Arrow McLaren SP unveils flashier 2022 liveries
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Unlike the 2021 cars, Arrow McLaren SP’s 2022 challengers driven by Pato O’Ward and Felix Rosenqvist will have more colourful shades of blue (“New Blue”) and papaya (“Fluro Papaya”).
McLaren has revealed the papaya-and-blue paint scheme that Tanner Foust and Emma Gilmour will pilot in the team’s maiden Extreme E season in 2022.
XITE Energy will continue to be the official energy drink of Extreme E for 2022. The brand, co-founded by driver Oliver Bennett, partnered with Hispano Suiza during the inaugural season in 2021.
The ACCIONA | Sainz XE Team will retain owner Carlos Sainz and his team-mate Laia Sanz for the 2022 Extreme E Championship. The duo scored a podium at the Arctic X Prix.
Matt Mills will race in the NASCAR Truck Series for the first time since 2018 when he runs four races for Young’s Motorsports.
Thad Moffitt will race in the NASCAR Truck Series at Daytona, driving a truck adorned with the legendary #43 with STP branding, in the first of multiple races for GMS Racing.
Chip Ganassi Racing will retain the all-American duo of Kyle LeDuc and Sara Price for the 2022 Extreme E Championship.
Trevor Bayne will run his first NASCAR Xfinity races since 2016 when he joins Joe Gibbs Racing for seven rounds.
Could off-road be in the future for the pavement-savvy Sebastian Vettel? After making the final in this past weekend’s snow/ice-filled Race of Champions, his interest is piqued.
Jesse Iwuji Motorsports’ first NASCAR Xfinity season will come in the #34 Chevrolet Camaro. #34 is significant for Iwuji, one of a handful of active black NASCAR drivers, as it was used by Wendell Scott, the first black Cup race winner.
In a historic exhibition race that proved to be a marketing hit by NASCAR and a bit chaotic as a super short track, Joey Logano held off Kyle Busch to win the Busch Light Clash at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
In a battle of the Sebs, Sébastien Loeb defeated Sebastian Vettel in the final to win the Race of Champions. He is the Champion of Champions for the fourth time, tied with Didier Auriol for the most all time.
Kyle Busch, Tyler Reddick, Justin Haley, and Joey Logano will lead the fields to green in the four heat races ahead of the Busch Light Clash at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Per Auto Action, new Supercars CEO Shane Howard is willing to bring the Stadium Super Trucks back to Australia in 2023. The Boost Mobile Super Trucks’ fleet had returned to America in January after 2022 plans fell through.
Team Norway’s father/son duo of Petter and Oliver Solberg defeated USA’s Jimmie Johnson and Colton Herta to win the 2022 Race of Champions’ Nations Cup.
Defending Extreme E champion Rosberg X Racing will have a pair of Swedes as Johan Kristofferson returns, while Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky joins him as his team-mate.
ABT CUPRA XE has enlisted the services of newly crowned four-time Dakar Rally champion Nasser Al-Attiyah, while 2001 Dakar winner Jutta Kleinschmidt returns as his team-mate.
