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Marc Márquez has already beaten all and sundry on two wheels but on June 5, 2018 he switched to four wheels and a Formula 1 car for a new speed experience on the track. The four-time MotoGP champion, who leads this ...

There is nothing like a very tough rally that pushes the limits of man and machine to the extreme. The Dakar Rally held in South America is one of them, the other being the Afriquia Merzouga Rally held in Morocco. T...

Stage 2 of the 9th edition of the Afriquia Merzouga Rally saw the racers cover a distance of 175 km in the region of Erg Chhabbi. At the end of the stage, India’s Sherco TVS Factory Rally team’s Joan Pedrero stood ...

Sam Bird of DS Virgin Racing held his nerve in the closing laps of the CBMM Niobium Rome E-Prix presented by Mercedes EQ and fended off multiple attacks from both Lucas di Grassi of Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler and Mit...

Sherco TVS Factory Rally team has announced a 4-rider squad for Merzouga Rally, 2018. The squad includes Joan Pedrero and Lorenzo Santilino from Spain, Martin Duplessis from Argentina and Vanni Cominotto from Italy....

Breaking open a bottle of champagne, Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel celebrated his surprising victory over Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes. Luck as you have it played soil sport for Hamilton when the Brit was forced to ...

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 ...

Hero MotoSports Team Rally’s ace rider CS Santosh met with an accident on March 21, 2018 at Desert Storm 2018 and injured himself. Following his injury, as a precautionary measure, the Hero MotoSports Team Rally h...

Covering a total distance of 217 km, the first leg of Maruti Suzuki Desert Storm 2018 culminated in Bikaner. Braving the scorching heat of the Thar Desert, the participants battled it out to grab the lead in their r...

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.

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...

Techeetah driver Jean-Eric Vergne fended off his team-mate Andre Lotterer in a tense fight around the streets of Santiago to claim his second victory in the ABB FIA Formula E Championship and the first one two in th...

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...

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...

This win, unlike the earlier one, was well deserved as Felix Rosenqvist of Mahindra Racing bided his time and made amends for missing out on victory in Marrakesh last year with a late move on Sebastien Buemi to clin...

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...

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...

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 ...

Kabir Waraich and Gurmeet Singh of Gerrari Off-roaders from Chandigarh proved to be the most accomplished team in the JK Tyre-Orange 4x4 Fury, clinching the coveted title and the winners’ prize purse of Rs 2.5 lakh ...

The Red Bull KTM Rally Factory Racing team is entering the final stages of their preparations ahead of the 2018 Dakar Rally – the 40th edition of the event, which will be staged from January 6 to 20, 2018 in Peru, B...

Marc Marquez of Repsol Honda RC213V secured his second consecutive Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) MotoGP World Championship riders title at the season-ending Valencia Grand Prix (Spain). This gave ...

Sebastian Vettel won the Brazilian Grand Prix on November 12, 2017, held at the Interlagos circuit. It is Scuderia Ferrari’s 229th Formula One win, the fifth this season for the team and for Seb. Kimi Raikkonen also...

Finally, after a race that saw some very tough maneuvering, Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes secured his fourth Formula One win as he came in 9th in the Mexican Grand Prix. The race winner was Red Bull’s young Max Verstap...

It was an incredibly pleasant evening in the city of Kochi when the Mahindra Adventure Club Challenge was flagged off on October 14, 2017. I was invited to the dreamy city in the southern state of Kerala to witness ...

Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes was able to stay ahead of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and beat him to the finish line by just 1.2s to win the 2017 Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix held on October 08, 2017. Red Bull Racing dri...

Max Verstappen who turned 20 celebrated his birthday in style when he won the Malaysian Grand Prix on October 1, 2017 for his team Red Bull Racing beating Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton who came in second. Verstappen’s te...

The FIA Formula E Championship will once again make history in the upcoming season - bringing circuit racing back to Switzerland for the first time in over 60 years, with the inaugural Zurich E-Prix set to take plac...

The top four teams on the Force Gurkha RFC India 2017 leader board have got a free entry the RFC Global Series 2017 Grand Finale, to be held in Malaysia later this year. Previously, this coveted award was given only...

