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As snow continued to fall on the closed road stages on the final full day of the rally, Evans slid wide near the end of the 11 km Gerosa stage and dropped off the road into the woods. Toyota teammate and title contender Sebastien Ogier was the next car through, and it was only a warning from his teammate that prevented him from going off at the same point. “My first reaction was ‘don’t ...Keep reading View the full article

Rally Monza’s first stage of the afternoon, the second pass through Selvino, has been abandoned following two significant accidents on the same corner. Both the M-Sport Ford Fiesta WRC of Gus Greensmith/Elliott Edmondson and the Hyundai i20 WRC of Ole Christian Veiby/Jonas Andersson came to grief on the same bend 22 km into the 25 km stage. Increasing snowfall since the morning loop had ...Keep reading View the full article

The routes laid out around the home of the Italian Grand Prix offered a combination of wet, muddy asphalt and waterlogged gravel beneath persistent driving rain, which challenged even the most experienced crews in the field. Sordo won the opening stage of the morning but then M-Sport’s Esapekka Lappi gambled and put one of the two sets of snow tyres which were allocated to each car for this ...Keep reading View the full article

The WRC's final event of 2020 is underway after an initial 4.3km blast round the Villa Reale at Monza, with six-time champion Ogier taking his Toyota Yaris to an early lead over Hyundai's Neuville. Both Ogier and Neuville have a mountain to climb if they are to overhaul Toyota's championship leader Elfyn Evans to claim this year's WRC drivers' title, but the Welshman gave himself a couple of ...Keep reading View the full article

And so here we are: the final installment is upon us and the 2020 World Rally Championship decider is shaping up like the climax of The Avengers. Here's how we go into the Endgame. After the rest of the field has played its part through the higgledy-piggledy season so far, we head to Monza with our final four contenders for glory. We have a boy next door with special powers, a bespectacled ...Keep reading View the full article

Ogier trails Toyota teammate Elfyn Evans by 14 points going into this weekend’s decider at Rally Monza in Italy. The Frenchman’s previous six title successes came between 2013 and 2016 as a Volkswagen driver before taking back-to-back crowns when he switched to M-Sport Ford for the 2017 and 2018 seasons. His dominance of the series was ended when he rejoined Citroen in 2019 after ...Keep readingView the full article

As Motorsport.com reported on Tuesday, the decision confirms Johan Kristoffersson as the 2020 FIA World Rallycross champion. A statement said that a “number of options were explored in the hope of moving forward with the event, but unfortunately it was not possible in the end”. The Nurburgring’s managing director, Mirco Markfort, said: “We were all very much looking forward to this ...Keep reading View the full article

French freeriding skier and rallycross driver Guerlain Chicherit's squad has already started testing the new GCK e-BLAST 1. It won't contest January's Dakar event in Saudi Arabia, but will test on the same terrain before competing in selected off-road events later in the year. Based on the Peugeot 3008 DKR chassis that won the world's most famous rally raid in 2017 and 2018, the e-BLAST 1 is ...Keep reading View the full article

Diagnosed with an astrocytoma in November 2003, Richard Burns lost his chance of winning a second world championship after leading the title race for most of the season. The potential of recording another motorsport statistic paled into insignificance, however, when the magnitude of the medical battle he was now faced with revealed itself. Those with a medical insight didn't rate his chances ...Keep reading View the full article

After months of uncertainty amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the 43rd running of the Dakar and the second to take place in Saudi Arabia will start on January 3 in Jeddah before concluding in the same city on January 15, after passing through the capital of Riyadh. A Prologue stage of 11km on January 2 will decide the running order for the first stage proper, and there will be a rest day on January 9 ...Keep reading View the full article

Having run eight rounds over four double-header weekends so far, enough World RX events have been held to crown the title winners. The penultimate round of the series, set to be held last weekend alongside the Ypres WRC round at Spa-Francorchamps, was also cancelled earlier this month due to increasing Coronavirus cases in Belgium and, Motorsport.com understands, the German finale set for a ...Keep reading View the full article

Evans holds a 14-point lead over Toyota teammate and six-time champion Sebastien Ogier heading into Rally Monza, which is set to go ahead despite concerns surrounding Italy’s ongoing coronavirus restrictions. He is aiming to become the first Briton to win the World Rally title since the late Richard Burns achieved the feat back in 2001. With October’s Ypres Rally cancelled because of the ...Keep reading View the full article

WRC organisers announced earlier this year its coronavirus-affected 2020 season would be brough to a close on December 3-6 with the ACI Rally Monza event. Rally Monza has typically featured MotoGP legend and Morbidelli’s mentor Valentino Rossi, who has won the event seven times over the years. Morbidelli will take part in the WRC finale in the WRC3 class in a Hyundai i20 R5. “I am ...Keep reading View the full article

Motorsport.com revealed back in July that Ogier had expressed his intention to contest the 2021 WRC season to Toyota, and the Japanese marque was also not willing to look for drivers outside its current line-up. It has now been confirmed that the six-time WRC champion will stay with Toyota for a second season next year, having joined the squad in 2020 after a year-long stint with ...Keep reading View the full article

Nine-time World Rally champion Loeb will make his return to the Dakar after a year out in next year's running on the off-road classic, which begins on January 3 in Saudi Arabia. Read Also: Dakar 2021 participation the lowest in 25 years The Frenchman along with 2014 Dakar winner Nani Roma conducted 15 days of testing in the Middle East, where they completed 3,800km without ...Keep reading View the full article

The Spanish veteran will make his second WRC start in a row in the tarmac-based event centred around the famous Italian Grand Prix circuit on December 3-6. It follows Sordo's triumph last time out in Rally Italy Sardinia, which marked only his second outing of the season after his appearance in Rally Mexico back in March. Sordo is a veteran of Rally Monza, a late addition to this year's ...Keep reading View the full article

Compared to the 541 participants (334 vehicles) of the last South American edition in Peru in 2019, and the 563 (342 vehicles) of the first Saudi edition in 2020, the 2021 Dakar will have 440 participants (266 vehicles), according to the provisional entry list published by organiser Amaury Sport Organisation. This represents a 22% drop in participants and a 24% drop in registrations, the lowest ...Keep reading View the full article

Called 'Colin McRae: 25 Years A Champion', the programme features interviews with McRae's team boss at the time Dave Richards, and McRae's father Jimmy who is reunited with the title-winning 'L555 BAT' car at Kames Race Circuit. Without his parent's say-so, Kames was the place McRae Jr made his competition debut aged just 10, at the wheel of an untaxed Hillman Avenger bearing fake registration ...Keep reading View the full article

Designed and engineered at the Cumbrian team’s Krakow facilities in Poland, order books for the four-wheel-drive supermini – which costs £89,875 excluding VAT – are set to open next Monday. Production has already started on the first examples, with power coming from the 1.5-litre version of Ford’s three-cylinder EcoBoost engine – the same one used in the ST road car. Tuned to develop ...Keep reading View the full article

Today, Mouton’s efforts are focussed on getting the next women drivers to the top of the pyramid in her role as head of the FIA Women in Motorsport commission. Over the last ten years she has been working hard to increase the base of the pyramid, to drive more female participation right from grassroots level. This week, at Ferrari’s Maranello headquarters, her most ambitious project to date ...Keep reading View the full article