With his time in F1 over, Nikita Mazepin is eyeing rally raid events like the Dakar and Silk Way Rallies. He has been training with 2017 Dakar Quad winner Sergey Karyakin.
The XITE Energy Racing driver returned to Lydden Hill for round two of the 5 Nations British Rallycross Championship and gave the fans just the “xite-ment” they were craving and claimed some points at the same time.
After months of waiting, the familar sights, sounds and smells of rallycross finally returned to Lydden Hill in Kent for round one of the 2022 5 Nations British Rallycross Championship.
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing has partnered with JC Raceteknik to field four FC1-X entries in the 2022/23 Nitro Rallycross Group E Championship.
World Rally Championship team M-Sport plans to run the Dakar Rally. The team has allied with fellow Ford outfit Neil Woolridge Motorsport to develop the Ford Ranger T1+.
After claiming a podium finish on his second ever rally outting, the two-time Australian Supercar champion Shane van Gisbergen is keen to do more rallies and eyes an outting at the WRC round of New Zealand in September
With Jenson Button joining Nitro Rallycross for 2022/23, it continues the former F1 racer’s transition to off-road that has included stops in Baja and Extreme E.
McLaren’s Extreme E team has formed a multi-year agreement with the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). The firm already appears on the team’s car, which starred at the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday.
2009 F1 World Champion Jenson Button will join Oli Bennet at XITE Energy in a pair of FC1-X’s for the 2022-2023 Nitro Rallycross season.
After having to sit out the season-opener due to an injury, the 26-year-old Jean-Baptiste Franceschi is now confirmed to return to JWRC at Croatia Rally
Sean Kim is now selected as the new president of the Hyundai Motorsport division, replacing Scott Noh
Rookie Cleetus McFarland only needed to drive straight for a few more meters to win the Stadium Super Trucks’ Race #2 at Long Beach, but an awkward landing led to him spinning into the wall. Robby Gordon got by him to join his son Max as the weekend’s two SST winners.
The legendary short course off-road facility Crandon International Raceway has been bought out by its president Cliff Flannery. Crandon Off-Road Entertainment LCC and Crandon Motorsports LLC have been created to oversee and promote races.
13-year-old Max Gordon and his dad Robby finished first and second in Race #1 at Long Beach for the younger Gordon’s maiden Stadium Super Trucks victory.
Aboard the Axiom Mission 1, the first private space mission to the ISS, is pilot Larry Connor. On the ground, Connor was one of the top SCORE International Trophy Truck Spec drivers and has experience in IMSA, Indy Lights, and Le Mans.
Robby Gordon, the all-time Stadium Super Trucks winner at Long Beach and 2021 Fastest Qualifier, did it again for the 2022 edition ahead of Matt Brabham and Gavin Harlien.
Military schedule clashes in Sardinia, site of Extreme E’s Island X Prix, have pushed it from 7/8 May to 6/7 July. It also becomes a doubleheader to replace the Ocean X Prix on 9/10 July.
