NASCAR journeyman Mike Potter dies at 73
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Mike Potter, who raced in the NASCAR Cup Series from 1979 to 1993 and the now-Xfinity Series from 1982 to 2008, died Monday after a lengthy illness. He was 73.
Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity race at Martinsville marked Ryan Vargas’ final race with JD Motorsports, ending a four-year stint with the team.
Ford will partner with Supercars team Kelly Racing and Ultra4 outfit Lovell Racing to field the Ranger Raptor in the 2022 Baja 1000. The effort is intended to help promote the truck’s sale in North America in 2023.
Ross Chastain did his best Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater impression in a last-ditch effort to make the NASCAR Cup Series’ Championship Round, and it somehow worked.
2011 Superbike World Champion Carlos Checa and bike star-turned-Extreme E racer Laia Sanz will team up with Óscar Fuertes at Astara Team for the 2023 Dakar Rally.
Wrecking the leader for the win isn’t a good look. Wrecking your team-mate to win isn’t either. Nor is wrecking your team-mate who’s trying to make the Championship Four when you’re already locked in.
A decade after his first and only NASCAR Xfinity Series full season, Parker Kligerman will once again become a series regular in 2023 with Big Machine Racing Team.
The second leg of the 2022/23 Nitro Rallycross USA stretch sees a return to Glen Helen in California.
After missing five races due to a concussion, Alex Bowman will return to the driver’s seat in time for the NASCAR Cup Series season finale in Phoenix.
Austin Hill will make six NASCAR Cup starts in 2023 for Beard Motorsports: the Daytona 500, the other Daytona race, both Talladega events, the Chicago Street Race, and Michigan.
After one year together, Jeb Burton and Our Motorsports will part ways at the end of the 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series season.
Kaz Grala will race a Toyota for the first time in his NASCAR national series career when he runs the Xfinity finale at Phoenix for Sam Hunt Racing.
David Gilliland Racing will return to Toyota Tundras for the 2023 NASCAR Truck Series season and rebrand to TRICON Garage as part of a new alliance with Toyota Racing Development.
Belarusian rider Dmitriy Mazanov barred from Baja Portalegre 500 despite opposition to war
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Belarusian citizen Dmitriy Mazanov was banned from running the Baja Portalegre 500 due to the Russo-Ukrainian War, though he stresses he’s lived in Ukraine and doesn’t support Lukashenko’s policies.
17-year-old Eryk Goczał passed his driving exams and received his driving and competition licences, opening the door for a Dakar Rally entry alongside Oriol Mena and father Marek.
David Pearson received his acceptance letter to the 2023 Dakar Rally in July, but he and his American Rally Originals team also received some important financial support by winning the Road to Dakar invitation via his Sonora Rally outing.
The 2023 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series will begin in March with a race on ice in Rovaniemi, FInland, before trekking across six countries for six rounds. Autodrom Grobnik in Croatia will host the All-Star Race.
