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By Brian Eberly, Contributing Writer Greg Biffle hasn’t raced in NASCAR since the end of the 2016 season, but he’s putting his love for the outdoors to use as part of a new promotion with General Tire. The 48-year-old Vancouver, Wash. native will serve as a social media correspondent with Team GT and tackle adventures anywhere a General tire will take you, from the streets, to the trail, the lake and the desert. An avid outdoorsman, Biffle is a natural fit to promote General Tire’s “Anywhere Is Possible” theme. “We’reRead More

By Brian Eberly, Contributing Writer Editor’s note: Motorsports Tribune will be previewing the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season for the top-30 drivers in the series leading into this month’s 60th running of the Daytona 500. Age: 40 Years in Cup: 16 Career Wins: 18 Ryan Newman returns behind the wheel of the No. 31 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing in 2018, his fifth with the team and 17th full-time in the Cup Series. Newman comes off a year in which he went to victory lane at Phoenix Raceway, snapping aRead More

Schmidt Peterson Motorsports unveiled today, from Lucas Oil Stadium in downtown Indianapolis alongside 100 lucky fans, the three Dallara-Honda Indy cars of James Hinchcliffe, Robert Wickens and Jack Harvey in their 2018 Verizon IndyCar Series season liveries. The three Honda-powered cars maintain the Schmidt Peterson Motorsports’ signature chrome design which debuted on the No. 5 and No. 7 entries last season. Hinchcliffe will remain in the No. 5 Arrow Electronics Honda with a slightly revamped gold chrome livery from the previous three seasons. Wickens will make his St. Pete debutRead More

By Brian Eberly, Contributing Writer Editor’s note: Motorsports Tribune will be previewing the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season for the top-30 drivers in the series leading into this month’s 60th running of the Daytona 500. Age: 26 Years in Cup: 1 Career Wins: 0 With the surprise retirement of Carl Edwards after his championship-contending 2016 season, Daniel Suarez was promoted to the Cup Series earlier than anyone expected. Suarez was coming off a championship season himself, winning the XFINITY Series title on the strength of three wins and 19 top-fiveRead More

By Road to Indy Nikita Lastochkin took a very different route to the Mazda Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires than many of his fellow competitors. With no motorsports background growing up in Moscow, Lastochkin did not start racing until the age of 22, after moving to the United States. Here, the now 27-year-old entering his sophomore Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires season, talks about coming to America at the age of 16, how he first got the racing bug and how taking racing cues from ColtonRead More

By INDYCAR INDIANAPOLIS (Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018) – INDYCAR has landed a lead engineer from a championship-winning manufacturer as its new managing director of engine development. Darren Sansum joins INDYCAR after a successful stint at Toyota Racing Development, which has won the past two manufacturer championships in NASCAR’s Cup series. Sansum brings considerable experience to INDYCAR, having also worked for Ford Motor Company, Cosworth Technology and Ilmor Engineering. At INDYCAR, Sansum will oversee engine development and competition between Honda and Chevrolet in the Verizon IndyCar Series effective Feb. 6. “DarrenRead More

Newman Wachs Racing is pleased to announce its third driver for the 2018 Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda, confirming Cincinnati, Ohio’s David Osborne. The 21-year-old has been hard at work developing his skills and racecraft in the F1600 series, before testing with NWR last October at the Chris Griffis Memorial test. Osborne will now join Newman Wachs Racing’s two previously-confirmed drivers – Darren Keane and Oscar Deluzuriaga. “David tested with us in October at Indy and I was impressed by the way he went about everything and withRead More

By Brian Eberly, Contributing Writer Editor’s note: Motorsports Tribune will be previewing the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season for the top-30 drivers in the series leading into next month’s 60th running of the Daytona 500. Age: 25 Years in Cup: 1 Career Wins: 0 As with any rookie campaign at the top-level of NASCAR, the 2017 season was a learning experience for Ty Dillon. While Dillon failed to record a top-10 result, he recorded eight top-15 finishes and was really encouraged by the season’s last two races. The 25-year-old tiedRead More

By Road to Indy Brazilian Lucas Kohl recently announced his decision to return to Pabst Racing and the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda for a third season – his second with the Oconomowoc, Wis.-based team that won the Team Championship in 2017. A karting standout in his homeland, Kohl, 19, knew the country’s junior formula series would not take him where he wanted to go. With former IndyCar and Formula 1 star Roberto Moreno as his coach and mentor, Kohl made the move to the United States andRead More

Pabst Racing announced today that 22-year-old Calvin Ming will return to compete in the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda for 2018. Ming will drive the #21 Pabst Racing MPS and APAN sponsored entry during the fourteen-round season. The 2017 season provided an excellent opportunity to lay a foundation and build a great working relationship for the Pabst Racing team and South American driver, Ming. Together, the team earned 10 top-10 finishes, four of which were podiums. Ming, who began his racing career at the age of 6 hasRead More