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The result means that Ogier reclaims the championship lead that he held following his opening round victory in Monte Carlo, with Neuville holding second in the points after logging his third successive podium finish. A bright and early start saw Evans taking the initiative, having struggled to be as ‘brave’ as he felt Saturday’s stages had required him to be. With an abundance of ...Keep reading View the full article

The collision between another vehicle is understood to have happened on a section of dual carriageway, with the impact causing significant damage to the co-driver’s side of Ogier’s Toyota Yaris World Rally Car. Both Ogier and his co-driver Julien Ingrassia escaped the shunt uninjured but were forced to carry out remedial work on the supermini, which was subsequently deemed safe to continue ...Keep reading View the full article

Jeb Burton had spent much of Saturday’s race swapping the lead with Austin Cindric and he remained out front during a caution on Lap 85 for a multi-car wreck on the backstretch. Just as the race was set to resume on Lap 90 of the scheduled 113 laps, heavy rain erupted all over the track. With no lights, there was no time to dry the track even if the rain stopped, so Burton was declared the ...Keep reading View the full article

The win is Heim’s second of the season after also winning the season opener at Daytona International Speedway. He has finished first, second and first in the first three races in his first fulltime season with Billy Venturini. “I made a mistake in the middle of the race and that kind of set us back a little bit,” Heim said. “I think were 15th or 16th at one point, which was ...Keep reading View the full article

Four stages totalling 50 competitive miles remain tomorrow and Andrea Adamo believes Neuville can still take maximum points. An incorrect tyre choice for this morning’s opening loop cost the Belgian the lead of the Tarmac event. He went for two hard and three soft shoes, while Sebastien Ogier chose five hard compound Pirelli tyres. As a direct result, Neuville dropped from first place to ...Keep reading View the full article

Elfyn Evans is second in a Toyota 1-2, with overnight leader Thierry Neuville and his Hyundai teammate Ott Tanak trailing behind. Neuville, Tanak and fellow Hyundai driver Craig Breen all started the day on two of Pirelli’s hard compound tyres and two of the softer compound with a single soft spare. The soft rubber had been the way to go in the cooler conditions on Friday, as proven by the ...Keep reading View the full article

When Joe Schigel found the 1967 Kaiser Jeep M715, it hadn’t moved in half a decade, all its tires were flat, and it definitely needed a new engine before he could begin his overland build. However, the body of the Jeep M715 had earned quite the patina throughout its years and the frame was in View the full article

The 2019 WRC champion reached the end of the Friday leg over 30 seconds shy of overall leader and team-mate Thierry Neuville having conceded time for most of the day’s eight marathon stages. Tanak appeared decidedly off colour on the first asphalt event of the new season and reached midday service already 25.3s in arrears of Neuville, but did provide damage limitation during the afternoon run ...Keep reading View the full article

The seven-time WRC champion made history by chalking up his 600th at Rally Croatia this afternoon, arriving at the milestone by negotiating the ‘Jaškovo to Mali Modruš Potok’ test three-tenths of a second quicker than Thierry Neuville, who provisionally leads the Zagreb-based event overall by 7.7s. Ogier continued his purple patch into Friday’s closing stage, completing it 1.2s faster ...Keep reading View the full article

Based in the capital city of Zagreb, and with stages on the narrow lanes in the north of the country, Rally Croatia marks the WRC’s first all-asphalt rally since Germany in 2019. The stages brought huge variations in the quality of the surface from one corner to the next, along with jumps and tight, technical sections. The biggest feature of the event so far, however, has been mud and ...Keep reading View the full article

The series will follow Wallace in his first season with the newly formed 23XI Racing team, co-owned by NBA icon Michael Jordan and three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin. Wallace, 27, became an outspoken voice against racial injustice in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd. He also successfully advocated for the banning of the Confederate Flag from all NASCAR events. Notably, he ...Keep reading View the full article

The young Finn crashed out heavily around three miles into the asphalt event's 'Plesivica' test – the shortest of the weekend at 4.31-miles. As Rovanpera approached a tightening right hander, his Toyota Yaris ran wide and was sucked off the road. Both he and co-driver Jonne Halttunen managed to walk away unhurt, although their car sustained considerable panel damage. Just moments prior ...Keep reading View the full article

