward on-air exchanges between Mickelson and Faldo, and Mickelson couldn’t help but get in the final word Sunday.

“Having a guy like Jim Nantz kind of set things up and stage what to talk about make it easy, because it’s not like I prepared for anything,” Mickelson said. “And then obviously to have a wonderful target like Nick, that made it nice, too.”

Watching the PGA Championship coverage Saturday night, Rory McIlroy said he was taken aback by Brooks Koepka’s interview.

He likely wasn’t the only one.

On multiple occasions, Koepka seemed to take a shot at Dustin Johnson, saying – correctly – that Johnson has “only won one” major and that Koepka “likes his chances” given the relative inexperience on the leaderboard.

“I certainly wouldn’t say it,” McIlroy said Sunday after finishing his round. “It’s different, right? It’s a very different mentality to bring to golf that I don’t think a lot of golfers have.”

A few years ago, Koepka and Johnson were frequent practice partners and seemed to be close friends, but Koepka intimated in a recent interview that their relationship was overblown because they used to work out at the same South Florida gym.

McIlroy thought Koepka may have been trying to play “mind games” with his opponents, knowing that he still had to erase a two-shot deficit on the final day.

“If he’s trying to play mind games, he’s trying to do it to the wrong person,” McIlroy said. “I don’t think DJ really gives much of a concern to that.”

McIlroy has been on the receiving end of Koepka’s brutally honest commentary in the past. Last year, Koepka said there was no budding rivalry with McIlroy and pointed out – again, accurately – that McIlroy hadn’t won a major since 2014, before Koepka made it out on the PGA Tour.

“I certainly try to respect everyone out here,” McIlroy said. “Everyone is a great player. If you’ve won a major championship, you’re a hell of a player. Doesn’t mean you’ve only won once; you’ve won one, and you’ve had to do a lot of good things to do that. It’s sort of hard to knock a guy that’s got 21 wins on the PGA Tour, which is three times what Brooks has.”

Two members of Atletico Madrid's group set to travel to Portugal for the Champions League quarterfinals tested positive for the coronavirus on Sunday.

It's the first pandemic-related setback among clubs participating in the final stage of Europe's top club competition.

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The last eight will begin in Lisbon on Wednesday amid tight health safety protocols to prevent a coronavirus outbreak from derailing the competition's finale. The semifinals and Aug. 23 final will also be played in Lisbon.

No other clubs involved in the quarterfinals have reported positive tests among its players recently. The Spanish club did not name those who tested positive and did not say if a player was involved.

It said it immediately informed health authorities in Spain and Portugal about the positive results, as well as UEFA and other soccer bodies in both countries.

It said in a statement that the entire group that was set to go to Lisbon will be tested again before the team can travel, and that the team's schedule is being altered to allow the new tests. Atletico is set to face RB Leipzig on Thursday in the last eight.

The quarterfinals start on Wednesday with Atalanta facing Paris Saint-Germain. The other one-game series will involve Barcelona vs. Bayern Munich on Friday and Manchester City vs. Lyon on Saturday.

The matches will take place at two stadiums in Lisbon. Earlier this week Atletico had to cancel a friendly of their women's team after a positive test within the group.

COLOGNE, Germany -- Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has gotten some things wrong during his 20 months as manager of Manchester United, but not often in front of the television cameras. His predecessors in the post-Sir Alex Ferguson era -- David Moyes, Louis van Gaal and Jose Mourinho -- all, at one time or another, said the wrong thing, but Solskjaer has usually found the right tone.

It has been particularly apparent this week as the Norwegian prepares his team for the start of the Europa League mini tournament in Germany. With Champions League football secured through a third-place finish in the Premier League, he might have been tempted to pat himself on the back and focus on next season. Solskjaer, though, has repeatedly stressed the importance of trophies at Old Trafford and with it promised to attack the Europa League with the vigour he would have done had United finished outside the top four.

He has been at the club long enough to know that finishing third is not considered success and winning a European trophy -- even if it's not the one he really wants -- resonates far more with fans. There is also €8.5 million up for grabs, but it's the silverware that would mean most.

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"I am ambitious and one of my dreams is to lift the trophy as a manager for this club," said Solskjaer. "I owe my career to this club, so winning something as manager would be the proudest moment of my football life. It would be the biggest achievement."

Solskjaer's quest to collect a first trophy of his reign has so far been frustrated by semifinal defeats to Manchester City in the Carabao Cup and Chelsea in the FA Cup. FC Copenhagen, champions of Denmark in 2019, stand in the way of a third semifinal appearance of the season in what is a boiled-down version of the Europa League final rounds because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The traditional home and away legs have been replaced by single knockout ties for the last eight and beyond, all held in Germany and all played behind closed doors.

A handful of United supporters were on the early flight out of Manchester on Sunday morning despite warnings to stay away, but Cologne -- where Solskjaer's squad will be based if they make it to the final on Aug. 21 -- seems largely oblivious to the fact it is hosting the business end of a major European tournament. As United trained at the RheinEnergieSTADION, home of Bundesliga side FC Koln, on Sunday evening, the only noise outside was from the tennis courts across the road.

Things are slowly getting back to normal in Germany, and in Cologne the bars and restaurants are starting to welcome back customers, albeit socially distanced. At the stadium there are hand-sanitiser stations and temperature checks at every turn.

The players are being kept inside a biosecure bubble and movement outside the team hotel is restricted by UEFA. It could be a long two weeks, and one problem for Solskjaer to solve is to keep the squad happy, relaxed and entertained.