A gamble on tyre choice turned into a tactical masterstroke in the Czech Grand Prix held on August 7, 2017, as defending World Champion Marc Marquez of Repsol Honda Team made an early pit stop to switch bikes after ...

It was a good day for Ferrari with both their drivers Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen taking up top spots on the podium at the Hungaroring. Vettel led team mate Raikkonen for a one-two win while Lewis Hamilton o...

Lucas di Grassi became the new FIA Formula E champion despite taking a seventh place in the Hydro-Quebec Montreal ePrix on July 30, 2017. He brought his ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport car home safely for the six points t...

Amidst some jaw-dropping offroad motorsport action, Gurmeet Virdi (co-driver Kirpal Singh Tung) of Gerrari Offroaders Chandigarh reclaimed the numero uno position with 1072 points out of 1500 on Day 3 of Force Gurkh...

Reigning Champion Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) has taken his eighth successive win at the Sachsenring in the German Grand Prix despite being under pressure from a stunning rookie ride by home hero German rookie ...

No. 46 Valentino Rossi (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP), referred to as the “Doctor” raced his way to another spectacular win, his 115th, in the Motul TT Assen, in the Netherlands. The nine-time World Champion completed a c...

The 2017/18 FIA Formula E Championship calendar has been revealed following the FIA World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) meeting in Geneva. The calendar features a more compact schedule, including three double-headers a...

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...

Andrea Dovizioso of Ducati Team took an incredible second win of the season after the Italian GP in Mugello in the Gran Premi Monster Energy de Catalunya at the Montmelò circuit outside Barcelona in Spain in front o...

Mahindra Racing secured an historic maiden victory in the FIA Formula E Championship on June 10, 2017, with a double podium in the first of the weekend’s two Berlin ePrix races.

It’s one of the rare days when you have a three-in-one victory. It happened at Mugello on June 4, 2017 when an Italian rider Andrea Dovizioso, riding an Italian bike Ducati won an Italian GP. Ducati Team’s Andrea Do...

It was the first win for Ferrari after 2001 in Monaco as Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen finished 1st and 2nd at the Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2017 on May 28, 2017. With his win, Vettel has pushed his titl...

Nicky Hayden, the 2006 MotoGP World Champion, passed away at the age of 35 following an accident. A member of the Red Bull Honda World Superbike Team rider Nicky Hayden was involved in an accident in which he had a ...

Movistar Yamaha MotoGP rider Maverick Vinales came out fighting and lucky as he dominated the MotoGP field to claim a sensational victory at the Grand Prix de France. With this, he sealed Yamaha’s 500th Grand Prix w...

Even while Sebastien Buemi gave Renault e.dams its most important win of the year by producing a dominant display in front of its home crowd in the Qatar Airways Paris ePrix - round six of the 2016/17 FIA Formula E ...

Sebastien Buemi staved off enormous pressure from Lucas di Grassi to claim his fourth FIA Formula E Championship win of the season in Monaco. He now extends his points lead to 15. While di Grassi had to be content w...

Thierry Neuville of Hyundai Motorsport, driving a Hyundai i20 coupe, won by a whisker thus making it one of the closest FIA World Rally Championship wins in history at YPF Rally Argentina on the afternoon of April 3...

Callum Ilott of Prema Powerteam won the sixth race of the FIA Formula 3 European Championship season at the 5.793 kilometres long Formula 1 track in the royal park of Monza in Italy. It was the third race at the Mo...

Valtteri Bottas of Mercedes scored the first win of his F1 career on Sunday April 30, 2017 after holding off Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel for a well deserved victory in the 2017 Formula 1 VTB Russian Grand Prix. With ...

The Carlin team dominated proceedings in first qualifying of the FIA Formula 3 European Championship on April 28, 2017 at the 5.793 kilometres long Grand Prix circuit of Monza in Italy with India’s rookie 18 years ...

Marc Marquez of Repsol Honda Team finally got into the victory mode in the third race of the 2017 MotoGP held in Austin, Texas in the United States. The defending World Champion sped to an important and much-needed ...

