First and foremost, Travis Pastrana and his new Dodge Dart rally car helps to put the Dodge and SRT names into the booming sport of rally racing. Ford Motor Company has made a massive move to jump into the growing rally racing world with signings of well known racers like Ken Block, Tanner Foust and Brian Deegan, the Chrysler Group’s Dodge and SRT divisions are relatively unknown to the rally world. Dodge has previously shown their interest in the rally world with the introduction of the Mopar-built Dodge Avenger rally car but that car was a bit…ummm…let’s say hefty to compete, the compact new Dodge Dart does not have that problem. With the introduction of Travis Pastrana’s Dodge Dart rally car, Dodge has a real chance to give rally mainstays like Subaru, Mitsubishi and Ford a battle in the new Global Rally Cross circuit  … More
The 2012 auto racing season is truly on! In NASCAR, the Daytona 500 initiated the 2012 stock car campaign with an intense, wild affair that involved Matt Kenseth in the winner’s circle and a destroyed track jet dryer. Both major open wheel racing series are now underway with Formula 1 opening in Australia last week and the IZOD INDYCAR Series ringing in a new era at St Petersburg when Helio Castroneves won with a brand new Dallara powered by a Chevrolet engine. Finally yet importantly in the minds of many motorsport fanatics, sports car racing has kicked off with the Rolex 24 of Daytona won using a Ford-powered Riley and the 60th anniversary Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring captured by the Audi R18 TDI prototype.
A time where the shear sense of speed awakes the thrill watchers and seekers, the spring weather of auto racing competition awaits in the growing motorsport of Rallycross  … More
Stage data: SS22-Guanajuatito (54.30 kilometres)
Evgeny Novikov went off the road on SS22 and have retired from the rally, he rolled his M-Sport Ford Fiesta RS WRC.
The 2012 auto racing season is truly on! In NASCAR, the Daytona 500 initiated the 2012 stock car campaign with an intense, wild affair that involved Matt Kenseth in the winner’s circle and a destroyed track jet dryer. Both major open wheel racing series are now underway with Formula 1 opening in Australia last week and the IZOD INDYCAR Series ringing in a new era at St Petersburg when Helio Castroneves won with a brand new Dallara powered by a Chevrolet engine. Finally yet importantly in the minds of many motorsport fanatics, sports car racing has kicked off with the Rolex 24 of Daytona won using a Ford-powered Riley and the 60th anniversary Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring captured by the Audi R18 TDI prototype.