World Rally Championship team bosses believe Rally Estonia deserves to be a regular fixture on the calendar following its debut last weekend. M-Sport’s Richard Millener and Hyundai’s Andrea Adamo told Autosport it was a successful debut for the Tartu-based competition, which was drafted in to bolster a calendar badly depleted […]
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World Rally Championship team bosses believe Rally Estonia deserves to be a regular fixture on the calendar following its debut last weekend. M-Sport’s Richard Millener and Hyundai’s Andrea Adamo told Autosport it was a successful debut for the Tartu-based competition, which was drafted in to bolster a calendar badly depleted […]
Rally Estonia winner Ott Tanak says the first World Rally Championship event in his home country was “one that I had to win”. The reigning WRC champion duly took victory on home soil last weekend, which was also his first win for the Hyundai team since joining at the start […]
Ott Tanak took a relatively untroubled home victory on Rally Estonia to record his first World Rally Championship win for Hyundai since joining this season – ahead of team-mate Craig Breen. Tanak and Breen merely had to minimise the risks in the six final stages as they held first and […]
The date of the World Rallycross Championship’s Belgian round has been moved for a second time, and is now planned to take place on the same weekend as Rally Ypres. The move means that both World RX and the World Rally Championship will run at the famous Spa-Francorchamps circuit on […]
Sebastien Loeb will make his second outing of the 2020 World Rally Championship season with Hyundai in next month’s Rally Turkey. The nine-time champion will join Hyundai’s full-season drivers Thierry Neuville and Ott Tanak for the Marmaris-based event at the wheel of a third i20 Coupe WRC. It will mark […]
© LAT Images Autosport 70: Colin McRae’s biggest WRC decision This week in 1998 Colin McRae decided to leave Subaru, the team that had made him a World Rally champion, to join Ford. In two pieces, published in the 13 August 1998 and 1 October 1998 issues of the magazine, […]
Rally Japan has been axed from the 2020 World Rally Championship calendar and been replaced by the Belgian Ypres Rally. Japan had kept its slot on this year’s schedule when the FIA revealed a refreshed calendar in the wake of multiple events being cancelled following the global coronavirus pandemic. The […]
In association with A new classic event based at the Bicester Heritage site will honour the memory of Colin McRae, 25 years after he clinched the World Rally Championship title. The Classic Car Drive-In Weekend (18-20 September) will feature period rally cars in action on the former airfield, topped by […]
The World Rally Championship has revised the starting order rules for the series’ return to action on the gravel of Estonia in September. The WRC has been on hiatus since Rally Mexico in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, and has seen landmark events including Argentina, Finland, New Zealand, Wales […]
The World Rally Championship’s new managing director says the flexibility of Rally Turkey organisers in changing dates should help allow at least one extra round to join this season’s calendar. Originally due to run from 25-27 September, the Marmaris-based event has been brought forward by a week by the Turkish […]
This week in 1998 Colin McRae decided to leave Subaru, the team that had made him a World Rally champion, to join Ford. In two pieces, published in the 13 August 1998 and 1 October 1998 issues of the magazine, Autosport found out why “I could stay with Subaru and […]
Citroen works rally driver Mads Ostberg will make his rallycross debut in the Holjes World Rallycross Championship season opener on 22-23 August, racing in the new electric Projekt E category. Ostberg, whose sole outright World Rally Championship victory came on Rally Portugal in 2012, has been contesting the WRC-2 division […]
Sebastien Ogier is poised to stay in the World Rally Championship in 2021, with a new deal with current employer Toyota close to being signed. Six-time WRC champion Ogier stated in August last year that he would retire from the sport at the end of the 2020 season, although at […]