Kyle Matthews, Author at Backfire Racing

Triple Eight Wanted Ryan Wood in the Sandown Semi Final. The Wingman Math Explains Why. Broc Feeney driving the Triple Eight Race Engineering Ford Mustang Supercar on track

Broc Feeney driving the Triple Eight Race Engineering Ford Mustang Supercar on track

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Triple Eight Wanted Ryan Wood in the Sandown Semi Final. The Wingman Math Explains Why.

Kyle Matthews October 27, 2026

Mark Dutton wanted Ryan Wood in the Sandown Semi Final. A free wingman and Camaro top speed...

Action Express Won IMSA’s Title, Skipped Le Mans, and Lent Its Drivers to JOTA

Kyle Matthews October 27, 2026

IMSA champions Action Express missed Le Mans 2026 while its drivers raced there. Here's what a 2027...

Two Camaros Pitted for Fuel Late at Surfers Paradise, and Anton De Pasquale Took the Last Finals Seat Broc Feeney's Triple Eight Ford Mustang Supercar on track

Broc Feeney's Triple Eight Ford Mustang Supercar on track

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Two Camaros Pitted for Fuel Late at Surfers Paradise, and Anton De Pasquale Took the Last Finals Seat

Kyle Matthews October 26, 2026

Two late Camaro fuel stops pushed Anton De Pasquale into the Supercars Finals. GM denies any manipulation.

Stat of the Day: Antonelli’s 123-Point Lead Leaves 125 Points to Play For A red open-wheel race car streaks past a blurred track wall at speed

Stat of the Day: Antonelli’s 123-Point Lead Leaves 125 Points to Play For

Kyle Matthews October 26, 2026

Kimi Antonelli leads the 2026 Formula 1 drivers’ championship by 123 points over George Russell. There are...

Hitachi Stays on Penske’s Front Wings. The Contract That Matters Is in the Truck Shop. Scott McLaughlin’s red-and-white No. 3 Team Penske Chevrolet IndyCar turning through a corner at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, with Hitachi lettering on the front-wing endplate

Scott McLaughlin’s red-and-white No. 3 Team Penske Chevrolet IndyCar turning through a corner at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, with Hitachi lettering on the front-wing endplate

Hitachi Stays on Penske’s Front Wings. The Contract That Matters Is in the Truck Shop.

Kyle Matthews October 23, 2026

Hitachi stays on Team Penske’s IndyCar front wings for 2027. The bigger story is which Hitachi is...

Ferrari Hired a Mercedes Engine Man. It Put Him on the Chassis Side Lewis Hamilton driving his red Ferrari during qualifying for the 2026 Chinese Grand Prix

Lewis Hamilton driving his red Ferrari during qualifying for the 2026 Chinese Grand Prix

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Ferrari Hired a Mercedes Engine Man. It Put Him on the Chassis Side

Kyle Matthews October 23, 2026

Ferrari’s latest recruit from Mercedes didn’t come with a press release, a team photo or a quote...

SEMA Opens in 11 Days, the NASCAR Title Is Decided in 16, and the Baja 1000 Starts in 21 Kyle Larson's No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet on the grid at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in March 2026

Kyle Larson's No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet on the grid at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in March 2026

SEMA Opens in 11 Days, the NASCAR Title Is Decided in 16, and the Baja 1000 Starts in 21

Kyle Matthews October 23, 2026

The SEMA Show, NASCAR's Cup Series finale at Homestead and the Baja 1000 all start within 10...

Yamaha Quit MX2 and Gave Itself 137 Days to Build an MXGP Team Jeremy Seewer exits a rutted dirt corner on a blue Yamaha motocross bike beneath the Monster Energy finish gantry at the 2022 Spanish round of the Motocross World Championship

Jeremy Seewer exits a rutted dirt corner on a blue Yamaha motocross bike beneath the Monster Energy finish gantry at the 2022 Spanish round of the Motocross World Championship

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Yamaha Quit MX2 and Gave Itself 137 Days to Build an MXGP Team

Kyle Matthews October 21, 2026

Yamaha MXGP 2027: factory MX2 is gone and the team goes in-house. What is confirmed, what is...

Toprak Razgatlioglu’s Real Deadline Is the December Valencia Test, Not Phillip Island

Kyle Matthews October 21, 2026

Razgatlioglu's surgery ends his 2026 season. With Yamaha's 2027 line-up reshuffled, his fitness for the December 1...

MotoGP’s 2027 Grid Is Full, and Every Signature Was a Bet on a Bike Nobody Has Raced MotoGP bikes racing at Sepang in 2024

MotoGP’s 2027 Grid Is Full, and Every Signature Was a Bet on a Bike Nobody Has Raced

Kyle Matthews October 21, 2026

Honda's Moreira decision completes MotoGP's 2027 grid. Seventeen of 22 riders change teams, nearly all of them...

Kyle Matthews

Triple Eight Wanted Ryan Wood in the Sandown Semi Final. The Wingman Math Explains Why.

Action Express Won IMSA’s Title, Skipped Le Mans, and Lent Its Drivers to JOTA

Two Camaros Pitted for Fuel Late at Surfers Paradise, and Anton De Pasquale Took the Last Finals Seat

Stat of the Day: Antonelli’s 123-Point Lead Leaves 125 Points to Play For

Hitachi Stays on Penske’s Front Wings. The Contract That Matters Is in the Truck Shop.

Ferrari Hired a Mercedes Engine Man. It Put Him on the Chassis Side

SEMA Opens in 11 Days, the NASCAR Title Is Decided in 16, and the Baja 1000 Starts in 21

Yamaha Quit MX2 and Gave Itself 137 Days to Build an MXGP Team

Toprak Razgatlioglu’s Real Deadline Is the December Valencia Test, Not Phillip Island

MotoGP’s 2027 Grid Is Full, and Every Signature Was a Bet on a Bike Nobody Has Raced

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