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The Hyundai driver started the morning sitting third but a stunning effort on stage nine, held in tricky frosty conditions, brought the Belgian into the victory fight.Neuville took 18.8s out of Toyota’s Sebastien Ogier to climb to second and was 9.6s quicker than rally leader Elfyn Evans.Neuville then assumed the rally lead on stage 10 before extending that advantage to 5.1s come the end of the ...Keep readingView the full article

Neuville headed to midday service with a 5.1s lead over Evans after an impressive morning headlined by a blistering time on stage nine.Nine-time Monte Carlo winner Ogier dropped from second to third, but ended the loop 7.7s adrift.Ott Tanak maintained fourth (+1m18.6s) despite suffering an engine issue on his Hyundai. M-Sport’s Adrien Fourmaux (+2m06.4s) produced a controlled drive to complete ...Keep readingView the full article

Evans will head into Saturday equipped with a 4.5s lead over nine-time Monte Carlo winner Ogier after eight of 17 stages.Given Ogier’s history at his home event, the Frenchman is regarded as a strong favourite to score a 10th event win and ended Friday in the ascendency after slashing the gap to Evans.While Evans admitted he would obviously like to challenge for victory, the Welshman is already ...Keep readingView the full article

Armando Christian Pérez, more commonly known as Pitbull, will entertain the sold-out crowd at Daytona International Speedway before the green flag flies for NASCAR's crown jewel event. He has earned 46 awards during his illustrious career as a singer, songwriter, and record producer. The race is scheduled to take place on 18 February with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. hoping to defend his 2023 victory ...Keep readingView the full article

Button qualified eighth for the inaugural event on the downtown streets of Chicago, one of three races he contested in a Rick Ware Racing Ford Mustang. He was classified 21st in the race after being pushed into a spin in mixed weather conditions.Button returns to full-time competition in sportscar racing in 2024, making his debut in the Daytona 24 Hours with Acura this weekend before embarking on ...Keep readingView the full article

Overnight leader Evans started the day with a 21.6s gap over nine-time Monte Carlo winner Ogier but that reduced to 4.5s at the end of stage eight.Nine-time Monte Carlo winner Ogier won three of the day’s six stages, held on tricky dry asphalt roads featuring treacherous icy patches.Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville matched Ogier in the stage win department as the Belgian enjoyed a strong day, minus ...Keep readingView the full article

The Mexico-based NASCAR series made its U.S. debut in March 2013 at Phoenix Raceway but has not been back since.When NASCAR announced that the Clash would return to the LA Memorial Coliseum and its ¼-mile made-from-scratch asphalt oval this season, it decided to add an invitational, non-points Mexico series race as well.For NASCAR’s continuously expanding international efforts as well as its ...Keep readingView the full article

Last September, Trackhouse Racing announced it had signed Smith, 24, to a multi-year contract to compete in the Cup series beginning in the 2024 season.However, with Trackhouse currently holding only two charters in the series – which guarantee teams a spot in each race – Trackhouse is fielding Smith in a team this year whose charter was purchased by Spire Motorsports.On Friday, Trackhouse and ...Keep readingView the full article

The Hyundai driver ended the Friday morning loop in fourth overall more than a minute adrift of rally leader Toyota's Elfyn Evans after losing 41.9s to a spin on stage three.Tanak was caught out by a patch of ice which spun his i20 N into a ditch. The 2019 world champion wasn't the only driver to suffer, as team-mate Thierry Neuville, Toyota's Takamoto Katsuta and M-Sport's Gregoire Munster all ...Keep readingView the full article

Evans successfully navigated through three tricky asphalt stages that featured icy patches to lead nine-time Monte Carlo winner Ogier by 10.7s.Ogier won two of the three tests to haul himself from third to second overall ahead of Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville, who is 24.5s back from Evans. His team-mate Tanak headed to the midday service in fourth more than a minute adrift of the pace after a spin ...Keep readingView the full article

Almirola, 39, decided to retire as a full-time Cup Series driver at the end of the 2023 season, having spent the past six years with Stewart-Haas Racing.It wasn’t long after he came to his decision that he was approached by Joe Gibbs Racing owner Joe Gibbs about returning to the organization where his NASCAR career began nearly 20 years ago.Gibbs thought Almirola would be an excellent role model ...Keep readingView the full article

