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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

NASCAR will tweak how it sets its Cup Series starting lineup after drivers complained their group designation heavily impacted their spot on the starting grid. View the full article

Karam, 28, has 25 total starts in the NASCAR Xfinity Series.After making his debut in 2021 where he ran four races, he increased his schedule to nine in 2022, and then 12 in 2023. Those starts have come with five different teams, but his best effort came with Same Hunt Racing.At Road America last year, he was very nearly won the race in a frantic finish before earning a career-best result of ...Keep readingView the full article

The No. 36 Front Row Motorsports Ford Mustang is the fifth open entry announced for the 500 so far, bringing the total number of entries to 41. With only 40 cars allowed in the field, at least one will be going home after the Duel races.Grala has just seven starts at the Cup level. He made his debut in 2020 with Richard Childress Racing, finishing an impressive seventh at the Daytona Road Course ...Keep readingView the full article

This weekend will see the WRC debut its new points-scoring structure, ratified by the FIA, which is designed to spice up rallies and in particular the action on Sundays. Under the new system, a sliding scale of 18-15-13-10-8-6-4-3-2-1 points will be awarded at the end of Saturday, but only if a crew reaches Sunday’s final classification. If a crew fails to finish on Sunday, the Saturday ...Keep readingView the full article

The 30-year-old native of Frisange, Luxembourg, will drive the No. 68 Ford for Kimmel Racing after testing with the team earlier this month at the track. Following the test, he was cleared to compete on all series tracks.Linster returned to Luxembourg following the test and worked to secure sponsorship to do the race, which he was able to nail down this week.Linster, who competes full-time in the ...Keep readingView the full article

The motorsport winter is quickly coming to an end, while several series across the globe have already begun their 2024 activities, meaning plotlines and talking points are unfolding right now.The Dakar Rally and Formula E, now customary annual calendar openers, have already produced the first major winners of the year, as Carlos Sainz Sr took his fourth triumph at the iconic rally-raid for Audi ...Keep readingView the full article

Audi has faced heavy backlash over the way its motorsport division has been managed over the last few years. The decision to phase out all its sportscar racing programmes and go all-in on Formula 1 has aggrieved even the most loyal fans of the German marque. Even former teams and drivers haven’t shied away from levying criticism at some board-level changes that they feel have damaged the very ...Keep readingView the full article