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The race moves from Charlotte Motor Speedway to Bristol for the first time July 15 in a Wednesday night primetime event. This week, NASCAR announced the race format, which features a 'choose cone' rule. Drivers will be able to choose which lane they want to be in for each restart at a designated area on the track following pit stops. Normally, drivers would try to position themselves in a ...Keep reading View the full article

Never one to sit on its hands, Benchmade is always looking forward and creating products that address the needs of knife and tool users. One of its newest offerings, the 202 Leuku, is a fixed-blade outdoor survival knife that also dips into the edge of the tactical and overlanding worlds. The word “Leuku” is Finnish View the full article

To add to that, NBC will kick off its NASCAR coverage this weekend with the first combination IndyCar Series/NASCAR race weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. While IndyCar has occasionally shared a weekend at a track with a lower tier NASCAR series such as Trucks or ARCA, it has never run the same venue the same weekend with NASCAR’s Cup Series. This weekend will feature IndyCar and ...Keep reading View the full article

While NASCAR Trucks and ARCA racing have shared the bill with IndyCar on some tracks in recent years, the compression of the NTT IndyCar Series schedule due to the coronavirus pandemic restrictions provided IndyCar and IMS owner Roger Penske with a rare chance to strike a deal with NASCAR to share a venue with the Monster Energy Cup Series. Consequently, on July the Fourth weekend, IndyCar and ...Keep reading View the full article

The moment we’ve all been waiting for has finally arrived. Ford’s all-new 7.3L gasoline V-8 engine, codenamed Godzilla, has finally hit the Ford Performance catalog as a crate engine. The big-block V-8 joins other legends such as Ford’s Coyote Aluminator 5.0L V-8, the 5.2L XS V-8, the 2.3L EcoBoost I-4, and about a dozen variants View the full article

Dr. Rose Mattioli, co-founder of Pocono Raceway and matriarch of the Mattioli family that still owns and operates the track, died on Monday at the age of 92 View the full article

Dr. Rose and her late husband Dr. Joseph ‘Doc’ Mattioli co-founded Pocono in 1968, which remains a family-owned-and-operated business. Dr. Rose and Doc worked side-by-side and, through their tireless passion and commitment, became one of the most admired and loved families in motorsports. Dr. Rose’s death came one day after Pocono completed the first doubleheader weekend in the NASCAR Cup ...Keep reading View the full article

On the season premiere of HOT ROD Garage, Tony Angelo and Lucky Costa want to finish some project cars before starting something new, then hit the dragstrip at Famoso Raceway for some shenanigans. View the full article

Would-be Nikola customers can now slap down money to preorder the company’s forthcoming Badger electric pickup truck, which is slated to be available—someday—in hydrogen FCEV (fuel-cell electric vehicle) or BEV (battery-electric vehicle) forms. We’re told that the futuristic hydrogen-electric truck touts some pretty impressive (yet seemingly still theoretical) stats: 906 peak horsepower and 455 continuous View the full article

After initially reviewing the new-to-U.S. Ford Ranger upon the nameplate’s return to the American market for 2019, we were unimpressed with its already-old styling, so-so ride and handling, and low-rent cabin. To be fair, the Ranger had already been on sale for some time globally before it was modified for American customers, and we nonetheless deem it View the full article

The Jeep brand’s Badge of Honor program, which was launched in 2013, just announced the addition of seven new off-road trails to the program. This update brings the total number of trails, which range from tame and mild to totally wild, to 56 nationwide that include the famous Rubicon Trail in California, Hell’s Revenge in View the full article

Chris Gabehart began working with Hamlin at the start of the 2019 season and they immediately found success winning the season-opening Daytona 500. Hamlin ended up with one of the most successful seasons of his career, piling up six wins, career-bests in top-fives (19) and top-10s (24) and advancing to the final four to contend for the series championship. Hamlin and the No. 11 Joe Gibbs ...Keep reading View the full article

The seven-time NASCAR Cup champion announced the news via Twitter this afternoon, with the message: “I get to test an @IndyCar next week! A big thanks to my friends @CGRIndyCar & @GanassiChip for the opportunity. Now back to the gym for a crash course in IndyCar specific strength training." Legendary team owner Chip Ganassi responded with, “Hey 7x champ @JimmieJohnson! Looking ...Keep reading View the full article

The one thing NASCAR has always gotten right is its ability to keep racing through a crisis View the full article

For one of my recent 4xForward editorial columns in Four Wheeler magazine, I wrote about my ’89 Wrangler, Project Why-J, and how it’s sort of become a family heirloom keepsake. I used the punny term “Jeepsake” and invited readers to share their stories if they had ’em. The first one to email me was Burke View the full article

The event was moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 2019 after ten years in Las Vegas. Before that, the annual celebration was held in New York City. But due to concerns surrounding COVID-19, the series has opted to call off the event for 2020. The sanctioning body released the following statement Monday: “With the uncertainty surrounding the Coronavirus and the impact on the industry ...Keep reading View the full article

Maybe traveling by air isn’t your first choice for how to get the family to the next adventure destination—so how about a four-wheel-drive 2020 EarthCruiser Dual Cab EXP? More Overland Rigs? We Drive the EarthCruiser EXP How About the $1.7 Million Dollar EarthRoamer? The EarthCruiser Dual Cab EXP increases the seating capacity of the company’s View the full article

Every once in a while, a SEMA build leaves such an impression on gearheads’ minds that, years later, they still recount the rig and its grandeur. Such is the case with this 1941 Dodge WC built by Daystar Products and displayed in the company’s booth during the 2016 SEMA show. It’s simply one of those View the full article

The Lordstown Endurance, an all-electric pickup truck on track to be built by Lordstown Motor Corp. (LMC) at the ex-GM factory in Lordstown, Ohio, has stepped into the limelight with a bang. LMC CEO Steve Burns drove the preproduction Lordstown Endurance onto a stage framed by an American flag and prominent Lordstown logo—and then Vice View the full article

Such is the way of things in racing, where circumstances, pit strategy and the timing of cautions can alter the outcome just as much as a fast race car. Like Saturday, the outcome of Sunday’s second race in Pocono’s unique doubleheader came down to a duel between Harvick and Hamlin. Sunday’s race, however, ended with an uncharacteristic 51-lap green-flag run, which Hamlin and his crew ...Keep reading View the full article

Denny Hamlin claimed his sixth Pocono victory in a rain-delated second NASCAR Cup race of the weekend, beating Kevin Harvick by over three seconds View the full article

Hamlin’s No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing team used a clever pit strategy to cycle out in front of Harvick during a 51-lap green-run to the finish and easily came away with the victory in Sunday’s rain-delayed Pocono 350. The rain delayed left open whether the race would run its full 325-mile distance but every lap was completed approximately 10 minutes after official sunset. Sunday’s race was ...Keep reading View the full article

Full highlights from Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series Pocono 350 from Pocono Raceway. View the full article

Denny Hamlin held off Kevin Harvick on Sunday night to win the second Cup race of the weekend at Pocono Raceway and flip the result of the opener View the full article

Besting Kevin Harvick and Erik Jones, who finished second and third respectively, Denny Hamlin cruised to victory at Pocono, his sixth win at the track. That mark ties him with Jeff Gordon for the most wins at the track all time. View the full article