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The arid desert of Jaisalmer is proving to be relentless, with the participants battling it out in a cut-throat competition. The stages covering the majestic dunes of Asu Tar and Turkon ki Basti brought a whole new ...

Upholding the legacy and showcasing its commitment to fuel excitement for motorsports in the country, Harley-Davidson India debuted its very first Flat Track experience in India for motorcycle enthusiasts. Led by...

The 16th edition of the 2018 Maruti Suzuki Desert Storm was flagged off from The Great India Place Noida mall on March 18, 2018. The rally is set to explore new terrains, covering a total distance of 2300 kms.

Hyderabad’s speed sensation Anindith Reddy was crowned ‘FMSCI National MotorSports Person of the Year 2017’ at a glittering function in Chennai March 11, 2018. The 26-year-old, who has been scorching the domestic ci...

For the first time Honda is promoting Indian riders in an Indian team in international motorsports arena. The IDEMITSU Honda Racing India team by T Pro Ten10 will see two promising Indian riders - second-timer Rajiv...

Triumph Motorcycles India further strengthened its association with the California Superbike School (CSS) for the fourth year in a row. With the aim to make world-class motorsports skills accessible to talented enth...

Let us not just hail the winners in each of the categories of the 40th edition of Dakar Rally in 2018, whether it is Matthias Walkner of Red Bull KTM Factory Team in the bike section, or Ignacio Casale of Casale Rac...

The eleventh stage of the Dakar 2018, from Belén to Fiambala, spanned across 485 kilometers with a ‘special’ of 280 kilometers. Sherco TVS Factory Rally Team’s Joan Pedrero finished the stage at 8th position and now...

Both the two riders of Hero MotoSports Rally Team -- Oriol Mena and CS Santosh--and the sole rider of Sherco TVS Rally Factory Juan Pedrero Garcia have sailed past the 10th stage of the 2018 Dakar Rally being held...

Now that a very tough Stage 8 is over, rookie Oriol Mena of Hero MotoSports came in a respectable 14th. He now has an overall standing of 18 after 8 stages. Across the cam, at TVS Sherco Rally Factory, their sole ri...

The massive sand dunes of Peru are far behind and now the riders at the Dakar Rally 2018, with their recalibrated vehicles are experiencing a different terrain completely. After the much deserved rest day at La Paz,...

After six gruelling days of riding and driving through Peru’s vast sand dunes and having entered the beautiful landscape of Bolivia, the Dakar Rally 2018 is left with 110 bikes, 41 quads, 71 cars and SxS, and 30 tru...

With two of their fine riders retired hurt, the fate of Sherco TVS Rally team rests on one rider, Joan Pedrero. The sixth stage of Dakar 2018 saw the teams leave behind the treacherous deserts of Peru and scale the ...

Every time the Dakar Rally hits the Bolivian leg, there are always chances of the weather and climate playing the spoilsport. Staying true to that tradition, the first part of the 6th stage of the Dakar Rally from A...

The 40th edition of the Dakar Rally continues to challenge man and machine as it progresses beyond the 5th stage to complete its 14 stages spread over 9000 km. This is the 10th Dakar to be held in South America . Th...

Aravind Prabhakar (KP) of Sherco TVS Rally Team crashed out of the gruelling Dakar Rally 2018. No official statement has been released by the company or the organisers but highly placed sources confirmed to Motown I...

After the 4th stage of the tough Dakar Rally 2018, riders representing Indian motorcycle companies have done relatively well with Juan Pedrero Garcia of Sherco TVS Rally factory coming in 17th overall. His teammate ...

For riders representing Indian teams, it was an eventful Stage 3 at the Dakar Rally 2018 with Oriol Mena of Hero MotoSports Team Rally coming in 12 during stage 3 and now standing 19 th overall after three stages. H...

With the third stage of the Dakar Rally moving from Pisco to a very windy and dusty San Juan De Marcona, Spanish debutant rider Oriol Mena of Hero MotoSports Team Rally overcame tough navigation to clock-in a fast t...

