Layne Riggs joins Spire for IRP Trucks
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Layne Riggs will run his third 2023 NASCAR Truck race for as many teams at IRP in August when he drives the #7 for Spire Motorsports.
The CW Network will carry all 33 NASCAR Xfinity Series races starting in 2025 and through 2031.
IMSA veteran Katherine Legge will run 4 NASCAR Xfinity road races at Road America, Indianapolis, Watkins Glen, and Charlotte, in her first NASCAR action since 2018.
After testing a T3 car, Nasser Al-Attiyah is in favour of rally raid newcomers using it to develop their skills rather than rushing into T1.
Despite being a last-minute pick-up by Juncos Hollinger Racing, Matt Brabham was stout in his Indy NXT return as he went from 11th to 4th at Iowa.
Late model racer Derek Lemke will race in the NASCAR Truck Series for the first time with Reaume Brothers Racing at Richmond. His fiancée Natalie Decker has also raced for the team.
W2RC T4 points leader Rokas Baciuška was fast in his first time racing a Toyota Hilux T1+, finishing ninth overall at the Baja Aragón and would have been third if not for a penalty.
Stanton Barrett will go for his first NASCAR Xfinity Series race since 2019 when he enters Road America with Emerling-Gase Motorsports.
As they prepare for the 2024 Dakar Rally, M-Sport/Neil Woolridge Motorsport’s Ford Ranger T1+ finished 6th and 11th with Nani Roma and Gareth Woolridge at the Baja Aragón.
Due to low Quad entries, riders hoping to run the 2024 Dakar Rally must have either raced a Dakar in the past five years or sign up for the W2RC in 2023 or 2024.
From newcomers like Oran O’Kelly and Ronald Venter to returnees like Ashish Raorane, many Dakar Rally dreams will be realised in 2024 as the ASO’s rider acceptance letters make the rounds.
While Nasser Al-Attiyah plans to leave Toyota when his contract expires, he still has the Desafío Ruta 40 and hasn’t ruled out a return if negotiations go well, though he has other suitors too.
Bahrain Raid Xtreme confirmed to The Checkered Flag that they will skip the Desafío Ruta 40, at the cost of the W2RC, to focus on the Rallye du Maroc and 2024 Dakar Rally. The team will also retain the BRX name amid speculation about withdrawn Bahraini title sponsorship.
Denny Hamlin was probably the only person happy at the end of Sunday’s NASCAR Cup race at Pocono.
FIM Bajas Junior World Cup leader Jonathan Finn’s Baja Aragón had multiple crashes and he reached the finish with just one hand, but a finish is a finish.
Andrew Houlihan has to travel tens of thousands of kilometres to lead the FIM Bajas World Cup’s Veterans Trophy, including a back-and-forth between Spain and Australia.
After being rejected for the 2024 Dakar Rally due to a lack of desert racing experience, Matthieu Jauffraud will look ahead to the 2025 edition and enter the W2RC races in Abu Dhabi and Morocco.
