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
Misted-up windscreens were a hot topic last Friday as extreme wet weather hit the stages. The issue afflicted the prototype spaceframe-built Rally1 cars much more severely than Rally2 machines derived from production-based models. Ogier was among a number of Rally1 drivers affected, having to peer through a two-centimetre clear section ofContinue Reading
Kalle Rovanpera’s decision to step away from a full-time programme next year has not only blown the 2024 World Rally Championship wide open but also serves as a wake-up call.Speculation that Rovanpera could be set to step down from full-time competition emerged at last month’s Central European Rally, the veryContinue Reading
The 46th edition of the Dakar Rally will start on 5 January, with a route entirely in Saudi Arabia.This will be the fifth time that the event will be held in the Arab country, and it is shaping up to be the most demanding to date with a total ofContinue Reading
The two-time world champion has penned a new multi-year deal with Toyota but is set to drive only half the WRC rallies next year alongside co-driver Jonne Halttunen. The announcement arrives off the back of successfully defending his world title this year after becoming the youngest-ever world champion in 2022. TheContinue Reading
The reigning WRC constructors’ champions have announced new contracts with Rovanpera, Elfyn Evans, Sebastien Ogier and Takamoto Katsuta following Toyota’s dominant 1-2-3 at last weekend’s season finale in Japan. Rovanpera, Evans and Ogier each scored three wins this year to help Toyota to a sixth world title.Evans, runner-up to RovanperaContinue Reading