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He and his No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing team don’t plan on making the same mistake twice. Bell wrecked out of consecutive races in the playoffs last fall, won at Phoenix in a “must-win” situation to contend for the championship at Homestead, only to run 11th in the season finale as Tyler Reddick won the race and the title. Bell collected his sixth win of the 2019 season on Saturday, earning ...Keep reading View the full article

Looking for an inexpensive way to camp? We were, but we had certain criteria. We wanted to be off the ground, and we wanted to stay dry when it rained. We wanted something with enough room so that we could move around and not feel cramped. We wanted to point and laugh at bugs because View the full article

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The Truck Show Podcast Presented by Nissan in association with DECKED… …is a fun, irreverent, and edgy look at today’s world of custom and factory trucks, hosted by automotive journalist Sean Holman and veteran Los Angeles radio personality Jay “Lightning” Tilles. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the latest episode of The Truck Show Podcast. View the full article

1. That’s Interesting The average age of vehicles on the road in the U.S. is 11.8 years. Montana has the oldest average, at 16.6 years, while Vermont maintains the youngest, at 9.9 years. This is all according to IHS Markit, which studies this stuff. Have the Chevrolet Marketplace commerce thingy in your vehicle? You can View the full article

Borland has most recently served as crew chief for driver Ty Dillon at Germain Racing. In his 15-year career as a Cup series crew chief, he has 13 wins and 39 poles – all with driver Ryan Newman. Justin Alexander will serve as Dillon’s crew chief until Borland’s return. In a statement released early Monday morning, Borland said he was informed over the weekend he tested positive in a ...Keep reading View the full article

Moffitt is already locked into the second round of the playoffs, but further cements himself as the title favorite with his fourth win of the season. He beat Alex Tagliani to the line by 5.1 seconds, leading an impressive 44 of 64 laps. "I'd say we are hitting our stride at the right time," said Moffitt. "Before it was like we were missing a little bit everywhere and now we're hitting ...Keep reading View the full article

DiBenedetto got the opportunity to drive Joe Gibbs Racing’s No. 18 Toyota in Saturday’s Xfinity Series race at Road America and for much of the weekend he appeared ready to capitalize. Instead, teammate Christopher Bell ended up with his first road course victory and DiBenedetto’s hopes for his first NASCAR national series win ended in the final turn of the final lap. “Just being ...Keep reading View the full article

Street Light Baja Designs announces the company’s first street-legal light line, the Squadron SAE. The new lights are based on the popular Squadron Series off-road lights, but the Squadron SAE lights are engineered to be street-legal fog/driving lights. A prominent difference between the lines is that the new series complies with the SAE J583 standard View the full article

Tanak led a clean sweep of the podium for the Japanese marque, with Kris Meeke coming home 20.8s in arrears, with Jari-Matti Latvala third. Neuville salvaged fifth behind Hyundai teammate Dani Sordo on the Powerstage – which he won – after falling out of victory contention after changing a wheel at the end of Saturday’s running. He now moves ahead of six-time WRC ...Keep reading View the full article

Bell held off a wild charge from Austin Cindric on new tires following a restart with two of 45 laps remaining to take the win in Saturday’s CTECH 180 at Road America. The victory is Bell’s first on a road course in his NASCAR career. The win is Bell’s sixth of the 2019 season and 14th of his Xfinity Series career. “Man, I’m honestly in shock,” Bell said. “I really butchered ...Keep reading View the full article

Hyundai driver Neuville and Tanak had been embroiled in an intense battle for the lead on Friday that continued into Saturday morning, but the fight was defused on the first run through the 41km Panzerplatte stage. Neuville collected a rear-left puncture early on the stage, but incredibly minimised the time loss to just 1m26.8s after stopping to change the tyre. Nonetheless, he plummeted from ...Keep reading View the full article

Allmendinger's average lap speed of 109.792 mph topped Matt DiBenedetto (109.382 mph) to claim the pole for Saturday's CTECH Manufacturing 180 at Road America. In his fourth series start of the season for Kaulig Racing, it's Allmendinger's first pole. He is coming off a third-place finish a few weeks ago at Mid-Ohio. "I'm very satisfied. I feel our chances are better to win this week," ...Keep reading View the full article

