Ryan Vargas returns to JD Motorsports for 2022
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Ryan Vargas’ sophomore full season in the NASCAR Xfinity Series will once again come with JD Motorsports.
C.J. McLaughlin has joined RSS Racing, for whom he made his NASCAR Xfinity Series début in 2019, with plans of running thirteen races including the season opener at Daytona.
2022 Dakar Rally victories include Nasser Al-Attiyah's 4th in Cars, Sam Sunderland's narrow Bikes triumph
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Nasser Al-Attiyah led the Cars in three stages en route to his fourth victory in the Dakar Rally, while rider Sam Sunderland won just one but remained consistent enough to win his second Rally by just 3 mintues.
Cody Ware, NASCAR’s resident anime fan, is back for another dance in the Cup Series as he will run the full 2022 season in the #51 Ford for Rick Ware Racing.
Conor Daly will run the full IndyCar season for the third straight year. This time, however, it will be as a full-time driver for Ed Carpenter Racing.
Nearly 4 years after being paralysed in an IndyCar crash, Robert Wickens will return to racing in the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge for Bryan Herta Autosport. His car has a special hand-control system to help him accelerate/brake.
205 Africa Raid chief mechanic Quentin Lavalee dies in Dakar Rally liaison stage accident
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Tragedy befell the final day of the Dakar Rally when Quentin Lavalée, the head mechanic for PH Sport’s 205 Africa Raid entry in the Dakar Classic, was killed in an accident on the liaison stage. He was 20.
After two years at JD Motorsports, Jeffrey Earnhardt has joined Sam Hunt Racing for a part-time NASCAR Xfinity Series schedule in 2022.
Team Penske, who has raced in nearly everything, will begin dabbling in the FIA World Endurance Championship by fielding an Oreca 07 Gibson in LMP2 for Dane Cameron, Emmanuel Collard, and Felipe Nasr.
In what will be IndyCar’s closest thing to a Triple Crown today, the PeopleReady Force for Good Challenge will offer $1 million to any driver who wins a race each on all three IndyCar track types (oval, road course, street circuit).
In the closest thing to bringing back Preseason Thunder, which was last held in 2014, the NASCAR Cup Series conducted a two-day Next Gen car test at Daytona on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Seth Quintero won his 11th stage of the Dakar Rally, enabling him to break a tie with Pierre Lartigue in 1994 for the most Rally stage victories in one edition.
For the first time since 2019, Ryan Truex will race in the NASCAR Xfinity Series as he joins Sam Hunt Racing for a limited slate including the season opener at Daytona.
Having just ended his decorated MotoGP career, Valentino Rossi is taking up the GT World Challenge Europe and will run the full 2022 slate for W Racing Team.
With Rick Ware Racing having a new alliance with Stewart-Haas Racing and Ryan Preece now a Stewart-Haas Racing member, it only makes sense for the two to join up. Preece will run the Busch Light Clash and other races in RWR’s #15.
Jacques Villeneuve hopes to join Mario Andretti as Formula One World Champions with experience in the NASCAR Cup Series’ legendary Daytona 500. He will race for upstart Dutch outfit Team Hezeberg.
David Ragan, a NASCAR Cup Series superspeedway ace who has exclusively run the Daytona 500 since his retirement, will add more races to his plate in 2022 with Rick Ware Racing.
