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Price went into the event under a serious injury cloud after breaking his right scaphoid during pre-Dakar training last December, last-minute surgery in Spain and a short recovery in his native Australia not enough for the injury to heal before getting to Peru. However the KTM rider defied the odds by not only making it through the gruelling event, but claiming a second career win in stunning ...Keep reading View the full article

Registration is now complete and the process has begun to prepare NASCAR teams ready for the draft of the inaugural NASCAR Heat Pro League. The next step in the process for game users is to find out if you will be of the 100 drivers selected to participate in showcase races coming up soon. One of the favorites mentioned this week is the winner last November in the Road to Miami Finals ...Keep reading View the full article

Upon joining the DJR Team Penske Supercars squad ahead of the 2017 season, McLaughlin admitted that NASCAR was on his mind, but a Supercars title and a Bathurst 1000 win were his priorities before looking outside of Australia. He's now halved his local bucket list thanks to last year's spectacular maiden title win, which saw McLaughlinhold off fellow Kiwi Shane van Gisbergen in a thrilling ...Keep reading View the full article

Dakar was left with a route contained entirely within Peru for the 2019 event, with the likes of Chile, Ecuador and Bolivia all failing to reach an agreement with organisers ASO midway through last year. There was further instability when the Peruvian government reportedly baulked at costs in June, before finally deciding to go ahead with the event. Now organisers are faced with the ...Keep reading View the full article

Al-Attiyah, who previously won the Dakar with Volkswagen in 2011 and Mini four years after that, switched to driving a Toyota Hilux ahead of the 2017 race. He retired early from his first attempt with the Japanese manufacturer, before finishing second to Peugeot's Carlos Sainz in 2018 and then dominating this year's event in the works Peugeot team's absence. Al-Attiyah led the general ...Keep reading View the full article

Nikolaev led Dmitry Sotnikov in a Kamaz 1-2, securing the Russian manufacturer's 16th Dakar crown, and taking his own tally to five titles – four as a driver, and one as mechanic to seven-time champion Vladimir Chagin. Gerard de Rooy, returning to the marathon after he contested and won the Africa Eco Race instead last year, completed the podium. Having inflicted upon Kamaz its two most ...Keep reading View the full article

Battling with a broken wrist he sustained while training before the event, Price became the first two-time champion to emerge since the rivalry of Marc Coma and Cyril Despres ended in 2015. Price's success means Richard Sainct's 2000 title on a BMW remains the last time KTM hasn't won the bike class at the Dakar. The Austrian manufacturer was subdued for much of the event, with Honda riders ...Keep reading View the full article

With Sergey Karyakin and Ignacio Casale, quad champions of the past two years, moving to the SxS category, Cavigliasso, who was second and top rookie in 2018, became the favourite for the title. Cavigliasso delivered on that promise, topping nine of the 10 stages - including the final 112 km run, which he led by 5m22s over Alexandre Giroud. On four occasions, he was over 10 minutes faster ...Keep reading View the full article

Fourth in the overall standings, Villagra's Iveco was on its side on the penultimate stage, and needed teammate Gerard de Rooy's help to get back on track. Despite trailing the leader by almost six hours, Villagra is set to hold on to fourth place. What was the key moment of your race?“My race was compromised when I had the issue with the exhaust on the marathon stage Arequipa-Tacna. I was ...Keep reading View the full article

Peterhansel and Castera endured a heavy landing over a dune 26 kilometres into today's test, a suspected back injury meaning Castera needed to be transported directly to hospital in Lima. It was the second bad landing on the event for the Mini pair, Peterhansel claiming they were left with whiplash due to a drop off a dune earlier in the week. There's since been good news from the Peruvian ...Keep reading View the full article

NASCAR on Wednesday named industry veteran Jay Fabian as the new managing director of the Cup series, replacing Richard Buck. Fabian most recently served as managing director of technical integration at NASCAR, where he oversaw post-race technical inspection at NASCAR’s research and development center in Concord, N.C. “With his vast experience across the industry, Jay Fabian is uniquely ...Keep reading View the full article

Additionally, Gase will attempt the 61st running of the Daytona 500 with the team, piloting the No. 66 on a part-time basis. Eternal Fan will back Gase in 2019, along with support from Donate Life, Medline, Agri Supply, Page Construction and Pro Master. “I am very excited and thankful for the opportunity Carl (Long) and MBM Motorsports is giving me this year,” Gase said in a release from ...Keep reading View the full article

