Sport newsSpeedmachine festival, the centrepiece of the 2018 World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy season, will change the way motorsport engages with fans when it revs into action as part of the first World RX of Great Britain to be held at Silverstone, according to the series’ Managing Director...

Stage 10 saw the 2018 Dakar Rally tackle Argentinian sand dunes and riverbeds between Salta and Belén. After several days in the rain, hot weather returned with temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius/104 degrees Fahrenheit.But Stage 10 also saw a big turmoil in the bike category, with Austrian Matthias Walkner taking...

Today's Stage 8 was the second part of the "marathon stage" that left the competitors without assistance overnight. With 309 miles of racing, it was also the longest daily distance to be raced in this 2018 Dakar Rally. Add high dunes 11,480ft above sea level and you're left with a...

Tuesday's 205-mile special stage pushed the Dakar Rally racers and their machines to the limit on the route around San Juan de Marcona in Peru.In the toughest physical day of the rally so far, the leaderboard was shaken with many pre-race favorites coming into difficulty.Wednesday sees bikes and quads take...

America's Bryce Menzies became one of the first major casualties of the 2018 Dakar Rally by crashing his Mini just a few miles into the 166-mile special stage around Pisco, Peru.Both Menzies and his co-driver Peter Mortensen escaped without serious injuries, but the damage to the car means their debut...

Sebastien Loeb has been forced to retire from the Silk Way Rally lead after badly damaging the front of his DKR Maxi – the car Peugeot was testing for next year's Dakar Rally.Loeb and co-driver Daniel Elena had a healthy lead of more than an hour heading into the ninth...

Sport newsThe following hearing of the International Court of Appeal will take place in Paris:HearingAppeal brought by the Deutscher Motor Sport Bund e.V. (DMSB) on behalf of its license-holder AXION X-raid (X-raid Motorsport GmbH) against a decision dated 2nd March 2016 of the National Appeal Tribunal of the Fédération Française...

An unwell Nasser Al-Attiyah's Dakar Rally lead was trimmed by Giniel de Villiers on Saturday's marathon stage, from which Orlando Terranova emerged with the fastest time.In a change to the format for 2015, competitors have to do without their service crews and assistance trucks for the middle weekend, carrying only...

Nasser Al-Attiyah reclaimed the Dakar Rally lead by dominating the second stage, on which Stephane Peterhansel, Robby Gordon, Carlos Sainz and Orlando Terranova all had problems.Having lost his Sunday advantage when he was given a two-minute penalty for speeding in a restricted section, Al-Attiyah started Monday's 322-mile stage in seventh...