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The team will race a pair of brand-new Prodrive-built Renault Megane RS RX Supercars in World RX this year.The new Banbury-built Megane began testing last week at a private facility, where Scheider also undertook driving duties.The German switched to World RX full-time last year with MJP Racing Team Austria, and finished on the podium in the opening round in Spain."This ... Keep reading View the full article

Peugeot Sport announced the full details of its works 2018 World RX line-up on Monday, including the introduction of a new 208 WRX Supercar for Loeb and Timmy Hansen, which will be updated throughout the season.The new car, which is being fully developed in-house in France, moving away from a joint venue with Swedish team Hansen Motorsport, features extensive changes to the ... Keep reading View the full article

Breen finished second to Thierry Neuville in Sweden last weekend but will now be sidelined for two months as nine-time WRC champion Loeb is driving his C3 in Mexico and Corsica."This result is just awesome," Breen told Motorsport.com. "The podium in Finland a couple of years ago was special, but here we were right up there fighting at the front."We were fighting consistently in that ... Keep reading View the full article

The French marque announced in October that it would continue in the series with nine-time World Rally Champion Sebastien Loeb, but is yet to announce who else will drive for the squad. Peugeot has been present in World RX since its inception in 2014, running in partnership with the Hansen Motorsport squad owned by 14-time European Rallycross Champion Kenneth.But it has now taken the ... Keep reading View the full article

Former World Rally Championship regular Manfred Stohl explains why this kind of car will ensure rallycross continues to be spectacular in an interview with Motorsport.tv’s The Flying Lap.“During the driving, I don’t miss the noise,” says Stohl, who has tested the STARD electric rallycross car.“The drifting is the same, the sliding, the turning, the braking, everything feels very ... Keep reading View the full article

In SS17, the first stage of the day, Neuville gave up eight seconds of the 22.7s lead he had started with as a result of careful driving, but was second-fastest on the rerun of the same route to enter the Power Stage with a 16.2s advantage.He then completed the final test of the event without any trouble to take his first victory in Rally Sweden, and also claim the points ... Keep reading View the full article

Neuville extended his lead on Saturday afternoon's loop, and bolstered that by another 3.9s on the evening's Karlstad superspecial and Torsby sprint stages.That included another win on the evening's final stage, and Neuville has barely more than 32 miles standing between him and victory on the second round of the WRC season.Breen now has Andreas Mikkelsen pressuring him for second ... Keep reading View the full article

With gravel beginning to protrude from the icy roads on the second run through the Torntorp and Hagfors stages in particular, most crews - including the three Hyundai contenders - opted to take two spare tyres for the remainder of the day that includes the Karlstad and Torsby stages later this evening.In pursuit of his first World Rally Championship win, Breen was an outlier in this ... Keep reading View the full article

Breen, who started the morning as best of the rest behind an all-Hyundai top three, passed Hayden Paddon on the opening stage of the day and overhauled Andreas Mikkelsen next time around with the Norwegian making a mistake.The Irishman is 5.9s behind Neuville, who had a paddle shift scare after SS9, but eventually escaped any real drama.Neuville set the quickest time in the SS11 ... Keep reading View the full article

Here’s Julia Piquet with a preview… Here’s Peter Windsor with what’s on The Flying Lap... ... Keep reading View the full article

Toyota driver Lappi had taken second from Mikkelsen on the afternoon's Hof-Finnskog opener and closed to within 2.1 seconds of Neuville in the process.But Lappi then slid off the road on the following Svullrya stage, filling his Yaris's air intake with snow and leaving its car in low-power mode to drop to seventh.Mikkelsen was quicker than Neuville on that stage and got his ... Keep reading View the full article

Overnight leader Ott Tanak had initially pulled away from the field by winning the morning's opener Hof-Finnskog, establishing a 6.8-second cushion over Citroen returnee Mads Ostberg as Mikkelsen and Neuville held third and fourth.But there was more fresh snow on the following stages, meaning Tanak's second place in the start order proved an impediment.Neuville - fifth on the road - ... Keep reading View the full article

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