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The Norwegian made an extraordinary outburst during a live television interview at the end of Stage 18 after he had suffered a front left puncture that robbed him of the class lead. As he crossed the finish of the stage cameras cut to an onboard of Ostberg shouting and banging his hands on the steering wheel in frustration. A television reporter then interviewed the Citroen driver who ...Keep reading View the full article

The reigning world champion and co-driver Julien Ingrassia managed their advantage over Evans in the event's final four stages on Sunday to claim a 52nd career win and Toyota's first at Sardinia. Evans finished 46s in arrears, but not without a scare on the final stage when his Yaris briefly stalled after ingesting water from a water splash. Luckily, he was able to fire up the car and only lost ...Keep reading View the full article

Briscoe qualified third, grabbed the lead on Lap 1 and never relinquished it, holding off Dylan Lupton by 3.110 seconds in overtime to win the General Tire 200, his first series victory. Briscoe, a rookie in the NASCAR Cup Series, had never competed at the Sonoma road course before and was hoping to gain some valuable experience prior to Sunday’s Cup race. Despite a fairly mild first half ...Keep reading View the full article

Reddick and his Richard Childress Racing teammate, Austin Dillon, have shown they have the speed to compete with the likes of Hendrick Motorsports and Joe Gibbs Racing this season. But there is a lot more to winning races than just being fast. Reddick calls some of the missing ingredients “the little details.” “Probably the biggest one has been here in the last two or three weeks is ...Keep reading View the full article

Allmendinger crushed the competition at Mid-Ohio, picking up his seventh career victory at the NASCAR Xfinity Series B&L Transport 170. View the full article

The Toyota driver finds himself in second following a much stronger showing on Saturday after struggling for confidence on Friday that left him adrift of the podium places. Evans also benefitted from high drama as comfortable rally leader Ott Tanak retired on Stage 12 after hitting a rock while his second placed Hyundai team-mate Dani Sordo crashed out on Stage 15. Read ...Keep reading View the full article

It seemed as though Austin Cindric had the victory within his grasp as he led the race with seven laps to go, over ten seconds clear of the field. However, the beached car of Jeb Burton brought out a caution and forced a restart. Allmendinger made an aggressive move to the inside entering Turn 1, taking the leaders three-wide. The pass was completed cleanly, but contact ensued soon after ...Keep reading View the full article

The reigning world champion won three of the four afternoon stages and is now armed with a comfortable 38.9s lead, after nearest rival Sordo rolled on Stage 15, ending his victory hopes. Sordo clipped a culvert on the exit of a corner ripping the right rear wheel from the Hyundai i20 before pitching the car into a roll. Sordo and co-driver Borja Rozada, who were in a tight battle for second ...Keep reading View the full article

Sordo, sitting a relatively comfortable second, rolled his i20 Coupe when he ran wide and hit a culvert that ripped the right rear wheel from the car and pitched it into a roll. The crash came just hours after the team witnessed Ott Tanak retire from a comfortable 40.5s lead when the Estonian hit a rock on Stage 12 that proved terminal for his Hyundai i20. It is the second event in a row ...Keep reading View the full article

Tanak started the day by claiming his sixth stage win of the event but faced a strong response from Toyota as Ogier and Elfyn Evans shared the stage wins for the remaining three tests of the morning loop. But drama struck on Stage 12 when the Estonian hit a large rock that damaged his Hyundai i20 Coupe enough to force him to stop mid-stage. Tanak had held a comfortable lead of more than 40s ...Keep reading View the full article

The center, which was originally announced in January 2020, was delayed when the original site was repurposed during the COVID-19 pandemic by GM Defense for production of the new Infantry Squad Vehicle, a light and agile troop carrier developed for the U.S. Army. The new site is larger (130,000 square-feet rather than 75,000 square-feet) than the original and the $45 million facility is now ...Keep reading View the full article

The Hyundai driver had been imperious for the majority of Friday, winning five of the eight stages to build up a 19.4s lead over team-mate Dani Sordo, with Toyota’s Sebastian Ogier 36.2s back in third. However, the Estonian suffered a Pirelli tyre delamination towards the end of the second run through the 14.97km Erula-Tula stage. Tanak finished 5.6s behind team-mates Sordo and Thierry ...Keep reading View the full article

