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Raphael Lessard has already made two Gander Outdoors Truck Series starts and he’ll now compete June 15 in Iowa and Aug. 25 at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. Lessard, who qualified seventh in both of his previous NASCAR national series starts this season at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway and Dover (Del.) Speedway, is teaming up with the Toyota Racing Development Team for the pair of ...Keep reading View the full article

The Aussie withstood intense pain en route to victory earlier this year, carrying a broken right scaphoid that had been freshly operated on throughout the gruelling trek across the Peruvian dunes. Price even had to resort to using a makeshift device that held his KTM's throttle open on transport stages to get to the end. Upon returning to Australia late January Price went straight back under ...Keep reading View the full article

Kyle Busch Motorsports announced in March that former Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series star would compete in the June Texas Truck race in KBM’s No. 51 Toyota. Friday night’s SpeedyCash.com 400 will mark Biffle’s first NASCAR national series start since the 2016 Cup series finale at Homestead, Fla. He will certainly be getting into a competitive ride – the No. 51 has won five of the ...Keep reading View the full article

Although he continues to express his dislike of the new aero package, are you surprised by how successful Kyle Busch has been with it? Jim: I have to say I am a little surprised. Clearly, Joe Gibbs Racing as a whole and Busch in particular have figured out the aero package well enough to be competing for wins virtually every weekend. The only reason I'm a little surprised is because of how ...Keep reading View the full article

The introduction of hybrid power to NASCAR is "a matter of when, not if" according to Ford Performance's motorsport boss Mark Rushbrook View the full article

Julia Landauer is only making four scheduled starts this year in the NASCAR Pinty’s Series but she’s already turning heads in Canada. The former NASCAR Next driver made history during the APC 200 Sunday at Jukasa Motor Speedway by becoming the first female to lead a competition lap in the history of the NASCAR-sanctioned series. Landauer later made contact with the wall in traffic and ...Keep reading View the full article

The eNASCAR Heat Pro League has completed two events of the 12 scheduled this season and during each event the NASCAR Plaza in Charlotte, N.C., turns into its own race control to bring the league alive for teams, racers and fans. For gaming veteran and 704Games Managing Director of Esports & Partnerships Ed Martin, this has been a rewarding project to create in association with NASCAR, the ...Keep reading View the full article

Chastain has been a busy man during the 2019 season, running every Cup, Xfinity and Truck Series race. Combined, he's already started 34 races this year. That includes a carer-best tenth-place finish in the Daytona 500. Ahead of the new season, he declared for Xfinity points as he has done every year since 2015, placing as high as tenth in the standings in 2018. However, he has enjoyed ...Keep reading View the full article

Alon Day leads all NASCAR Whelen Euro Series Elite 1 drivers with three wins in the first six events on the 2019 schedule, but Frederic Gabillon showed everyone why you can’t overlook him on Sunday at Brands Hatch. Andre Vilarino picked swept the season-opening weekend in Spain with Day, the defending series champion scoring back-to-back wins in Italy and taking Saturday’s first Elite 1 ...Keep reading View the full article

Kyle Larson says he must be "smarter" when he has a car capable of strong NASCAR Cup Series results, after winning two stages but falling to 26th at Pocono View the full article

The Korean squad altered the order of Sebastien Loeb and Dani Sordo on three occasions, positioning the i20 Coupe WRCs on the road to run directly ahead of Neuville to sweep the stones and clean the line for the Belgian. Read Also: Outspoken Ogier slams Hyundai boss for alleged “mean tactics” Neuville was quick to point out that no rules had been broken. "We didn't ...Keep reading View the full article

Kyle Busch dominated the second half of the NASCAR Cup Series race at Pocono to score his fourth victory of the 2019 season View the full article

After fuel-related problems on the opening day left Hyundai drivers Sebastien Loeb and Dani Sordo down the order, Adamo used the regulations to manipulate those cars into a starting position which would offer teammate Thierry Neuville a cleaner road. Speaking in the post-event press conference in Matosinhos, Citroen star Ogier said he had no problem with those tactics, but then added: “But ...Keep reading View the full article