After a short appetiser on Saturday, the competitors faced the full might of the dunes of Ica near Pisco on Sunday January 7, 2018. The second stage in Peru was 90% off the track. The 267 km challenge required some ...

The most gruelling race on the planet, the Dakar Rally, flagged off its 40th edition in Lima, the capital city of Peru on January 6, 2018. This edition of Dakar Rally marks the 2nd year of participation for India’s ...

Hero MotoSports Team Rally showcased their new RR 450 rally bike for the first time in the country. The motorsport division of Hero also announced its team for the Dakar Rally 2018 which will comprise of Joaquim Rod...

After their incredible performance at the Force Gurkha RFC India 2017, veteran rallyist Jagat Nanjappa and co-driver Chetan Changappa are all set to compete on the Malaysian soil at the 21st edition of the Rainfores...

The 9th edition of Maruti Suzuki’s annual southern motorsports rally, Maruti Suzuki Dakshin Dare concluded in a grand finale in Pune on July 22, 2017 with Team Maruti Suzuki’s Suresh Rana and Ashwin Naik winning the...

Vadodara’s young racer Mira Erda will become the first Indian female driver to compete in one of the highest classes of Formula Racing in the country after signing up for the Euro JK series in the upcoming JK Tyre-F...

Participating in his first rally on Indian soil, Hero MotoSports Team Rally’s Joaquim Rodrigues won the India Baja 2017. Popularly called JRod, he blazed through the second leg of the India Baja rally to finish in f...

The second edition of the India Baja—an international motorsports event promoted by Northern Motorsports India—will be held from April 7-9, 2017, in the Golden City of Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. The event this year will ...

Close on the heels of its debut at the Dakar 2017, Hero MotoSports Team Rally, the motorsports team of Hero MotoCorp is gearing up for India Baja 2017 in April this year. This will be the Team’s second rally raid o...

While Tata Motors unveiled the country’s fastest race truck -- the 1000 bhp T1 Prima race truck-- at the Buddh International Circuit (BIC) in Greater Noida during the T1 Prima Truck Racing Championship Season 4, it ...

Twenty-nine-year-old UP based truck driver Pitambar won the his first professional truck race, in the Super Class Category of the T1 Prima Truck Racing Championship, Season 4. Shivnihal Singh (40 years) also of UP ...

National champions Asgar Ali and Muhammad Mustafa underlined their supremacy in Siliguri, West Bengal on Thursday March 2, 2017 while claiming the Biswa Bangla JK Tyre Himalayan Drive crown in style.

Overnight leaders Asgar Ali and his navigator Muhammad Mustafa held on to their lead after the second leg of the Biswa Bangla JK Tyre Himalayan Drive in Bhutan on February 27, 2017. Leg two saw the rallyists cover a...

The fastest Indian men on land, APRC Champion and India’s best Cross Country Rally Driver, Gaurav Gill, and India’s most accomplished supercross & rally-raid champion C S Santosh, are experimenting a sea change in t...

Five time National Rally Champion Gaurav Gill was decorated with the prestigious 'Motorsports Person of the Year Award’ at an FMSCI function held in Hyderabad. The function was attended by the entire galaxy of racin...

Liberty Media Corporation and Delta Topco, the parent company of Formula 1 have announced that Liberty Media has completed its acquisition of F1, the iconic global motorsports business, from a consortium of sellers

The 6th and final round of the Maruti Suzuki National Super League Championship concluded with the much awaited ‘Rally of Himachal’ in Shimla. Braving the biting cold and steep winding roads covered with snow, Karth...

Sam Sunderland of KTM took his first Dakar win in Buenos Aires after two failed attempts in previous years, ensuring the trophy stays with the official KTM team. Stéphane Peterhansel defended his crown at the wheel ...

The 5th leg of Maruti Suzuki National Super League TSD Rally Championship 2016(MS-NStrdRC) – Rally of Arunachal concluded in Dambuk with Jagmeet Gill and Chandan Sen emerging as champions. The duo was driving a Maru...

The much awaited 18thMaruti Suzuki Raid de Himalaya which saw a tragic turn of events with the death of Subhomoy Paul, ace rallyist from Kolkata, finally concluded in Manali, with Suresh Rana and his co-driver Ashwi...

