Brad Pérez will once again race for Emerling-Gase Motorsports in the 2023 NASCAR Xfinity Series starting at COTA. Other starts are planned at (to quote Pérez), “idk yet”, “we will figure it out”, and “yeah” (all TBA).
For NASCAR Cup testing at Phoenix this week, Brad Keselowski’s #6 RFK Ford Mustang will sport a tribute to Ken Block’s rallycross Ford Fiesta that he ran in the Projekt E series in 2020.
2× NASCAR Xfinity Series champion Tyler Reddick will make his first starts in the series as a Toyota driver when he runs a part-time slate for Sam Hunt Racing.
Former DTM and Formula E driver Gary Paffett, who was Mercedes-EQ’s advisor until their absorption by McLaren, has been named Sporting Director of their Extreme E arm.
While his Dakar Rally team-mate Mattias Ekström and rival Sébastien Loeb compete at the Race of Champions, Stéphane Peterhansel will show off his Audi RS Q e-tron E2 in an exhibition there.
Off-road aces Mattias Ekström and Johan Kristoffersson will comprise the Swedish welcoming party for the 2023 Race of Champions.
In tribute to their late former driver, Ford Performance will have Ken Block decals on their vehicles, including rally, NASCAR, and IMSA, during the 2023 season.
QEV Technologies’ ZEROID X1, the vehicle of choice for World Rallycross’ RX2e, and Supercar Lites will run next week’s Race of Champions.
The 2023 Africa Eco Race, originally scheduled for 11–26 March, has been pushed to 30 December – 14 January 2024 due to weather concerns, especially flooding has plagued Dakar where the race will finish.
With Landon Cassill no longer the full-time driver of Kaulig Racing’s #10 car, the team has turned it into a multi-driver entry with their Cup driver Justin Haley running it at Daytona.
TROYCA has revealed “Overtake!”, an anime about Formula 4 with support from Super GT. It is the 3rd racing anime announced since June after Super Formula’s “HIGHSPEED Etoile” and street racer “MF Ghost”.
Missed The Checkered Flag’s coverage of the 2023 Dakar Rally? All pre-race stories, stage reports, and final articles can be found here.
The 2023 Dakar Classic, a side event to the Dakar Rally that uses pre-2000 vehicles, was claimed by Juan Morera and wife Lidia Ruba Cuartero in their 1990s Toyota HDJ80.
Lucas Blakeley, Jarno Opmeer, Martin Palm, Michael Romanidis will head to the 2023 Race of Champions for the eROC World Finals, with the winner and runner-up creating a team that will go against racing’s best in the Nations Cup.
Two weeks after setting Dakar Rally stage records, Sébastien Loeb will hope to break the Race of Champions win record. He will team up with reigning ETCR champion Adrien Tambay to create Team France for the Nations Cup.
As the official off-road vehicle supplier of the Race of Champions, Polaris Sweden will produce the RZR Pro XP side-by-side cars for the 2023 edition, renewing their partnership with the event. Other Polaris vehicles will also be present for track work.
16-year-old William Sawalich, a Toyota and Joe Gibbs Racing development driver set to race in the ARCA Menards Series, will also run six NASCAR Truck Series events for TRICON Garage.