Last year’s championship runner-up blitzed the pair of night stages held in dry conditions to open up a 15.1s lead over Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville.It proved to be a challenging evening for Hyundai as all three of its entries suffered issues. Ott Tanak battled a throttle problem to end the loop in fourth (+22.8s), behind nine-time Monte Carlo winner Sebastien Ogier (+21.6s) in third.Adrien ...Keep readingView the full article

Rovanpera is unusually absent from this weekend’s entry list event after electing to contest a partial WRC campaign with Toyota as he plans to “recharge his batteries” ahead of a full-time return to the championship in 2025.However, the Finn was present at the ceremonial start at Casino Square in Monaco to take part in the reveal of two special edition Toyota GR Yaris that will go on general ...Keep readingView the full article

Bayne, the 2011 Daytona 500 champion, will join LMC as a driver optimization leader for the 2024 Cup Series season working under LMC’s new competition advisor, Matt Kenseth.In the new role, Bayne will focus primarily on the race preparation of LMC Cup drivers John Hunter Nemechek, Erik Jones and team co-owner Jimmie Johnson.“I’m super humbled that Jimmie, Joey (Cohen), Matt and our drivers ...Keep readingView the full article

Former Cup Series champion Martin Truex Jr. discussed defending his Clash title, his goals for 2024 and the never-ending retirement questions. View the full article

Solberg is expected to be among the WRC2 title favourites after inking a deal with Skoda Motorsport direct after finishing sixth in the championship last year, driving the Fabia RS Rally2 car for the Toksport squad last year.The son of 2003 world rally champion Petter Solberg was thought to be among the options under consideration by M-Sport as the British squad looked to re-shape its driver ...Keep readingView the full article

The WRC has introduced a new points structure this year which is designed to spice up rallies particularly on the Sunday, where drivers have previously cruised through the final day preserving tyres for the end of rally Power Stage.Drivers can still earn a maximum of 30 points, but these will be distributed differently this year. Points will be awarded under the scale of 18-15-13-10-8-6-4-3-2-1 to ...Keep readingView the full article

"It's January" – Martin Truex Jr. told Bob Pockrass after asking about potentially retiring at the end of this season. View the full article

Martin Truex Jr. discussed looking forward to defending his Clash victory from 2023 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and why he likes this year’s format a little better. View the full article

Get ready for the NASCAR season by checking out some of the coolest paint schemes hitting the track in 2024, including Ross Chastain, Chase Elliott and Joey Logano. View the full article

NASCAR: Full Speed is stock car racing's answer to Formula 1's Drive to Survive, which will debut its sixth season on Netflix next month.Despite the meteoritic rise in F1's popularity stateside, NASCAR remains the most-watched form of racing in the USA. The five-part series will have 45-minute episodes, featuring the following Cup drivers: Ryan Blaney, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Bubba Wallace ...Keep readingView the full article

NASCAR: Full Speed is stock car racing's answer to Formula 1's Drive to Survive, which will debut its sixth season on Netflix next month. Despite the meteoritic rise in F1's popularity stateside, NASCAR remains the most-watched form of auto racing in the United States of America.The five-part series will have 45-minute episodes, featuring the following Cup drivers: Ryan Blaney, Denny Hamlin ...Keep readingView the full article

Both Toyota Racing Development and Ford Performance are debuting new iterations of their respective Camry and Mustang race cars in the Cup series in 2024 but so far, each car has had only one limited on-track test.With most on-track testing curtailed in NASCAR since 2015, development of new car models or updates has moved almost exclusively in-house – or more-so – on screen.“We all use the ...Keep readingView the full article

Fourmaux is set to begin a second attempt as a full-time Rally1 driver this season - starting in Monte Carlo this weekend - with the the Frenchman drafted in to lead the Ford team following Ott Tanak’s departure to Hyundai.Last season the team opted to demote Fourmaux to its Rally2 squad after an eventful 2022 Rally1 campaign that was littered with crashes.The move appears to have benefitted the ...Keep readingView the full article

During a competition briefing on Tuesday at its R&D Center in Concord, N.C., NASCAR unveiled some tweaks to its qualifying procedures for Cup Series races.The change will affect all races except those on superspeedways since group qualifying isn’t used at those tracks.At all others, all entries will still be split into two groups for qualifying, with the fastest five drivers from each group ...Keep readingView the full article