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UPDATE: Ross Chastain fails post-race inspection, stripped of Iowa win. CLICK HERE to learn more. Chastain won the first two stages and then held off Brett Moffitt to win Sunday’s rain-delayed M&M’s 200 at Iowa Speedway, taking the first very important step need to qualify for the Truck Series playoffs. With the win, Chastain also collected an extra $50,000 as part of the Triple ...Keep reading View the full article

NASCAR overturns victory for first time since 1960; Moffitt wins Trucks race after Chastain's truck fails inspection View the full article

The decision hands Niclas Gronholm, who had initially finished third on track before being promoted to second when Kevin Hansen was penalised for contact, his first World RX win. Gronholm had topped qualifying and won the first semi-final in torrential conditions, but lost out in the final after a poor start. GC Kompetition driver Marklund was disqualified from the entire event by ...Keep reading View the full article

The heavens opened above the Lankebanen circuit minutes before the semi-finals, rendering event-long tyre strategies useless, with all 12 cars switched onto wets. Having followed his day one performance with another fastest time on Sunday morning to top the Intermediate Classification on his return to the series, Niclas Gronholm started from pole position in semi-final one, the first drenched ...Keep reading View the full article

Tanak headed into the Power Stage 26.7 seconds ahead of Sordo, but plummeted down to fifth after spinning his Toyota and losing two minutes as he wrestled with his Yaris. An emotional Sordo claimed his second WRC victory by 13.7s over M-Sport’s Teemu Suninen on his first event with new co-driver Jarmo Lehtinen. Andreas Mikkelsen was third. Sordo had led in Sardinia on Friday, but was ...Keep reading View the full article

Persistent thunderstorms Saturday night finally postponed the Gander Outdoors NASCAR Truck Series event and it will now run Sunday prior to the NASCAR Xfinity Series race. The M&M’s 200 will begin at noon ET. The CircuitCity.com 250 is slated for a 5:48 p.m. ET green flag. Both races will be broadcast live on Fox Sports 1. The Truck Series got two practices in on Saturday but had its ...Keep reading View the full article

Hill, a regular in the Gander Outdoors Truck Series who won the season opener at Daytona, will compete in the July 5 Xfinity Series race at the track in an entry fielded by Hattori Racing Enterprises. Hill, 25, currently drives HRE’s No. 16 Toyota in the Truck series. HRE has not fielded an entry in the Xfinity Series since 2015. “I never thought the day would come. I was sat down the ...Keep reading View the full article

Tanak began Saturday 11.2s shy of Sordo, but won all three of the morning’s tests to rocket into a 6.4s lead heading into the afternoon loop. He set about extending that gap immediately on the second pass of Coiluna-Loelle, pulling another 4.2s out of Sordo with his fourth fastest time of the day. Monti di Ala would yield another stage win for Tanak, who extended his overall lead to 17.7s on ...Keep reading View the full article

It’s a fact: Loving your Jeep can change your life. And we don’t mean that in a weird way, either. It’s just that Jeep Therapy helps thousands regain their inner peace and sense of purpose. One way to understand this concept is to equate a good jeep to a service animal, since they can do View the full article

Having been forced to skip rounds three and four of the series due to an appendicitis operation, Gronholm prepared for his comeback with a brief shakedown in Finland last week, before topping the time sheets in each session on day one at the Lankebanen circuit. Fastest in Free Practice, despite pulling off in the first session and returning to the paddock, Gronholm won the race to turn one ...Keep reading View the full article

Tanak selected a different tyre strategy to his immediate rivals Sordo and Teemu Suninen, who both chose five hard compound tyres for the loop. Tanak went with three mediums and two hards, a combination he used on this exact loop two years when he won the rally for M-Sport. The Toyota’s speed was ominous on the opening Coiluna-Loelle test, as Tanak immediately grabbed 6.5 seconds from Sordo ...Keep reading View the full article

Baja racing legend Rod Hall has passed away at age 82. Hall began his racing career in the 1950s. He won the inaugural NORRA Mexican 1000 in 1967. In those days electronic GPS devices didn’t exist. Navigation was done by map and line of sight. He was a hired driver for the legendary Bill Stroppe. View the full article

