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Sung Kang’s Rally Datsun 240Z Took SEMA by Storm. But There’s Way More to it Than That
Aguilar has worked to uplift and empower members of his community long before Kang met him. “I try and help as best as I can,” he said, “but now having [Kang] on my side, it’s just a whole different experience. [Now] there are a lot of people from everywhere watching […]
Audi Made a Regen Handbrake for Its Electrified Dakar Rally Racer
In case you missed it, Audi is competing in next month’s Dakar Rally with the RS Q E-Tron, a badass, gullwing-doored, electrified rally truck using powertrain tech sourced from both Formula E and DTM. Namely, it’s got three electric motors from the automaker’s electric-only open-wheel racing effort and a gas-powered […]
The Rebelle Rally Is Eight Days of Off-Roading Trial By Fire
Emily Miller doesn’t need to raise her voice; she strikes a commanding presence in a package of sinewy lean muscle. As she speaks to the large tent filled with more than 100 Rebelle Rally competitors—plus staff, media, and guests—no one is looking down at phones or talking with their neighbors. […]
Homebuilt Replica of Toyota’s Canceled MR2 Rally Car Finally Goes Racing
Group B rally racing’s collapse also brought down its successor category, the more prototype-oriented Group S, and all the cars meant to race in it. One of them was Toyota’s MR2-based 222D, an all-wheel-drive rally version with a unique widebody and a larger, 2.0-liter turbo engine. Now, 35 years after […]
This Is the Only Correct Reaction to Almost Being Hit by a Speeding Rally Car
Rally people are a breed apart from all other sports fans. They can (and do) put life and limb at risk just to get as close to the cars as possible, all in the name of getting their adrenaline fix. And when they do get their fix, they go wild […]
McLaren Taps Tanner Foust for Its Extreme E Electric Rally Racing Team
McLaren announced it was entering off-road electric championship Extreme E earlier this year, with the question of its Formula E entry option still unanswered. At least on the Extreme E side, its role is really firming up now with today’s announcement that former rallycross driver, Top Gear USA host, and […]
Audi Is Taking on Dakar With This Badass E-Tron Rally Truck
Audi announced last year that it’s leaving Formula E to switch focus to a Le Mans return and a new project that means building an electric Dakar rally car. Friday, it unveiled the RS Q E-Tron, which is its contender to take on the dunes next January in the world’s […]
The World Rally Championship Could Race at the Nurburgring Next Year
Specifically, the group that promotes WRC—creatively named WRC Promotor GmbH—just took World Rallycross under its wing about a month ago after the series was without a promoter for some time. This change in management also occurred in conjunction with the closing of the existing venue where the German leg of […]
Extreme E Hummer Rally Truck Crashes to Pieces During Saudi Arabian Desert Shakedown
The first-ever Extreme E race weekend is underway. The ship carrying the whole heckin’ series, cars and all, managed to get through the Suez Canal before chaos broke loose and nine electric SUVs have made it into the ancient desert of Al Ula, Saudi Arabia. Remarkably, given the teams hadn’t […]
This Ship Is Carrying an Entire Electric Rally Racing Series, and It’ll Be Sailing the Globe for a Year
Extreme E is a fun series that’s also deadly serious. On the one hand, you’ve got Chip Ganassi dressing the series car as a reimagined alien GMC Hummer, and on the other, it’s a Lewis Hamilton-endorsed climate change documentary mission that also happens to involve race cars. Some teams have […]