M-Sport says Adrien Fourmaux and Sébastien Loeb will join Craig Breen and Gus Greensmith in Monte Carlo in a fleet of all-new Ford Puma Hybrid Rally1 cars. Frenchman Fourmaux joins Breen and Greensmith to form M-Sport’s trio of drivers for a full 2022 World Rally Championship campaign as the sport enters its new and exciting hybrid era. Fourmaux began … [Read more...]
Breen and Puma spearhead Ford WRC bids
M-Sport Ford has announced that Craig Breen and Paul Nagle will spearhead the World Rally team’s attack on the 2022 and 2023 FIA World Rally Championship, behind the wheel of the all-new M-Sport Ford Puma Hybrid Rally1 car. With all-new technical regulations being introduced for 2022, the WRC moves to a new era of competition and sees the introduction of … [Read more...]
WRC goes on Safari this week, with changes
The mythical Safari Rally Kenya June 24-27, one of the most famous rallies in the world, returns to the FIA World Rally Championship this week for the first time since 2002. The 6000km open-road blasts of yesteryear around East Africa have evolved to fit the modern WRC, but the Safari's epic character remains with punishing dirt roads, picture-postcard … [Read more...]
Chiller thriller for WRC crews this week
Three days of Arctic WRC action puts drivers’ skills to the test this week. The plans are for the Rovaniemi round of the WRC to be driven as a three-day event: the action starts on Friday 26 February with a shakedown in the morning. The first special stages of the rally proper will be driven on Friday evening and the competition continues on Saturday 27 … [Read more...]
Sunday drive: BMW 5 Series Touring 520d M Sport
The longest serving model range in the BMW line-up is the 5 Series launched seven generations ago in 1972, writes David Miles. Since the last new models were launched in 2017 over 66,000 of them have been sold in the UK and 600,000 of them globally, now it the latest updated models which have just gone on sale and there are more versions to … [Read more...]
Sunday drive: BMW 1 Series 118i auto M Sport 5-door
The third generation BMW 1 Series range of 5-door hatchbacks is now with us, writes David Miles. In a change from previous versions this generation is predominately made up of front wheel drive versions with transversely mounted engines which have a shorter bonnet, the cabin area moved forward within the car’s footprint and the rear seat knee room is … [Read more...]
Morris makes his move towards 2020 challenges
New Bentley factory racer Seb Morris begins his eagerly anticipated 2020 season this weekend at the world-renowned Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, Australia, the opening round of the global Intercontinental GT Challenge. The 24-year-old is embarking on the biggest and most high-profile season of his glittering motorsport career and has already … [Read more...]
Welshman is latest Bentley Boy team member
Welsh motor racing star Seb Morris today realised his dream of becoming a fully-fledged ‘Bentley Boy’ after the renowned British manufacturer confirmed the 24-year-old in its official factory line-up for the full 2020 season. Marking by far the biggest moment in his professional sports career to date, Morris will race with Bentley’s full … [Read more...]
Rallyday arrives early at control
Next year’s Rallyday will shift from September to June to avoid a World Rally Championship clash and secure some of the sport’s biggest stars and cars. Rallyday will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a Saturday June 20 date in 2020 and this year will feature the latest sporting vehicles from MS-RT in Pontypool. M-Sport Ford World Rally Team principal … [Read more...]
Welsh rivals battle for UK honours in Scotland
Two Welshmen will this week fight it out to decide the British Rally Championship, in Scotland. After five pulsating rounds, the British Rally Championship will be decided on the final event of the season — the Armstrong Galloway Hills Rally in southern Scotland this saturday. Two drivers have a mathematical chance of clinching Britain’s premier rallying … [Read more...]
