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Thompson, a 21-year-old native of Anaheim, Calif., will compete fulltime in 2023 driving Tricon’s No. 5 Toyota beginning with the Feb. 17 series opener at Daytona in February. “I am thrilled to start the next chapter of my career with TRICON Garage and Toyota Racing Development,” said Thompson. “The team and manufacturer have quickly made a statement in the Truck Series as striving to ...Keep readingView the full article

Kyle Busch and Tyler Reddick, the two NASCAR Cup playoff drivers to switch teams for 2023, are busy prepping for next season. View the full article

Kyle Busch hopes to go to a tire test at COTA next month to work with his RCR team. That won’t help as far as getting time with new spotter Derek Kneeland, but Kneeland did some of Busch’s truck races this year. Busch on the transition: View the full article

The accolade, launched in 2021 and first won by Jean Todt, recognises an individual who has given a lifetime of service to the sport and who leaves a lasting legacy for future generations. As well as his success across Formula 1, the Indianapolis 500, Trans-Am, Can-Am and sportscar racing, Penske also became the first team owner to run both the IndyCar and NASCAR Cup drivers’ champions in the ...Keep readingView the full article

Rovanpera won six rounds on his way to the crown with Toyota to become the youngest WRC champion at the age of 22. Autosport readers have voted the Finn the top rally driver of 2022, ahead of Hyundai’s Ott Tanak and Thierry Neuville, and M-Sport’s Sebastien Loeb. It is the first time Rovanpera has won the honour. Rovanpera’s victory was announced on 4 December at the Autosport Awards ...Keep readingView the full article

The Yaris was victorious on seven of the 13 World Rally Championship events in the first year of the hybrid Rally1 regulations and scooped both the manufacturers’ crown and drivers’ title with Kalle Rovanpera. Autosport readers have voted the Yaris the best rally car of 2022, ahead of its WRC rivals the Ford Puma Rally1 and Hyundai i20 N Rally1, and the Dakar Rally-winning Toyota GR DKR ...Keep readingView the full article

Solberg has found himself without a drive for 2023 after Hyundai elected to drop the 21-year-old from its factory Rally1 operation at the end of the year, citing a wish to field a more experienced driver line-up. The South Korean marque has since announced that Craig Breen will fill the position after the Irishman left a two-year deal with M-Sport a year early. As previously revealed ...Keep readingView the full article

For the fifth year in a row, Chase Elliott has been selected the Most Popular Driver of the NASCAR Cup Series. View the full article

For the fifth consecutive season, Elliott was named the winner Thursday night of the 2022 National Motorsports Press Association’s Most Popular Driver Award. This is the 32nd consecutive year a member of the Earnhardt or Elliott family has won the award, including Chase’s father, Hall of Famer Bill Elliott, who won the award each season from 1984 to 2002. Darrell Waltrip (1990) was ...Keep readingView the full article

Zane Smith, the 2022 NASCAR Truck Series champion, is expected to run a handful of races in the Cup Series for Front Row Motorsports next season. View the full article

The team, co-owned by Matt Tifft, B.J. McLeod and Joe Falk, will shift from Ford to Chevrolet next season and field the No. 78 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1. They will also receive engine support from ECR Engines. “Our team is excited to make this transition to Chevrolet,” said McLeod, co-owner and driver at Live Fast Motorsports. “Chevrolet Camaros have proven great success on the track and ...Keep readingView the full article

The Akron, Ohio-based manufacturer has been involved in the sport since 1954. For the last 25 years, Goodyear has been the exclusive tire supplier for NASCAR’s top three series – Cup, Xfinity and Trucks. That relationship will continue in another multi-year contract extension announced Thursday morning in Nashville, Tenn. Goodyear remains the longest-running continuous partner in NASCAR ...Keep readingView the full article

The entire rally-raid will take place in Saudi Arabia for a fourth year in succession, with attempts to expand it to other countries in the Gulf having come to a nought. However, the route has been significantly altered and expanded, with the rally running to 14 stages in 2023 as compared to 12 this year. The action will commence from a dedicated Sea Camp on the west coast of Saudi Arabia, with ...Keep readingView the full article

