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Gordon, 51, is a four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion with 93 race wins (third on the all-time wins list). Gordon's Hall of Fame career, spanning from 1992 to 2016, included three Daytona 500 victories, and just two years where he finished lower than 10th in the standings. Gordon's 'retirement' has been a busy one, including an overall victory in the 2017 Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona ...Keep readingView the full article

The team’s crew chief Billy Plourde, car chief Jamie Edwards and team engineer Steven Gray have all been suspended for the next four races, through and including the Sept. 17 race at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway. The team was penalized according to Section 14.11.2.1.A&B; 10.5.2.6.E: Safety Penalty (Ballast) Note: Loss or separation of added ballast from the vehicle. During ...Keep readingView the full article

Earlier this season, team owner Roger Penske had said he was expecting to sign the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series champion to a long-term extension and the deal was finally announced on Wednesday. “Over the last 10 years Joey has become such an important part of Team Penske and we know he will continue to be a leader and a winner with the #22 Ford team well into the future,” said Penske. “Joey ...Keep readingView the full article

Earlier this season, team owner Roger Penske had said he was expecting to sign Logano, the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series champion, to a long-term extension and the deal was finally announced on Wednesday. “Over the last 10 years Joey has become such an important part of Team Penske and we know he will continue to be a leader and a winner with the No. 22 Ford team well into the future,” said ...Keep readingView the full article

The team had planned to field a record six Rally1 cars for the Greek gravel event from 8-11 September, with the entry headlined by nine-time world champion Sebastien Loeb, who will make his fourth appearance of the season. Full-time driver Fourmaux and co-driver Alexandre Coria were listed among its six entries, but the duo’s heavy crash during the penultimate stage of last weekend’s Ypres ...Keep readingView the full article

Norris has carved a out a successful single-seater racing career that has seen him climb through the UK national ranks before landing a seat at McLaren in 2019, and is currently seventh in the championship standings ahead of this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix. While his career has been centred around circuit racing, Norris declared an interest in rallying in an Motorsport.com interview last ...Keep readingView the full article

Will Kimi Raikkonen's appetite have been sufficiently whetted by his first taste of the NASCAR Cup Series to come back for more? That's the million dollar question. Over the years, this writer has covered ex-Formula 1 stars Mika Hakkinen, Jean Alesi, Heinz-Harald Frentzen and David Coulthard in the DTM and the likes of Nigel Mansell, Gianni Morbidelli, Derek Warwick and Johnny Herbert in the ...Keep readingView the full article

Top Performer - Ott Tanak and Martin Jarveoja For the second consecutive rally, Hyundai's Ott Tanak and co-driver Martin Jarveoja deserve the Top Performer Award after coming through a particularly challenging Ypres Rally Belgium to claim their third victory of 2022. Ypres' tricky narrow tarmac roads can catch out the best of drivers, as championship leader Kalle Rovanpera and 2021 winner ...Keep readingView the full article

McDowell showed he had a fast car all weekend, - he qualified third, led 14 laps and utilized a two-pit stop strategy that kept him in the hunt the entire race. But with 15 different winners this season and mired in 24th in the series standings, only a win is going to put McDowell in the 16-driver NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. McDowell, a solid road racer himself, found himself battling ...Keep readingView the full article

The father of reigning F1 world champion Max Verstappen turned heads on his WRC debut, running as high as 25th overall and leading the Masters Cup class at the wheel of a DG Sport Competition-prepared Citroen C3 Rally2 car. Verstappen and co-driver Harm van Koppen eventually finished the rally 60th after running off the road during Stage 13, but the Dutchman did finish ahead of WRC championship ...Keep readingView the full article

The NASCAR Cup Series had a record number of countries represented in a single race this past weekend at Watkins Glen, with seven nationalities involved, including former F1 drivers Kimi Raikkonen and Daniil Kvyat. This number could have been higher, both in the number of 'foreigners' and former F1 drivers, with the presence of Marques. Originally, the ex-Minardi racer was to start eight Cup ...Keep readingView the full article

His #91 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 was driven for the first time at Watkins Glen over the weekend by 2007 Formula 1 world champion Kimi Raikkonen, who ran in the top 10 before crashing out in the final stage. Project 91’s stated intention is to field “world-class drivers from other disciplines to compete at NASCAR’s highest level”. Trackhouse already fields two full-time Cup cars with drivers ...Keep readingView the full article

His #91 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 was driven for the first time at Watkins Glen over the weekend by 2007 Formula 1 world champion Kimi Raikkonen, who ran in the top 10 before crashing out in the final stage. Project 91’s stated intention is to field “world-class drivers from other disciplines to compete at NASCAR’s highest level”. Trackhouse already fields two full-time Cup Series teams with ...Keep readingView the full article

