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The No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford (Kevin Harvick), No. 6 RFK Racing Ford (Brad Keselowski), No. 12 Team Penske Ford (Ryan Blaney), No. 22 Team Penske Ford (Joey Logano), No. 23 23XI Racing Toyota (Bubba Wallace), and the No. 78 Live Fast Motorsports Ford (BJ McLeod) all failed inspection twice. The penalty will be the loss of pit selection and one crew member being ejected from the race ...Keep readingView the full article

Rovanpera transformed a 4.3s deficit to overnight leader Neuville into a 4.8s advantage over Toyota teammate Elfyn Evans after Saturday morning’s loop of three stages. It was the fifth lead change of the event to date. Esapekka Lappi climbed to third some 12s adrift as the three Toyotas capitalised on Neuville’s struggles to find the grip and a costly error during the morning’s final ...Keep readingView the full article

Tanak was firmly in the fight for the win having won two stages on Friday placing the 2019 world champion 1.1 seconds adrift of the lead when drama struck. Tanak had completed the final 10km of stage five with a hybrid issue, which then triggered a red warning light on his car that required him to stop on a road section. As per new Rally1 hybrid FIA regulations such a situation requires the ...Keep readingView the full article

The opening seven stages of the WRC's only snow rally provided a pulsating battle for the lead with six cars separated by approximately 10s for the majority of the day. However, a late surge from Neuville helped the Belgian snatch a 4.3s overnight lead over Toyota's Kalle Rovanpera, who briefly held the lead heading into the afternoon loop. Toyota's Elfyn Evans surged to the lead after ...Keep readingView the full article

The Next Gen car has only tested once on the 2-mile Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., and that was a one-car test with William Byron in early March 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic brought a three-month halt to the season. The car itself has gone through numerous changes since then, not to mention Byron was involved in a wreck during the test itself. The Cup Series didn’t race or ...Keep readingView the full article

Rovanpera moved into the lead after winning stage 3 and capitalising on teammate Esapekka Lappi stalling his GR Yaris on stage 3, dropping the Finn from the lead to sixth overall. As a result, Rovanpera headed back to service with a 10.4s lead over Solberg, who headed a strong start for Hyundai on the high-speed snowy roads. Elfyn Evans held third spot, 1.2s further back, despite ...Keep readingView the full article

The M-Sport driver rode his luck on early in Stage 2 when he clipped a snowbank that pitched his Ford Puma into a spin, 4.7km into the 27.8km test. Breen was able to reverse out of the snowbank to rejoin the stage after dropping 28s, but worse was to follow minutes later. The Irishman misjudged a high-speed section, resulting in his Puma ploughing through a snowbank. With his car buried ...Keep readingView the full article

Truex, the younger brother of NASCAR Cup Series star Martin Truex Jr., ran several races for JGR in Xfinity in both the 2011 and 2012 season. JGR announced Thursday that Truex, 29, will drive four races this season in the team’s No. 18 Toyota. Truex’s first race will be March 5 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. He is also scheduled to drive the No. 18 Toyota April 8 at Martinsville, Va.; May ...Keep readingView the full article

The Frenchman is eager to kickstart his 2022 season in Sweden this weekend after an error resulted in a frightening crash on the third stage in Monte Carlo last month. Fourmaux and co-driver Alexandre Coria were lucky to walk way without injury after their Ford Puma was catapulted into ravine after a collision with a rock face. Such was the damage to the car, the team elected to build up a ...Keep readingView the full article

This weekend's Sweden event will be held in the brand new location of Umea, approximately 800km north of the event's previous home in Karlstad. The move north means drivers will face 17 new stages that appear to be much faster than previous snow rallies, courtesy of a number of long straights which connect technical and narrow sections. This combination has led several drivers to label this ...Keep readingView the full article

Michael McDowell said he won’t be able to help rookie (and teammate) Todd Gilliland much this weekend at Fontana with a new car and limited practice time. View the full article

Christopher Bell likens the new practice format to hot laps at a dirt track. Bell is used to hot laps and that’s better than no practice, which he has had for most of his first two years in Cup. View the full article

The motorsport governing body issued a statement on Wednesday night in response to racist comments made on social media directed at Kenyan driver Kimathi. The 27-year-old, named after WRC great and 1995 champion Colin McRae, is set to join the first rung on the WRC ladder this weekend, having made a name for himself in the African rally scene winning last year’s junior title. This weekend ...Keep readingView the full article

