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World TT Champion Remco Evenepoel has called out the UCI over an apparent mis-match between an email his team received stating that time trial head socks had been banned on April 1 and a statement on the UCI website that they were no longer allowed from April 2. At Itzulia Basque Country’s opening time trial, Bora-Hansgrohe riders, including stage winner Primož Roglič, continued to use the head socks for the event, despite their imminent ban by the UCI. Soudal-QuickStep, on the other hand, did not do so, with Evenepoel claiming that his squad had received an email stating that they were banned…

Dean noted that his and Tori’s divorce was a ‘long time coming’ in a new comment. Image Credit: Getty Images Dean McDermott broke his silence on his divorce from estranged wife Tori Spelling. The 57-year-old actor’s comment came hours after the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum, 50, discussed her and Dean’s marriage on her “Misspelling” podcast. “Tori and I are good,” Dean said in a video published by Daily Mail on Monday, April 1. While answering a videographer’s question about him and Tori, the Canada native added that their divorce was a “long time coming” before getting into his car and…

Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers) will not be starting the Itzulia Basque Country after he crashed while training and has been taken to hospital.Pidcock was set to be one of the starters in the first hour of the opening stage, a hilly 10-kilometre time trial starting and finishing in the coastal city of Irun.But according to a post by Ineos Grenadiers on X, formerly Twitter, the Briton crashed while on the recon of the course and has been taken to hospital.”I crashed in the recon this morning, the wind took me out in a corner on the circuit and I hit…

Hyundai’s Ioniq 5 N high-performance electric compact crossover has just gone on sale, but over in Korea a dedicated racing version is about to be launched. It’s called the Ioniq 5 N eN1 Cup, and it is being developed for a new electric category in the Hyundai N Festival one-make racing series. BMW is working on a mid-cycle refresh for its M3 sedan, and the updates will extend to the M3 Touring wagon sold overseas. Prototypes for both body styles are currently out testing ahead of a likely debut late this year or early next. Audi is working on a…

A prototype for a new Audi A7 Avant wagon has been spied again, revealing many new details. The vehicle will be twinned with a redesigned A7 Sportback hatchback in an expanded A7 family due to start arriving around 2025. It isn’t clear if the wagon will reach the U.S., but the hatch will likely make it to these shores as a 2026 model. The current A7 Sportback has been on sale since the 2019 model year and is due for a redesign soon. This A7 Avant will replace the current A6 Avant that for its next generation is going the…

A Xiaomi SU7 electric sedan is seen displayed at a regional HQ of Xiaomi in Nanjing in east China’s Jiangsu province. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesBEIJING — Shares of Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi surged 15% when the Hong Kong market opened Tuesday, the first trading day since the company launched its SU7 electric car ahead of the Easter holiday.In a sign of how competitive China’s electric car market is, Xiaomi announced late Thursday that the SU7 would be priced at about $4,000 less than Tesla’s Model 3, and claimed the new car would have a longer driving range.As…

Polestar fans can look forward to more performance-oriented special editions along the lines of the BST Edition 270 and BST Edition 230 versions of the Polestar 2. The information was revealed by Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath in an interview with Motor1 during this week’s 2024 New York auto show. Ingenlath didn’t say when the next BST editions will be launched or on what models they will be based. The 2 BST Edition 270 was launched in 2022 and followed up by the BST Edition 230 in 2023. The three-digit number in the name indicates the production run of each edition,…

Lincoln is celebrating its centennial this year, but it doesn’t mark the company’s founding. Lincoln was established in 1917, but acquired by Ford in 1922 and that is the anniversary the automaker is choosing to honor. As a part of the ceremonies, Lincoln isn’t just looking back but providing a peek into its future with the Star concept, an electric SUV that it says will be the basis for its electrified lineup going forward. Lincoln’s EV plans have gone through several twists and turns. At one point, the plan was for Lincoln to develop an SUV based on the Rivian…

UBS logo is seen at the office building in Krakow, Poland on February 22, 2024.Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesUBS on Tuesday announced a new share repurchase program of up to $2 billion, with up to $1 billion of that total expected to take place this year.”As previously communicated, in 2024 we expect to repurchase up to USD 1bn of our shares, commencing after the completion of the merger of UBS AG and Credit Suisse AG which is expected to occur by the end of the second quarter,” the bank said in a statement.”Our ambition is for share repurchases…

Lamborghini’s logo is getting its first update in more than two decades. Part of an effort to freshen the Italian automaker’s overall corporate identity, the new logo keeps the familiar bull, shield, and Lamborghini script, but in a simplified form. The new logo will be used on future Lamborghini cars, but the automaker will also use the bull sans shield for “digital touchpoints,” such as its website, the company said on Thursday. Lamborghini is also introducing a new typeface for corporate communications, with a sans-serif design the automaker claims is inspired by the “unmistakable lines and angularity” of its cars.…