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Recovering from dropping 20 minutes on Tuesday after making a 'rookie error', 13-time Dakar champion Peterhansel took command of Wednesday's 331km San Juan de Marcona-Arequipa stage virtually from the start. After crossing the second waypoint tied with Toyota's Nasser Al-Attiyah, Peterhansel steadily pulled clear of the pack over the remainder of the stage, ultimately winning by 3m26s over his ...Keep reading View the full article

Overnight leader Joan Barreda was forced out of the rally altogether after suffering a crash 143km into the 331km San Juan de Marcona-Arequipa stage. Not long afterwards, the remaining riders in the overnight top three - KTM's reigning champion Matthias Walkner and Barreda's Honda teammate Ricky Brabec - both got lost, dropping more than 20 minutes. Walkner's fellow KTM rider Toby Price ...Keep reading View the full article

Barreda held a slender lead of 1m31s coming into Wednesday's 331km San Juan de Marcona-Arequipa stage, having notched up his 22nd career stage win on Monday's opening test. But the Spaniard came unstuck at the 143km mark, and was stationary for more than an hour after crashing in an area with rocks and heavy fog. Although Barreda himself did not suffer any serious injury, his Honda was ...Keep reading View the full article

Young’s Motorsports announced Wednesday that Dean, a two-time ARCA winner, will compete fulltime in the 2019 Gander Outdoors Truck Series, driving the No. 12 Chevrolet. Jeff Stankiewicz, who led driver Sheldon Creed to the 2018 ARCA championship, will serve as Dean’s crew chief. The Feb. 15 season opener at Daytona International Speedway will be Dean’s first series start. LG Air ...Keep reading View the full article

Stage 2 took the Dakar Rally competitors from Pisco to San Juan de Marcona in Peru. View the full article

Greensmith will spearhead M-Sport’s WRC2 Pro assault with 10 rounds in a Ford Fiesta R5 in addition to his scheduled maiden appearance in a Ford Fiesta WRC in May. The 22-year-old and former British Junior champion is hoping a strong showing in Portugal could lead to more top-flight action before the end of the year. He tested M-Sport’s Fiesta WRC for the first time in Greystoke forest ...Keep reading View the full article

The truck army looks wild when you see them flying on the fast tracks or climbing a high dune, but if you take the time to watch closely – and the whole logistics around them – you will discover incredible technology and a precise organization. A strict procedure dictates the 32 team members of the Petronas De Rooy Iveco Team and in the middle of the dust and ‘fesh fesh’ of the Dakar ...Keep reading View the full article

2020 Ram and Chevy HDs, Michael Guttilla from Multimatic, trucks blocking EV station, world class exhaust note, buy Lightning’s truck. View the full article

Breaking news! Ram 1500 Rebel is Four Wheeler’s 2019 Pickup Truck of the Year! View the full article

Peterhansel was left stranded on a dune after being distracted by electrical gremlins that affected his Mini Buggy's intercom and air-conditioning, the costly stoppage dumping him to 13th in the overall standings with a 13m55s gap to leader Giniel de Villiers. While disappointed with the mistake, Peterhansel says it would have been significantly worse had teammate Cyril Despres not intervened ...Keep reading View the full article

Alonso suggested in a recent video recording with Spanish TV presenter and rally-raid competitor Jesus Calleja that he would like to test the Dakar-spec Hilux. Today, Al-Attiyah confirmed he has spoken with the two-time Formula 1 world champion about making that a reality. Al-Attiyah became friends with Calleja during 2017, when the TV star helped him during one of the races of the FIA ...Keep reading View the full article

Presenting the final 20 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup races, final 19 NASCAR Xfinity races, and select NASCAR regional and touring series events in 2019, NBC Sports Group’s coverage of NASCAR will amount to more than 500 hours. This will include NBCSN’s daily motorsports show NASCAR America, the Dale Jr. Download, coverage of NASCAR’s Awards Ceremonies, the annual NASCAR Hall of Fame induction ...Keep reading View the full article

