reporter

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

Polaris is adding a new model to its lineup. The Polaris RZR XP Turbo S Velocity will come in two- and four-seat configurations. View the full article

During this past weekend’s National Motorsports Press Association annual convention in Charlotte, N.C., Harvick was presented with the Richard Petty Driver of the Year award. Harvick was named on 44 percent of the votes cast by the NMPA membership. The award has been presented annually since 1969 to recognize the season’s most outstanding driver. It is named in honor of the seven-time ...Keep reading View the full article

The policy, which covers all personnel who hold a NASCAR license, says members shall not “engage, nor attempt to engage” in any legal or illegal gambling activity in which NASCAR is involved, including (but not limited to) its Monster Energy NASCAR Cup, Xfinity and Gander Outdoor Truck series. The policy also prohibits the same conduct “that in the judgment of NASCAR could represent the ...Keep reading View the full article

After having sat out most of the 2018 season due to circumstances off the track on the business side of the sport, Brennan Poole is getting a chance to get back on the track and compete. Poole will join On Point Motorsports Poole and drive the No. 30 Toyota Tundra and compete for the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series Championship this year. “I am extremely excited about driving for On ...Keep reading View the full article

In this episode, we have Dave Cole from King of the Hammers and KJ Jones from Diesel Power. View the full article

Ogier defeated Thierry Neuville in a final-stage showdown to win the opening round of the 2019 WRC season by 2.2 seconds on his first rally since returning to the Citroen squad. He had started the final day with 4.3s in hand over the Hyundai driver but reported a "small issue" at the end of Sunday's first loop. Ogier then revealed that this was related to his throttle after dropping ...Keep reading View the full article

Making his first start since rejoining Citroen for 2019, Ogier took the lead on the second of Friday afternoon's three stages and did not relinquish it thereafter. But that did not represent how close the battle between the six-time champion and chief rival Neuville was, with the Hyundai driver never more than 5.8 seconds in arrears on Saturday or Sunday. Ogier consolidated his lead on ...Keep reading View the full article

Just 3.2 seconds separates the pair with two stages of the rally to run, while Ott Tanak continued his recovery and has moved ahead of Sebastien Loeb and Jari-Matti Latvala into third in his Toyota Yaris. Ogier and Neuville started the morning loop separated by 4.3s in the classification, but Neuville appeared faster on the opening test - the 11.30-mile La Bollene Vesubie-Peira Cava test - and ...Keep reading View the full article

Spire Motorsports announced this week that Houff would handle the driving duties for the team’s No. 77 entry for roughly half of the 2019 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series schedule. He will make his series debut March 10 at Phoenix. Houff, 21, drew attention after capturing several wins in the CARS Response Energy Tour before moving to the ARCA series in 2017. He has made 10 Xfinity Series ...Keep reading View the full article

Rackley, who made his limited Late Model debut in November at Myrtle Beach (S.C.) Speedway for LFR and finished third, will run the full PRA Tours SouthEast Limited Late Model Series schedule in addition to a handful of other limited late model events. To help guide Rackley’s career, LFR has hired former Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series driver David Reutimann to serve as crew chief for the ...Keep reading View the full article

Ogier had taken a pair of softer tyres in comparison to Neuville but the effect was negligible, as he dropped just 1.2s during Agnieres en Devoluy-Corps and gained 0.2s back one stage later. Neuville claimed he had left pace in reserve after the first of those stages in which he had beaten Ogier but admitted he had no answer for the reigning champion in the second. But the star of Saturday ...Keep reading View the full article

Tyre choice gambles from Friday were taken out of the equation, with four studded tyres and two softs taken by all leading crews, meaning gaps were much tighter on both stages this morning compared to the rally’s previous tests. Citroen driver Ogier still managed to take 3.6s out of Neuville in the opening Agnieres en Devoluy-Corps stage, but the Hyundai man pulled 0.3s back immediately ...Keep reading View the full article

Ex-Formula 1 driver Fernando Alonso reignited the debate after beginning his quest for the 'Triple Crown' and he won the Le Mans 24 Hours last year with Toyota. NASCAR drivers have previously cited their lengthy season as a reason for not racing in other series, while IndyCar's shorter campaign has led to the likes of Scott Dixon competing in races such as the Daytona 24 Hours. In America ...Keep reading View the full article