Toyota Gazoo Racing claimed a historic result at the legendary Safari Rally Kenya with Kalle Rovanperä leading a clean sweep of the top four positions for the GR Yaris Rally1 car. Welshman Elfyn Evans and Takamoto Katsuta joined him on the podium, with Sébastien Ogier finishing fourth. It is a landmark 10th victory for Toyota on the famous African event, … [Read more...]
Weekend roadtest: Toyota GR Yaris
The World Rally Championship is all about clipping seconds off your competitors, but the Toyota GR Yaris took years off me. Built to permit the company to take part in motor-sport’s toughest rally series and winning in 2018, the GR Yaris is probably the closest a driver will come to sitting in one of the actual WRC cars. For those of a certain age, or … [Read more...]
Skoda Fabia RS Rally2 breaks cover
ŠKODA Motorsport unveiled the successor to the FABIA Rally2 evo. The new rally model from Mladá Boleslav is based on the fourth-generation ŠKODA FABIA and follows on from the most successful Rally2 vehicle of recent years. ŠKODA Motorsport has developed a new engine for the FABIA RS Rally2, as well as improving the handling, powertrain and electronics … [Read more...]
Impreza lookalike announced by Prodrive
Some 25 years since the first Subaru Impreza World Rally Car made its winning debut on the stages of the World Rally Championship, the bespoke Prodrive P25 recaptures the essence of that very Impreza, while taking inspiration from the 22B arguably the most iconic Impreza. Modern technology ensures the P25 is more powerful, lighter and with better … [Read more...]
50 years of WRC festival in Portugal
The biggest ever gathering of FIA World Rally champions will celebrate the series’ half-century at a star-studded festival in Portugal next week. Title-winning drivers, co-drivers and team managers will honour the WRC’s 50th season in Matosinhos during five days of celebrations at Vodafone Rally de Portugal 19 - 22 May, this year’s fourth round. A host of … [Read more...]
Hybrids hit the hard stuff this weekend in WRC
Kalle Rovanperä starts on the back foot this weekend as he defends an early-season FIA World Rally Championship lead in Croatia at the event that marked his low point of 2021. The Toyota Gazoo Racing driver holds a 14-point advantage ahead of the Zagreb-based Croatia Rally (21 - 24 April), round three of the year and the first pure asphalt fixture of the … [Read more...]
Rally1 cars unveiling this weekend
The superstars of the FIA World Rally Championship’s ground-breaking new hybrid era will rip the wrapping from the 2022 season at a spectacular year launch in Austria next weekend. For the first time, the WRC’s dramatic new-generation Rally1 cars from the three manufacturer teams will be together in Salzburg’s innovative Hangar-7 museum as the series’ … [Read more...]
Loeb joins Fourmaux in Ford Puma WRC team
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...]
Hyundai WRC drive for top British junior driver
The winner of the 2022 Motorsport UK Junior British Rally Championship will be offered a career-defining opportunity to contest a round of the FIA World Rally Championship, behind the wheel of a Hyundai Motorsport Customer Racing-built i20 N Rally2. For the third time since its inception in 2019, a collaboration between the British Rally Championship and … [Read more...]
Evans on tenderhook until final WRC round next month
Welshman Elfyn Evans faces a frustrating month's delay before he can make his final bid to win this year's FIA World Rally Championship after an unsettled run in Spain at the weekend. Thierry Neuville stormed to his second FIA World Rally Championship victory of the season with a commanding display at RallyRACC - Rally de España on Sunday … [Read more...]
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