Toyota Gazoo Racing opened its 2024 FIA World Rally Championship season with a double podium finish at Rallye Monte-Carlo yesterday (28 January), with Sébastien Ogier second and Welshman Elfyn Evans third. Both drivers were involved in a fight for victory throughout the event, where they faced a challenging mix of conditions on the asphalt roads of the French Alps. Ogier spectacularly claimed … [Read more...]
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Monte thriller opens 2024 WRC today
The curtain rises on a brand-new FIA World Rally Championship season today as the world’s toughest motorsport series roars back into action at the legendary Rallye Monte-Carlo which finishes Sunday. Thirteen rounds await across four continents during the WRC’s 52nd season. Kicking off the new year in style, this week’s famous fixture has attracted a capacity entry of 70 cars. Rallye Monte-Carlo, … [Read more...]
When Mini mastered the Monte – after Welsh debut
Sixty years ago, on 21st January 1964, a BMC Mini Cooper S took the first foreign international rally win on the 33rd edition of the Monte Carlo Rally for what became one of the most versatile and successful competition cars in history. Driven by Paddy Hopkirk and navigated by Henry Liddon, the 1071 cc, 90 bhp Cooper S defeated a top class and truly international entry of 300 cars, including a … [Read more...]
Autosport International: Gunther Steiner opened event
For many years known as The Racing Car Show and based in London’s Olympia, Autosport International or A24 as this year’s show was dubbed, traditionally marks the start of a new season and without fail, Europe’s largest annual motorsport expose provides a great platform for the sport to showcase plans for the coming year. It also brings together old friends, creates new friends, and harvests the … [Read more...]
JBR Champion White shows his colours for BRC
Reigning Junior British Rally champion Kyle White officially unveiled his 2024 campaign at this month's Autosport Show and will be piloting a Hyundai i20 R5 for the re-vamped Probite British Rally Championship. The 27-year-old from Dunmurry in Northern Ireland (above right) secured the coveted Junior title on his third and final attempt at the series, as thanks to surpassing the age limit, it … [Read more...]
Evans gambles on winning for TGR in Monte Carlo this month
Top Welsh driver, 28-year-old Elfyn Evans starts this season in Monte Carlo WRC opening round for Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team, who have confirmed their star-studded driver line-up for the 2024 FIA World Rally Championship season. Kalle Rovanperä this year became the youngest winner of back-to-back WRC drivers’ titles, aged 23, and has signed a new multi-year contract with TGR-WRT. … [Read more...]
Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 homologated
Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team (TGR-WRT) said the GR Yaris Rally2 was been granted homologation by the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), from January 1, 2024. The GR Yaris Rally2 has been developed for customer rallying and is now set for official competition, beginning with the famous Rallye Monte-Carlo later this month. Toyota Gazoo Racing (TGR) have up to now been … [Read more...]
ERC is backdrop to Fiesta Rally3 Trophy
The FIA European Rally Championship is gearing up to provide an exciting platform for the all-new Fiesta Rally3 Trophy, which will be contested over five ERC events in 2024 and offer a hugely attractive package of incentives. Partnering with Pirelli and Gulf Race Fuels in establishing the Fiesta Rally3 Trophy, M-Sport Poland has identified the ERC as the perfect arena to showcase the performance, … [Read more...]
Watch to look out for in WRC 2024
Toyota Gazoo Racing has unveiled new liveries for their cars in the FIA World Rally Championship and World Endurance Championship next season. There are two design concepts for the new matt-black finishes for the GR Yaris Rally1 Hybrid and the GR010 Hybrid: “Speed,” representing the team’s hate-to-lose spirit, and “Prototype,” which expresses how Toyota develops ever-better cars through … [Read more...]
Aberystwyth to host European Rally Championship
Aberystwyth will host one of Europe's major motor sport events next year when Rali Ceredigion brings the FIA European Rally Championship to Wales. Drivers and teams aiming to build their experience and achieve success in the FIA European Rally Championship will be put through their paces on eight events across the continent in 2024 in one of the biggest changes to the rally series in a … [Read more...]