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By user ChristopherSharp on Motorsport Fans Saved, what do you mean, saved? Sebastian Ogier has just won the Monte Carlo Rally by a mere 2.4 seconds from Thierry Neuville. The WRC runs 380bhp be-winged cars that are exciting the fans on site and online? What does it need ‘saving’ from? Answer? The Sheep and Wolf complex in modern motorsport viewing consumption. In recent years there ...Keep reading View the full article

Hyundai Motorsport has worked through the night to rebuild the i20 Coupe WRC for Andreas Mikkelsen’s test on Friday. The team doesn’t expect to lose any testing time due to the accident. A spokesman from the team confirmed the accident, which happened on one of the Frenchman’s final runs of the day. Sources in the area of northern Sweden where Hyundai is testing stated the car hit a ...Keep reading View the full article

Thursday was the first of a two-day Cup Series test session of the 2019 aero package at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the first opportunity to see the rules’ effects with more than just a handful of cars on the track. During the course of 10 hours of testing Thursday, three times 14 teams competed in 25-lap drafting sessions, trying to replicate racing conditions. Read Also: Clint ...Keep reading View the full article

Chastain lost the opportunity to compete full-time in the Xfinity Series with Chip Ganassi Racing this season when the organization was forced to shut down its team earlier this month. The No. 42 Xfinity team was scheduled to be sponsored in large part by DC Solar. In late December, there were multiple reports the FBI conducted twin raids on the home of DC Solar CEO Jeff Carpoff in Martinez ...Keep reading View the full article

The two-day test at Las Vegas Motor Speedway got underway Thursday with the attention of both fans and the sport’s participants fixated on how a new aero package would change the racing product. This week’s test is the first utilizing all aspects of the new package and with more than just a handful of cars (14 organizations sent one team each). In addition to plenty of time for ...Keep reading View the full article

Stamets, who has been lead engineer at RPM since 2012 is no stranger to success at the Cup level throughout his career and promoting from within the organization should make for an easy and smooth transition for the team. Stamets replaces Drew Blickensderfer who worked with Wallace last season where they finished runner-up in the Daytona 500 for their best showing together in 2018. Stamets ...Keep reading View the full article

Veteran Truck Series competitor Timothy Peters has secured a ride for the first three races of the 2019 season, driving the No. 44 Friends of Jaclyn Foundation Niece Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado. The races take place at Daytona International Speedway, followed by Atlanta Motor Speedway and Las Vegas Motor Speedway. “I’m really excited for the opportunity to race the first three ...Keep reading View the full article

Jeff Gordon headlines the 10th class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame for his storied career on and off the track View the full article

Below is the complete NASCAR Xfinity and Gander Outdoors Truck Series schedules with the network, start time and radio affiliate. Notable changes include the moving of the Xfinity Series regular season finale at Las Vegas and the Texas playoff race to primetime slots. In the Truck Series, both the Iowa and Gateway events have been pushed to later times in the evening. NASCAR Xfinity ...Keep reading View the full article

Created last year by World Rallycross promotor IMG following the demise of the American-based Global Rallycross Championship, the series held four events in 2018, three partnered with World RX events. For this season, ARX will only join World RX for its Canadian event at Trois-Rivieres in August, following the opening round of the campaign at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in June, and the ...Keep reading View the full article

Four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon says he is interested in one day taking over the running of Hendrick Motorsports from owner Rick Hendrick when he retires View the full article

Volkswagen will bring a concept to Geneva that pays homage to the legendary dune buggy, but in this case, it'll be built on the company’s all-electric platform. View the full article

As we’re just 10 days away from cars on the track at Daytona International Speedway for the start of the 2019 NASCAR and ARCA seasons, Motorsport.com welcomes questions from the fans. Here are some of the questions submitted by fans during the offseason in the first edition of the NASCAR Mailbag for 2019. There is no sport anywhere except for NASCAR where you win the very first event and ...Keep reading View the full article

The team, headed by David Gilliland and Bo LeMastus, competes in the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series as well as the K&N Pro Series Series. They also take part in various ARCA events. Ahead of the 2019 season, they conducted a private test with their K&N car at New Smyrna Speedway. But per the rule book, NASCAR prohibits private testing at sanctioned tracks that are part of the ...Keep reading View the full article

They’ll get their final on-track opportunity on Thursday and Friday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway during NASCAR’s last organizational test prior to teams arriving in Daytona Beach, Fla., for Speedweeks. Fourteen Cup teams will have drivers participate in the test – a much larger contingent then participated in a Goodyear tire test with the aero package earlier this month at Auto Club ...Keep reading View the full article

Toyota says they have some big news to release. The problem is, we have to wait until the upcoming Chicago Auto Show. View the full article

The NASCAR Cup series will head to Las Vegas on Thursday for a crucial test described as the "best true indicator" of how the 2019 aerodynamic package will impact racing View the full article

Hyundai driver Neuville finished runner-up to the Citroen C3 of Sebastien Ogier, but Ott Tanak had led the rally on Thursday evening and was third on Friday until he had to change a tyre on a stage. That dropped Tanak to seventh, more than two and a half minutes off the lead, but the Toyota driver reeled off six-straight stage wins on Saturday and Sunday morning and recovered to finish ...Keep reading View the full article

CMS also hosted more than 50 members of Team Penske, who spent several hours Monday engaging in an organization pit crew competition on the track’s pit road. Joey Logano – the reigning Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion – joined fellow Penske drivers Brad Keselowski, Ryan Blaney and Austin Cindric joined Wood Brothers Racing driver Paul Menard in attempting to determine the fastest ...Keep reading View the full article

On Tuesday, Fox Sports announced it had hired Craven to join its on-air team this season. He will appear on the network's weekend “Race Hub” shows, NASCAR practice and qualifying programs and other programming emanating from Fox Sports’ new virtual studio in Charlotte, N.C. “I’m honored to join Fox Sports and have always had great admiration and appreciation for the company’s ...Keep reading View the full article

To help illustrate that point, Logano – with a helpful suggestion from friend Coleman Pressley – has decided to allow every member of his No. 22 Team Penske crew to house his championship trophy for one week. “They can do whatever they want with it,” Logano said Monday at a preseason media event at Charlotte Motor Speedway. “I don’t care. Take a cool picture. Eat Cheerios out of it ...Keep reading View the full article

“I don’t think tremendous things need to change in the schedule to make fantastic things happen,” Smith, CEO of SMI, said during a Charlotte Motor Speedway preseason media event Monday. “I think that there are opportunities with the new schedule. “But the biggest thing that we have coming up that I am most excited about is the racing this year. I think that what we started with the ...Keep reading View the full article

We heard that a 2020 Jeep JT pickup was being prepped for the 2019 King of The Hammers (KOH), found it, and grabbed some photos and video for you. View the full article

Bottas contested last weekend's Arctic Lapland Rally in an M-Sport Ford Fiesta WRC in association with the Finnish governing body's Flying Finn project to support young drivers, the Finnish Rally Championship and AKK-Motorsport. Run by M-Sport engineers and co-driven by two-time WRC champion Timo Rautiainen, Bottas recorded one stage win on his way to fifth overall. Team principal Rich ...Keep reading View the full article

Application period for 2019 Jp Dirt ‘N Drive is now closed. View the full article