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The top speeds from Saturday practice came from the first 20-minute session with Reddick’s average lap speed of 178.807 mph leading the way.William Byron ended up second quick (177.760 mph) and Bubba Wallace was third (177.690 mph.Last week’s race winner, Kyle Larson, led the second session (177.619 mph) but was fourth fastest overall.Playoff drivers Byron and Kyle Busch had issues during the ...Keep readingView the full article

Championship leader Rovanpera started the day third, 25.5s adrift, but returned to the service park with a 2m04.4s rally lead over Hyundai's Dani Sordo.Hyundai's Neuville retired from the lead on the afternoon's first stage handing the advantage to Ogier.However, the Toyota driver then lost four minutes to a suspension issue on the afternoon's last test, dropping the Frenchman to fourth overall.As ...Keep readingView the full article

Neuville held a 10.9s lead over Toyota's Sebastien Ogier heading into stage 10, the second pass through Pavliani stage, but came to a halt 11 kilometres into the 24.25km rough gravel test.Neuville's i20 N Rally1 car suffered a bent front right wheel and damaged the suspension following an unfortunate impact with a hole in the road.The car came to a halt at the roadside, where the damage proved too ...Keep readingView the full article

Overnight leader Neuville lost the rally lead to Toyota's Ogier in the day's opening gravel test but fought back to build up a 10.9s margin at the end of the Saturday morning loop.Championship leader Kalle Rovanpera meanwhile boosted his victory hopes with two impressive stage wins to sit 23.7s adrift in third.However, Rovanpera's nearest championship rival and team-mate, Evans was forced to stop ...Keep readingView the full article

Eckes – who hadn’t led a lap all night – lined up fourth on the final restart with Corey Heim out front. He went to the outside of Heim and Zane Smith in Turn 3 and the three briefly bounced off each other before Eckes darted to the inside to clear them both for the lead.Eckes then held off Taylor Gray by 0.363 seconds at the checkered flag to secure his third victory of the 2023 season but ...Keep readingView the full article

Mosack, who only began racing at age 17, took control of Friday’s 100-lap race and lapped every car in the field except for second-place finisher Carson Kvapil, who was making his series debut.Mosack, who has raced predominately Late Models and in the SCCA Trans Am Series until venturing into ARCA and NASCAR competition beginning in 2021, is amid his most expansive stock car schedule ...Keep readingView the full article

Storm Daniel has wreaked havoc in Greece this week severely affecting preparations for this weekend’s 70th anniversary Acropolis Rally.Torrential rain disrupted the recce schedule, while the extreme conditions made making accurate pacenotes impossible. The weather has drastically improved since the drivers completed their original recce, which has left the roads in vastly different shape from ...Keep readingView the full article

The Finnish driver's i20 N Rally 1 car suffered a radiator leak thought to have been triggered by a nasty compression during the Loutraki stage.Lappi was forced to pull over after completing stage four to conduct repairs where he was able to limit the loss of water.As water continued to escape from his car Lappi and co-driver Janne Ferm secured some water bottles at the stage end to re-fill the ...Keep readingView the full article

Hyundai driver Neuville won only one of Friday's five stages, but the defending rally winner clocked a series of consistent times to lead 2011 Acropolis conqueror Ogier by 2.8s.Championship and overnight rally leader Kalle Rovanpera managed to limit the damage of starting first on the road to end Friday third, 25.5s adrift, with Toyota title rival Elfyn Evans a further 5.5s back in ...Keep readingView the full article

The M-Sport driver ended Friday morning's two-stage loop in fourth, 8.3s adrift of leader Hyundai's Thierry Neuville before drama struck in the tyre fitting zone.Tanak's Ford Puma developed a water pump issue that triggered frantic work on the car, with Tanak and co-driver Martin Jarveoja assisting mechanics in finding a fix for the problem.The issue was resolved but at a cost as Tanak left the ...Keep readingView the full article

Neuville completed the rally's first loop of gravel stages with a slender 2.0s advantage over overnight leader Rovanpera, who impressed despite starting first on the road.Toyota's Sebastien Ogier, on his WRC return, reached the morning tyre fitting zone in third (+4.6s) ahead of M-Sport's Ott Tanak (+8.3), with title contender Elfyn Evans in fifth, 12.5s adrift.Hyundai's Esapekka Lappi (+14.0s) ...Keep readingView the full article

