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The outfit has decided to build a four-wheel drive car for the top T1 class, dismissing the two-wheel drive buggy option that its British rival Mini has championed in recent years at the rally-raid. The car is 4.5 metres long, two metres wide and 1.8 metres high, and weighs 1850kg - with a 3.5-litre turbocharged petrol engine sitting under its hood. The development for the BRX T1 began in ...Keep reading View the full article

The outfit has decided to build a four-wheel drive car for the top T1 class, dismissing the two-wheel drive buggy option that its British rival Mini has championed in recent years at the rally-raid. The car is 4.5 metres long, two metres wide and 1.8 metres high, and weighs 1850kg - with a 3.5-litre turbocharged petrol engine sitting under its hood. The development for the BRX T1 began in ...Keep reading View the full article

The Japanese manufacturer had originally planned to retire the current Yaris model after the end of the current season and replace it with a new contender based on the GR Yaris road car that was officially unveiled at the Tokyo Auto Salon in February. However, in a tweet issued on Monday, the Gazoo Racing arm of Toyota announced that it will continue to run the current Yaris until 2021 ...Keep reading View the full article

Earlier this week, Rally GB became the WRC's fifth casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving only five rallies left on this year's schedule (including two that were postponed) on top of the three that were already completed at the start of the year. With question marks surrounding some of the remaining events, notably flyaway events Rally Argentina and Rally Japan, it has put the championship ...Keep reading View the full article

The Dakar moved from South America to the Middle East last year, marking the start of the third chapter in the illustrious history of the rally-raid. Saudi Arabia had an exclusivity clause for the first year of the five-year deal, but the ASO had been working to add a second country for the 2021 race, with both Egypt and Jordan believed to have been considered to join their bordering Gulf ...Keep reading View the full article

Austrian firm Kreisel won the tender to produce and supply the electric kits for World RX's revised electric strategy last October, but the introduction of electric cars at the sport's top level has been postponed a year due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Despite the postponement and delays in the project due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Kreisel has been pushing ahead with plans to begin ...Keep reading View the full article

Earlier in April, the FIA had outlawed manufacturers from conducting any testing until May 30 to prevent competitors from gaining an unfair advantage during the coronavirus outbreak. However, with the deadline having passed, Hyundai arranged a multi-day test for Neuville in Finland to get the crew up to speed ahead of the resumption of the season. But on the very first day of the test, the ...Keep reading View the full article

The Wales-based event, which was due to host the penultimate round of the 2020 season on October 29-November 1, joins Portugal, Kenya, Finland and New Zealand on the list of rounds cancelled in the wake of the global coronavirus pandmemic. With Rally Chile having also been called off before the COVID-19 crisis began, it leaves just five more rallies that could potentially still take place later ...Keep reading View the full article

The WRC has been absent from the world’s two biggest car markets this millennium, after a planned event near Beijing in 2016 was cancelled when torrential storms damaged the route. The series last made a successful foray in China in 1999 with a one-off event near Beijing, while it has had no presence in the US since 1988 - the year Tacoma hosted last of its three Olympus rallies. Ciesla ...Keep reading View the full article

Four events have now been called off this year because of COVID-19, leaving series promoters facing a battle as they attempt to safeguard half of the original 14-round calendar. Rally Finland became the third event to be shelved on Wednesday because of uncertainty around travel restrictions caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Then, on Thursday, Rally New Zealand's Michael Goldstein announced ...Keep reading View the full article

It was widely expected the Auckland-based event, scheduled for September 3-6, would prove impossible with the New Zealand government having closed the country's borders to shield itself from the worst of the coronavirus crisis. It also comes just a day after August's Rally Finland was called off, with the two rounds joining Chile, Portugal and Kenya on the Rally New Zealand CEO Michael ...Keep reading View the full article

Finland was due to host the next round of the WRC on August 6-9, but organiser AKK Sport announced on Wednesday that the event has now been called off entirely. AKK Sport said that although the coronavirus situation has improved in Finland, it is unsure whether travel restrictions will be relaxed in the coming months to allow international participants to enter the Northern European ...Keep reading View the full article

Last month, Breen was named in the South Korean manufacturer's three-car team for Rally Finland, alongside Ott Tanak and Thierry Neuville. Running from 6-9 August, the Jyvaskyla-based eevnt is due to be the next round of the WRC season after the cancellation of the Safari and Portuguese events due to the coronavirus pandemic. Finland is the round on the WRC calendar Breen has most ...Keep reading View the full article

The WRC was able to complete its opening three rounds in Monaco, Sweden and Mexico before the worsening coronavirus pandemic brought the championship to an abrupt halt. The series has so far only cancelled Rally Portugal and the returning Safari Rally in Kenya, although serious question marks have emerged regarding the viability of the Japan and New Zealand rounds owing to logistical ...Keep reading View the full article

Van Gisbergen topped each of the four qualifying rounds at the virtual Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi – host of the first round of the new four-event World RX Esports series, which is run in partnership with Motorsport Games. Meantime, Leclerc had a much tougher time during the qualifying races. He was caught up in a first-corner incident in his first race, and subsequently received a ...Keep reading View the full article

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The two-time Grand Prix winner has been one of the most active F1 drivers in Esports during the COVID-19 pandemic, claiming two wins in a run of five podium finishes in F1’s Virtual Grand Prix series on Codemasters’ F1 2019. He will now switch to Codemasters’ DiRT 2.0 for his virtual rallycross debut in the World Rallycross Invitational Series which is run in partnership with Motorsport ...Keep reading View the full article

In the first and so-far only World RX event at the Abu Dhabi Formula 1 venue, Hansen was quickest in the opening two qualifiers last season in what would be his title winning campaign, but contact with title-rival Andreas Bakkerud in Q3 put him out of the event. Bakkerud also failed to make the semi-finals as a result of the incident. The pair will resume battle on the 1200-meter-long, 63% ...Keep reading View the full article

Although the organiser was in advanced stages of preparation, it was concluded that the rally could not be held this year due to "uncertainties concerning crossing borders, air traffic restrictions and other different quarantine measures still in force in Russia for foreign citizens". The decision was ratified by D.N. Tchernychenko, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, following ...Keep reading View the full article

Price has long been keen on sampling a Supercar, having first looked to a land a test through his Red Bull connections shortly after winning his first Dakar title. He's also spent the past few years adding to his four-wheel experience through stints in Stadium Super Trucks, SuperUtes and running his Trophy Truck in the Finke Desert Race. A move into the cars category at Dakar is on the ...Keep reading View the full article