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Ross Chastain will finally get an opportunity next season to compete full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series after signing a deal to join Chip Ganassi Racing View the full article

Chastain, 27, will take over the driving duties of Ganassi’s No. 42 Chevrolet in 2021, Motorsport.com has learned. An official announcement of Chastain’s move is expected later today, multiple sources said. Chastain will replace veteran Matt Kenseth, who stepped into the car in May to replace former driver Kyle Larson, who was fired in April for using a racial slur during the broadcast ...Keep reading View the full article

Bowyer's 'steady Eddie' strategy resulted in three solid finishes and allowed him to advance into the Round of 12. "I just feel comfortable we're getting back to our consistency," said Bowyer. "I guess for a long time in my career I was kind of steady Eddie, and that's what it takes in these playoffs, to go the rounds, you can't make mistakes. I said that going into these playoffs. For ...Keep reading View the full article

Custer, who has already won rookie of the year honors by being the only rookie to qualify for the playoffs, limped home to a 22nd-place finish after suffering some front-end damage to his No. 41 Ford earlier in the race. He, Ryan Blaney, Matt DiBenedetto and William Byron, started the race as the four drivers facing elimination and all four failed to advance to the Round of 12. “That ...Keep reading View the full article

Ekstrom set a pair of fastest times in qualifying to top the Intermediate Classification, then won semi-final one ahead of KYB Team JC teammate Robin Larsson to secure pole for the final. He then controlled the main event from the front to net victory, and close the points gap to Johan Kristoffersson. Series leader Kristoffersson had used a superior tyre strategy on Saturday, the first of the ...Keep reading View the full article

The Welshman took a cautious approach throughout what is the most attritional event on the WRC calendar. His reward was a third career victory in the sport’s premier series and the second of his debut season with Tommi Makinen’s Toyota team. The final day began with Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville and Toyota’s Sebastien Ogier picking up the cudgels to continue their furious battle at ...Keep reading View the full article

Kevin Harvick held off Kyle Busch to take his ninth win of the season at Bristol Motor Speedway as the NASCAR Cup Series round of 12 places were decided View the full article

Busch led 159 of the 500 laps but came up short in what turned out to be a one-on-one duel with Kevin Harvick over the final 50 laps. Lapped traffic helped Busch grab the lead back on Lap 459, only to see Harvick gain the same advantage while using Joey Logano as a pick to reclaim the lead with 31 laps to go. Busch stayed close the rest of the way but couldn’t mount another challenge for ...Keep reading View the full article

Full highlights from Saturday night’s NASCAR Cup Series Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway for an elimination race for the Round of 16. View the full article

Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch battled it out for the win at Bristol Motor Speedway in last last half of the final stage and the two drivers never left each other until the very end for a thrilling finish. View the full article

Cole Custer, Ryan Blaney, Matt DiBenedetto and William Byron were all eliminated from the 2020 playoff field Saturday night at the Bristol short track. Pos. Driver Team Manufacturer Points 1 Kevin Harvick Stewart-Haas Racing Ford 3067 2 Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 3048 3 Brad ...Keep readingView the full article

Harvick and Busch emerged as the top contenders late in Saturday night’s Bass Pro Shops Night Race at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway. Over the final 50 of 500 laps, Harvick and Busch played a game of cat-and-mouse for the lead. Busch used lapped traffic to grab the lead on Lap 459 only to see Harvick reclaim the top spot with 31 laps to go, using Joey Logano’s lapped car as a ...Keep reading View the full article

The No. 18 Toyota of Kyle Busch, No. 11 Toyota of Denny Hamlin and No. 20 Toyota of Erik Jones all failed pre-race inspection twice on Saturday afternoon and will start Saturday night's 500-lap race from the rear of the field. Both Hamlin and Busch are in the Cup series playoffs, with Saturday night's race the last of the first round. Hamlin has enough points that he is already locked ...Keep reading View the full article