On a rain-hit Sunday (August 21, 2016), championship favourite Ricky Donison suffered a double blow that saw him surrender his leadership position after the fourth and penultimate round of the 13th JK Tyre FMSCI Nat...

TVS Motor Company has announced that they will be supporting racer Arjun Maini and has signed up for a long term association with the 19-year old. Maini recently created history by securing a podium finish in his se...

Finally after several days of gruelling ride across the Moroccan desert, the Afriquia Merzouga Rally saw Kevin Benavides (Honda) winning the rally followed by Stefan Svitko (KTM), second and Adrien Van Beveren (Yama...

After having spent a night in the High Atlas, the competitors took an early start for the 4th stage of the Afriquia Merzouga Rally in Morocco. This was the fastest one of this rally on off road tracks crossing all k...

As temperatures in the desert climbed to 40 degrees celsius and more on Wednesday May 25, 2016, a desert storm made things complicated for the competitors of the Afriquia Merzouga Rally in Morocco. Originally the fo...

On Sunday (May 23, 2016) evening it was heartening to see among the sea of KTM, Yamaha, Honda and Husqvarna motorcycles, two participants from Hero Motorsports Team Rally making their debut in one of the toughest ra...

Karthick Maruthi and his co-driver S Sankar Anand, in their Maruti Suzuki Vitara Brezza zoomed past their rivals to reach the finishing line as they took first place in the Deccan Rally, the second round of the Nati...

Meco Motorsports who have been at the forefront of promoting racing at the grass-root levels in India announced the launch of Formula Junior Racing Series which will provide an affordable platform for young, rookie ...

The 14th edition of Maruti Suzuki Desert Storm rally ended in the Blue City of Jodhpur with Team Maruti Suresh Rana and his navigator Ashwin Naik garnering the first position followed by Amanpreet Ahluwalia and Vire...

Day 3 of the Maruti Suzuki Dessert Storm rally started from Bikaner and travelled to the ‘Golden City’ of India, Jaisalmer. The gruelling distance covered on the third day was approximately 350 Kms. It was rally tha...

India’s leading passenger vehicle manufacturer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) flagged off the 14th edition of its popular Maruti Suzuki Desert Storm rally amidst much fanfare from Great India Place Mall, Noida ...

Like the way Vicky Chandhok described, the journey from the “highway to the speedway” finally culminated with Jagat Singh and Nagarjuna A winning the first ever Indian truck race. For the first time in the last thre...

Bhutan culminated to a thrilling finish after an intense five-day rally. The first three editions of Himalayan Drive-- held in March 2013, January 2014 and January 2015-- witnessed tremendous success and this editio...

Seventeen Indian truck drivers will compete against each other in the final round – Level 4, of the T1 Racer programme (TRP), organised by Tata Motors, for the very first time. The final round of the TRP, will deter...

From January 21 to 27, 2016, the JK Tyre Baja Student India 2016 event saw the participation of around 4000 engineering students including participants of JK Tyre Formula Student India 2016. Starting from January 21...

Yamaha Motor India Sales Pvt. Ltd. etched yet another chapter in the history of motorsports in India by bringing the current and three times World MotoGP Champion Jorge Lorenzo for the second time in India. This vis...

Champion rider KP Aravind rode flawlessly through the challenging track created for the Pune International Supercross event as he won both Motos to firm-up his chances for the Overall title in the MRF Mogrip FMSCI N...

The third edition of Toyota Etios Motor Racing (EMR) Trophy 2015 ended at the Buddh International Circuit with Hisham E.K.P winning the race and claiming this year’s trophy. The young racer made a brilliant start en...

The governing body of motorsports around the world, the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) has launched a programme which will enable children around the world to receive proper structured training thro...

Pune-based Force Motors has announced its team members as well as its revised cars for the Force Gurkha RFC 2015 being held in Goa from July 25 to 31, 2015. Force Motors had won top two positions at the first editio...

