Molly Taylor not running Island X Prix
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After racing the Desert X Prix with JBXE on a one-race deal, Molly Taylor will not return to the team for the upcoming Island X Prix as she focuses on “future projects”.
XITE Energy Racing has a new lineup for the Island X Prix as Timo Scheider and Tamara Molinaro take over the car from now-Nitro Rallycross driver Oliver Bennett and XE Championship Driver Klara Andersson.
The Stadium Super Trucks’ return to Honda Indy Toronto will not happen in 2022 due to Robby Gordon’s overseas business obligations and the short time between this weekend’s Mid-Ohio round and then.
After reaggravating a T4 spinal fracture he sustained in a 2017 sprint car crash while running the Stadium Super Trucks at Long Beach, Davey Hamilton Jr. will have to step away from his full-time plans.
Extreme E driver Laia Sanz will use the World Rallycross RX2e to help refine her four-wheel skills in her main category as she is scheduled to run multiple races for 2022.
NEOM’s ties to Extreme E continue to grow as the Saudi project’s energy supplier ENOWA has become the series’ “green hydrogen power partner”. XE plans to launch a hydrogen-based championship in 2024.
Ty Dillon returns to Road America Xfinity with JD Motorsports, Ryan Vargas returns to Harmon
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As his first (and only scheduled) NASCAR Xfinity start of 2022, Ty Dillon will run Road America for the first time since 2016 in the #6 for JD Motorsports. The #6’s driver Ryan Vargas rejoins Mike Harmon’s #47.
Zoey Edenholm, Max Gordon, Gavin Harlien, Bill Hynes, Bem Maier, Robert Stout, and Cory Winner make up the field for the upcoming Stadium Super Trucks weekend at Mid-Ohio
Reigning Trans-Am Series champion Chris Dyson will race in NASCAR for just the second time and first since 2019 as he enters Saturday’s Xfinity Series race at Road America for Emerling-Gase Motorsports.
Although the future of Russian Dakar Rally entries is murky with its war in Ukraine, SNAG Racing owner Sergei Kariakin is hopeful on having two cars in the 2023 edition under Russia’s flag.
After running two NASCAR Xfinity Series races in 2021, Akinori Ogata returns to the series with MBM Motorsports at New Hampshire and Texas.
In a series of Extreme E head-to-head time trials on the Goodwood Festival of Speed’s Hillclimb, Veloce Racing’s Max Fewtrell and Jamie Chadwick defeated Andretti United XE’s Timmy Hansen and Catie Munnings.
The 2022 Rallye du Maroc on 1–6 October will span 2,300 km with a five-stage loop that starts and ends in Agadir.
New Pro 2 race winner Cory Winner will race in the Stadium Super Trucks for the first time this weekend at Mid-Ohio, driving the Continental Tire truck.
Shero Rally Team, an all-women’s operation from Saudi Arabia, will run its first international event with the Italian Baja on 7–10 July with plans of competing in the Dakar Rally in 2023.
Due to NASCAR wanting driver Tarso Marques to get Xfinity Series experience before débuting in the Cup Series, Team Stange Racing has pushed its maiden start from this weekend’s Road America race to Watkins Glen in August.
With a WRC3 victory in her home country of Kenya’s Safari Rally, Maxine Wahome is the category’s first woman winner and the first to win a WRC support since Isolde Holderied (Group N) in 1994.
