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Ogier’s last full season in the rallying's top division will get underway at Rallye Monte-Carlo on Thursday afternoon where the Frenchman is targeting a record-breaking eighth victory at the Gap-based event. Once again, the 37-year-old starts as the bookies’ favourite, but he is predicting a five-way scrap for the title in 2021. Elfyn Evans pushed the Frenchman close last year and held a ...Keep reading View the full article

McMurray, who stopped competing on a fulltime basis in the NASCAR Cup Series following the 2018 season, will drive the No. 77 Chevrolet from Spire Motorsports in partnership with Chip Ganassi Racing. The effort will be sponsored by AdventHealth, one of the largest faith-based health systems in the United States. McMurray, 44, currently works as a NASCAR analyst for Fox Sports. His most ...Keep reading View the full article

Rallying has an enduring appeal for millions around the world, adding rich diversity to the range of motorsport disciplines. But what does the long-term future for rallying look like? For the first #ThinkingForward of 2021 we speak to WRC Director Peter Thul about the qualities needed to excel in rally, why WRC is backing F1’s strategy that hybrid engines and biofuels are the future ...Keep reading View the full article

Entering the 2021 NASCAR season, Bubba Wallace spoke with Shannon sharp to reflect on the 2020 season, discuss moving forward with Michael Jordan and driving for 23XI Racing. View the full article

NASCAR driver, Bubba Wallace, the sport’s lone full-time Black driver, joined Shannon Sharpe to discuss why it was so important for him to speak up and be the voice of change for auto racing now and in the future. View the full article

Honda rider Benavides isn't the first person from Argentina to win the Dakar - that honour went to Marcos Patronelli, who triumphed in the quads category in 2010. But the 32-year-old from Salta is the first to do so in arguably the most competitive class of all, motorcycles. Despite having been a regular frontrunner since his 2016 debut, Benavides isn't necessarily a household name for Dakar ...Keep reading View the full article

Gray, the younger brother of NASCAR Truck Series competitor Tanner Gray, was taking part in a pre-season test for the ARCA Menards Series at Daytona International Speedway on Friday. The young racer posted video where he appeared to film himself driving around the 2.5 mile high speed superspeedway, pointing the camera at his face and also out the windshield. The 18-second clip was posted to ...Keep reading View the full article

Three-time Dakar champion Al-Attiyah suffered a second successive defeat to the JCW buggies fielded by X-raid Mini in 2021, losing out on the crown by just under 15 minutes to Stephane Peterhansel. Buggies have now won Dakar five times in the last six years thanks to Peugeot and Mini, with only Al-Attiyah's triumph in 2019 on a Toyota Hilux 4x4 preventing two-wheel drive cars from securing a ...Keep reading View the full article

On Friday the Belgian announced that his 10-year partnership with fellow countryman Nicolas Gilsoul – which stretched back to the Intercontinental Rally Challenge – had ended due to contractual reasons. The pair shared the same car together as recently as Tuesday of this week when they tested the i20 Coupe WRC on Pirelli’s new tyres as part of their preparations for the Gap-based Tarmac ...Keep reading View the full article

What will win in a mud bog bounty hole? A high-horsepower mega truck or the diesel-powered Sherp ATV with just shy of 2 feet of ground clearance and 63-inch tires? We watched how the battle unfolded at Al Benesocky’s Filthy Red Neck Country Club. What Is a Sherp? Before we see whether the Sherp or View the full article

Top Gear America host Jethro Bovingdon is best known to the viewers and readers of MotorTrend and Automobile for getting sideways in the most-exotic new cars. Although he’d be happy to own more than a few of them, his own collection runs a bit more classic. “I haven’t owned loads, because I’ve always been doing View the full article

Trackhouse Racing, founded by Justin Marks, is making its Cup Series debut in February's Daytona 500. With Monterrey native Daniel Suarez at the wheel of the No. 99 Chevrolet, the team intends to run the entire Cup Series schedule. Suarez is the only foreign-born national NASCAR series champion in the sport's history, winning the Xfinity Series championship in 2016. Now a global superstar ...Keep reading View the full article

Grammy award-winning music artist Pitbull has secured an ownership stake in the Trackhouse Racing NASCAR Cup Series team View the full article