There is a reason why non-profit organizations worldwide use Land Rovers to complete their missions. The vehicles are tough and reliable. Land Rover recently announced the return of the 2020 Defender. The vehicle is expected in Land Rover dealer showrooms later this year. The company provided a new 2020 Defender to Tusk in Kenya to View the full article

The Iowa Speedway weekend schedule is subject to change. All times are Eastern Daylight Savings Time (EDT). Saturday, June 15 9:30 a.m. - 10 a.m., Truck Series practice (No TV) 11:30 a.m. - 12:55 p.m., Truck Series final practice (No TV) 3:05 p.m. - 3:55 p.m., Xfinity Series practice (TV: Fox Sports 1 - FS1) 5:35 p.m., Truck Series qualifying (TV: FS2) 7 p.m. - 7:50 p.m., Xfinity ...Keep reading View the full article

Ross Chastain seems like the busiest driver in NASCAR View the full article

Smith, a 16-year-old from Talking Rock, Ga., makes his first Truck Series start Saturday night in the M&M’s 200 at Iowa Speedway, driving the No. 51 Toyota. Smith, who has three victories and six poles in 13 starts in the ARCA Racing Series, has four starts planned in the Truck Series this season with KBM and is also scheduled to compete in the prestigious Super Late Model races for ...Keep reading View the full article

The next homologation cycle for the WRC will include common electric motors and batteries. The FIA has, however, introduced the potential for a second level of hybrid to be introduced in 2025 which would allow for harvested energy to be used in competition. The level of technological change – and the amount the teams will be permitted to do themselves – after the first three years will ...Keep reading View the full article

A “revised roadmap for the Electrification of the FIA World Rallycross Championship in 2021” has been approved by the WMSC, following initial plans to switch the series to electric cars being extinguished in March this year. While the previous intention for World RX electrification had included manufacturer-built and developed single-make carbon monocoque chassis machines, the new ...Keep reading View the full article

When Ken Brubaker of Four Wheeler magazine, Jp’s sister publication, asked me to guide the first Overland Adventure, one of my biggest concerns was how to bring together a group that was going to be far more diverse than the usual all-Jeep run. With everything from rockcrawling Wranglers to overland monsters like John Marshall’s U-600 View the full article

Sordo began the afternoon loop 0.7 seconds behind Toyota’s Ott Tanak in third, and duly beat his rival by that same 0.7s to draw level with Tanak heading into stage seven. Stage seven Castelsardo stage was then cancelled as a spectator required medical attention, but not before the leading three drivers on the road - Tanak, Thierry Neuville and Elfyn Evans - all managed to complete ...Keep reading View the full article

1. That’s Interesting GMC stopped being stingy with the Duramax diesel and has expanded availability of the 3.0L and 10-speed auto and CarbonPro carbon-fiber bed for the ’20 Sierra 1500. But at the same time, is GM’s EPA certification taking so long that the diesel-Silverado availability is on hold? And P.S. The ’20 Silverado has View the full article

Ogier retired from Rally Italy after breaking a steering arm on the final stage of Friday’s morning loop. Returning under Rally 2 regulations would leave Ogier running first on the road for a second day in succession, but with very little potential for scoring points from the Alghero-based event. The world champion is already looking towards the next round of the series in ...Keep reading View the full article

Ogier headed into Friday as rally leader courtesy of his stage win on Thursday’s superspecial stage, but fell to ninth as he fought against the conditions as the opening car on the road. But Ogier’s morning would get worse on the Monte Barante stage that concluded the loop. On the quarry section where the stage began, the Citroen driver clipped a boulder on the inside of a left-hander ...Keep reading View the full article

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1. Jeep News & Rumors The ’20 Jeep Gladiator Launch Edition was available for preorders for one day only. It was a Rubicon with its own wheels and interior accents. There was also a tailgate badge reading, “One of 4,190.” It was available only on Jeep 4×4 Day at jeepgladiatorlaunchedition.com. Jeep also enticed with this: View the full article