RALLY (Page 39)

Starting the day sitting second, Katsuta leapt into an 11.4s rally lead over Hyundai’s Esapekka Lappi after a drama-filled stage four, which resulted in Rovanpera and Ott Tanak retiring from the day’s action.Overnight leader and reigning world champion Rovanpera, making a return to the WRC in a part-time programme forContinue Reading

Thierry Neuville started his hunt for the 2024 World Rally Championship crown in the perfect manner by scoring maximum points at the season-opening Monte Carlo Rally. The Hyundai driver edged out Toyota’s Sebastien Ogier in an epic head-to-head where Neuville beat the eight-time world champion by 16.1 seconds. Neuville is one ofContinue Reading

Kimi Raikkonen, Robert Kubica and Heikki Kovalainen. All three are Formula 1 race winners, and even shared the podium at the 2008 Malaysian Grand Prix. But their common experience doesn’t end there.Each of the trio has also tested their skills in the World Rally Championship, with Raikkonen and Kubica claimingContinue Reading

The Korean brand has opted to retire the sky blue colour scheme with which it started the season, and was driven to victory by Thierry Neuville in Monte Carlo last month, in favour of a completely new look.The new livery pays tribute to 10 years of Hyundai’s high performance ‘N’Continue Reading

Hitting speeds of over 200km on ice and snow means this is one round not to be missed. Watch every moment of the action on Rally.TV SourceContinue Reading

Get ready for the coldest round of the season as action moves to the ice and snow-covered roads of Sweden, for some of the fastest speeds of the year. Catch every moment of the action on Rally.TV SourceContinue Reading

The reigning world champion is expected to compete in at least six rallies this year for Toyota, beginning with Sweden next week, a rally he won in 2022 on the way to his maiden world title.Rovanpera jumped back behind the wheel of the Toyota GR Yaris last weekend to prepareContinue Reading

The launch of a new fan survey to collect data from WRC fans is the FIA’s latest step in the process in understanding the future direction for rallying’s top tier.It follows the creation of a working group in December last year that is designed to “evaluate and recommend the futureContinue Reading

Returning to the Middle East for the first time since Rally Jordan in 2011 has been a long-time goal for the championship, with Saudi Arabia understood to be the target to host a round in 2025.The WRC has described a desert rally in this region as a “missing piece” ofContinue Reading