SA has emerged as a leading contender to host Rally Australia should it return to the WRC schedule. The event, which was mostly recently held in Coffs Harbour in New South Wales, has been absent from the calendar since 2019. It has long been expected that for Australia to return to the WRC schedule a new event would be required, with Coffs unpopular with the teams due to its distance from ...Keep readingView the full article

Earlier this season, the WRC announced plans to launch a revamped visual platform for rally fans in bid to grow the discipline in new markets. "We want to reach new markets, we want to enter new markets and implement in new countries so this is our plan to develop the TV so we are very, very confident," said WRC Promoter managing director Jona Siebel at Rally Portugal in May. The WRC has now ...Keep readingView the full article

Kyle Busch - Joe Gibbs Racing to Richard Childress Racing Background: A star driver at JGR since 2008, collecting 56 of his 60 Cup wins there and winning two Cup titles (2015, 2019). New deal could not be struck after departure of long-time sponsor M&Ms (Mars Inc.). Will be replaced by Ty Gibbs, newly crowned NASCAR Xfinity champion. Kyle Busch, Joe Gibbs Racing, M&M's Toyota ...Keep readingView the full article

Jordan Anderson opens up about last month's NASCAR Truck Series crash at Talladega that resulted in him suffering second-degree burns. View the full article

The WRC had indicated earlier this year a desire to add a desert event in the region, which has been described by the championship’s event director Simon Larkin as a "missing piece" from the series schedule. It was anticipated that an event, understood to be held in Saudi Arabia, would be included in next year’s schedule but it was absent from today’s confirmation of a 13-round 2023 ...Keep readingView the full article

As previously reported, the WRC has been keen to re-establish a more global calendar akin to its schedule prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. After a lengthy delay the FIA has now ratified a reshuffled 2023 schedule with an anticipated round in the Middle East, thought to be Saudi Arabia, absent from the calendar. The season will feature four tarmac and eight gravel rallies, alongside the ...Keep readingView the full article

Veteran lead race engineer Travis Peterson, who spent the past five seasons working with drivers Chris Buescher, Ryan Newman and Matt Kenseth at Roush Fenway Keselowski (RFK) Racing, has been named as the new crew chief of McDowell’s No. 34 Ford, effective immediately. Prior to his time at RFK, Peterson served as a race engineer at Hendrick Motorsports for Dale Earnhardt Jr. and JR ...Keep readingView the full article

Keselowski, a former Cup Series champion and current driver and part owner of Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing, announced Tuesday he would make his first appearance in the prestigious Super Late Model event. The 55th annual Snowball Derby is scheduled for Nov. 30-Dec. 4 at Five Flags Speedway in Pensacola, Fla. “The Snowball Derby is essentially an all-star race as it attracts some of the ...Keep readingView the full article

Although the Next Gen car tightened the competition at the front of the Cup field, producing a record-tying 19 different winners, only four Cup races (all superspeedways) ended up on this list. Some finishes were excluded, as the race ended under caution. Read Also: The ten closest finishes from the 2021 NASCAR season 10. Stewart Friesen vs. Christian Eckes - Texas Trucks - ...Keep readingView the full article

Few figures in global motorsport have made as much of an impact as Penske, 85, who receives the award that was created to recognise the handful of very special individuals who have not only contributed a massive amount to the sport during a long career, but who will also leave a lasting legacy. For some people, Penske's accomplishments in motorsport are evident in the statistics. Team Penske ...Keep readingView the full article

Nine-time world champion Loeb rejoined the WRC this year to contest four rallies behind the wheel of an M-Sport Ford Puma. The 48-year-old claimed a famous 80th career WRC win in January's Monte Carlo Rally, which proved to be M-Sport's only victory this season. Loeb outlined the Puma can match its WRC rivals by leading in Portugal, Kenya and Greece, but hopes of further podiums were ...Keep readingView the full article

After a stint in the Xfinity Series, AJ Allmendinger is back full time in the NASCAR Cup Series with a new outlook. View the full article