When Clements earned his stunning first career NASCAR victory in 2017 at Road America, it helped catapult his team into the playoffs. But his small, underfunded family organization wasn’t in a good position to capitalize on it but did manage to finish a career-best 12th in the series standings. “We were not prepared honestly at the time. We weren’t running very good that year in a ...Keep reading View the full article

Sadly, our Early Bronco project has been languishing. That’s for a few reasons, and not all are worth going into during this tale of Bronco construction. The main reason for this rig resting idle is because of our personal indecision as it comes to what transmission to run in the Bronco. Generally we are all View the full article

Drivers suffered multiple punctures on the pre-event recce, but Neuville was the only leading driver to fall foul in the event proper, suffering a deflated cover in the first half of the stage on his i20 Coupe WRC. The Belgian driver had trailed Tanak by 5.6s heading into the stage, and entered the event 25-points behind Tanak in the WRC points’ standings. Toyota’s Tanak takes a lead ...Keep reading View the full article

On SS5 of the World Rally Championship's German round, during the second running of the 19.44kmh Stein und Wein stage, the spectator fell off a short wall “head first” onto the stage on a straight section, just as Ostberg rounded a quick right-hander in his Citroen C3 R5. Ostberg veered left in a desperate attempt to avoid the spectator who he said he missed by ‘half a metre or a ...Keep reading View the full article

Neuville had chopped 1.3 seconds out of Tanak on the first run of Freisen to trim the Toyota driver’s overall advantage to 1.5s. But he overcooked his entry and stalled into a hairpin on the proceeding Romerstrasse test. He dropped 6.7s to Tanak who won the stage when a stubborn fuse delayed him further when trying to restart the Hyundai. Neuville nicked 0.2s back on the repeat of Freisen ...Keep reading View the full article

The Rebel 1500 was introduced in 2015, so it has been in the Ram stable of trucks for five years. The 2WD and 4WD models are built and targeted for off-road styling and function, and they’ve proven to be fun trucks. For those looking for a factory off-road package, the Rebel offers a taller stance, View the full article

First 4×4 My first 4×4 experience was a ’72 CJ-5 purple (plum) Renegade with a 304 V-8, manual transmission, and soft top with vinyl doors and zip-up windows. It was a great Jeep—fast and a great hunting vehicle, but COLD. I live in South Dakota, so you had to keep your ice scraper handy when View the full article

A NASCAR spokesman confirmed Friday evening the 19-year-old native of Walllkill, N.Y., has been suspended for actions detrimental to stock car racing, including a violation of the sport’s code of conduct. Dippel was scheduled to compete in Sunday’s Chevrolet Silverado 250 at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in Bowmanville, Ontario. There was no immediate word from Young’s Motorsports ...Keep reading View the full article

Allgaier has shown no secret of his disappointment of not yet being able to secure a win this season in the Xfinity Series with his No. 7 JRM team but he still sees racing with the organization as “a great fit. “I will be back next year. Same deal. Everything is good,” Allgaier said Friday at Road America. “We’re doing the same thing next that we are doing right now. First and ...Keep reading View the full article

The attempt by the pilots to attempt another landing was outlined in Friday’s preliminary accident report on the accident released by the National Transportation and Safety Board. Earnhardt, his wife Amy, their daughter Isla, a family dog and two pilots all escaped serious injury when the Cessna 680A on which they were flying ran off the runway upon landing on Aug. 15. Earnhardt was on his ...Keep reading View the full article

The Meyers Manx dune buggy driven by actor Steve McQueen in the 1968 movie The Thomas Crown Affair is up for auction—and could be yours. We are talking about the same dune buggy that McQueen took Faye Dunaway for a ride in. The famous beach scene features McQueen driving at high speeds on the sand View the full article

DiBenedetto said his “priority” is to win in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series because he believes that’s the only way he will continue to climb the career ladder in NASCAR. “The attention and support we got from fans in general, that was unreal,” DiBenedetto said Friday at Road America. “The crowd cheering when I was about to get interviews on the big screen, everybody ...Keep reading View the full article