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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 3 of the 9th edition of the Afriquia Merzouga Rally, touted to be the highlight stage of the Rally, saw the racers battle dunes of Rissani erg, Chebbi erg along with sand in the Fezou region and Ouzina erg bef...

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 ...

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...

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....

Sherco TVS Factory Rally Team’s Lorenzo Santolino continued his impressive form in the fourth stage of the Maruti Suzuki Desert Storm 2018 topping the stage at P1. Leg 4, which was divided into two parts, including...

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...

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 ...

The fourth stage of the Dakar Rally camped itself in San Juan De Marcona for one more day of dunes and navigation. It turned out to be a very tough stage for the competitors with hidden way points and difficult terr...

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 ...

For the riders of the Sherco Tvs Factory Rally Team, it was a safe Stage 1 Dakar 2018 race as they rode from Lima to Pisco in Peru. The rally in the course of the next several days will cross three countries: Peru, ...

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 ...

The Sherco TVS Factory Rally team announced its three-rider squad for Dakar 2018. The squad comprises of Joan Pedrero of Spain, Adrien Metge of France and Aravind KP from India. Of the three riders, 39-year-old Joan...

As expected at the Austrian Grand Prix Red Bull Ring, a track that suits the ‘Desmosedici’ like no other, Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team) nudged ahead of an equally brilliant Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) for a wi...

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 ...

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...

The Mahindra Group announced the withdrawal of Mahindra Racing from the Moto3 World Championship series after the conclusion of the 2017 season. The move comes in as a result of a shift in the racing division's focu...

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...

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...

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...

Dani Pedrosa and Marc Marquez of Repsol Honda Team scored a grand and historic one-two result in the Spanish Grand Prix held on May 07, 2017. Pedrosa took the victory in his home Gran Premio Red Bull de España, st...

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 ...

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

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...

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 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...

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...

The 2013 and 2014 MotoGP World Champion continued his brilliant consistency with his 13th-point-scoring ride from the 13 races so far. The 23-year-old is the only rider across all three Grand Prix classes – MotoGP, ...

It was a Ducati moment at the Austrian MotoGP on August 14, 2016 as Andrea Iannone took the first win for the Ducati Team after almost six years. It was Casey Stoner who took his Ducati bike over the finish line at ...

The 250th race of the modern MotoGP era will be one that Team Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS and Jack Miller will never forget, after the Australian claimed a remarkable maiden premier class victory at the historic A...

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...

TVS Racing announced that its champion rider Aravind KP will be competing for the ‘Sherco-TVS Rally Factory’ team at Dakar Rally 2017. Aravind has been a part of the TVS Racing team for the past ten years and this w...

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...

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...

Leading Indian two-wheeler manufacturer Hero MotoCorp Ltd (HMCL) has formed a strategic partnership with Speedbrain GmbH, the German off-road racing specialist. The newly formed ‘Hero MotoSports Team Rally’ will mak...

The three biggest names of MotoGP—Valentino Rossi, Jorge Lorenzo and Marc Marquez—raced like there was no tomorrow and then finally Rossi romped home victorious at the Gran Premio Red Bull de España. The MotoGP Span...

Mahindra Racing demonstrated the incredible power and performance of its new M2Electro Formula E electric racing car, and new MGP30 racing motorcycle at the Buddh International Circuit on February 12, 2016.

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...

After wins in Mexico and Brazil, Mercedes' Nico Rosberg continued on his winning streak with a win the Yas Marina circuit on November 29, 2015 to secure a hat-trick of victories for the first time in his career. Nic...

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 ...

Haas F1 Team has announced that their first driver for their 2016 debut in the FIA Formula 1 World Championship will be Romain Grosjean. The 29-year old Frenchman who is currently driving for Lotus F1 Team was to...

Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes AMG Petronas got his 80th podium at the legendary Spa-Francorchamps circuit for round 11 of the championship, the 2015 Formula 1 Shell Belgian Grand Prix. Lewis’s win draws him level with...

Brazilian Nelson Piquet Jr., representing the Chinese team NEXTEV TCR was crowned the first Formula E champion. He won the championship despite the fact that he came 7th in the last race held in London on July 28, 2...

Indian racing driver Karun Chandhok has confirmed that he will return to the historic Le Mans 24 hours race on June 13/14, 2015. Chandhok, who was the first Indian to drive in the Le Mans 24 hours in 2012, is determ...

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...

After teasing the world including their own 2014 drivers, McLaren have finally confirmed that Fernando Alonso who stepped out of Ferrari after Abu Dhabi will race for McLaren as they retain former world champion Jen...

Chennai based TVS Motor Company is now getting aggressive on the motorsport front. TVS Racing, the racing division of TVS Motor Company and Sherco Motorcycles, a French motorcycle manufacturer, specialising in off-r...

The world's only surviving example of a Skoda 966 Supersport has been restored to its former glory. Specialists from Skoda have been working with great care on the renovation of this vehicle for the past year, and n...

Just the other day Tag Heuer was in the news with Ranbir Kapoor of India’s Bollywood becoming its brand ambassador. Now it is the turn of another celebrity to join hands with the Swiss watch brand Tag Heuer. Bruno S...

Suresh Rana, the nine-time champion of the Raid Xtreme (4X4) category, crashed out of the 16th Maruti Suzuki Raid De Himalaya on the fifth day of the rally on October 9, 2014. Celebrity actor Sohail Khan, meanwhile...

Jules Bianchi of Marussia-Ferrari who was rushed to Mie General Hospital in Japan after a serious crash in Sunday's 2014 Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka on October 5, 2014 is undergoing surgery after he suff...

Defending champion Suresh Rana was going strong in the Xtreme category at the end of the first day of the 16th Maruti Suzuki Raid De Himalaya rally. Bollywood actor Sohail Khan, who is also the brother of Salman Kha...

Sohail Khan, Bollywood actor and brother of superstar Salman Khan, is among the 236 competitors who took off from Shimla in the 16th Maruti Suzuki Raid De Himalaya, one of the top ten toughest motorsport events of t...

Bollywood stars have been endorsing vehicles a lot in the past in fancy advertisements. Very few take out time to participate in a motorsport rally. Things have finally changed with Bollywood producer-director-actor...

Tata Communications has become the first company to deliver a live 4K feed from a Formula 1 event. In a press release, the company said that this landmark was achieved during practice session at the 2014 Formula 1 S...

In its very first participation in an off-road event of the toughest nature, Pune-based Force Motors’ Team Gurkha bagged the first two positions. The event, truly the mother of all off-road events in the world, the ...

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...

The 10th edition of the MRF MoGrip-FMSCI National Supercross championship has attracted almost 100 entries for each of the six rounds to be staged across the country, according to a statement from FMSCI. The first r...

Mercedes is doing it in Formula One and now it’s the turn of Volkswagen to do in the FIA World Rally Championship. Before you wonder what it’s all about, we are talking about the one-two victory. In Formula One, off...

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 F1 race on Sunday April 6, 2014 in Bahrain saw Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes AMG Petronas winning by a whisker for the first place on the podium. He beat his teammate Nico Rosberg. For Lewis it was his 24th Formula...