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[motorsport] Kyle Busch uses three-wide pass to snag Kansas Truck win
Busch lined up fourth heading into the second overtime of Saturday night’s race at Kansas Speedway and had struggled on the previous overtime restart. Chastain led the way with Austin Hill quickly giving chase but Chastain developed a bad tire-rub and Busch went to the outside and passed both Chastain and Hill exiting Turn 4 with one lap remaining. He held off them both to claim his second ...Keep reading View the full article
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[fourwheeler] Million-Mile Duramax (Almost): Episode 170 of The Truck Show Podcast
On This Week’s Podcast: 2022 Nissan Frontier Jeep Magneto Concept 2011 Million-Mile Duramax Enjoy a walkaround of the all-new 2022 Nissan Frontier with its lead exterior designer, Hiren Patel, and go for a ride in the Jeep Magneto concept with Jeep’s Jim Morrison. The guys also get a listener truck review and hear from Gene View the full article
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[fourwheeler] Jeep® Performance Parts Introduces Industry-First 2-Inch Lift Kit for a Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle
When the plug-in hybrid Jeep Wrangler 4xe was unveiled promising an all-electric range of up to 21 miles and a combined torque output from the electric motor and 2.0L four-cylinder turbocharged engine of 375hp and 470 lb-ft while earning up to 50 mpg-e, those facts by themselves were enough to be ground breaking. So we View the full article
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[motorsport] Kevin Harvick "scratching and clawing" for every point in 2021
Harvick and his No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford team led the series last year with nine wins, setting a personal best for the veteran driver. He failed to advance to the Championship 4 but finished fifth in the series standings and his average starting position of 7.7 and average finishing position of 7.3 were both the best of his career. While Harvick is currently seventh in the series ...Keep reading View the full article
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Dave and Ryan Blaney join RaceHub to discuss what it was like growing up racing
Ryan Blaney reveals his Darlington throwback car and reflects on what it was like to grow up racing with his dad Dave Blaney. View the full article
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[motorsport] NASCAR announces 2021 All-Star Race format
The annual exhibition race will feature six rounds with a total of 100 laps, live on Fox Sports 1 at 8 p.m. EST. The format: The race will feature six rounds, totaling 100 laps. Starting lineup for Round 1 will be determined via random draw. Rounds 1 through 4 will be 15 laps each; Round 5 will be 30 laps; the Final Round will feature a 10-lap shootout. At the beginning of ...Keep reading View the full article
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[motorsport] Erik Jones entered first year with RPM "a little bit blind"
NASCAR’s protocols for the pandemic haven’t changed much since last season but it’s one thing to operate under them as a driver with a history at a multi-team organization and another when you change to a one-car operation. One of the biggest noticeable changes moving from Joe Gibbs Racing to RPM for Jones? Operating under NASCAR’s no practice policy at most tracks in the Cup ...Keep reading View the full article
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[motorsport] M-Sport yet to decide on name for Rally1 WRC car
On Tuesday, the British squad released a selection of images of its Rally1 prototype running as a Fiesta on tarmac and gravel. These shots also revealed the FIA’s newly-designed safety cell – another key element of the upcoming rules cycle that is centred around plug-in hybrid technology. Since then, videos have emerged on social media of the car performing gravel testing in Spain, with ...Keep reading View the full article
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[fourwheeler] The EcoDiesel Jeep Wrangler Rubicon Is the Ultimate Adventure Vehicle
As we write this, our 2020 EcoDiesel Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon has seen just over 11,000 miles, and we will argue that it is the best weekend warrior wagon we’ve driven in quite some time. Why We Love the EcoDiesel Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon EcoDiesel gets us an average of nearly 24 combined mpg Rubicon View the full article
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[motorsport] Fourmaux retains M-Sport WRC drive for Rally Portugal
Fourmaux equalled the British squad’s best result of the season last weekend by completing the Zagreb-based tarmac event in fifth place overall. The 25-year-old was consistently quick across the three days of competition, and managed to set nine top-five stage times with his Ford Fiesta WRC machine. A trip into a grass bank as he negotiated a tight right-hander on cold tyres on the final ...Keep reading View the full article
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[motorsport] Brad Keselowski: NASCAR "can't have cars leaving the ground"
“I mean, no doubt we got to find a way to keep cars on the ground. I don’t care what the (aero) rules package is,” Keselowski said following his victory in the GEICO 500. “We start there – can’t have cars leaving the ground.” On the final lap of the first stage of Sunday’s race, Denny Hamlin turned Joey Logano while racing down the backstretch. Logano’s No. 22 Ford cut left ...Keep reading View the full article
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[motorsport] Croatia "deserves" WRC calendar slot - Hyundai
Based in Zagreb, the third round of the World Rally Championship was well received by each of the manufacturer teams and their crews, and was the 34th new addition since the competition was first established back in the early 1970s. Fans came out in their thousands to watch the action, even though it was not officially open to people, to witness Sebastien Ogier clinch his fifty first career win ...Keep reading View the full article