Truex, 26, has attempted the 500 once before in 2014, failing to make the race in the No. 83 BK Racing Toyota Camry. This time around, he will be driving the No. 71 Tommy Baldwin Racing Chevrolet Camaro. "I am very thankful to TBR and Tommy Baldwin for this opportunity and can't wait to get to Daytona and back in a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series car," said Truex. "The pressure is on to ...Keep reading View the full article

The Qatari bagged his third stage win of the even on a day which caused major problems for Sebastien Loeb, Stephane Peterhansel and Cyril Despres – three drivers that were within the top five in the general classification heading into the special. Peterhansel was ruled out shortly after the start, as a crash 26 kilometres in consigned him to a first Dakar retirement in a decade. The ...Keep reading View the full article

The penultimate stage of the Peru-based rally, a loop which started and ended at Pisco, featured a mass start format in which riders commenced the stage in groups of 10. That meant the top 10 from Wednesday's stage all started simultaneously, and the gaps between them all stayed relatively small until the latter stages of the 313km test. However, they were surpassed by two riders from the ...Keep reading View the full article

The team announced Wednesday that Drew Blickensderfer will lead its No. 34 Cup team with driver Michael McDowell and Mike Kelley will head up the efforts of its new No. 36 team with rookie driver Matt Tifft. Seth Barbour returns as crew chief of the No. 38 team with driver David Ragan. Blickensderfer joins the No. 34 team from Richard Petty Motorsports where he had served as a crew chief ...Keep reading View the full article

Peterhansel, who entered Wednesday's test in fourth place overall, had an incident shortly after the start of the 312km test. His co-driver David Castera, who was teaming up with Peterhansel in place of his long-time partner Jean-Paul Cottret in this year's marathon, is reported to have sustained a back injury. Peterhansel was piloting one of the three X-raid Mini buggies entered into Dakar ...Keep reading View the full article

Benavides' teammate Ricky Brabec had retired from the lead with an engine failure on Tuesday and this, coupled with early exits for Joan Barreda and Paulo Goncalves, had left the Argentine as Honda's chief hope. However, Benavides then picked up a hefty penalty in the aftermath of Tuesday's stage for carrying route notes on his bike, which took him out of victory contention. “We have ...Keep reading View the full article

A small detail tells a lot about Henk van Leuven’s passion for motorsport is that his WhatsApp profile picture is Scuderia Ferrari's Prancing Horse. Team manager of the Petronas De Rooy Iveco Team since 2015, Henk has been involved with De Rooy and his Dakar adventure for over a decade. As Iveco’s Northern European boss, he was the man who created the link between the Dutch team owner ...Keep reading View the full article

The engine has to be reliable. In this regard, the engine development and preparation before the rally become vital, as well as the daily engine maintenance at the bivouac. The Dutch team counts on the reliability of the Cursor 13L developed at the FPT headquarters in Arbon. In the past, after two seasons, the engines of the race trucks were sent to Arbon for a complete check-up before being ...Keep reading View the full article

The organizers of the Mint 400 race and Republic Services are cleaning up the Nevada desert. View the full article

The Gibbs family has established the 'J.D. Gibbs Legacy Fund' following his passing on January 12th. The website reads: "In lieu of flowers, the Gibbs family requests support for an important campaign that has been established in honor of J.D. and his passion for the Young Life Ministry, which he served as a member of the National Board. Please read J.D.'s Young Life story and consider giving ...Keep reading View the full article

The 2016 Dakar champ broke his right scaphoid during pre-event training midway through December, the injury requiring surgery and leaving him under a fitness cloud for the gruelling Dakar. Having battled through the discomfort thus far, Price reckons today's push to take over the overall lead of the event in the wake of Ricky Brabec's engine failure was a huge test for the injury. And while ...Keep reading View the full article

PH Sport Peugeot driver Loeb began the eighth stage of the event over two hours later than his main rivals, as Dakar organisers opted to group together the top 10 in the cars running order with the top 10 bikes and top five trucks. After dropping three minutes to Al-Attiyah in the opening portion of the 361km San Juan de Marcona-Pisco test, Loeb seized the advantage in the latter part of the ...Keep reading View the full article

Brabec had a 7m47s advantage as Stage 8 kicked off, but his Honda bike had an engine failure only 56 kilometres into the 361km San Juan de Marcona-Pisco run, forcing the American to retire. He is the third retirement in the factory Honda camp, with Joan Barreda getting terminally stuck on the third day and Paulo Goncalves falling and injured himself two days later. With that, KTM rider Price ...Keep reading View the full article