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Having run eight rounds over four double-header weekends so far, enough World RX events have been held to crown the title winners. The penultimate round of the series, set to be held last weekend alongside the Ypres WRC round at Spa-Francorchamps, was also cancelled earlier this month due to increasing Coronavirus cases in Belgium and, Motorsport.com understands, the German finale set for a ...Keep reading View the full article

Truex, the 28-year-old younger brother of former Cup Series champion Martin Truex Jr., ran nine races with Niece during the 2020 season with his best finish of 12th coming at Las Vegas and Kansas. While the younger Truex has extensive NASCAR experience, the 2021 season will only be the third in which he has had the opportunity to run a full schedule in a national series – Cup, Xfinity and ...Keep reading View the full article

Evans holds a 14-point lead over Toyota teammate and six-time champion Sebastien Ogier heading into Rally Monza, which is set to go ahead despite concerns surrounding Italy’s ongoing coronavirus restrictions. He is aiming to become the first Briton to win the World Rally title since the late Richard Burns achieved the feat back in 2001. With October’s Ypres Rally cancelled because of the ...Keep reading View the full article

A statement posted to Shepherd’s team’s Web site on Monday said Shepherd, 79, was in the early stages of the nervous system disorder. “In true Shepherd fashion, he is determined to look into 2021 and make plans for another year of NASCAR racing, as a car owner,” the statement from Shepherd Racing Ventures said. “We all have had challenges to overcome and Morgan has always wanted to ...Keep reading View the full article

Nemechek, who just completed his rookie Cup Series season with Front Row Motorsports, will move back to the Truck Series in 2021. He will compete for the title with KBM, driving the No. 4 Toyota Tundra. The 23-year-old revealed last week that he and FRM would part ways, leaving many to wonder where the young racer was heading with limited rides available at the Cup level. Read ...Keep reading View the full article

The NASCAR Whelen Euro Series showcases 2 different championships: EuroNASCAR Pro is dedicated to professional and high profile drivers, while the EuroNASCAR 2 is restricted to young and amateur drivers. Both drivers share the same car but score points in their own championship. Each division will run two races at each of the seven events for a total of 28 races over the season. “We are ...Keep reading View the full article

In fact, it was just the opposite. Tifft began searching for options to make NASCAR a long-term home even if it involved something other than driving race cars. Last October, Tifft – who was competing in the Cup series with Front Row Motorsports at the time – was forced to the sidelines after experiencing seizures. The first steps of his future were unveiled Friday when he and fellow ...Keep reading View the full article

WRC organisers announced earlier this year its coronavirus-affected 2020 season would be brough to a close on December 3-6 with the ACI Rally Monza event. Rally Monza has typically featured MotoGP legend and Morbidelli’s mentor Valentino Rossi, who has won the event seven times over the years. Morbidelli will take part in the WRC finale in the WRC3 class in a Hyundai i20 R5. “I am ...Keep reading View the full article

We met Steve Brock and his overland Jeep build at the Four Wheeler Overland Adventure East where he showed us just how capable a 2012 Wrangler Unlimited can be while pulling an overland trailer. At the heart of Steve’s overland Jeep build is the gool ol’ 3.6L Pentastar V-6 engine. It turns gasoline into overland View the full article

COVID-19 might have squashed the 2020 Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show’s in-person plans, but it’s not stopping Ford from showing off the custom vehicles it commissioned for the Las Vegas show. This includes BDS Suspension’s take on the 2021 Ford F-150. Arguably, the most notable update made to Ford’s 2021 full-size truck is its View the full article

Motorsport.com revealed back in July that Ogier had expressed his intention to contest the 2021 WRC season to Toyota, and the Japanese marque was also not willing to look for drivers outside its current line-up. It has now been confirmed that the six-time WRC champion will stay with Toyota for a second season next year, having joined the squad in 2020 after a year-long stint with ...Keep reading View the full article

Next year’s schedule features 22 races, down from 23 in recent years, but includes added dirt and road course events. The series’ first dirt race will take place at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway on March 27, joining the Cup Series for an action-packed weekend on the short track’s return to a temporary dirt surface. Then, on July 9, trucks will roll into Knoxville (Iowa) Raceway for ...Keep reading View the full article

