RALLY (Page 28)

Earlier this year, the Romanian manufacturer announced plans to compete in the Dakar in 2025 following what labelled as a “test phase” during 2024, when it will enter selected events of the FIA World Rally-Raid Championship.Al-Attiyah, who won the Dakar in 2011, 2015, 2019, 2022 and 2023, will join WorldContinue Reading

The 23-year-old is set to have more free time on his hands next year after electing to conduct a partial WRC campaign to recharge his batteries, before returning to full-time competition in 2025.Rovanpera is an admirer of all motorsport and said in his announcement last month that he intends toContinue Reading

The world motorsport governing body has elected to make this decision at Annual General Assemblies Week in Baku ahead of tomorrow’s World Motor Sport Council meeting.A brief FIA statement revealed that the working group will “evaluate and recommend the future direction of rallying”. It will be headed by FIA DeputyContinue Reading

Tanak will rejoin the South Korean marque for 2024 after leaving the team with a year remaining on his contract at the end of 2022 to join M-Sport for this season.The 2019 world champion scored two wins (Sweden and Chile) driving an M-Sport Ford Puma, but has opted to returnContinue Reading

Rovanpera won three of the 13 rounds on his way to retaining his drivers’ title with Toyota.Autosport readers have voted the Finn the top rally driver of 2023, ahead of team-mates Elfyn Evans and Sebastien Ogier, and M-Sport Ford’s Ott Tanak. It is the second consecutive time Rovanpera has wonContinue Reading

The foundation has been set up in memory of World Rally Championship star Breen, who tragically lost his life in a WRC testing accident in April.The sorely missed and much-loved Irishman was hugely passionate about rallying and encouraging young drivers into the sport at grassroots level.The Craig Breen Foundation, supportedContinue Reading

It’s been a difficult few years for British rallying but last week provided a flicker of light at the end of a tunnel.The overwhelming success of the Roger Albert Clark Rally outlined the passion for rallying in the UK, which has been starved of top-level World Rally Championship competition sinceContinue Reading

The news means international rallying will return to Britain for first time since the 2019 Wales Rally GB – the last time the World Rally Championship visited these shores.Rali Ceredigion will host the penultimate round of the ERC season from 30 August-1 September.The asphalt rally located around the seaside townContinue Reading

Thirty years have now passed but the 1993 World Rally Championship season will always be remembered as a year of firsts. It witnessed the rise of the WRC’s most popular figure amid the crowning of a bona fide record-breaking rally legend.It was Toyota’s Juha Kankkunen who ultimately emerged with theContinue Reading