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Jim Beaver eSports will officially kick off its fifth season as a part of the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series on Tuesday night, fielding an all-new driver lineup in the first points race of the year at Daytona International Speedway. Drivers Malik Ray and Garrett Lowe will take the wheel of the team’s pair of Ford Mustangs, which will be running Ken Block tribute schemes for the opening round put together by 2022 eNASCAR Paint Scheme of the Year painter Matt Kalish. The race will stream live at eNASCAR.com/live at 9PM ET, with Countdown to Green coverage immediately preceding.

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Sweden’s Olsbergs MSE has long been recognized as one of the most innovative teams in rallycross, building the FC1-X car that Nitro Rallycross uses for its premier Group E level. It should be no surprise, then, that OMSE’s Oliver and Kevin Eriksson have taken the two NRX checkered flags in Canada, with Kevin on top at Stampede Park in Calgary.

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The penultimate round of the 2022-23 Nitro Rallycross season keeps the series in Canada, but the setting and the entry lists will be a little different. After the Group E FC1-X made its NRX debut on ice in Trois-Rivieres two weekends ago, the series heads west to Calgary for another oval-based round at Stampede Park, and welcomes back the NRX Next development class as its primary support act.

Jim Beaver eSports is pleased to officially welcome drivers Garrett Lowe and Malik Ray to the team for their first race in tonight’s exhibition eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series Clash at the Coliseum. As always, coverage can be seen at www.enascar.com/live starting at 8:30PM ET with Countdown to Green, and a green flag time of 9PM ET.

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One of the newest additions to Jim Beaver eSports’ eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series lineup, Garrett Lowe, takes to the track for the first round of the new semester at Iowa Speedway tonight. Watch him represent UNC-Charlotte and go for the win with thousands of dollars of scholarships on the line—and be sure to tune in at the same time next week as Garrett and Malik Ray team up as JBE drivers for the first time in the 2023 eNASCAR Clash at the Coliseum!

It was another 1-2 finish for a Nitro Rallycross Group E team in Saturday’s feature from Grand Prix Trois-Rivieres, but this one was extra sweet for Olsbergs MSE, builders of the First Corner FC1-X that the series uses in its premier class. Brothers Oliver and Kevin Eriksson, the sons of OMSE owner Andreas Eriksson, took the top two spots in the feature, while points leader Robin Larsson of Dreyer & Reinbold Racing took the podium.

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It’s been a few years since the sport of rallycross has hit Canada, but Nitro Rallycross is finally bringing it back this Friday and Saturday with a visit to Trois-Rivieres as part of the legendary GP3R. What’s more, after years of rumors, NRX and its bespoke Group E class will be delivering ice racing to North American audiences for the first time.

Watch off-road racing legend Larry Roeseler put the all-new 18" Manx Forged truck and SUV wheel through its paces on his race truck—and his daily driver!

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Red Bull Off-Road Junior Team teammates AJ Jones and Seth Quintero took second and third place finishes in the T3 class in today’s Stage 6 of the 2023 Dakar Rally, and they remain in those same positions overall at this point of the event as a result. While each lost a little bit of time to overall Lightweight Prototype leader Guillaume De Mevius, who won the stage, Jones is still within nine minutes of first place, and Quintero is a comfortable third, just under an hour behind Jones but well clear of defending winner Chaleco Lopez in fourth.

Just a few short years ago, American motorcycle racer Skyler Howes was one of the Dakar Rally’s most beloved privateers, selling off possessions and raising funds for an opportunity to compete in the world’s biggest rally raid. Two years ago, he landed his first factory contract with Husqvarna, and now, after five stages of the 2023 edition of the event, he finds himself in the overall lead by more than two minutes over the legendary Toby Price.

I had been looking forward to catching up somewhere down the line this year. After all, it seemed like there’d be plenty of opportunities. Instead, I’m reckoning, as with the rest of our world, with the fact that Ken Block is gone.

American racers have established themselves as forces to be reckoned with in two classes of racing in the Dakar Rally in recent years: motorcycles, where Ricky Brabec took the overall victory in 2020, and UTVs, where Casey Currie won in the same year. Today, it was a pair of different names at the top of the stage charts, hinting that 2023 could be more of the same.

2020 Dakar Rally winner Ricky Brabec put in a solid opening day of action, and benefitted from a handful of speeding penalties to some of his top competitors, to claim the motorcycle class win in Stage 1 of the 2023 Dakar Rally, avenging two years of early-race troubles to lead a throng of American riders in the top 10. Americans had a similarly successful day in the T3 Lightweight Prototype class, with three racers—led by Seth Quintero, winner of 12 stages last year—in the top six.

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