Meeke was running third heading into the Power Stage, but clipped something on the inside of a right-hander that instantly broke the front-right corner of his Yaris. Sebastien Ogier was promoted into third, with Tanak’s winning margin over Neuville standing at 15.9s. Ogier remains the championship leader by two points after winning the Power Stage. Tanak was third fastest after backing off ...Keep reading View the full article

Despite starting the leg just 4.3 seconds apart, both Toyota drivers were preoccupied with keeping Hyundai’s Neuville behind them rather than fighting each other. Meeke managed to grab two seconds from Tanak on the opening stage of the day, but Tanak responded on the following two to extend his gap over Meeke - before the Northern Irishman spun his Yaris on the second pass of Montim and ...Keep reading View the full article

Latvala had carved 12.2 seconds out of Tanak’s lead on Saturday morning after selecting a harder tyre compound than his immediate rivals, but his work was undone on the afternoon’s first stage when a damper gave way on his Yaris WRC. The Finn only lost nine seconds in the initial test, but haemorrhaged 56.7s on the second stage of the loop before having to retire ahead of the final stage in ...Keep reading View the full article

Tanak’s morning was not plain-sailing, as the Estonian “f***ed” the brakes aboard his Yaris to lose nine seconds to SS8 winner Kris Meeke. His lead gap was reduced from 17.3s to 11.3s over Latvala, but after some quick roadside repairs Tanak was back on the pace on SS9 Cabeceiras de Basto. Latvala opted for two hard tyres whereas his teammates went for mediums all round, which began to ...Keep reading View the full article

The Austrian firm, creators of the world’s first four-wheel drive electric rallycross prototype, codenamed HIPER, has announced that it will exclusively supply powertrain kits to the new series, which is set to start as a support class to the World Rallycross Championship before 2021. The concept was launched just days after it was revealed that plans to switch World RX to electric cars in ...Keep reading View the full article

Latvala reduced Tanak’s advantage from 6.9 seconds to 5.4s on the first stage of the afternoon, but immediately fell back again on stage five as he “tried to save his tyres” for stage six Arganil. Ultimately Latvala’s couldn’t take advantage as he stalled the engine on stage, dropping to 15.2s behind Tanak ahead of tonight’s superspecial stage. Suninen was set to overhaul Latvala ...Keep reading View the full article

NASCAR could adopt one of the Gen-7 components planned for the next generation of Cup Series cars by as early as 2020 View the full article

Hyundai’s Sordo was in a class of his own on the opening Lousa stage, stopping the clocks 4.2 seconds faster than Tanak’s Toyota - with both M-Sport’s Teemu Suninen and Tanak’s teammate Jari-Matti Latvala within 0.6s of the Estonian. Tanak immediately responded on the Gois test, clawing 3.9s back from Sordo to trim the Hyundai’s lead to just 0.5s. However, the battle was defused as ...Keep reading View the full article

Former works Hyundai WRC driver Abbring will make his World RX debut with the ES Motorsport squad, for which he conducted most of the sited 1000 kilometres of development running over the winter with its new Skoda Fabia. The squad initially ran reigning European Super1600 Champion Rokas Baciuska in the opening two rounds of the year before splitting with the young driver in the week prior to ...Keep reading View the full article

The NASCAR Cup Series believes it is receiving less "negativity" over its new-for-2019 aero package now it has been raced on almost every type of circuit View the full article

Neuville has requested the change following the decision to give him a notional time on the second stage of Rally Chile. In that event, Neuville’s SS2 El Puma effort was red-flagged not long after he started, as rally organisers feared his i20 Coupe WRC could catch the official zero cars moving ahead on the test. Neuville drove the majority of the stage non-competitively and was handed a ...Keep reading View the full article

Mike Joy, Jeff Gordon, and DW breakdown Martin Truex Jr.'s big night, the restarts, and the exciting race from the Coca-Cola 600 View the full article