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Gibbs, the 18-year-old grandson of NASCAR Hall of Fame owner Joe Gibbs, won a series-high six races in the ARCA Menards Series running a partial schedule. Joe Gibbs Racing announced Tuesday that Ty will run the full ARCA schedule in 2021 and contend for the series title. Ty Gibbs will also make his debut in the Xfinity Series on Feb. 20 on the Daytona International Speedway Road Course ...Keep reading View the full article

The eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series made its debut last March while the sport was shut down for nearly 2½ months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On Tuesday, NASCAR announced the return of a new-look Pro Invitational in 2021 in which Cup Series drivers will compete virtually in a 10-race schedule that will complement the real racing schedule. Fox Sports, which broadcast the inaugural ...Keep reading View the full article

It’s not the first time the owners of the half-mile, highly-banked concrete oval have covered their track in dirt, but it will likely be the most anticipated. In the 2000 and 2001 seasons, Bristol used 14,000 truckloads of dirt to cover its concrete surface to host World of Outlaws races. The undertaking this time is even more unusual as NASCAR typically does not race on dirt. The most ...Keep reading View the full article

Four Wheeler, the world’s leading 4×4 authority since 1962, has selected the GMC Yukon AT4 as the winner of its 48th annual SUV of the Year award. Four Wheeler’s SUV of the Year award event is an invitation-only competition that is only open to all-new or significantly revised SUVs for the upcoming model year. For View the full article

It's not the first time the owners of the half-mile, highly-banked concrete oval have covered their track in dirt, but it will likely be the most anticipated. In the 2000 and 2001 seasons, Bristol used 14,000 truckloads of dirt to cover its concrete surface to host World of Outlaws races. However, the undertaking this time is even more unusual as NASCAR typically does not race on ...Keep reading View the full article

Bristol Motor Speedway is well on its way to bringing dirt track racing back to NASCAR's Cup Series for the first time in more than 50 years View the full article

It’s not every day that a 4×4 we published a story on over four decades ago reappears, and it’s even more rare that it reappears looking absolutely fantastic. But that’s what happened recently when Rough Country emailed us with a major surprise. The company told us that a 1977 International Scout II we published a View the full article

The two-time Dakar Rally winner has been awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia, "for service to motorsport, particularly to cross countrymotorcycle racing". Price is the only Australian to have won the world's most famous rally raid. He joins the likes of Craig Lowndes, Mark Webber, Mark Skaife, Jack Brabham, Peter Brock and the late John Harvey in the Order of Australia ...Keep reading View the full article

Wallace, 27, was one of four quarterly winners of the award and named the overall winner for his advocacy in helping to make NASCAR a more diverse and inclusive sport. The only African-American driver in NASCAR’s Cup Series was an outspoken proponent of the banning of the Confederate flag from NASCAR events, a stance the sanctioning body adopted as an official policy in June of last ...Keep reading View the full article

The 20-year-old will drive the No. 6 Chevrolet Camaro full-time in 2021. He ran a part-time schedule in 2020 with the team, scoring a career-best finish of eighth at Texas Motor Speedway. The NASCAR Drive for Diversity member has just 12 NXS starts to his credit, making his series debut in 2019. “Having the opportunity race the No. 6 Chevy for JD Motorsports full-time in the NASCAR ...Keep reading View the full article

Take a look at the stage lengths for the 2021 NASCAR Cup, Xfinity and Truck Series seasons. The Coca Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway will again have an extra stage due to the length of the race. NASCAR Cup Series Track Stage 1 Stage 2 Final Stage Daytona International Speedway 65 130 200 Daytona International Speedway Road ...Keep reading View the full article

The 40-year-old will pilot the No. 25 Rackley Roofing Chevrolet Silverado in his return to fulltime competition this year. Rackley W.A.R is co-owned by Willie Allen and Curtis Sutton and will make their debut in February's season-opener at Daytona International Speedway. “It has always been a dream to be a NASCAR owner,” Allen said in a release from the team. “We are excited ...Keep reading View the full article

The Welshman finished the season opener just over 32 seconds behind reigning world champion Ogier after struggling to maximise the potential of Pirelli's snow and studded compounds. This season sees the Italian manufacturer become the official tyre supplier of the WRC taking over from Michelin. Evans' struggles with the new rubber were apparent on Sunday's stages as Ogier managed to ...Keep reading View the full article