"We have plans in place but, for me, it's only about this first game," he said. "We can't think too far ahead. It's a knockout tournament and if you don't perform you're going home. If we go through there are a few days for the next game. At the moment, we don't have that problem.

"We are in a strange period and strange times and we've got to make the most of it. I think it's strange and it's not football as it should be -- it's changed a little bit. That little bit of passion and edge to the game is missing without the fans. They have to be there. I have to commend our players, they've handled the situation really well."

Aside from all the other ways the world has changed, this is a different situation to the one United faced when they won the Europa League in 2017. Then, Mourinho sacrificed the league campaign to focus on winning the final and qualifying for the Champions League that way. He rested key players during the Premier League run-in and ended the campaign with a run of one win in six to eventually finish the season sixth. In that sense, the pressure is off for Solskjaer with Champions League qualification already assured, but the 47-year-old does not view it as a free hit.

"I don't think so because we went into this season knowing Europa League was a great chance for us to get a trophy and to get far in a tournament," said Solskjaer. "If we are able to go through to the semis and the final it would mean a lot to the players, the club, the supporters, the staff."

Whatever happens in the next two weeks in Germany -- where temperatures have regularly been reaching 95 degrees during a summer heatwave -- Solskjaer and his players will wave goodbye to the Europa League next season and make their return to the Champions League. Solskjaer won't want to be back any time soon, but he remains thankful for a season in Europe's secondary club competition after he was able to put together the building blocks of his new team -- particularly 18-year-old Mason Greenwood and 19-year-old Brandon Williams -- away from the Champions League spotlight.

"It's been perfect for us," said Solskjaer. "The Champions League, of course we all want to be it in but maybe we wouldn't have had the chance to play the likes of Brandon and Mason -- the young kids who have now started what will be fantastic careers. The Europa League is about giving people chances, when they take them. Brandon is going to play in a quarterfinal in the Europa League and it's been a great season for him. We have developed through the season."

The next step for Solskjaer's young team is to win a trophy.

Essex 262 and 13 for 0 lead Surrey 187 (Jacks 70, Harmer 6-67, Porter 4-53) by 88 runs

Simon Harmer bagged his 18th first-class five-wicket haul for Essex as the hosts helped themselves to a healthy first-innings lead over Surrey in the Bob Willis Trophy. Offspinner Harmer has now taken 229 wickets since joining Essex at the beginning of the 2017 season as he returned figures of 6 for 67.

Harmer was the County Championship's leading wicket-taker with 83 scalps last year and looks likely to replicate that record in the Bob Willis Trophy - with no rival taking more than his 12 poles so far in the competition.

The South African shared the wickets with trusty partner Jamie Porter, who claimed 4 for 53, as Surrey were bowled out for 187, in response to Essex's 262 - a deficit of 75, which rose to 88 in a wicketless four-over twilight burst.

After Essex had lost their last three first-innings wickets inside seven overs, Porter blasted a hole at the top of the Surrey batting order with two wickets in two balls. The seamer forced Ryan Patel to hand Harmer a regulation catch at second slip with his sixth delivery, before Scott Borthwick tucked off his hip to Feroze Khushi at midwicket.

Will Jacks saw off the hat-trick as he dug out a yorker as he began to work his way towards a well-made 70. At the other end, Mark Stoneman struggled to get out of neutral gear as he scored five singles in 65 balls before edging Harmer to Alastair Cook, before Jamie Smith had the top of his off peg knocked back by Porter.

Jacks was dropped on 26, 31 and 46 - twice by Varun Chopra at short leg and once by Aaron Beard at deep fine leg - but moved to his seventh first-class fifty in 81 balls. The 21-year-old made batting look uncomplicated, on a sun-kissed pitch best suited to patience, with 12 boundaries struck all around the Cloudfm County Ground, Chelmsford.

He had been joined by Laurie Evans - who was playing his first innings in a decade for Surrey - for a valuable 80-run stand for the fifth wicket. Evans, on loan from Sussex due to Surrey's 14-man absentee list, had played four first-class matches during his first stint at the county between 2005 and 2010 before joining Warwickshire.

He was the aggressor, particularly against Harmer, whom he struck for three perfectly nailed sweeps and a six over long-on.

Both fell either side of tea to spark a second collapse of the innings - Surrey losing three wickets for three runs as Harmer took control. Jacks pushed Harmer to midwicket before Porter bowled Evans.

Since Harmer arrived at Chelmsford on a Kolpak deal, he and Porter have shared 428 first-class wickets and two County Championship titles together.

Chopra made amends for his early spills when he clung onto a stunner under the lid to dismiss Gus Atkinson, and then held onto a loopier catch off Rikki Clarke's bat-pad. Harmer's five-for was confirmed when Adam Finch clipped around the corner to Tom Westley.

Essex were frustrated for 10 overs by the last-wicket pair of James Taylor and Amar Virdi, before the former picked out Nick Browne at cow corner. Browne immediately turned around to stick his pads on for four overs with Cook - the pair getting through Clarke and Virdi's overs unscathed.

Earlier, Essex had only added nine runs to their overnight score of 253. Clarke was the chief tail destroyer as he returned figures of 3 for 26 - only going for one boundary in his 21 overs.

Handed the new ball at the start of the day, Clarke taught a young Surrey bowling attack how to rip through a tail. The fresh leather caused extra bounce off a length, which caught Beard out as he edged behind in the third over of the day, before a fuller delivery pinned Sam Cook lbw.

Clarke's lesson was heeded by debutant Atkinson who wrapped up the innings when Harmer top-edged a pull shot to Patel at cover.