Motorsport News

Volkswagen Motorsport India has announced its participation in the 'Race of Legends' racing event. Volkswagen Motorsport Team will be proving four equally prepared cars for the competition in addition to all the technical support required in terms of managing the cars during the event.

Mahindra Racing's Pascal Wehrlein finished the 2019 Formula E Santiago e-Prix in second place, securing his maiden Formula E podium and the team's third consecutive one of the season.

The X1 Racing League will be a city-wise team based motorsport series set to start in India this year. While the series was announced last year, we are yet to get more details on the cars that will be racing in the made-in-India event. Nevertheless, ahead of the series going on floors later this year, carandbike has got exclusive images of the X1 Racing League two-seater race car that is set to scorch Indian streets on fire. Promoter and international racer Armaan Ebrahim was seen testing the two-seater race car.

The first ever Ducati India Race Cup will be held in October 2019 at the Buddh International Circuit, and will follow a one-make format with Ducati Panigale and Ducati SuperSport range of motorcycles.

The second season of the Divas on Wheels rally has concluded and Ashima Duggal who was leading the quest on Day 1 along with her navigator Amrita Shergill has taken the top podium. The duo has taken the pole position despite getting a penalty of 3:28 minutes in their run from Chikmagaluru to Coorg on the final day of the rally. The team had earlier received a penalty of 2:53 minutes on Friday but had maintained their agility throughout the race which led them winning the rally.

The Divas on Wheels Rally has witnessed the participation of over 100 women in over 30 teams, who will cover a total distance of 750 km over two days.

Sherco TVS Factory Team's Aravind KP has become the only Indian rider to complete the 2019 Dakar Rally. The 10 day long rally finally came to its conclusion earlier today with the riders traversing 5000 km of treacherous terrains, sand dunes, rocks and fesh-fesh in Peru, South America. Aravind is not just the only Indian rider to complete the rally this year, but the only second ever to do so after CS Santosh. The latter, who was competing with Hero MotoSports Team Rally crashed out of Dakar in Stage 5.

The penultimate stage at Dakar was marred with terrible weather as visibility dropped to as low as five metres, which meant riders were cautiously before hitting the top speed. Tackling some challenging weather conditions, Sherco TVS Factory Team Rally rider Michael Metge pushed beyond the challenges and won Stage 9 with his spectacular performance. Michael managed to beat the riders from Yamaha, KTM and even Honda to take his the stage win and now sits 22nd in the overall standings as he aims to complete the rally in a dominant spot. Stage 9 saw the riders complete the loop section in Pisco over a run of 313 km in the special section. The penultimate stage also witnessed another mass start in the waves of 10 riders each, which made the day even more enthralling.