Matt DiBenedetto chats with Jamie Little about his career thus far, hitting the gym and his dog Brian in a new edition of Off Track. View the full article

The series will follow Wallace in his first season with the newly formed 23XI Racing team, co-owned by NBA icon Michael Jordan and three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin. Wallace, 27, became an outspoken voice against racial injustice in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis PD. He successfully advocated for the banning of the Confederate Flag from all NASCAR events ...Keep reading View the full article

Jimmy Mallios’ 1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo was discovered, derelict in a garage, in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. The ZJ had a broken motor mount, a fouled up steering pump, and also refused to even start—a perfect project, and it was his for just over $1000. The plan for the 1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee was for it View the full article

Even with the performance issues his Stewart-Haas Racing organization has battled this year, Almirola’s season couldn’t go much worse. He's mired in 27th in the series standings after nine race; he’s yet to lead a lap this season; he’s wrecked out of three races and finished on the lead-lap in only three races. Almirola and his No. 10 Ford team did get a reprieve last weekend at ...Keep reading View the full article

From 2022, the top-level Rally1 cars will marry a 1.6-litre turbocharged petrol engine with a hybrid set-up that has been developed by German company Compact Dynamics. The new plug-in system comprises a battery that sends its energy to a 100kW e-motor, with this extra power capable of being deployed either on the stages or road sections. Last week it emerged that M-Sport, Toyota and Hyundai ...Keep reading View the full article

On This Week’s Podcast: 1991 Nissan Hardbody SE V-6 Nissan Heritage Collection Jeep’s Mark Allen We meet up with a pristine 1991 Nissan Hardbody King Cab SE V-6 from the Nissan Heritage Collection for a walkaround and convince the powers that be to let us drive it! It’s the ultimate mini truck road test. Holman View the full article

A disappointing start to the defence of Hyundai’s WRC crown at Rally Monte-Carlo left the South Korean manufacturer 22 points adrift of Toyota and led Adamo to publicly criticise his staff midway through the event. A marked improvement followed at February’s Arctic Rally in Finland following a “deep rethink” by the Italian, with this contributing to Ott Tanak and Martin Jarveoja winning ...Keep reading View the full article

The long-range forecast for this weekend’s tarmac battle gives for largely dry and sunny conditions. During his pre-event test, Ogier got to sample the Italian company’s hard compound P-Zero offering. It will make its first appearance at the event which starts on Friday – alongside the Cinturato rain tyre. “We have new tyres this season and we have not had the chance so far to ...Keep reading View the full article

On Tuesday afternoon, a U.S. jury found Derek Chauvin, the former police officer accused of Floyd’s murder on a Minneapolis street last year, guilty on three charges: second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. Floyd, a Black man whose neck was knelt upon by Chauvin for more than nine minutes during his arrest, was pronounced dead about an hour ...Keep reading View the full article

Something big was coming up the road behind us. It sounded like it, anyway. Expecting a musclecar, we kept looking around the truck that was blocking our view. Then it started doing four-wheel burnouts, drifting to the left and right in the rear view mirror, sounding like a giant slide whistle. It had our attention, View the full article

Originally, the Jyvaskyla-based rally had been pencilled in to take place from 29 July to 1 August – but it will now run from 30 September to 3 October in the hope that people can spectate. In response to government guidelines in the country last summer, the event was called off to help contain the spread of COVID-19. However, the introduction of several new vaccines since then – and an ...Keep reading View the full article

On Monday, NASCAR confirmed that Cobb has not been approved to compete on superspeedway tracks in the Cup Series thus would not be making her planned debut in Rick Ware Racing’s #15 Chevrolet. While Cobb, 47, has made a combined 247 starts in the Xfinity and Truck series, a NASCAR spokesman told Autosport that Cobb is only currently approved to compete on superspeedways in Trucks. She ...Keep reading View the full article

Bubba Wallace describes joining 23XI Racing, the team owned by current Cup Series driver Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan. Bubba goes on to reveal what MJ said to him in their very first phone conversation: 'If we do this deal, there’s no more running in the back.' View the full article