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Melissa Paris Was ‘Lost’ Until She Found Motorcycle Racing
Melissa Paris misses racing. You wouldn’t be able to tell initially while in conversation, or during the occasional cuts MotoAmerica TV coverage makes to Paris, standing in her garage, watching her team or her husband on track. She looks focused. Confident. Sometimes fierce. It’s not that she doesn’t love the work she is doing with her team, MP13, supporting two young riders in MotoAmerica’s Twins Cup and Junior Cup classes for 2023, or that she hasn’t enjoyed her role as a mentor to younger riders and working as chief mechanic when she can as well. It’s that she misses swinging her leg over the bike and pushing it, as well…
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NASCAR drivers know everyone wins when Elliott is racing
MARTINSVILLE, Va. — NASCAR drivers don’t need to be reminded what Chase Elliott’s return to racing on Sunday at Martinsville Speedway means to those associated with the sport. When Elliott is racing, everyone wins. Voted NASCAR’s most popular driver the past five seasons — a title inherited after Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s retirement — Elliott and his No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports car have become the face of the sport. When he’s competing, more stock car racing fans are watching. And when he’s not, fans seem be tuning out in big numbers. It’s like stock racing’s version of the Tiger Woods effect. The dramatic drop in TV ratings in the six races Elliott…
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NHRA Summit Racing Series Championship set to return to Las Vegas
An additional thrilling period of racing in the NHRA Summit Racing Series, the world’s major motorsports program when it comes to racer participation, is established to acquire spot in 2023, as motorists will yet again contend for their likelihood to race for an NHRA Summit Racing Sequence Nationwide Championship in Las Vegas. Extra than 75,000 motorists contend at NHRA member tracks across North The us in the Super Professional, Professional, Sportsman, Motorcycle, and Street Authorized EV classes, racing for occasion wins, divisional titles, and, ultimately, the chance to race for countrywide glory on the “Road to Vegas.” They will race for championships in each and every of the 7 NHRA…
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Heart of Racing program elevates women in sports cars
MOORESVILLE, N.C. – Inside this former textile mill, a retro building built in 1892 with massive floor-to-ceiling windows and sturdy brick, Toyota has planted a future seed with the GR Cup. Once a hub for making cotton dye, the first floor has been turned into a factory that churned out spec sports cars for the past year as Toyota Racing Development prepares to launch its first single-make series. The inaugural season of the Toyota Gazoo Racing GR Cup will begin this weekend at Sonoma Raceway, the first of seven SRO-sanctioned events (each with two races) featuring a field of homologated GR86 production models that have been modified for racing with…
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Reddick wins COTA crashfest in triple OT for 23XI Racing
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Tyler Reddick had the lead and the swiftest car on the observe when calamity just about struck. Caution. Restart. Warning. Restart. Caution. Restart. Sufficient slowdowns to make a driver lose his brain. Or at minimum his awesome. Reddick handled it approximately to perfection Sunday, earning his initial victory with new workforce 23XI Racing by keeping on around multiple late restarts to win in triple extra time Sunday at Circuit of the Americas, the initial street class race on this year’s NASCAR schedule. “Didn’t very get the restarts completely, but we obtained the one that mattered,” Reddick stated. “The previous one.” Reddick’s victory was the to start…
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Roads: North West 200 and other Northern Irish motorcycle racing events saved following lower insurance deal
Published: 15 March 2023 Updated: 15 March 2023 Previous Slide◀ Next Slide▶ Glenn Irwin leads on the opening lap of the Anchor Bar Superbike race at the NW200 1 of 1 Motorcycling events in Northern Ireland, including the North West 200, will go ahead as planned this year after the Motor Cycle Union of Ireland Ulster Centre (MCUI UC) agreed a new insurance deal. The future of motorcycle racing in the country was in serious doubt last month when it was announced that all events would be cancelled due to soaring public liability insurance costs. Since then, the MCUI UC launched a GoFundMe page which has raised over £90,000, and…