Former Indian National Rally Champion Amanpreet Ahulawalia emerged the winner of the three-day JK Tyre Arunachal Festival of Speed at the Dirang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh. The Noida-based veteran rallyist and his...

It was now the turn of Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari to come in first in the third Formula 1 race of the season, having done the same thing in the first race. With this win, Vettel has a clear lead in the drivers’ cha...

Lewis Hamilton did not take long to get back to his winning form as he clinched the first position on the final day of the Formula 1 race in China. With two races over for the 2017 season, both he and Sebasitan Vett...

Indian racer Armaan Ebrahim has taken a giant step towards his dream of FIA World Endurance Championship by signing up to race in the ultra competitive Pro Class of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia Championship f...

After a winless season in 2016, Ferrari came back fully charged with Sebastian Vettel winning the opening race of the 2017 Formula 1 season. At the Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix Sebastian Vettel beat Lewis H...

National champions Asgar Ali and Muhammad Mustafa hung on to their lead for the third successive day to remain firm favourites to take the Biswa Bangla JK Tyre Himalayan Drive championship in Paro, Bhutan on Tuesday...

The first edition of the JK Tyre Xtreme 4Play, an off road event, was held at Chandigarh's Ropar district in 1800 acres of private forest reserve from February 17 to 19, 2017. This was the biggest off-roading event ...

Harrison Newey was crowned the MRF Challenge 2016 Champion after beating Mick Schumacher and Joey Mawson in the final race of the season. Newey and Mawson tied on 277 points after the finish but the British driver t...

Sebastien Buemi of Renault e.dams has made Formula E history by becoming the first driver to win three races in a row. It was also his ninth win in the all-electric street racing series, and the 12th for the team. T...

The muscular and mean looking IronScorpion HMV driven by an American driver is among the record 40 entries that have come its way for the fourt edition of the Force Gurkha Rainforest Challenge (RFC) India to be held...

Toyota celebrated victory just two rallies into its comeback following a 17-year absence from the FIA World Rally Championship with Jari-Matti Latvala winning in Sweden. It was the Finn’s 17th career victory, but on...

The 4th leg of the 15th edition of Maruti Suzuki Desert Storm culminated with Suresh Rana and Ashwin Naik retaining their lead from the previous day as they raced past their competitors.

Traversing 350kms of Jaisalmer’s undulating and gruelling terrain in the scorching heat, the participants reached the end of leg 3 of the 15th edition of Maruti Suzuki Desert Storm. The rallyists completed 200km, th...

The second leg of the 15th edition of Maruti Suzuki Desert Storm witnessed the participants overcoming tough sandy terrains in the blazing heat through 3 stages. The rallyists covered a total distance of around 500k...

Mick Schumacher took another commanding win at Round 3 of the MRF Challenge 2016 held at the Buddh International Circuit on January 29, 2017 ahead of Joey Mawson and Harrison Newey

A special race weekend organised by Volkswagen Motorsport India on the side lines of the MRF Challenge concluded on January 29, 2017 at the Buddh International Circuit (BIC), Gr. Noida. Held as a three-race weekend,...

Sebastien Ogier began the defence of his FIA World Rally Championship crown with a fourth consecutive win in the Monte-Carlo rally on January 22, 2017. He eased through the final leg in the mountains above Monaco to...

Rajiv Sethu of Honda Ten10 Racing clinched the title in the Pro Stock 165cc category after scoring a grand double over the weekend in the fifth and final round of the MRF MMSC FMSCI Indian National Motorcycle Racing...

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 ...

Joan Barreda of Monster Energy Honda Team picked up his 4th stage victory but will not be able to prevent Sam Sunderland of KTM from winning his first title on the Dakar by the end of Saturday January 14, 2017.

Racing resumed on Thursday January 12, 2017 at Dakar Rally 2017 with a 449-kilometre stage from Chilecito to San Juan in Argentina.

Winners of stage 8 Rally Dakar 2017 included Joan Barreda of Monster Energy Honda Team (bike category), Sebastien Loeb of Peugeot (car cateogry), Ignacio Casale of Yamaha (Quad category) and Martin van den Brink of ...