Amongst 2200 students from 110 teams who competed in the 4th edition of Maruti Suzuki SUPRA SAEINDIA, the team from Krishna Institute of Engineering and Technology (KIET), Ghaziabad came out victorious.

Hyundai has just introduced a new virtual reality gaming app called “Hyundai VR+” available on all smart phones as of now The gaming app allows the user to get a feel of how it’s like to be in the shoes of a Worl...

Nissan has announced the commencement of the GT Academy National Finals for India. The event, hosted over two days at Chennai’s legendary MMSC Racetrack, saw the top 20 qualifiers from online and live qualification ...

In 2014, Goa rocked with the sound and fury of the Force Gurkha Rainforest Challenge (RFC) India. It is now back in its mean and terrible form. The 2015 edition of the off-road motorsport extravaganza is set to take...

Suzuki Motorcycle India Private Limited (SMIPL) has launched the Gixxer Cup, marking its entry in the Indian racing arena. Suzuki has a long and successful history of motorcycle racing and the time is ripe to bring ...

Kris Meeke has clinched his first maiden WRC victory at XION Rally Argentina. Meeke is the first British driver since 2002 to win a world rally. The Citroen Total Abu Dhabi WRT finished a one-two as Mads Østberg fin...

Aston Martin CEO Dr. Andy Palmer will be strapping himself into an Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT4 N430 racing car to race alongside three other fellow drivers to race at Silverstone Circuit for the Britcar 24-hour race...

The rain-hit Season II T1 Prima Truck Racing Championship saw Stuart Oliver of Team Castrol Vecton winning the race once again at the Buddh International Circuit in Greater Noida on March 15, 2015. Starting second o...

Tata Motors will kick-off Season II of the T1 Prima Truck Racing Championship 2015, at the Buddh International Circuit, Greater Noida beginning March 14. The main race will be held on Sunday, March 15.

Swiss watch maker TAG Heuer’s association with motorsports is legendary as the sport itself. At the ongoing 2015 Geneva Motor Show being held from March 5 to 15, 2015, TAG Heuer has a stand measuring almost 1000 sq ...

Max Chilton and Alex Buncombe have been confirmed to race for Nissan in the LMP1 category with the new Nissan GT-R LM NISMO LMP1 car for the 2015 World Endurance Championship (WEC) season thus completing the 9 drive...

While the T1 Prima Truck Racing Championship may finally see Indian truck drivers racing at the Buddh International Circuit (BIC) in Greater Noida in 2016, a similar truck racing championship could also be held in S...

Champion TSD rallyists of the country Ajgar Ali of Kolkata with navigator M. Mustafa of Tamilnadu have won the three-day Second Uttarakhand Car Rally, which finished at Dehradun on January 4, 2015. The duo were driv...

Team Orion Racing India of KJ Somaiya College of Engineering, Mumbai was declared the overall champions of the first JK Tyre Formula Design Challenge (FDC) 2015 were. Teams Formula Manipal (Manipal University) and ...

Automobili Lamborghini has presented the new Lamborghini Huracán GT3, in a world premiere at its headquarters in Sant'Agata Bolognese. The GT3 competitor makes its debut following that of the new Huracán LP 620-2 Su...

Tata Motors announced the opening of the T1 Prima Truck Racing Championship – Season 2 on January 20, 2015. The championship will be taking place at the Buddh International Circuit in Greater Noida on March 15, 2015...

Volkswagen Motorsport India has announced the Vento Cup which will be a part of the 18th JK Tyre Racing Championship from 2015. Similar to the Polo R Cup, a premium one-make touring car racing series, 2015 will s...

Colin Chapman, an engineer, inventor and businessman is considered one of the greatest all time in motorsport and in the automotive world as a whole. Chapman who died on December 16, 1982 was a genius and his ideas...

A weekend full of fuel burning, tyre smoking and adrenaline pumping motorsports came to a close the conclusion of round 3 of the JK Tyre Racing Championship with 8 races and 6 different winners racing in 4 different...

Petter Solberg has won round 9 of World Rallycross Championship in Germany in a photo finish victory with a gap of 5 thousandths of a second pipping Mattias Ekstrom’s Audi S1 Supercar, the closest finish in the 47 y...