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[motorsport] New Toyota Rally1 car "on schedule" despite hybrid recall
At the request of Compact Dynamics – the company that won an FIA tender to develop the battery and e-motor for next season’s hybrid-powered cars – Toyota, M-Sport Ford and Hyundai had to send the parts back. While Latvala would not be drawn on the matter, or whether his engineers have had the chance to test the new system - either on a mule or in the workshop – the Finn explained that ...Keep reading View the full article
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[autosport] NASCAR Talladega: Keselowski wins last-lap thriller
DiBenedetto took the Stage 1 win under caution when a multi-car wreck erupted on the backstretch that sent Joey Logano’s #22 Team Penske Ford barrel-rolling down the track. Following a series of bumping moves, Logano appeared to get turned by Denny Hamlin's Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. Logano’s car veered left and made slight contact with Ryan Preece, which sent Logano’s car airborne ...Keep reading View the full article
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[motorsport] McDowell backs up Daytona 500 win with Talladega showing
McDowell is enjoying the best season of his Cup Series career with two top-fives, four top-tens and of course, his first career victory in February's Daytona 500. The Front Row Motorsports driver has always shined on NASCAR's two superspeedways with ten of his 16 career top-tens coming at the high banks of Daytona and Talladega. The 36-year-old is already in position to make the playoffs ...Keep reading View the full article
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[motorsport] Matt DiBenedetto: "Our day will definitely come"
DiBenedetto, who drives the No. 21 Ford for Wood Brothers Racing, put in one of his best performances in a superspeedway race on Sunday, and found himself in excellent position late in the event to earn his first Cup Series win. When Sunday’s race at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway headed into overtime, DiBenedetto led the way and still held the lead entering the final lap of the ...Keep reading View the full article
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[motorsport] Keselowski uses last-lap pass in OT for sixth Talladega win
On the final lap of overtime, Keselowski and Matt DiBenedetto were racing for the win when DiBenedetto went to the high side to block and Keselowski went low. With a shove from Michael McDowell, Keselowski cleared DiBenedetto and held on to the checkered flag to earn his first win of the season and sixth career victory at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway, despite Erik Jones and Ross Chastain ...Keep reading View the full article
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HIGHLIGHTS: Geico 500 at Talladega
Full highlights from Sunday's Geico 500 for the NASCAR Cup Series at Talladega Superspeedway View the full article
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FINAL LAPS: Brad Keselowski gets it done in overtime at Talladega
After a late restart with only 2 laps to go, Brad Keselowski brings home his sixth career win at Talladega. View the full article
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Bubba Wallace wins Stage 2 as Hamlin, Elliott, others wreck behind
Bubba Wallace picks up his first stage win as the field wrecks behind him with only one lap left in Stage 2 at Talladega. View the full article
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[motorsport] Logano 'happy to be alive' after airborne crash at Talladega
Logano was battling for the Stage 1 victory at Talladega when he suddenly found himself upside down in the middle of the pack. Several cars narrowly avoided the No. 22 Team Penske Ford Mustang with Bubba Wallace clipping the rear-end on his way by. Shockingly, Logano was the only driver out of the race after the incident. He will finish 39th and had a lot to say after being released ...Keep reading View the full article
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Joey Logano FLIPS his car after making contact with Denny Hamlin at Talladega
On the final lap of Stage 1 at Talladega, Joey Logano went flying after Denny Hamlin attempted to make a pass, but turned into the rear left of the 22 car. View the full article
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[motorsport] Ogier thought Croatia WRC was over after traffic collision
Video footage of the incident shows the co-driver’s side of Ogier’s Toyota Yaris being hit by another car as he changed lanes on a section of dual carriageway. No one was seriously injured in the incident, although Ogier revealed in the post-event press conference that he had to contend with back pain for the final four stages of the Tarmac event. “The impact was psychological ...Keep reading View the full article
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[motorsport] Jeb Burton's NASCAR career has been 'a tough road'
Very rarely, though, has he had the opportunity to compete fulltime in a series. Until this season, he had run two full seasons in Trucks (2013 and 2014) and one in Cup (2015) with an underfunded team. Most of the remainder of the years, Burton scraped together what sponsorship he could to fund as many races he could in the best equipment he could. It was a frustrating and often disappointing ...Keep reading View the full article
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[motorsport] Tanak "out of my comfort zone" throughout WRC Rally Croatia
Tanak struggled to match the pace of the front three and finished more than a minute off a podium place in fourth. The Estonian was sure a solution to his poor times could be found following Friday’s six special stages, but despite working closely with his Hyundai engineers he was unable to find a breakthrough he was happy with. Prior to the third round of the WRC, the 2019 title winner ...Keep reading View the full article