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Former World Rally Champions Petter Solberg and Marcus Gronholm have completed tests in Sweden with the new Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 ahead of its expected WRC 2 debut later this year.
Organisers of the World Rally Championship’s Wales Rally GB have welcomed new government legislation on closed-roads motorsport events in the country.
Kris Meeke is eager for his Citroen Total Abu Dhabi WRT squad to keep pushing the development of the C3 WRC machine having felt fortunate to leave Rallye Monte-Carlo with fourth place and the Power stage victory.
Ott Tanak feels his safety-first mentality to the 2018 World Rally Championship season opener has provided an ideal base to start his maiden campaign with Toyota having finished runner-up at Rallye Monte-Carlo.
Sebastien Ogier says the key to his fifth consecutive victory at Rallye Monte-Carlo came from minimising mistakes compared to his rivals as he enjoyed the ideal start to his World Rally Championship title defence.
Ott Tanak has taken six seconds out of Sebastien Ogier’s overall lead at the 2018 World Rally Championship season opener Rallye Monte-Carlo for a final day showdown.
Sebastien Ogier’s lead of the 2018 World Rally Championship season opener has been cut back to under 40 seconds by Ott Tanak as the hunt for victory intensifies at Rallye Monte-Carlo.
Sebastien Ogier has stretched out his Rallye Monte-Carlo lead to over one minute on Ott Tanak while Jari-Mattti Latvala has jumped up to third place after Dani Sordo’s crash on SS9.
Ott Tanak has slashed Sebastien Ogier’s lead at Rallye Monte-Carlo to less than 15 seconds at the end of Friday’s action after the M-Sport Ford survived a scare on SS7.
Sebastien Ogier has continued to build his lead at Rallye Monte-Carlo with a 40-second advantage over new Toyota signing Ott Tanak.
Sebastien Ogier leads the 2018 World Rally Championship season opener Rallye Monte-Carlo by 17.3 seconds from Andreas Mikkelsen in a tough opening two stages under darkness with almost every driver hitting trouble.
Thierry Neuville and led a Hyundai 1-2 at the Rallye Monte-Carlo Shakedown event as the 2018 World Rally Championship prepares to roar into action.
Sebastien Ogier says every World Rally Championship factory contender will be a title rival for the 2018 season as he begins his hunt for a sixth consecutive world title.
Carlos Sainz says his second Dakar rally victory could mark a successful end to his racing career as he assesses his options with Peugeot preparing to leave the event.
Carlos Sainz has clinched his second Dakar Rally victory after negotiating the final stage of the gruelling 2018 event to clinch the win by over 43 minutes from Nasser Al-Attiyah.
Carlos Sainz looks set to clinch the 2018 Dakar rally victory assuming he avoids disaster on the final stage after Peugeot team-mate Stephane Peterhansel crashed into a tree on the penultimate stage which has thrown away the French manufacturer’s provisional 1-2 finish.
Nasser Al-Attiyah has returned to winning ways with victory on the 12 th stage of the 2018 Dakar rally beating Stephane Peterhansel by just over two minutes as he sliced away at Carlos Sainz’s overall lead with two stages remaining.
Back in the WRC full-time in 2018, can Andreas Mikkelsen finally live up to his undeniable potential?
The special stage 12 route has been canned for bikes and quads over safety concerns at the 2018 Dakar rally but trucks and cars will continue as planned.
Carlos Sainz has maintained his 50-minute lead at the 2018 Dakar rally over Peugeot team-mate Stephane Peterhansel as Bernhard ten Brinke claims his first stage victory of the year.
Stephane Peterhansel has clinched his 41 st career stage victory in the car category at stage 10 of the 2018 Dakar rally to move up to second place in the overall classification as he continues to hunt down leader Carlos Sainz.
A consortium in Japan has announced its plans to bring back the World Rally Championship to the country for the first time since 2010 with initial targets as early as next year.
Carlos Sainz has been hit with a 10-minute time penalty for an incident with a quad rider at the 2018 Dakar rally to see his overall lead cut to under an hour.
Yves Matton has been named as the new FIA Rally Director and will leave his director position at Citroen Racing and replaced by Pierre Budar.