Ogier conquered last weekend's Monte Carlo event for an eighth time, surpassing the seven event victories he shared with his former Citroen teammate and countryman, Sebastien Loeb. The 37-year-old has achieved the feat with five different manufacturers across three decades, his first coming as an Intercontinental Rally Challenge driver in 2009 with Peugeot and the rest as a World Rally ...Keep reading View the full article

The defending drivers’ champion broke the record of seven Monte Carlo wins set by his former nemesis, Sebastien Loeb, and also equalled Walter Rohrl’s 37-year-old record of winning the WRC’s blue riband event with four different manufacturers during his career. Toyota driver Ogier claimed victory on three of the four stages held on Sunday, including the Power Stage with its five ...Keep reading View the full article

The Frenchman drove an Alpine A110S on the first two stages of the Monte Carlo Rally as the official VIP course car, carrying his regular race number, 31. Ocon admitted that driving the sportscar on the slippery wet roads, while being fed information by a co-driver, took some getting used to. His only previous experience of an Alpine came when he lapped the Nurburgring during the ...Keep reading View the full article

At the 2021 opener, Thierry Neuville and new co-driver Martijn Wydaeghe are the highest-placed i20 WRC crew in fourth after three days of competition, seven seconds off a podium place, while teammate Dani Sordo is over a minute behind the Belgian pairing in fifth. The mixed-surface event started in promising fashion for the Alzenau-based squad, with Ott Tanak charging into an early lead on ...Keep reading View the full article

Last week at Motorsport.com, we delved into the best 1991 had to offer and dusted off several motorsport gems - from arguably Ayrton Senna’s greatest Formula 1 title, to the worst F1 cars of the year, and the all conquering TWR Jaguar XJR-14. Through Motorsport.tv, we have the luxury of an extensive archive of action to alleviate boredom and brighten up tough lockdown moments. So as the ...Keep reading View the full article

On Friday, Ogier had lost half a minute following a puncture on the penultimate stage of the day, although he immediately reclaimed 16s from his Toyota teammate Elfyn Evans before the overnight halt. Restarting in the dark in order to comply with local COVID-19 legislation, Ogier then resumed his imperious progress on the opening 18.3 km La Breole – Salonnet stage. The Frenchman ...Keep reading View the full article

The 2019 World Rally champion clipped the front-left tyre of his i20 Coupe WRC close to the start of this morning’s opening La Breole – Selonnet special stage and suffered a punctured tyre, dropping two places from third to fifth as a result. Worse was to follow for Tanak as he picked up a right-rear puncture on the next test – the run from Saint-Clemen to Freissinieres where he crashed ...Keep reading View the full article

Parent company NBC Universal confirmed to staff in a memo on Friday afternoon that much of its programming will be migrated to sister channel USA Network. NBC holds the U.S. broadcast rights to half of the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series events, which it shares with Fox, as well as fulltime coverage of the NTT IndyCar Series, IMSA WeatherTech SportsCars, NHRA and Moto America. It also broadcasts ...Keep reading View the full article

Ogier had lost the lead of the event on the penultimate stage, when the front-left tyre on his Yaris WRC punctured and cost him the best part of 35 seconds in lost time. That promoted Hyundai’s Ott Tanak up to second and handed the initiative to Ogier’s Toyota teammate Elfyn Evans, who held a 20.4 second buffer with only the run from Chalancon to Gumiane left. However, a sensational ...Keep reading View the full article

Ram wasted no time pushing its quickest, fastest, and most powerful off-road muscle pickup truck though its production line. The first 702-hp tire-demolishing 2021 Ram 1500 TRX Launch Edition truck exited the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in December 2020. We know that all 702 (celebrating the truck’s insane horsepower figure) Anvil Gray Ram 1500 TRX View the full article

On Friday, JD Motorsports announced Cassill, 31, would return to the organization to once again compete in a full Xfinity Series schedule, this time driving the No. 4 Chevrolet. Cassill has driven for the organization multiple times in the past, including the 2014 season when he finished 12th in the series standings. Last year, Cassill ran only four NASCAR races, all in the Xfinity Series for ...Keep reading View the full article

A very early alarm call awaited the mechanics and crews in readiness for an 06:10 start time, the schedule for this weekend’s event being dictated by local COVID-19 measures. Compliance meant that the first two stages of the day would be run in the dark and, with uncertain conditions in the mountains, this led to plenty of hesitancy among the crews which handed a clear advantage to seven-time ...Keep reading View the full article