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It was one-two for Mercedes Benz drivers Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas at the Spanish Grand Prix as Hamilton secured his second victory in a row. Red Bull racing driver Max Verstappen came in third with his dam...

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...

Hero MotoSports Team Rally, the motorsport division of Hero MotoCorp Ltd., will begin its ‘Road to Dakar 2019’ campaign with the 2018 Merzouga Rally to be held in Morocco from April 15 to 20, 2018. This will be the ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Hero MotoSports Team Rally riders CS Santosh and Oriol Mena both have regained momentum on the 2nd day of the Dakar Rally 2018 and are keeping it steady in Stage 2.

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Hero Cycles Pvt. Ltd, the world’s largest bicycle manufacturer, has announced its new IPL partnership as the Principal Sponsor of Kings XI Punjab, the home team of the company which is headquartered in Ludhiana.

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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,...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The curtain came down on the 13th JK Tyre-FMSCI National Rotax Max Karting at the Mohite Racing Academy in Kolhapur, Maharashtra on Sunday September 25, 2016 with favourites Ricky Donison, Manav Sharma and Shahan A...

Hero MotoSports Team Rally, the motor-sport division of two-wheeler manufacturer, Hero MotoCorp Ltd. (HMCL), has showed a glimpse of their off-roading prowess at the Hero Centre of Innovation and Technology (CIT), J...

Silverstone’s British Grand Prix saw Maverick Vinales of Team Suzuki Ecstar cruising to victory while home hero Cal Crutchlow managed a second place, outpacing MotoGP championship leader and Repsol Honda rider Marc ...

A brave tyre choice and a determined ride in treacherous damp conditions took independent-team Honda rider Cal Crutchlow (LCR Honda RC213V) to a historic first MotoGP race win at at the Automotodrom Brno in the Czec...

Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda RC213V) who at one point in the race thought that his “run at this circuit was going to come to an end” achieved a historic result in MotoGP race in Germany. At the rain soaked German Gra...

India’s ace rally rider CS Santosh who was placed 16th place in the Merzouga Rally in Morocco (Africa), which forms part of the Dakar Series, will now be spending the next three months in Europe to train for the nex...

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...

Stage two of the Afriquia Merzouga Rally on May 24, 2016 saw the two riders of Hero MotoSports Team Rally perform well in the heat of the Moroccon desert. Joaquim Rodrigues consolidated his position in the overall ...

Rally rookie "J-Rod" Rodrigues delivered a steady stage, finishing the day in tenth position for Hero MotoSports in Afriquia Merzouga Rally 2016, Stage 1. CS Santosh, his teammate, finished 17th. The Afriquia Merzou...

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...

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 ...

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 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...

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...

The 2016 Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix saw the all too familiar Mercedes winning formula in play as the team came in first and second with Nico Rosberg and his team mate Lewis Hamilton winning the race in M...

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...

An enthusiastic crowd was treated to a thrilling conclusion of the first ever Formula E Race Off as Mahindra Racing’s Bruno Senna beat Nico Prost at the Gfinity Arena in London.

The three-day JK Tyre Orange 4x4 Fury, an off-road event, proved an unqualified success, in terms of being an acid test for driving skills and team work as Chandigarh’s Team Gerrari walked away with a 1-2 finish fol...

By winning the 2015 United States Grand Prix in Austin, Lewis Hamilton has created history in Formula One. With 3 races still left on the calendar, Hamilton has sealed the 2015 Driver’s World Championship at the Cir...

What Lewis Hamilton could not achieve in Singapore, he did so with great conviction at Suzuka in Japan. Hamilton equalled his hero Ayrton Senna’s tally of 41 race victories when he won the Japanese Grand Prix on Sep...

The much awaited battle between Gaurav Gill and his MRF Tyres team-mate Pontus Tidemand of Sweden fizzled out as the Indian ace retired at the end of the day’s first Special Stage with a mechanical problem in the Ra...

The 4th round of the MRF Mogrip FMSCI National Supercross Championship 2015 was held in Hyderabad on September 6, 2015. The Supercross event witnessed over 90 entries from riders across the whole nation. This Champi...

"Woohoo, yes!!" screamed Nico Rosberg of Mercedes AMG Petronas as he won the 78 lap Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2015 held on May 24th 2015. He's only the fourth man in history to win three straight races in the P...

The first Formula E race to be held in the USA saw Nicolas Prost of e.dams-Renault winning the race after a stiff fight with rivals before a 20,000-strong crowd. The streets of Miami were packed and people stood in ...

Mitsubishi world rally champion Hiroshi Masuoka enthralled Puneites for three days with daredevil driving of his favourite Pajero Sport. For those who had the opportunity to be in the powerful SUV with Masuoka behin...

Devendra Thakur from Hero Action Team has won the gruelling cyclothon race at the 2nd Decathlon Sports Carnival in Mohali in North India by covering the 36km race in less than 50 minutes. His teammate Shiven Sharma ...

Vikram Mathias and co-driver Swaroop Mohan in their Mitsubishi Evo IX continued with their overnight lead to win the Coffee Day Rally. This was the sixth and concluding round of the FMSCI Indian Rally Championship i...

Day 1 of the JK Tyre Polo R Cup 2014 saw some crashes as Race 1 began its first lap. On the first lap, at the first turn Anshul Shah drove off the track and lost his grip, hitting Lee Keshav’s car and toppled. Lee K...

Exactly six years since Lewis Hamilton first claimed his first British Grand Prix victory, he won his second Formula One race on July 6, 2014 for Mercedes AMG Petronas at Silverstone. Valtteri Bottas finished 2nd fo...

Reigning World Rally Champions Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia driving their Volkswagen Polo rally car have won the Rally Italia Sardegna, the sixth round of the FIA World Rally Championship. The victory is duo...

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...

India’s longest motorsport extravaganza – The 12th Maruti Suzuki Desert Storm 2014, zooms off from New Delhi on February 22, 2014. APRC champion Gaurav Gill will take on home grown hero Suresh Rana at the Desert Sto...