Heikki Kovalainen, who raced with Jenson Button in Formula One and has since switched to rallying, will drive for Button’s JBXE in the 2023 Extreme E season.
After losing his #38 Front Row ride to Zane Smith for 5 Cup races, Todd Gilliland will still get to race the full schedule with 4 starts in Rick Ware’s #15 and 1 in FRM’s #36.
The penultimate leg of the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge was marred by fog, and consequently not much remained clear in the way of overall favourites.
Electric UTV manufacturer Volcon Inc. has teamed up with BFGoodrich for the first all-electric UTV off-road racing programme. The company’s electric Stag UTV will be exhibited at the Mint 400.
Carl Cox Motorsport’s inaugural Extreme E lineup will consist of Christine GZ and Timo Scheider, who ended 2022 as the Championship Drivers for the series.
Rosberg X Racing has ditched the white for their 2023 Extreme E car in favour of a more blue and teal look.
After running the inaugural season in 2021 for ABT CUPRA, Mattias Ekström will make his return to Extreme E with ACCIONA | Sainz XE Team as his Audi Dakar colleague Carlos Sainz continues to recover from his vertebrae injuries.
João Ramos drove Dakar racer Benediktas Vanagas’ Toyota Hilux T1+ to the win in the Portugal All-Terrain Championship opener, while Dakar T3 stage winner Ricardo Porém tried his hand at navigator with Maria Luís.
A month after losing his younger brother Federico in a car accident, Max Gutiérrez will run the NASCAR Truck race at Las Vegas for AM Racing with a special tribute on his vehicle.
Kyle Weatherman will enter the Las Vegas Xfinity Series race for Our Motorsports.
The seventh-generation NASCAR Cup Series Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 is now available as part of the LEGO Technic line.
The Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge turned upside down in Stage 3 as Nasser Al-Attiyah wrecked while leading, knocking him out of the race, and Pablo Quintanilla was penalised after winning the Bikes.
RJ Anderson will return to Chip Ganassi Racing for the 2023 Extreme E season, while Formula DRIFT and UTV racer Amanda Sorensen will be his team-mate.
“Mad Max” McLaughlin will race in the NASCAR Xfinity Series for the first time at Watkins Glen in August for the upstart FRS Racing. He won at The Glen in what is now ARCA East in 2019.
Leland Honeyman’s maiden NASCAR Xfinity Series race will come at Phoenix on 11 March.
Red Bull’s Can-Am team has received a €1,000 fine for missing the 1 February deadline for paying the 2023 World Rally-Raid Championship entry fee and repeatedly changing their explanation.
Stage 2 of the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge entered marathon mode for bikes, though everyone but those like Mattias Ekström and Luciano Benavides struggled through the rising temperatures.