Maintaining his grasp on the 10th and final playoff berth – which Herbst owns by a one-point advantage over Parker Kligerman – will be tricky.A win in Saturday’s race would lock Herbst in regardless of Kligerman’s performance but neither driver owns a series victory yet, so points may well end up being the determining factor.In that case, whoever has the strongest run at Kansas should ...Keep readingView the full article

The Toyota driver set the pace on the 1.48km asphalt stage, held in front of a bumper crowd that had congregated around the Athens harbour.The stage was the first competitive running for WRC crews after organisers were forced to cancel the shakedown stage in host city Lamia due to the effects of Storm Daniel.Torrential rain and thunderstorms have caused flash flooding across Greece but organisers ...Keep readingView the full article

The three-time constructors' champion became synonymous with the WRC in the 1990s and 2000s winning drivers' titles with Colin McRae (1995), Richard Burns (2001) and Petter Solberg (2003).Subaru, however, exited the WRC at the end of 2008 due to the global financial crisis.The brand has however remained involved in rallying through the Subaru Motorsports USA programme, which competes in the ...Keep readingView the full article

Ross Chastain reflects on his famed move last season at Martinsville amid his quest to make a repeat trip to the Championship 4. View the full article

The championship leader rolled his Toyota GR Yaris in stage eight which put him out of his home event as the Finn retired from an event for the first time this season.While Rovanpera emerged from the incident without any serious injuries, the 22-year-old reported after the event that he was suffering from pain in his ribs and back.As a result, Rovanpera elected to sit out a European Drift Masters ...Keep readingView the full article

Regions of Greece have been subjected to severe rainfall and thunderstorms over the past 72 hours, which has caused widespread disruption and flash floods.The storm has hit Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria claiming the lives of at least 14 people.The wild weather has disrupted preparations for the rally with the FIA forced to cancel Thursday's shakedown stage after already electing to shorten stage ...Keep readingView the full article

Jimmie Johnson made an announcement that John Hunter Nemecheck would be driving the No. 42 car in 2024. View the full article

John Hunter Nemechek, who owns an Xfinity Series-best five victories this year, will return to Cup in 2024 as driver of the No. 42 car. View the full article

Nemechek, 26, hasn't been full-time in the Cup Series since 2020 when he drove for Front Row Motorsports. After finishing 27th in points and losing his ride at FRM, he then went and essentially repeated the NASCAR ladder system.He drove a Toyota Tundra for Kyle Busch Motorsports in 2021, winning five races and finishing third in the final Truck standings. In 2022, he won two more races and ended ...Keep readingView the full article

Twice during the 2023 NASCAR Cup regular season, Larson made trips to Victory Lane and twice he followed those wins by crashing out of the next race.Still, he easily advanced to the 16-driver playoffs with solid credentials but with a lingering question mark: Could he and his team string together enough consistent runs that would allow them to contend for a series championship?Winning means ...Keep readingView the full article

Greece has been subjected to flash flooding this week after receiving record-breaking rainfall courtesy of Storm Daniel.Last Sunday WRC crews were issued a severe weather warning of the approaching storm. The storm has hit Lamia, the host city for the Acropolis Rally, which has resulted in several roads being flooded around the service park. Rally event director Pavlos Athanassoulas told ...Keep readingView the full article

Larson earned his third points-paying win of the year in the Southern 500 at Darlington, beating Tyler Reddick and Chris Buescher to the checkered flag.Denny Hamlin dominated the race, winning both stages, but was relegated to a 25th-place finish after an unscheduled pit stop for what he believed was a loose wheel.The battle to advance remains close, with Bubba Wallace (-1pt), Kevin Harvick ...Keep readingView the full article

Since it launched in 1973, the WRC has created a myriad of memorable moments from emotional victories and defeats, historic game changing achievements, to feats that simply defy belief. Distilling all the action from the last half century into 20 defined moments is by no means a small task. To attempt this the WRC collated a panel of experts to produce a list of 50 moments which were then put to ...Keep readingView the full article

Kvapil, 20, has won multiple races with JR Motorsports in the CARS Pro Late Model and CARS Late Model Stock Car tours.He currently leads the championship standings in the CARS Late Model Stock Car Tour and is a member of Chevrolet's driver development program.Now he'll get the chance on the national stage of NASCAR for the first time in his career. On September 14th, he will pilot the No. 7 Spire ...Keep readingView the full article