On This Week’s Show: Atlis Electric Truck Update Ram’s Koval Returns Lightning has a Brother? The guys get an update from Atlis Motor Vehicles founder Mark Hanchette and a post-TRX follow-up from Ram’s Head, Mike Koval. Also, did you know Lightning had a brother? Yeah, neither did we. Meet Ryan Tilles, owner of a Nissan View the full article

Two former Cup Series champions – Kurt Busch and Martin Truex Jr. – took part in this week’s two-day test, with Busch driving a car prepared by Richard Childress Racing in collaboration with NASCAR and Truex in a car built by Action Express. The drivers spent several hours Monday testing on the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval course while they spent Wednesday on the track’s 1.5-mile oval ...Keep reading View the full article

Two former Cup Series champions - Kurt Busch and Martin Truex Jr - took part in this week's two-day test at Charlotte, with Busch driving a car prepared by Richard Childress Racing in collaboration with NASCAR and Truex in a car built by Action Express. The drivers spent several hours Monday testing on the Charlotte Motor Speedway 'roval' course while they spent Wednesday on the track's ...Keep reading View the full article

NASCAR's Next Gen car received better reviews from its drivers on the Charlotte road layout than on the oval course, says senior vice president of racing innovation John Probst View the full article

Nine-time World Rally champion Loeb will make his return to the Dakar after a year out in next year's running on the off-road classic, which begins on January 3 in Saudi Arabia. Read Also: Dakar 2021 participation the lowest in 25 years The Frenchman along with 2014 Dakar winner Nani Roma conducted 15 days of testing in the Middle East, where they completed 3,800km without ...Keep reading View the full article

The Spanish veteran will make his second WRC start in a row in the tarmac-based event centred around the famous Italian Grand Prix circuit on December 3-6. It follows Sordo's triumph last time out in Rally Italy Sardinia, which marked only his second outing of the season after his appearance in Rally Mexico back in March. Sordo is a veteran of Rally Monza, a late addition to this year's ...Keep reading View the full article

Coyotes chortled in the distance as the participants of Overland Adventure 2020 made their camps for the night and before long, the sun rose again over the mountains. Cattle plodded amongst the vehicles as steam swirled above coffee pots and breakfast skillets hissed and sizzled on camp stoves. Following the driver’s meeting, we kicked off View the full article

For the third consecutive season, Chase Elliott was named the winner Wednesday night of the 2020 National Motorsports Press Association’s Most Popular Driver Award. This is the 30th consecutive year a member of the Earnhardt or Elliott family has won the award, including Chase’s father, Hall of Famer Bill Elliott, who won the award each season from 1984 to 2002. Darrell Waltrip (1990) ...Keep reading View the full article

The year 2020 has been a strange one, to say the least. The automotive and racing industries took a hit with delayed auto production and canceled events; heck, even the infallible SEMA Show was canceled. Not all hope has been lost, however. Working in compliance with various health and safety regulations (and even incorporating a View the full article

Compared to the 541 participants (334 vehicles) of the last South American edition in Peru in 2019, and the 563 (342 vehicles) of the first Saudi edition in 2020, the 2021 Dakar will have 440 participants (266 vehicles), according to the provisional entry list published by organiser Amaury Sport Organisation. This represents a 22% drop in participants and a 24% drop in registrations, the lowest ...Keep reading View the full article

On Tuesday, JGR announced Adam Stevens, who has served as Busch’s crew chief the past six seasons and won two championships with the driver, will move to the No. 20 team, where he will serve in the same capacity with driver Christopher Bell. Together, Busch and Stevens won 28 races and series titles in 2015 and 2019. The two also collected 19 wins in the Xfinity Series. Busch went winless ...Keep reading View the full article

The ex-JTG Racing car, which Ambrose used to secure his first Nationwide win at Watkins Glen in 2008, has been in Australia since last year, when it was purchased by local motorsport personality Brett 'Crusher' Murray. It's been mechanically rebuilt since its active career, but aesthetically left untouched since it rolled out of Victory Lane after the Ambrose triumph. Today it turned its ...Keep reading View the full article

Busch and Truex spent much of Monday testing the new-design Cup car at Charlotte, the first involving more than one car. Busch drove a car prepared by Richard Childress Racing in collaboration with NASCAR, with an engine built by ECR Engines, and was previously tested at Auto Club Speedway and Dover. Truex drove a car built by Action Express, with a Ford-manufactured engine, and tested by ...Keep reading View the full article