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Daniel Abt drove a dominant race to secure victory in the BMW i Berlin E-Prix in front of his home fans ahead of Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler team-mate Lucas di Grassi at Tempelhof Airport.

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...

Kevin Benavides riding a Honda motorcycle won the 4th stage of the Afriquia Merzouga Rally 2018. In the evening of the stage, held on April 19, 2018 in Morocco in Africa, the Race Direction rectified the results fol...

Stage 1 of the 9th edition of the Afriquia Merzouga Rally began at Timbaktu hotel and saw the racers battle across two loops of 110.7 kilometers and 96.01 kilometers respectively. At the end of the stage, the overa...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

It seems that Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari is not going to let Lewis Hamilton win the 2017 F1 series with ease. Vettel, in fact, led the opening five laps of the race that was held on October 22, 2017 in the United S...

Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes took a very narrow victory over Sebastian Vettel in the Formula 1 Pirelli Belgian Grand Prix held on August 27, 2017, thereby cutting down the Ferrari driver’s championship lead from 14 to...

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...

Force Gurkha RFC India is back in Goa after a year, for what is expected to be an extremely tough and adrenaline-filled fourth season. Starting from July 22, 2017, RFC India 2017 will be held at various locations wi...

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...

It was an unfortunate second race for Mahindra Racing as winner of the first race in Berlin eprix Felix Rosenqvist had to be content with just the second place (a result of a pit stop confusion), while another Mahin...

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.

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...

Sebastien Ogier claimed his 5th Vodafone Rally de Portugal win on May 21, 2017. With this, he increased his FIA World Rally Championship lead with his second victory of the season by 15.6sec from Thierry Neuville wh...

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 ...

India’s Gaurav Gill of Team MRF Tyres made the most of the misfortune to overnight leader and team-mate Ole Christian Veiby and turned back a 33-second deficit to win the International Rally of Whangarei, the first ...

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...

Hyundai Motorsport has registered its maiden victory of the 2017 FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) with Neuville and co-driver Nicolas Gilsoul securing victory in Tour de Corse in the #5 Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC. The ...

The Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Team gave an astounding performance in Sunday’s (April 9, 2017) Gran Premio Motul de la República Argentina, securing an immaculate 1-2 finish. Maverick Viñales was in a league of his own ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Tata Motors will be showcasing its latest powerful truck, the 1000 bhp Prima Race Truck during the T1 Prima Truck Racing Championship to be held on March 18-19, 2017 at the Buddh International Circuit (BIC). The pea...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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 ...

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.

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...

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

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...

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,...

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...

The Jakkur Aerodrome on the outskirts of Bengaluru came alive to the sound of drag racing at the JK Tyre Vroom 2016 quarter mile drag fest over the weekend on October 16, 2016.

On a day that internationally renowned stunt driver Terry Grant dazzled Coimbatore’s racing fans, Anindith Reddy of Hyderabad emerged as a star himself, springing to the top of the ladder in the Euro JK 16 event at ...

Nico Rosberg won the 2016 Formula 1 Emirates Japanese Gand Prix on October 9, 2016 and in the process ensured that his team Mercedes could seal the constructors’ crown. Rosberg extended his championship lead to 33 p...

It could not have been a better start for the Mahindra Racing team as its driver Nick Heidfeld came in third after a stunning first lap, which took him from 10th to sixth in the FIA Formula E Championship in Hong Ko...

Jaguar Land Rover, luxury car maker owned by Tata Motors and Britain’s largest R&D investor will be participating in the 2016-17 season of FIA Formula E beginning in Hong Kong on October 9, 2016 wherein it will supp...

Two 35-year old veterans, Anthony Keith West (Australia) and Decha Kraisart (Thailand) lit up the Buddh International Circuit on Sunday October 2, 2016 with a memorable battle before the former took the honours for ...

Blame it on a slow start which ended the hopes of champion Lewis Hamilton of winning the F1 race in Monza, and it was his Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg who finally grabbed the top spot at the Formula 1 Gran Premio...

Jagan Kumar of Team TVS Racing came back strongly to win the second race of the premium Super Sport Indian 165cc category as the third round of the MRF MMSC FMSCI Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championship concl...

Though Nico Rosberg of Mercedes won the Formula One race in Belgium, this race will be remembered more for all its crashes and near misses. Rosberg scored his sixth victory of the year, the 20th of his career, and h...

The first and second positions by Peugeot MC Saxoprint rider John McPhee and Jorge Martin (Pull & Bear Aspar Mahindra) at the HJC Helmets Grand Prix Moto3 race in Automotodrom Brno, Czech Republic came as sweet vict...

TVS Motor Company announced the names of the 10 women riders shortlisted to participate and ride in Himalayan Highs Season 2. The selected riders will accompany Anam Hashim to the highest motorable road- Khardung-La...

Mahindra Racing rider Marco Bezzecchi won both CIV races at Misano recently where he was a wild card entry in Round 5 and 6 of the Italian National Motorcycle Racing Championship.

Lewis Hamilton who had emerged on top of the driver’s table after his victory in Hungary in the last race, continued with his winning spree as he extended his championship lead to 19 points with a clear win in Germa...

The Formula E car will sport a bold new look for the 2016/17 FIA Formula E Championship, thanks to the introduction of a stunning new front wing. The new two-tier wing makes the fully-electric single-seater look mor...

After a victory in Budapest in the Hungarian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes now heads the driver standings for the first time this year, getting ahead of his team mate Nico Rosberg who was leading all this w...

After a year long wait, the time has finally arrived for some incredible off-road motorsport action in Goa. Force Gurkha RFC India, the country’s toughest off-road motorsport event, is back for what is expected to b...

