Inessa Tushkanova hopes to have a new Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X in time for round three of the FIA European Rally Championship, the Circuit of Ireland Rally from 2-4 April. Co-driven by Dimitry Chumak, the Russia-based glamour model survived a…
Race preview: Let battle commence as WTCC season 2015 is go, go, go!
Four months after the curtain came down on WTCC season 10, Planet Earth’s finest touring car racing heroes will resume their battle for on-track glory when Argentina hosts round one of the 2015 FIA World Touring Car Championship season from…
Formula 1: Rivals welcome Marussia return
Formula One needs teams like Marussia to survive and thrive, rivals said after the tail-enders moved closer to a return to racing. While Caterham appear destined for the scrap heap, or at least the liquidation of their assets, Marussia were…
Mohammed Ben Sulayem rolls back the years after coming out of retirement at Sharjah
Mohammed Ben Sulayem, the 14-times FIA Middle East Rally champion, turned back the clock, giving Sheikh Abdullah Al Qassimi a run for his money at the Sharjah Rally over the weekend. Ben Sulayem, 53, who retired from the sport about…
Rally Mexico: Neuville relishes Rally Mexico return
Thierry Neuville is targeting a podium finish for the third year in a row at Rally Mexico as he hopes to carry momentum from his impressive second place last time out in Sweden. The Mexican rally holds happy memories for…
Rally Mexico: Ostberg: Slightest error can be costly in Mexico
Mads Ostberg is welcoming a return to gravel for the World Rally Championship and warns the slightest error could be costly at the third round in Mexico. The Citroen Total Abu Dhabi team says it has made significant upgrades during…
Higgins tames the 100 Acre snow
Only heavy snow could slow David Higgins and Craig Drew as they dominated The Rally in the 100 Acre Wood, round two of Rally America in Salem last weekend. Almost four minutes clear after the opening day’s stages, heavy snow…
Rally Mexico: Sky-high round for the DS 3 WRCS
The European winter is already long forgotten! As it crosses the Atlantic, the Citroën Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team sets off on a long series of six consecutive gravel rallies, lasting until August. And yet the DS 3 WRCs…
Jimmie Johnson pulls away for another Atlanta Sprint Cup win
Jimmie Johnson, driver of the #48 Lowe’s Chevrolet, takes the checkered flag to win the Likely locking up a run at his record-tying seventh championship before it even turns to spring, Jimmie Johnson pulled away after the final restart with…
Track star Stephen steals PE national karting headlines
It was a case of experience and old age overcoming youthful exuberance at Saturday’s opening round of the South African National Karting Championships in Port Elizabeth, when triple SA production Car champion Michael Stephen and SA GP3 exponent Roman de…
First rally, first podium for Volkswagen Sasolracing at Tour Natal
Round one of the 2015 South African National Rally Championship saw Henk Lategan and Barry White step on to the podium for Volkswagen Sasolracing to start the season on a strong footing. Lategan and White claimed third overall at the…
CONFIDENT START TO 2015 RALLY SEASON FOR CASTROL TEAM TOYOTA
Round one of the South African National Rally Championship, the Tour Natal Rally, saw Castrol Team Toyota make a confident start to the 2015 season. The event, which was run on the fast sugarcane farms of the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast,…
Easy victory for Cronjé, Houghton in Tour Natal Rally
Mark Cronje and Robin Houghton in their Ford Performance Ford Fiesta dominated the Tour Natal Rally, the inaugural round of the 2015 South African Rally National Championship, and scored seven stage wins on their way to overall victory. However,…
Strike one to Cronje
I suppose there are certain things that one become used to and accept as being inevitable, and that is the fact that you can safely put your money on the fact that any round of the SA National Rally Championship…
NASCAR: Cup car stolen from trailer on way to Atlanta
Travis Kvapil has been forced to withdraw from this weekend’s Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway after the Team XTREME Racing #44 entry was stolen on Thursday night. The team’s truck and…
Cronje extends lead in Natal
The Ford Performance Ford Fiesta S2000 crew of Mark Cronje/Robin Houghton have continued where they left off yesterday on the Natal Rally around Scotburgh. With five stages to be completed today, Cronje has set the pace on the first two…
With Corazón and Karacho – Volkswagen drivers ready for action at the Rally Mexico
On to the third round of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) with plenty of heart and at full throttle – with Corazón and Karacho. When the Volkswagen team lines up at its first gravel rally of the year, in…
FATHER/SON TEAM LEAD THE WAY ON LMC MEGA CENTRE BARBERSPAN 500
The Benoni-based father and son team of Tony and Michael Gouveia led the way in yesterday’s qualifying race for the LMC Mega Centre Barberspan 500, round two of the Northern Regions Cross Country Championship, here today. The Gouveias, in a…
Cronje sets blistering pace on first day of Tour Natal rally
The Ford Performance pair Mark Cronje and Robin Houghton, the national rally champions in 2012 and 2013, set a blistering pace in their recently revamped Ford Fiesta S2000 on the first day of the Tour Natal Rally, the first event…
Cronje leads Natal Rally at end of day one
The Ford Performance Ford Fiesta crew of Mark Cronje/Robin Hougton are leading the Natal Rally by 23.8 seconds at the end of day one. Die Ford Fiesta crew are leading the Team Castrol Yaris pairing of current South African Rally…
SO, YOU ARE RELYING ON ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE??
