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The slick, hard pack surface of the Afyon Motor Sport Center saw two tough Qualifying Races today with sunshine and some medium strength winds drying the circuit out rapidly towards the end of the Saturday programme at the MXGP of Türkiye! The MXGP Qualifying Race was kept close at the top for the entire race, but Jeffrey Herlings finally put a stunning pass on his Honda HRC Petronas teammate Tom Vialle to take the win away on the penultimate lap, while the Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP machine of Tim Gajser was also close to the top in taking third place. The win puts “The Bullet” even closer to being able to clinch the World Championship in tomorrow’s opening MXGP race! In MX2, Guillem Farres made a much earlier pass for the lead, and brought it home from there for his second Qualifying Race win for the Triumph Racing Factory Team, building his points advantage slightly over Sacha Coenen, who finished second for Red Bull KTM Factory Racing. Liam Everts continued his good run...

Land Rover has unveiled the new Defender Wolf Series II. It’s competing for a contract with the UK’s Ministry of Defense. There will be multiple variants with a handful of upgrades. Land Rover has introduced the Defender Wolf Series II, which is billed as a “next-generation light mobility vehicle” for military applications . It follows the original Defender Wolf, which served the British Armed Forces for over 70 years. Created by JLR’s new Defender Defense Division, the Wolf Series II will be competing for the Ministry of Defense’s Light Mobility Vehicle contract. As a procurement document explains, they’re looking to “modernize capabilities currently fulfilled by legacy fleets such as Land Rover and Pinzgauer.” More: Britain’s Army Has Driven Land Rovers For Decades. Its Next Trucks Could Be Chevys The government could end up ordering more than 9,500 vehicles and they’re looking for a Light Mobility Vehicle that can spawn nine diffe...

Supercharged 6.8-liter, GM-derived V8 makes 960 hp here, but is safe for 1,200 hp. Hand-formed aluminum body panels are fixed to an all-new bonded aluminum chassis. Future road cars could offer manual transmissions, four seats and even four doors. The Jensen Interceptor is back, but not how you remember it, if you even remember it at all. After previously teasing its reborn British GT, Jensen International has finally shown the whole thing, revealing a front-engined track-only weapon with the kind of aero tricks that would have seemed like Area 51 stuff back in Jensen’s heyday. More: A Used Lotus Elise Costs $28K. This Center-Seat Restomod Costs Nearly $500,000 Called the Interceptor GTX , this isn’t a restomod of the classic Interceptor from the 1960s and 1970s – Jensen has been building them for years. It’s a completely new, track-only prototype designed to prove the engineering that’ll eventually underpin a family of road-going Interce...