Rockenfeller made his first Cup race start on Sunday at Watkins Glen, driving the #77 Chevrolet for Spire Motorsports. Already in an unfamiliar setting, the German road racer got to experience NASCAR’s version of racing in the wet before the track dried out, ran near the front early in the event and even duelled with former Formula 1 world champion Kimi Raikkonen on the ...Keep readingView the full article

Rockenfeller, a two-time Le Mans class winner and former DTM champion, made his first Cup Series start on Sunday at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International, driving the No. 77 Chevrolet for Spire Motorsports. Already in an unfamiliar setting, the German road racer got to experience NASCAR’s version of racing in the wet before the track dried out, ran near the front early in the event and even ...Keep readingView the full article

The runaway championship leader made the first costly error of the season on the Belgian asphalt roads when he crashed out of Stage 2 while leading the rally. The accident was the 21-year-old's first since Rally Finland in October last year, and since then he's finished in the points at every WRC event that has followed. Heading into Belgium, the Finn had built up a 94-point lead after ...Keep readingView the full article

Will Kimi Raikkonen's appetite have been sufficiently whetted by his first taste of the NASCAR Cup Series to come back for more? That's the million dollar question. Over the years, this writer has covered ex-Formula 1 stars Mika Hakkinen, Jean Alesi, Heinz-Harald Frentzen and David Coulthard in the DTM and the likes of Nigel Mansell, Gianni Morbidelli, Derek Warwick and Johnny Herbert in the ...Keep readingView the full article

The Finn was entering his first competitive event after retiring from F1 at the end of 2021, and from 27th on the grid his Trackhouse Chevrolet progressed into the top 20 early in the wet early phases of Sunday's race. As the track dried, he was on a strategy that would allow him to progress inside the top 10 at the start of the second stage. He held his own and ran as high as eighth until ...Keep readingView the full article

Elliott led the field on the restart with five of 90 laps remaining, Larson pressuring him alongside, and as the two exited Turn 1 Larson appeared to lock up his brakes and drifted wide, which forced Elliott to take avoiding action and allowed Larson to move into the lead. Larson then had to hold off a furious challenge from A.J. Allmendinger to take the win by 0.882 seconds. It’s just the ...Keep readingView the full article

The 2019 world champion claimed back-to-back WRC victories for the first time since his championship-winning season after fending off Toyota’s Elfyn Evans in an attritional Ypres Rally. Tanak’s win arrived two weeks after scoring an against-the-odds triumph in Finland, but the Estonian admitted it was a “big surprise” to win on tarmac in Belgium. The rally wasn’t without its ...Keep readingView the full article

The Ford squad has struggled for results in recent months with its last podium arriving in June, courtesy of Craig Breen’s second-place finish in Sardinia. This weekend in Belgium the team’s fortunes failed to improve as all three drivers Breen, Gus Greensmith and Adrien Fourmaux were involved in costly incidents. Breen was running fifth when a mistake in Stage 10 of the asphalt rally ...Keep readingView the full article

The 2019 world champion came under pressure from Evans early on Sunday morning’s asphalt stages before going on to seal the win by 5.0s. The victory arrived just two weeks after his triumph in Rally Finland. Tanak and co-driver Martin Jarveoja produced a faultless drive from start to finish. The Estonian was in contention from the beginning after ending Friday 2.5s shy of teammate Thierry ...Keep readingView the full article

Evans emerged fastest on the pair of stages that kicked off the rally’s final day to close to within 6.7s of leader Tanak, who started Sunday with an 8.2s advantage. Toyota’s Esapekka Lappi completed the loop in a comfortable third, 1m29.8s adrift, while Hyundai’s Oliver Solberg hung onto fourth, but saw his gap to M-Sport’s Adrien Fourmaux cut 10.1s. Toyota’s Takamoto Katsuta ...Keep readingView the full article

The M-Sport Ford driver found himself caught in spectator traffic on a road section before the day’s penultimate stage. Fourmaux elected to overtake the queue of cars but was stopped by local police. Fourmaux eventually arrived at the stage start two minutes late which resulted in a 20 second penalty and dropped the Frenchman from fourth to fifth position heading into Sunday’s final four ...Keep readingView the full article

The 2007 world champion navigated through his first Cup Series practice and qualifying sessions on Saturday at Watkins Glen without any on-track incidents and will line up 27th for Sunday's race. His fellow international Cup debutants, 2010 Le Mans 24 Hours winner Mike Rockenfeller (Spire Chevrolet) and fellow ex-F1 racer Daniil Kvyat (Hezeberg Toyota), will start 33rd and 36th ...Keep readingView the full article