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Following in the footsteps of Supercars champs Shane van Gisbergen and Brodie Kostecki, Waters will make his NASCAR debut early next month.The Australian driver has started nearly 250 Supercars races in his career, winning 11 races. His twice ended the year as the championship runner-up, and has three podiums in the series' crown jewel event — the Bathurst 1000.The 29-year-old, who drives a ...Keep readingView the full article

The Safari Rally is renowned as the most gruelling event on the WRC schedule testing drivers and teams to the absolute limit.The event returned to the WRC calendar in 2021 after a 19-year hiatus but in a much shorter format. This year’s edition, operated by a new Kenyan organiser, will be contested over four days with crews covering 367.76 kilometres of timed stages.In the past, the event was ...Keep readingView the full article

Kevin Harvick is joined by NASCAR driver and co-owner of 23XI racing, Denny Hamlin! Denny described his relationship with Joe Gibbs and how that relationship has evolved over the years. View the full article

Kevin Harvick is joined by NASCAR driver and co-owner of 23XI racing, Denny Hamlin! Kevin and Denny discussed how Hamlin has embraced and feeds off the villain role in NASCAR. View the full article

Kevin Harvick is joined by NASCAR driver and co-owner of 23XI racing, Denny Hamlin! Kevin and Denny discussed Hamlin’s impressive start to the 2024 season and his relationship with crew chief Chris Gabehart. View the full article

A change in FIA regulations that coincides with the Safari Rally moving to a more traditional March date in Kenya's rainy season has allowed Rally1 teams to fit these devices to cars for the first time.Snorkels have long been a feature in the WRC and have been particularly associated with the Safari Rallys of the past. Perhaps the most iconic illustration of these in action is the now famous ...Keep readingView the full article

As NASCAR begins a swing through Virginia, Harrison Burton reflects on his ties to the area, his dad's advice and trying to get a victory. View the full article

Byron, who drives the No. 24 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports, became the series’ first repeat winner of the season with his dominating win last weekend at Circuit of the Americas.With his victory in the season-opening Daytona 500, Byron already has a leg up on his competition but this weekend’s race at Richmond, Va., and the following week at Martinsville, Va., may best demonstrate the ...Keep readingView the full article

Will Denny Hamlin ever drive for 23XI? The long-time Joe Gibbs Racing driver discussed the matter on "Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour." View the full article

The Talanta Motorsport Academy is the latest addition to the Kenya Academy of Sports (KAS), based near the site of the rally’s opening stage at Kasarani in Kenya’s capital city Nairobi. The academy was launched by Kenya’s deputy president Rigathi Gachagua, who described the project as a major milestone in Kenyan sporting history. Kenya has a rich motorsport history through Safari Rally ...Keep readingView the full article

The most gruelling event on the WRC calendar began with its traditional Kasarani side-by-side super special [4.84km] in the centre of the Kenyan capital city Nairobi. Neuville came out on top with a 0.1-second margin over Tanak.Neuville took on Toyota title rival Elfyn Evans in their heat, which resulted in the former posting a time 1.7s faster than the Welshman.“It will be a challenging event ...Keep readingView the full article

Join NASCAR legend Kevin Harvick alongside friends and analysts Kaitlyn Vincie and Mamba Smith on the latest episode of “The Kevin Harvick Happy Hour” presented by NASCAR on FOX as the crew reacts to Kyle Busch’s heated confrontation with Christopher Bell in Austin. View the full article

Truex and his No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota team have been remarkably consistent to start 2024 with one top five and four top-10s in the first six races and no finish worse than 15th.He was in the hunt for the win at both Phoenix and Bristol – where he earned a season’s-best second – but has yet to lock in a playoff spot with a win.This weekend’s race at Richmond (Va.) Raceway will ...Keep readingView the full article

Harrison Burton has struggled in his two-plus seasons in Cup. He is taking a little bit different approach this year. What he’s doing and why he’s doing it. View the full article

Harrison Burton is the son of former NASCAR star and current NBC analyst Jeff Burton. What Harrison said about the advice he gets from his father and how his father handles talking about his son on the air. View the full article

NASCAR says it will look at how it handles track limits at COTA after Sunday's race where it called several drivers for violating the rules. View the full article

Last month, the world motorsport governing body released a raft of proposals designed to improve top-level rallying that included widespread changes to technical and sporting regulations.The proposals, which the FIA wishes to ratify in June, include changes to the Rally1 class that will be implemented next year, two years before the end of the agreed homologation cycle. Hybrid power is set to be ...Keep readingView the full article

During grandstand cleaning and inspection last week in preparation for the upcoming NASCAR All-Star weekend in May, track operations staff discovered cracks in the original concrete in section N of the grandstands toward Turn 1.Crews began removing seats to determine the extent of the damage. During the process, an open area of approximately 700-square-feet was discovered underneath the aging ...Keep readingView the full article

Smith, 19, will compete in four races this season in Spire Motorsports’ No. 7 Chevrolet. His first race is April 5 at Martinsville, followed by May 18 at North Wilkesboro, July 19 at Indianapolis Raceway Park and Aug. 26 at the Milwaukee Mile.Smith competes full-time in the Xfinity Series with JR Motorsports, driving its No. 8 Chevrolet. So far this season, he has three top-10 finishes in five ...Keep readingView the full article

The Japanese brand has proven to be the team to beat in Kenya winning the previous three editions of the Safari Rally, known to be the most gruelling event on the WRC calendar.Toyota outlined the speed and bulletproof reliability of its cars by scoring a 1-2-3-4 lock out in 2022 and 2023 on its way to back-to-back Rally1 constructors’ titles.The reigning champion squad is showing no signs of ...Keep readingView the full article

oin NASCAR legend Kevin Harvick alongside friends and analysts Kaitlyn Vincie and Mamba Smith on the latest episode of “Kevin Harvick’s Happy Hour” presented by NASCAR on FOX as Kevin reminisces on his own success at Richmond Raceway. View the full article

Join NASCAR legend Kevin Harvick alongside friends and analysts Kaitlyn Vincie and Mamba Smith on the latest episode of “Kevin Harvick’s Happy Hour” presented by NASCAR on FOX as the crew discusses William Byron’s win at COTA. View the full article

While William Byron became the first repeat winner of 2024, it wasn't enough to surge him to the top of this week's rankings. View the full article

The Safari Rally, which hosts the third round of the WRC season this week, is renowned as a car-breaker thanks to its unique blend of rough terrain and changeable weather.It has proven to be a bogey event for Hyundai since the event returned to the calendar in 2021, with its only podium finish to date achieved by Ott Tanak finishing third three years ago. The last two editions have seen Toyota ...Keep readingView the full article

While Hendrick Motorsports teammates William Byron (two) and Kyle Larson have together won three of the series’ first six races, Bowman struggled with a three-race stretch of no finish better than 18th.He snapped that streak with a solid fourth place finish last week at Bristol and followed it up with another fourth Sunday at Circuit of the Americas.Even better was Bowman and his No. 48 ...Keep readingView the full article