Mercedes-Benz India successfully concluded the ‘Young Star Driver Programme’ Season II at the Buddh International Circuit in Greater Noida. Racing aspirants from across India showcased their raw talent, racing acume...

Nissan has announced the names of six gamers who have won the Nissan and PlayStation GT Academy India challenge. These six will now travel to Silverstone in the United Kingdom to represent India at the International...

Yokohama India, the 100pc subsidiary of the Yokohama Rubber Co is introducing for the first time Team Yokohama for the Indian Rally Championship (IRC). The rally will be held at Nashik from June 13 to 15, 2014 and w...

Yokohama India, the 100pc subsidiary of the Yokohama Rubber Co is introducing for the first time Team Yokohama for the Indian Rally Championship (IRC). The rally will be held at Nashik from June 13 to 15, 2014 and w...

Formula One champion from Australia Mark Webber who left the F1 circuit after the 2013 season, goes by the name AussieGrit on the popular social media site Twitter. Daniel Ricciardo, the man from Australia who repla...

In one of the most exciting races in Formula 1 for a long, long time, RedBull Racing Renault driver Daniel Ricciardo took his first F1 victory in Montreal at the Gilles Villeneuve circuit with Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg...

For motorsports enthusiasts in India there are a lot of exciting events and races in store in 2014. It’s a known fact that the Superbike 1000cc class will be run from Round 2 of the JK Racing India series 2014. This...

The first edition of the Rain Forest Challenge (RFC) India is now slated from August 8 to 14, 2014 in Goa. RFC is going to be the toughest off-road motorsport event to be held in the country. Rain, slush, fallen tre...

The Mahindra Formula E drivers Bruno Senna and Karun Chandhok tested their new Formula E car recently at a wet Donington Park circuit in the UK. Taking part in the first ever shakedown for the 10 Formula E teams, th...

The Harley-Davidson Street 750 has already been tested on a hot summer’s day by Motown India team and came out as a true winner. Now, after scorching the ice at ESPN’s X Games Aspen, the new Harley-Davidson Street 7...

This is no ordinary crystal ball gazing. Tyre major Dunlop commissioned a futurology report as part of the Dunlop Future Race Car Challenge. According to this report, racing car drivers of the future (maybe 125 year...

The world lost a treasure on May 19, 2014 as the Brabham family announced the passing of the motorsports legend Sir Jack Brabham. The 3 time formula 1 world champion’s memory will live on forever with the numerous c...

The Mahle Group is the new Official Partner of BMW Motorsport in the DTM. The group, which has its headquarters in Stuttgart (DE), is one of the largest automobile suppliers in the world and an important development...

French tyre major Michelin has announced that it is the first official sponsor and the official tyre of the National Corvette Museum (NCM) Motorsports Park in Kentucky, USA The NCM Motorsports Park will be one of th...

The Formula One teams are in for a juggle in 2015 with the Formula One racing governing body FIA confirming that it has accepted an application from Gene Haas to enter a new team in the F1 world championship. This w...

The 2014 FIA Formula 3 European Championship will see more powerful Volkswagen engines in their cars which will see an extra 15hp added on to the old 210-hp generation of Formula 3 engines. Thus, it would be 225-hp ...

While Vijay Mallya controlled Sahara Force India is doing exceptionally well at the start of the 2014 season of Formula One, the team has announced that Gatorade UK, the sports performance nutrition specialists, has...

Six Indian youngsters, who have the best set of skills playing on PlayStation GT6 racing simulators in the country, will see their driving skills further tested and honed on the Formula One Silverstone motor racing ...

Photography: Mohd. Nasir / The debut T1 Prima Truck Racing Championship saw Stuart Oliver winning the race after 45 minutes of speeding on the tracks of the famous Formula One Buddh International Circuit in Greater...

Who could have ever imagined that trucking could get such a great sex appeal? With dowdy, badly maintained over loaded trucks with over worked drivers on Indian roads, one could never have imagined that Indian truck...

As one of the world’s leading automotive suppliers, ZF is involved in motorsports. ZF Race Engineeri