Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team intend to build on their strong start to the 2025 FIA World Rally Championship season when the snow and ice of Rally Sweden hosts round two 13-16 February. TGR-WRT began the defence of their manufacturers’ championship title with a maximum points haul and a one-two finish at January’s Rallye Monte-Carlo, where Sébastien Ogier claimed a record-extending … [Read more...]
M-Sport return to the Probite British Rally Championship
M-Sport will return to the Probite British Rally Championship in 2025 with a sensational lineup, recruiting FIA Junior WRC champion Romet Jürgenson and BRC front-runner Garry Pearson to drive a pair of M-Sport Ford Fiesta Rally2 examples. After taking the fight to the final round of the season with William Creighton spearheading their campaign last year, the M-Sport squad narrowly missed out on … [Read more...]
Willpower behind rallying legend
Former BMC apprentice, engineer and international rally competitor Pablo Raybould, has established a reputation as a prolific motorsport author and Willpower will be his tenth book! His no-nonsense writing style is succinct with painstaking research invested in the chosen subject, invariably well-illustrated with copious and uniquely sourced images. Willpower forms a comprehensive motorsport … [Read more...]
Goodwood Revival is good for the environment
Goodwood Revival was awarded the Motorsport UK Environmental Sustainability Award, celebrating the event’s commitment to ensuring a sustainable future for motorsport. The Duke of Richmond collected the accolade during Motorsport UK’s annual Night of Champions awards evening, on Saturday 25 January 2025 with the sport’s leading drivers, volunteers, personalities and community members widely … [Read more...]
Ogier and Evans set down WRC 2025 markers
Sébastien Ogier etched his name further into the history books by claiming a record-extending 10th victory at Rallye Monte-Carlo, the opening round of the 2025 FIA World Rally Championship but was chased all the way by his Welsh team-mate Elfyn Evans. Driving a Toyota GR Yaris Rally1, Ogier secured victory by a margin of 18.5sec over his Toyota GAZOO Racing team-mate Elfyn Evans after a … [Read more...]
2025 WRC launches in Monte Carlo
The stars of the FIA World Rally Championship shone bright on Sunday night as the 2025 season was officially launched in front of the sparkling backdrop of the iconic Casino de Monte-Carlo,which will also be the start for this week's opening round of the 2025 season. Before beginning proceedings, the sincere sympathies of the WRC community were passed to the family, friends and colleagues of His … [Read more...]
Hankook Tyres will debut in WRC Monte-Carlo opener
A new era of the FIA World Rally Championship revs into action in the mountains surrounding Monte-Carlo from 23 January, with cars running on Hankook-supplied tyres for the first time in the series’ 52-year history. Global leading tyre company Hankook Tire & Technology (Hankook Tire) will exclusively supply tyres for all categories for the next three years, beginning with the 2025 … [Read more...]
Autosport International at a cross-roads
Last week's Autosport International Show kickstarted another motorsport season, but did new-look event deliver improvements promised by organisers? In motorsport circles, the International Racing Car Show begins another new season, traced back to when the event was conceived by the British Racing and Sports Car Club and first opened 2nd – 9th January 1960 at Horticultural Old Hall London SW1. … [Read more...]
Silverstone prepares to celebrate birth of Formula 1
Adding to the special celebrations marking the 75th anniversary of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship, the Sunday racecard at this summer’s Silverstone Festival (22-24 August) will include the biggest-ever showdown staged for 500cc Formula 3 cars. Back in 1950, when Silverstone had the honour of hosting the first-ever points scoring F1 Grand Prix, a colourful field of pint-sized 500cc cars … [Read more...]
Book review: Forgotten Rally Photos
Perfectly defining the iconic 1970s epoch of stage and road rallying, this fascinating book provides a wide selection of high-quality images from the lens of professional photographer Peter Smith, matched with some clever investigative captions by former competitor, journalist and author Jonathan Pulleyn, providing background stories that perhaps weren’t available when the original photos were … [Read more...]