Walkner and Brabec were closely matched throughout the entire day, the duo running less than 10 seconds apart in the first three waypoints. Brabec was able to inch away during the middle phase but before he could run away with the stage win, Walkner closed the gap back and beat the American by 22 seconds. There is only two seconds between the pair in the overall order in favour of Walkner ...Keep reading View the full article

Hattori Racing Enterprises, which won the 2018 Truck series championship with driver Brett Moffitt, announced Tuesday that Hill would drive its No. 16 Toyotas this season. Scott Zipadelli will continue as the team’s crew chief. Hill, 24, is coming off his first fulltime season in Trucks, where he finished 11th in the series standings with Young’s Motorsports behind one top-five and six ...Keep reading View the full article

Suarez doesn’t have an extensive NASCAR resume but his relatively short but successful tenure has been entirely at Joe Gibbs Racing, including winning the Xfinity Series championship in 2016 and becoming the first Mexican-born driver to win a NASCAR national series race. On Monday, Stewart-Haas Racing announced it had hired Suarez to drive its No. 41 Fords in the Cup series beginning this ...Keep reading View the full article

Loeb, contesting the race in a PH Sport-run 2017-spec Peugeot 3008 DKR, gradually pulled clear over the 342 timed kilometres on the run between Pisco and San Juan de Marcona – only to nearly lose the stage win in the final stretch. Ending up a mere eight seconds quicker than X-raid Mini driver Nani Roma, Loeb has now recorded stage wins in all four Dakars that he's contested. Toyota driver ...Keep reading View the full article

The 2019 edition of the Dakar Rally is underway in Peru, and Robby Gordon’s team appears to already be struggling. View the full article

Jimmy DeFrank from California Car Covers, Steve vonSeggern from Magellan, and Brett Evans from Truck Trend join in. View the full article

Ogier is joined by former Toyota driver Esapekka Lappi at Citroen this season and the Frenchman prefers to focus on the potential of the two C3 WRC drivers working to make the car quicker and more consistent through the coming season. “You know what,” Ogier said, “one thing which is sure: I don’t want any number one status in the team. "For me it has to be equal chance as long as we ...Keep reading View the full article

Nikolaev picked up where he had left off last year, completing the 84km timed special within the Lima-Pisco stage in 1h9m5s. However, Kamaz will be aware they won't get to stroll to the finish with ease because the three Petronas De Rooy Ivecos demonstrated their credentials behind him. Ton van Genugten was a real thorn in the Kamaz's side, reaching the finish line just 18 seconds from the ...Keep reading View the full article

According to insiders speaking to the Jeep Gladiator Forum, Jeep is working on a high-performance variant of the 2020 Gladiator, reportedly called “Hercules.” View the full article

Al-Attiyah made light work of the opening stage of the 2019 Dakar, running second through the dunes behind Sainz before catching the Spaniard's Mini Buggy with around 15 kilometres to go. The Toyota driver will take a 1m59s lead into tomorrow's second stage. While admitting that he's happier running behind Al-Attiyah tomorrow, Sainz says the first day of running has proven just how difficult ...Keep reading View the full article

Justin Allgaier is back in the No. 7 Chevrolet Camaro for the fourth consecutive season. He continues with Jason Burdett atop the box. The duo won five races during the 2018 season and have been together since 2016. At 32, Allgaier is the senior driver on the team. The No. 5 car remains unchanged as well with Michael Annett entering his third season behind the wheel. Travis Mack, who became ...Keep reading View the full article

The 2019 IMS Hall of Fame class will be voted for by a Selection Committee comprising nearly 150 media and racing officials and will be announced on Founder’s Day, March 20 – 110th anniversary of the IMS Company becoming incorporated. The honorees will be inducted at the annual Hall of Fame/IMS Oldtimers Club dinner on May 23. Earnhardt, who died in an accident in the 2001 Daytona 500 ...Keep reading View the full article

The Qatari completed the dune-populated 84km timed stage near Pisco, which came after a lengthy road section that started at Peruvian capital Lima, in 1h1m41s. Al-Attiyah, a two-time Dakar winner whose most recent triumph came in 2015, ran second on the road behind reigning champion Carlos Sainz. His Toyota Hilux set the pace at both waypoints and ultimately caught up with Sainz's X-raid ...Keep reading View the full article