Trackhouse Racing, founded by Justin Marks, is making its Cup Series debut in February's Daytona 500. With Monterrey, Mexico native Daniel Suarez at the wheel of the No. 99 Chevrolet Camaro, the team intends to run the entire NCS schedule. Suarez is the only foreign-born national NASCAR series champion in the sport's history, winning the Xfinity Series championship in 2016. Now a global ...Keep reading View the full article

We love big adventure rigs. After all, these vehicles subscribe to such a wonderful automotive recipe. Take something ostensibly ordinary (a 2021 Toyota Tacoma) and garnish it with something extraordinary (a miniaturized house). Cue the TruckHouse BCT: a made to order, carbon-fiber-clad, go anywhere, do anything home away from home. The concept is simple, and View the full article

X-raid Mini driver Peterhansel clinched a record-extending 14th Dakar title on Friday, beating Al-Attiyah by just under 15 minutes in what was effectively a two-horse race between the duo for victory. It marked the fifth win for a buggy in the Dakar in six years, with Al-Attiyah's 2019 triumph in a four-wheel drive Toyota Hilux in Peru the only exception. The Qatari driver has been ...Keep reading View the full article

Once the deal is complete, Dillon would attempt to run the season-opening Daytona 500 and the race on the Daytona Road Course the following weekend in the No. 96 Toyota, multiple sources confirmed. An official announcement of the team’s plans is expected sometime next week. Asked to comment, a team spokesman said no announcement would come this week but did confirm Gaunt Brothers Racing ...Keep reading View the full article

Hyundai i20 WRC driver Neuville has entered next week’s shortened Rallye Monte-Carlo with Martijn Wydaeghe in the navigator’s seat. However, it has yet to be confirmed by Neuville or Hyundai Motorsport whether Wydaeghe’s involvement will extend beyond the opening round. Announced this morning, the decision brings to an end Neuville's ten-year partnership with Gilsoul. “We ...Keep reading View the full article

Sunderland launched himself into contention for a second Dakar victory, with a commanding stage win on the penultimate day of the Saudi Arabian event. But the British rider still faced a five-minute deficit to Honda rider Benavides heading into Friday's decisive stage, and faced the added difficulty of having to make up the time while being first in the running order, making navigation that ...Keep reading View the full article

Peterhansel grabbed the lead after the second of the 12 stages and never surrendered it thereafter, eventually claiming victory by 14m51s from the factory Toyota of Al-Attiyah. The X-raid Mini driver won only a single stage in the entire rally-raid - the ninth test around Neom - his lowest tally since 2015, when he drew a blank on Peugeot’s return to the category. However, he showed ...Keep reading View the full article

The Frenchman, 52, crashed 178 kilometres into Sunday's seventh Dakar stage. After being found unconscious he was rushed to hospital in Sakaka for surgery before being placed in an induced coma. He was then transferred to hospital in Jeddah ahead of the trip back to France, however he sadly passed away before arriving back in his homeland. "During his transfer by medical plane from Jeddah ...Keep reading View the full article

Having initially held a lead of 4m12s after Thursday's penultimate test of the rally, Benavides' hopes were given a boost when his advantage over KTM rider Sam Sunderland was revised upwards to 5m07s due to a failure with the organisers' GPS equipment. Starting the deciding Yanbu-Jeddah stage third in the running order, Benavides gained 10 minutes on Sunderland in the opening 99km as the Briton ...Keep reading View the full article

For the lowly price of only $5 you have a chance to win this incredible 2020 Jeep JL Wrangler Unlimited Sport that is fully kitted out for backcountry travel. Yep, that’s right, for the cost of a foo-foo Frappuccino, you have a chance to score this brand-new Jeep. This great opportunity is brought to you View the full article

Wright, who is also competing fulltime this season in the Truck Series with Young’s Motorsports, will drive SHR’s No. 26 Toyota in seven Xfinity Series road course events this season. He will share the No. 26 with fellow drivers Santino Ferrucci and Brandon Gdovic. Additional drivers could be added later. Wright, 26, will make his debut in the Feb. 20 race at the Daytona International ...Keep reading View the full article

Need a 4×4 van? Do you want a 4×4 van? Do you just enjoy dreaming about 7.3L diesel-powered Ford vans with 4×4 conversions capable of ’wheeling amazing trails while still carrying the comforts of home? Either way, you’ve come to the right place. Need More 4×4 Conversion Van Off-Road Related Stuff? Van Out-Crawls Jeeps at View the full article