If there’s one thing that Jeep has never feared, it’s painting vehicles in wild and exciting colors. And these colors aren’t just for concept vehicles, either. Colors such as Crush Orange, Cosmos Blue, Gecko, Punk’n, Mojito, and Xtreme Purple are just a few of the most recent colors to come for a short time and View the full article

One of the advantages of the job we do is we get to visit an awful lot of off-road shops, including specialty Jeep shops like Jeeps R Us in Laguna Niguel, California. Jeeps R Us is usually working on a good assortment of classic Jeeps of all types from full-blown restorations to highly modified off-road View the full article

After dominating the morning loop, the Hyundai driver reeled off another series of impressive stage times, making the most of his favourable road position on the rough and slippery gravel roads. The Estonian heads into Saturday with a 19.4s lead over team-mate and two-time Sardinia winner Sordo, who with Hyundai team-mate Thierry Neuville, prevented him from recording a clean sweep of stage ...Keep reading View the full article

Briscoe, a rookie who drives the No. 14 Ford for Stewart-Haas Racing, picked up his first top-10 of the season (sixth) two weeks ago at the Circuit of the Americas. While Briscoe came from a background in dirt racing, his first win in NASCAR’s Xfinity Series came in the inaugural race on the Charlotte Roval course. Last season, he won the inaugural Xfinity race on the Indianapolis Motor ...Keep reading View the full article

Byron, who competes fulltime in the Cup Series for Hendrick Motorsports, will drive a second entry, the No. 27 Chevrolet, in the June 18 Truck race for Rackley W.A.R., co-owned by Willie Allen and Curtis Sutton. It will mark Byron’s first start in the series since 2016, when he won seven races and finished fifth in points for Kyle Busch Motorsports. “I am excited for the opportunity to ...Keep reading View the full article

The 2019 world champion came out of the blocks fast, sweeping a quartet of tricky hot, rough gravel stages to hold an early 16.9s lead over Hyundai teammate Dani Sordo. Two-time Sardinia winner Sordo, who had been struggling with a tyre problem, was elevated to second after Toyota’s Rovanpera hit trouble in the second pass through Terranova. The Finn damaged his front right suspension and ...Keep reading View the full article

Diving into the world of vehicle trim levels can be confusing, at best. American automakers have a knack for offering a near infinite number of option combinations. To help distill this information, even just a little bit, we’re going to take a look at the 10 trim levels offered for the 2021 Jeep Gladiator pickup. View the full article

After two years of not racing at Sonoma, the NASCAR RaceHub crew discuss what to expect this weekend at the third road course of the season. View the full article

Receiver-mounted bike racks are a super popular way to transport your mountain bike(s) to the trail, but most on the market today mount the bikes horizontally in trays. We’ve used these horizontal tray-type bike racks for decades and really like many of the ones on the market today. The big downside to these types of View the full article

On This Week’s Podcast: Ford F-150 Lightning EV Gale Banks Sit down and strap in for Part One of a two-part chat with the one and only Gale Banks. Also hear the guys argue the merits of certain technologies in the automotive market, and hear about the new all-electric Ford F-150 Lightning. The Truck Show View the full article

WRC2 driver Mikkelsen has emerged as one of the candidates M-Sport is evaluating for 2022 as it looks to bring in a driver capable of winning the WRC title for next year’s Rally1 hybrid regulations. Team principal Richard Millener confirmed yesterday that it is looking at every P1 driver for 2022, revealing that it would be eager to lure Toyota’s out of contract Elfyn Evans back to the ...Keep reading View the full article

The Hyundai driver threw away a strong shot at victory in Rally Portugal two weeks ago when he hit a bank during the Mortagua stage and damaged the rear suspension on his i20 Coupe WRC. Neuville was sitting second at the end of Friday as Hyundai held the top three positions, with Dani Sordo leading and Ott Tanak third. However the rally imploded for the Korean marque on Saturday as first ...Keep reading View the full article

Last year’s WRC runner-up has remerged as a key player in the championship’s silly season now Thierry Neuville and 2019 WRC champion Ott Tanak have put pen to paper on new deals at Hyundai. Toyota is keen to retain Evans who would be likely to secure the number one driver status in the team next year should Sebastien Ogier reduce his WRC commitments to a partial campaign as the WRC ushers ...Keep reading View the full article