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The 319km opening stage of the 2020 Dakar Rally was run between Jeddah and Al Wajh. Brabec, who suffered a bike failure from the lead last year, led for about the first 100 kilometres of the stage before Price took over. The American kept the gap close for the whole stage, with Price only able to record the stage win by 2m05s. Both of Price's star teammates Matthias Walkner and Sam ...Keep reading View the full article

Jeep dash lights, Ford Broncos, Gladiators, Tesla trucks or LS swaps? What was the off-road community most excited about in 2019? We compiled a list of our top stories from the last year for you to re-live one (or perhaps a few) more times. Here they are! We got a sneak at what might View the full article

1. How will Alonso fare on his debut? Let’s face it – the main draw for most casual observers in this particular Dakar will be to observe how a certain Fernando Alonso fares on his debut. And the message from the Spaniard in the build-up to the event has been clear: Don’t expect too much of me. Rally director David Castera might have tipped Alonso to win a stage, but the reality is ...Keep reading View the full article

X-raid’s assault in the 2020 edition of the event will be fronted by Stephane Peterhansel and Carlos Sainz Sr in a pair of Mini JCW Buggies, Cyril Despres having left the team. This puts the German outfit on a weaker footing against its principal rival Toyota, which will field a quartet of factory-supported Hilux pick-ups for Fernando Alonso, Nasser Al-Attiyah, Giniel de Villiers and Bernhard ...Keep reading View the full article

Dakar legend Peterhansel was due to take part in the 2020 edition of the event in one of the X-raid squad's Mini JCW Buggies with his wife Andrea, after the two won last year's FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies as a pair. However, Andrea was forced to drop out of the rally at the last minute after medical tests revealed a problem with one of her arteries. Fiuza, who joined Peterhansel ...Keep reading View the full article

After being dumped by Citroen midway through the 2018 season, Meeke was signed by Toyota for 2019, only to be let go by the Japanese marque at the end of the campaign. This week's confirmation that Citroen outcast Esapekka Lappi is replacing Elfyn Evans at M-Sport Ford in 2020 leaves no more seats free at the highest level. Following Toyota's decision to drop both Meeke and Jari-Matti ...Keep reading View the full article

The two-time Formula 1 champion and Le Mans 24 Hours winner will make his first start in the legendary cross-country event at the wheel of a factory-supported Toyota Hilux, after months of preparations with the Japanese manufacturer. He goes into the Dakar boosted by a podium finish in the recent Ula-Neom Rally, which followed more troubled outings in the Lichtenburg 400 and the Morocco ...Keep reading View the full article

Overland Expo East 2019 was one for the books with a record-breaking 12,500 attendees, 1,000 adventure vehicles, 188 exhibitors, and 55 media outlets. The event found a new home for 2019 at Infinity Downs in Arrington, Virginia, a change from its usual locale some 300 miles to the south. With its rolling hills, beginnings of View the full article

Kyle Busch won his second NASCAR championship less than six weeks ago and is already back in a car View the full article

Most people that build a truck of this high caliber have had past experiences with custom trucks and companies prior to their build. Gary Brewer and his wife, Molly, own a daycare business in Zephyrhills, Florida, just outside of Orlando and have never completed a truck build anything like this. Originally, Gary grew up in View the full article

Jeep and FCA are using the 2020 CES show in Las Vegas to showcase their newest technology and electrification efforts. CES (Consumer Electronic Show) is the premiere trade show to showcase these advances in technology. The Jeep brand will showcase three plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Jeep says this is the first step in the plan View the full article

What is a Baja Runner? Designed to be a rolling showcase of the brands Mule Expedition Outfitters offers and the work the company performs, the Baja Runner started life as a Hemi-powered Ram 2500 Tradesman and was outfitted with a Norweld tray bed, Four Wheel Campers Hawk pop-up camper, AEV suspension, bumpers, and wheels, 40-inch View the full article

Castera told Motorsport.com that feedback from the drivers after the Morocco Rally, which is also organised by the ASO and served as a test bench for the new roadbook philosophy, has led him to apply some tweaks to the navigation system. The Frenchman acknowledged that the delivery of the roadbook to competitors in "at least four" of the rally's 12 stages shortly before the start of the stage ...Keep reading View the full article

Some of you may remember a few years back when we dragged this beaten-down 1997 Ford F-150 Lariat out of the parking lot and gave it a new life. The truck is significant because it’s the actual truck that Ford delivered to MotorTrend magazine back in 1996 for testing. This truck won the coveted Truck View the full article

There are certain advantages to being friends with someone high up in the industry in which you are involved. For Keith Federspiel of Denver, Colorado, he has a good friend TJ Hill who runs the company FiveR Trucks out of Colorado. FiveR Trucks was using their builds on a current TV show called “The Lifted View the full article

Everyone is talking about the new Jeep JT Gladiator, and with good reason. Not only is it new, it’s really cool on many different levels. It’s the first Jeep pickup truck to roll off the assembly line in more than 25 years, it has solid axles front and rear (unlike its mid-size truck competitors), and View the full article

Kolomy – who usually competes in the Truck class and is teammate to former WRC competitor Martin Prokop – rolled his Ford end-over-end in the sand dunes during a shakedown run. The car landed back on its wheels after a series of rollovers, with its nose wedged firmly against a dune. One of the medical helicopters from the Rally’s organisers quickly arrived at the scene of the crash. They ...Keep reading View the full article

Both Finnish drivers will tackle all 13 rounds of this year’s series, while Gus Greensmith gets nine rounds aboard a Ford Fiesta WRC. M-Sport's decision to sign Lappi to the car Elfyn Evans vacated in favour of a Toyota drive closes out the final factory seat in the WRC in 2020. Lappi, who lost his seat when Citroen departed the WRC after last season, won his first rally title – the 2012 ...Keep reading View the full article

When the name of your vehicle starts with the word “Alpha”, you better have something unique that helps creates a trend or at least something better than most. Josh Burnett succeeded with his 2017 Ford F-450 Platinum dually in both of those categories. Josh grew up in East Texas and custom trucks were just a View the full article

The initiative, spearheaded by new rally director David Castera, comes as a result of continued suspicions that teams have been able to circumvent the regulations regarding navigation in the last few editions of the marathon through the use of various tools. Motorsport.com has learned that, in a hitherto unprecedented measure, the top 25 cars in the first Saudi Arabia-based edition of the event ...Keep reading View the full article

Disjointed U-Joint U-joints are used on drivelines and front axleshafts in order to transfer power at an angle. There are two schools of thought on U-joints. Some people want the strongest ones possible, while others feel that they are easier to swap out than a broken differential and make a good fusible link. The G2 View the full article

The four-door Wrangler Unlimited has been a smash hit from the day it entered the marketplace as a 2007 model. Given the vast improvements the JL Wrangler brings to the table, it’s little wonder Jeep is still selling ever four-door Wrangler it can manufacture. But not everybody who purchases a new JL Wrangler wants to View the full article

The 2019 SEMA show was bursting at the seams with custom built 2020 Jeep Gladiator JT pickup, and while we were there narrowed them down to our favorite 10 best Jeep Gladiator JT pickups to give you a look at the possibilities for customizing your own Jeep Gladiator. It’s like no other pickup truck ever View the full article

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Red Bull announced a cross-country junior programme, analogous to its successful Junior Team scheme in Formula 1, in cooperation with Overdrive earlier this month. Young American racers Blade Hildebrand, Mitch Guthrie Jr and Seth Quintero were announced as the initial intake, with all three lined up to contest the 2020 Dakar in the UTV (side-by-side) class in Overdrive's newly-built OT3 ...Keep reading View the full article