BMW ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE – AN “ON-CALLED-FOR” STORY! At some stage in life, you will walk around in a showroom admiring a car imagining yourself driving it. The salesperson will talk non-stop, assuring you that what you are looking at,…
SA National Rally Championship starts
The 2015 season of the SA National Rally Championship, first held in 1960, started in Scottburgh a short while ago. Die rally has attracted 25 entries of which seven are S2000 entries, ten S1600 cars, two NRC4 entries and the…
Loeb: Inexperience cost me WTCC title
Sebastien Loeb says he hopes to have learned the lessons of 2014 and use the experience to challenge for the this year’s World Touring Car Championship title. Last year marked the Frenchman’s debut in the series after switching from WRC,…
Trans Am ready for Sebring debut with 72-car entry
When the green flag flies on Sunday, March 1, for the FOAMETIX Trans Am 100, 72 cars will take to the 3.74-mile road course at Sebring International Raceway, commencing the 2015 Trans Am Championship. In doing so, drivers and teams…
Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer to participate in Mint 400 off-road race
With “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty” as a description of his military service, Marine Corp Sgt. Dakota Meyer is already an unmitigated badass. But now, the 26-year-old can…
Fernando Alonso: McLaren expect driver to start F1 season
Fernando Alonso is “devoid of all injuries” and expected to race in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, says McLaren boss Ron Dennis.Alonso, 33, is now resting at home in Spain after being flown to hospital by helicopter following Sunday’s crash…
Spain’s Carmen Jorda is the second woman to join a Formula 1 team after signing for Lotus
Carmen Jorda has become the second woman to join a Formula 1 team in a back-up role after signing up with Lotus as development driver.The 26-year-old Spaniard will work on the team’s simulator with a view to having a test…
WRC looking to the East
The World Rally Championship looks set to return to the Far East for the first time since 2010 with a new round in China tipped for inclusion next season. Rally Japan five years ago was the last time the…
Mohammed ben Sulayem sliding back behind the wheel for Sharjah Rally after 12 years this weekend
Mohammed ben Sulayem, the 14-time FIA Middle East rally champion, will step out of retirement after more than 12 years this weekend to contest the second round of the 2015 UAE National Rally Championship.Ben Sulayem, who won the Dubai International…
BMRC ANNOUNCES IMPRESSIVE ENTRY FOR KUWAIT INTERNATIONAL RALLY
• Qatar’s Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah tops 21-car field for MERC rally • Al-Saleh, Bin Eidan and Al-Thefiri lead Kuwaiti contingent • Abu Dhabi Racing’s junior quartet return to MERC action in Kuwait The Basil Salem Al-Sabah Motor Racing Club…
NASCAR Daytona 500: A drama-free race
Jenna Fryer, Associated Press It was a bumpy buildup to the Daytona 500, which for days was overshadowed by disputes, drama, an injury to Kyle Busch and the suspension of his older brother, Kurt. Dozens of cars were wrecked, and…
Lopez expects tricky task to defend WTCC crown
Jose Maria Lopez is expecting a much trickier task trying to defend his World Touring Car Championship crown due to the stronger competition expected in 2015. The Citroen Racing driver stormed to his maiden WTCC title in his first full…
Dakar Rally champion Marc Coma confirmed for Emirates Desert Championship final round
The final round of the Emirates Desert Championship next weekend has gone up a notch in prestige with the unexpected participation of reigning five-time Dakar Rally champion Marc Coma.The six-time FIM world champion rider has been drafted in by KTM-UAE…
Sordo ready for WRC return in Mexico
Dani Sordo says he feels fighting fit to return to the World Rally Championship after breaking two ribs while training, and is gearing up for the third round in MexicoDani Sordo says he feels fighting fit to return to…
PWC: Bentley Team Dyson aims for title run
Following a winter’s worth of testing and development, Bentley Team Dyson Racing is prepared for a full season of racing with the goal of bringing Bentley its first North American sporting title. In the course of a half-season in the…
Alonso released from hospital
Fernando Alonso has left hospital in Barcelona, three days after his Formula 1 testing crash. The Spaniard was airlifted from the Circuit de Catalunya track with concussion on Sunday after his McLaren hit the wall at Turn 3 on…
IndyCar: Simona De Silvestro closes on race seat for St. Pete
The 26-year-old native of Switzerland completed four seasons in IndyCar before turning her attention to Europe in 2014 where she underwent training and testing for a Formula 1 berth that fell through before it could be realized. De Silvestro parted…
F1: Wolff urges superlicense rule change
Susie Wolff has urged the FIA to reconsider Formula 1’s superlicense criteria so that test drivers do not miss out on race seats from 2016.Although the Williams test driver has completed more than 1000km of running for her team since…
Kubica: things will get even better after Mexico
Robert Kubica says the chance to catch his breath after a flat-chat start to the season will help his RK World Rally Team after the next round in Mexico.The Polish star’s start to the season has been his busiest ever…
Meeke determined to ‘eliminate mistakes’ in Mexico
Kris Meeke says he has to cut out his errors which have seriously hampered his 2015 World Rally Championship season so far but feels he has the speed in the Citroen DS 3 needed to win Kris Meeke says he…