Pune-based commercial vehicle manufacturer Force Motors announced that Kabir Waraich, a seasoned off-roader has now joined forces with Team Gurkha for the Force Gurkha RFC India 2016. Kabir along with his navigator ...

Sebastien Buemi is the new FIA Formula E champion after clinching the title courtesy of setting the Visa Fastest Lap during the season-ending Visa London ePrix on July 3, 2016. The final race of the 2015/16 season w...

On July 2, 2016, Mahindra Racing had yet another reason to celebrate as their driver Bruno Senna came in second in the Formula E race in London. While Nico Prost of Renault e.dams scored his second FIA Formula E Cha...

Italian teenager Francesco Bagnaia (Pecco) made history at Assen on July 26, 2016 – fighting every inch of the way to claim not only his first grand prix win, not only the first win for the Mahindra Moto3 team, but ...

The all-new Isuzu D-Max V-Cross is ready to enthuse the adventure seekers at the India 4X4 Week 2016 to be held in Goa, between July 22 and 24, 2016. Isuzu Motors India will display and offer a driving experience at...

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton fought back to defeat the Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel to win for the fifth time in Montreal in the Canadian Grand Prix. Valtteri Bottas took a well deserved third place to give Wil...

The list of the 25 Indian teams that will compete in Season 3 of Force Gurkha RFC India has been announced. While some of the competitors who have participated in the first two editions of RFC India are back for an...

Delhi-based Cougar Motorsport Pvt. Ltd. has got itself all winched. The company has announced a collaboration with US-based Warn Industries, Inc., world’s number one manufacturer of off-road equipment and accessorie...

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...

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...

Royal Enfield Himalayan Odyssey is introducing an all women edition that will be flagged off from New Delhi on July 9, 2016. Women riders can register themselves on the website http://royalenfield.com/ho/register fr...

Kris Meeke, the Northern Irishman won the Vodafone Rally De Portugal , the four-day rough road event by 29.7sec in his Citroën’s DS 3 on Sunday (May 22, 2016). Meeke was back in the championship after missing the pr...

Brad Binder (Red Bull KTM Ajo) beat Di Giannantonio and Bagnaia with a perfect last lap on Sunday (May 22, 2016) at the Gran Premio d’Italia Moto3 World Championship race.

Movistar Yamaha MotoGP’s Jorge Lorenzo continued his momentum at the Autodromo del Mugello track on Sunday (May 22, 2016) as he secured a brilliant victory in the Gran Premio d'Italia. His achievement marks the Yama...

First the scrutineering, then kicking off the proceedings is a prologue on Sunday (May 22, 2016) evening … the Afriquia Merzouga Rally is back in the game. The Afriquia Merzouga Rally has been revamped, renamed and ...

Indian racer Hari Krishnan, sponsored by Honda achieved his first-ever podium finish at an International level, finishing second-position in the Race 2 of the Asia Dream Cup at the FIM Asia Road Racing Championship ...

For once Volkswagen had to eat the humble pie as Hayden Paddon driving his Hyundai i20 scored his first WRC victory at YPF Rally Argentina on the afternoon of April 24, 2016 after fighting off world champion Sébasti...

For someone who started last, this was a victory that was well-deserved as Brad Binder of Red Bull KTM Ajo blasted through the pack of motorcycles to win the Moto3 World Championship in Spain. This was the fourth ro...

Nico Rosberg of Mercedes is on a roll after he clinched his sixth consecutive victory at the 2016 Formula Pirelli Chinese Grand Prix. As in the recent races, the Chinese F1 race was also not without its share of int...

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...

The first day of Maruti Suzuki Desert Storm rally saw Abhishek Mishra driving his Grand Vitara taking lead in extreme category. Legs 1 & 2 of the extreme category had two competitive stages of 57 Kms and 24 Kms leng...

Redemption came to Lucas di Grassi in the shape of a perfectly judged win in the FIA Formula E Faraday Future Long Beach ePrix on April 2, 2016. The Abt Schaeffler Audi Sport driver had sprayed the victory champagne...

Cougar Motorsport Pvt. Ltd. has announced the opening of registrations for Force Gurkha RFC India 2016 to be held in Goa from July 22 to July 29, 2016. The third edition of India’s toughest off-road motorsport event...

Lucas di Grassi who was announced winner of the Mexican FormulaE race was excluded from the result of the Mexico City ePrix. The victory was handed over to Jerome D’Ambrosio. Di Grassi’s Abt Schaeffler car that h...

The VF-16, Haas F1 Team’s first race car, has arrived. The car officially broke cover on February 21, 2016 via Haas F1 Team’s social media channels and website. It hits the track Monday for the first day of preseaso...

Yet another chapter was added to Chennai’s motorsport legacy when city’s riders Sarath Shankar Kumar, Aravind B and Rihana Reya clinched the respective championships to bring curtains on the 2015 Honda One Make Race...

Sam Bird produced a brilliant performance to hold off the charge of Sebastien Buemi and claim the first Formula E win for the DS Virgin alliance. Bird started the race from pole and controlled the pack from the fron...

Lohitt Urs and his co-driver Shrikanth Gowda expectedly won the title in the FIA Asia Cup category besides emerging National champions even as Gaurav Gill (co-driver Musa Sherif) took the Overall crown in the Coffee...

The 18th JK Tyre Racing Championship concluded with a bang as a packed Grand Stand witnessed some of the best and the most adrenaline-pumping motor sports action in the country at the Buddh International Circuit on ...

After qualifying on pole and locking the front row yet again for Mercedes with team mate Lewis Hamilton next to him, Nico Rosberg took victory of the first Mexican Grand Prix in 23 years at the Autodromo Hermanos Ro...