Both the No. 31 Kaulig Racing and The No. 50 The Money Team Racing entries have been issued penalties after wheel-related failures during the Daytona 500. In the case of TMTR's Kaz Grala, the car completely lost a wheel which then bounced across the track and forced several drivers to take evasive maneuvers. Justin Haley's Kaulig Racing crew chief Trent Owens, as well crew members ...Keep readingView the full article

The French carmaker has a rich history in rallying having competed in the WRC with its iconic A110 in the 1960 and 1970s. It has recently returned to the arena with a rally version of its new A110 model which is eligible to compete in the R-GT class. Speaking to selected media at Alpine’s Formula 1 launch this week, Luca De Meo CEO of Renault confirmed the brand’s motorsport’s arm Alpine ...Keep readingView the full article

How to watch NASCAR at Auto Club Speedway Both the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series will be on track this weekend for Round 2 of the 2022 season. Rookie Austin Cindric heads into the race as the newly crowned Daytona 500 winner with another first-time winner, Austin Hill, taking the checkered flag in the NXS season-opener at Daytona. Here's how and where to watch all the on-track ...Keep readingView the full article

The 2019 and 2020 WRC manufacturers’ champions left Monte Carlo facing a myriad of problems to fix on its all-new i20 N Rally1 machine after a nightmare start to the new hybrid era. Thierry Neuville was the only Hyundai to reach the finish in a lowly sixth after recovering from broken front right suspension and handling issues. Teammate Ott Tanak retired after sliding into a rock face, having ...Keep readingView the full article

Radioactive from the 2022 Daytona 500 for the NASCAR Cup Series in Daytona Beach, FL. View the full article

Harvick, who got wrecked out of last Sunday’s Daytona 500 and finished 30th, believes the two-mile track will prove an “aggressive” test for the new-sized tires, which feature a much lower-profiled sidewall. He believes that no amount of pre-race simulation can prepare for the demands that lie ahead in this Sunday’s 400-miler in California. “When you go to Fontana, a two-mile ...Keep readingView the full article

The 2020 Xfinity champion, aged 23, came within a whisker of successfully defending his crown in the second-tier series last year and made the dream start to life as a Cup Series full-timer last weekend by beating Bubba Wallace to the flag in the biggest race of the season. PLUS: How Penske's rookie sensation opened NASCAR's new era in style From this, it may be deduced that a ...Keep readingView the full article

With all the success in NASCAR Cindric has enjoyed already at age 23 – including his stunning win in Sunday’s Daytona 500 as a rookie in the Cup Series – it may seem a NASCAR career was long destined for the son of Team Penske president Tim Cindric. But that was hardly the case. Sure, Austin had plenty of racing lineage in his family. His grandfather on his mother’s side was the ...Keep readingView the full article

The Finn is set to embark on a part-time WRC campaign with the reigning world champion Toyota squad beginning at Rally Sweden this weekend. Lappi has rejoined the Toyota squad, whom he began his top flight WRC career with in 2017, to pilot the third GR Yaris he will share with eight-time world champion Sebastien Ogier. It is expected the 31-year-old will contest the majority of the rounds ...Keep readingView the full article

Sunday’s Daytona 500 was the first time a full field of 40 Next Gen cars appeared on the track in racing conditions. The racing was fairly typical of most superspeedway races, with a handful of multi-car wrecks but the carbon-fiber composite bodies appeared to stand up better in accidents. Two cars suffered lost wheels during the race and several cars seemed to have difficulty driving away ...Keep readingView the full article

The 23XI Racing driver tried desperately to shove Team Penske's Ryan Blaney and get in position to race leader Austin Cindric for the win in Sunday’s Daytona 500. He succeeded in the first part but not in the second, just coming up short of winner Cindric at the finish on Sunday. The runner-up finish was his second in the Cup Series’ biggest race, the first coming in 2018 in his first ...Keep readingView the full article

The one-time WRC event winner and father of current Toyota WRC factory driver Kalle Rovanpera, has announced plans to make a comeback at the Mexican rally after a decade away from competition. Rovanpera racked up 15 podium finishes during a WRC career from 1993-2006, driving for the factory SEAT, Peugeot and Mitsubishi teams. The Finn's only win came competing for Peugeot at Rally Sweden in ...Keep readingView the full article