The Rally Dakar 2017 Stage 7 left La Paz (Bolivia), the highest capital city in the world and headed towards another world renowned venue, the Salar d’Uyuni salt flats. On the road to Uyuni, Ricky Brabec of Monster...

Stage 5 of Rally Dakar 2017 saw its share of terrible weather, miscalculations and surprises as KTM Factory Team rider Sam Sunderland (bike category) and Peugeot driver Sébastien Loeb (car category) won the race.

In stage 4 of Rally Dakar 2017, defending motorbike champion Toby Price, KTM’s 2016 winner, exited the race after he broke his femur in a fall.

Joan "Bang Bang" Barreda, one of the youngest and most promising motorcycle athletes to fill the Dakar Rally, left rivals far in the distance to conquer stage 3 and take overall lead in the Rally Dakar 2017.

Australian Toby Price won the second stage of the Rally Dakar 2017 in the motorcycle category with a lead of more than 3 minutes over his team-mate Matthias Walkner and almost four minutes over Paulo Goncalves. Xavi...

Nasser Al Attiyah offered Toyota its 5th stage victory in the history of the Dakar and the third since the arrival of the Hiluxes after the special win in 2013 by Giniel de Villiers and another in 2015 by Yazeed Al ...

For the first time in its history, the world’s toughest off road racing championship Dakar is visiting Paraguay and is all set to launch its 2017 edition from its capital Asuncion for a sole and single stage with a ...

Edition 39 of the Dakar (2 – 14 January 2017) will be contested in three countries. A lot of important participants will grace this event.

It was just the other day in Abu Dhabi that Nico Rosberg was crowned the FIA Formula One champion for the year 2016, his maiden title after more than 200 races in F1. But then in an emotional address prior to the 20...

Finally after 21 races in the 2016 Formula One season and a neck and neck fight with teammate Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes Benz driver Nico Rosberg won the 2016 F1 championship title, despite coming in second in the fin...

After creating history in July at Force Gurkha RFC India 2016 by becoming the first Indian duo to win the country’s toughest off-road motorsport event, Gerrari Offroaders Chandigarh’s Gurmeet Virdi and Kirpal Singh ...

Cheers erupted as Anindith Reddy crossed the finish line at the Buddh International Circuit on Sunday Nov 20, 2016. Reddy had been remarkable the entire day and sealed the deal by finishing first in the Euro JK 16 c...

Mercedes continued its winning streak and Lewis Hamilton his No. 1 position as the Sao Paulo race saw Lewis and teammate Nico Rosberg come in one and two at the Formula 1 Grande Premio do Brasil 2016 on November 13,...

It was the 250th Grand Prix start for Movistar Yamaha MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo who said goodbye to that title in stunning style, as the Spaniard held off a late charge from reigning World Champion Marc Marquez (R...

Mahindra Racing collected a second consecutive podium and scored its first ever pole position for the inaugural Marrakesh ePrix, the second round of the 2016-17 FIA Formula E Championship.

With the end of its best season to date fast approaching, Mahindra Racing has embarked on an ambitious new project alongside four-time 250cc World Champion and double WorldSBK Champion Max Biaggi. Having achieved tr...

Mahindra Racing has become the first Formula E team to achieve accreditation in the FIA Institute’s Sustainability Programme. The team has attained ‘Progress Towards Excellence’ status from its first audit within th...

Andrea Dovizioso of Ducati Team produced a superb performance at the Sepang International Circuit to take victory in the Shell Malaysia Grand Prix. The Ducati Team rider crossed the finish-line ahead of Rossi and ...

Even though Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda) may have won the Moto GP 2016 championship, the win by Cal Crutchlow (LCR Honda) in Australian GP held on the race track of Phillip Island on October 23, 2016 proved that ther...

It was a stunning win for Repsol Honda Team’s Marc Marquez as he crossed the chequered flag to claim the 2016 MotoGP World Championship at a place that could not have been more appropriate. Yes, Hondas home in Japan...

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...

The 2016 edition of Maruti Suzuki Rad de Himalaya came to a tragic halt after one of the participants, 49 years old Subhamoy Paul, who was taking part in the Moto-Quads Xtreme category of the rally, died on the 3rd ...