Pirelli has a very long history in rallying and you will be in the WRC in 2021. Can you please tell us about your preparations? Our preparations are a bit late because of COVID. Our plan was to start in March and unfortunately, we didn’t start, but we started in July. We tried to do some testing from March to July, we were working from home, a lot of smart working, on the indoor testing. We ...Keep reading View the full article

Overnight leader Sebastien Loeb rolled the dice by putting two medium-compound tyres on his Hyundai i20 WRC for the opening stage of the day and paid a heavy price as the softer rubber failed to endure on the rock-strewn surface. Loeb’s struggle to recapture lost time could not compare with that of his Hyundai team-mate Ott Tanak, however, who suffered a steering failure mid-way through the ...Keep reading View the full article

We had a lot packed for Day 5 of UA2020, so we roused the group early for a 7:30 driver’s meeting and had everybody rolling shortly thereafter. Our campsite on North Meadow Rd, which took us up to McKelvey Lake on Day 4, was just adjacent to South Meadow Rd, which leads to a pretty View the full article

Having opened the day with the first fastest time in the qualifiers, Kristoffersson was beaten to top of the order in the Intermediate Classification by Niclas Gronholm. But come the semi-finals and final, Kristoffersson unleashed three and then two new tyres onto his Volkswagen Motorsport-built, Kristoffersson Motorsport-prepared VW Polo to dominate both races and claim his third win from ...Keep reading View the full article

Tanak’s Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC arrowed into a bank four miles from the end of the Yesilbelde stage, and although he managed to free it and move it to safety, the Estonian deemed the damage terminal. Footage showed Tanak paying particular attention to the front-right corner of the car before walking away from it. It remains unclear what caused the issue on one of the most unforgiving WRC ...Keep reading View the full article

Austin Cindric appeared to have Friday’s win at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway in hand but with just over 15 laps remaining, he lost the power steering on his No. 22 Ford. That opened the door for Briscoe, who closed on Cindric’s rear bumper, nudged him and cleared him for the lead with six laps to go. Briscoe ended up holding off Ross Chastain by .651 seconds at the checkered ...Keep reading View the full article

Driver Team Manufacturer Wins Best Points Result Chase Briscoe Stewart-Haas Racing Ford 7 5th (2019) Austin Cindric Team Penske Ford 5 6th (2019) Justin Allgaier JR Motorsports Chevrolet 3 3rd (2011, 2016, 2017) Brandon Jones Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 3 9th ...Keep readingView the full article

The veteran Frenchman, who is driving a limited schedule for Hyundai in 2020, made full use of his advantageous road position to head the field at the opening rest halt. Although he is not a factor in the pitched battle for this year’s drivers’ title, Loeb has won in Turkey on three previous occasions and his presence is intended to maximise Hyundai's bid to secure the WRC manufacturers’ ...Keep reading View the full article

Jason Naparalla joined us on the 2019 Four Wheeler Overland Adventure with his overland truck build: a 2010 Ford SVT Raptor and Conqueror UEV-390 off-road trailer. His usual exploits involve driving far into the bush over dilapidated roads and trails to reach a trailhead. From there, Jason and his crew make basecamp and proceed to View the full article

Day 4 of Ultimate Adventure broke with a smoke-obscured sun unable to move the thermometer very much at our campsite. But despite the chilly temperatures our last-minute campsite brought the beauty with a rippling creek running straight next to our low-lying valley field. We lined up and then hit the road for a few hours, View the full article

Just when you thought you’d seen it all, Four Wheeler magazine rounds up a mind-boggling collection of incredible 4×4 content and injects it into the November 2020 issue that goes on sale at newsstands around the world on September 25! Wide Open Wheeling The theme of the November 2020 issue is “Wide-Open Wheeling,” and the View the full article

Mayer, the 17-year-old son of former IndyCar and road course driver Scott Mayer, has been running a partial Truck schedule this season with GMS Racing while also competing in ARCA. Mayer grabbed the lead from his teammate Brett Moffitt with 29 of 200 laps remaining and never looked back, cruising to a more than 4.4-second advantage over Moffitt at the finish. The win denied Moffitt ...Keep reading View the full article