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Solberg, the son of 2003 WRC champion Petter, was set to make second outing in a WRC spec Hyundai i20 in Italy before his father contracted COVID-19, forcing Oliver to spend 14 days in hotel quarantine in Porto as per WRC COVID-19 regulations. The 19-year-old had impressed on his full WRC debut with Hyundai in February, finishing seventh in Arctic Rally Finland. Although an event is ...Keep reading View the full article

Both 14-time winner Peterhansel and triple champion Sainz have been poached from the successful Mini squad run by X-raid, while Ekstrom has been a part of Audi fold for almost the entirety of his professional motorsport career. The trio will be responsible for developing and testing the electric 4x4 prototype that Audi has been designing for more than a year in collaboration with Q Motorsport ...Keep reading View the full article

Ogier will heavily scale back his WRC involvement at the end of this season, having made his WRC debut back in 2008 and collected seven world titles. The Frenchman does intend to put together a partial programme in 2022 when the new Rally1 regulations come into effect, with Toyota his first choice. Although it has yet to be seen how many appearances Ogier will make, Rally Monte Carlo appears ...Keep reading View the full article

Played out on gravel roads, the test of the team's new Rally1 car was overseen by the team's technical director, Tom Fowler, and follows the first running of the GR Yaris-based competition car with its hybrid kit in Finland earlier this month. On that occasion, the squad's recognised test driver Juho Hanninen covered 600km in the supermini. Confirmation of the Rally1 car's presence in ...Keep reading View the full article

The introduction of a night stage is one of the standout changes announced by organisers of the event. Measuring 19.75km, the second pass over Friday's closing 'Oittila' test gets underway just after 7pm. Shorter daylight hours is a consequence of the gravel rally being pushed back to a new slot in early October. That decision was made back in mid-April in a bid to maximise the chance of ...Keep reading View the full article

It will be the second time in the space of a month the UK squad will have run the mule in the country. In late April, Matthew Wilson clocked up the first miles on the 2022-spec machine north of Barcelona. Before that the prototype ran through Greystoke Forest – a proving ground commonly used by M-Sport Ford given is closeness to the team’s Cockermouth Headquarters Wilson said the ...Keep reading View the full article

The 19-year-old was gearing up for his second top flight World Rally Championship outing with Hyundai at the Italian event. However having been in contact with his father, Oliver will be required to remain in quarantine in a hotel in Porto for 14 days as per regulations. The FIA’s Appendix S COVID-19 protocol and national government regulations offer clear quarantine instructions for those ...Keep reading View the full article

Evans finished the fourth round of the World Rally Championship 28.3 seconds clear of Hyundai’s Dani Sordo, with reigning champion Ogier a further 55.3 seconds off the pace in third. The result narrow’s Ogier’s lead in the drivers’ standings to two points, meaning the Frenchman will once again perform road-sweeping duties on the opening day of Rally Italia Sardegna next week. “I ...Keep reading View the full article

Price is currently preparing for a fifth crack at the Cars section of Australia's most prestigious desert race, with the covers coming off his brand new TSCO Trophy Truck on the Gold Coast this evening. The V8-powered beast has been modified to carry Mitsubishi Triton bodywork rather than the standard Ford-based panels in what is a world first, with Mitsubishi Motors Australia backing the ...Keep reading View the full article

The FIA has handed Veiby a six-month ban after failing to notify the motor racing governing body that he had been in contact with a person that has since contracted COVID-19. As a result, he is banned from any WRC event until November 23, a week after the Rally Japan finale, which means he will miss the remaining events of the season. Co-driver Jonas Andersson has a lesser three-month ban ...Keep reading View the full article

Evans’ fourth World Rally Championship victory in his career, and first since last year’s Turkish event, elevates him to second in the WRC drivers’ standings and just two points behind leader Ogier. The British driver began the final day holding a 10.7-second advantage over Hyundai’s Dani Sordo and fastest times on three of Sunday’s six special stages allowed him to increase that to ...Keep reading View the full article

Evans claimed victory with a comfortable with a 28.3s advantage over Hyundai's Dani Sordo while reigning champion Sebastien Ogier finished almost a minute and 30 seconds back in third. On Saturday evening, the Welshman watched his lead slashed by a third when the last man standing for Hyundai, Sordo, scorched through the Porto superspecial to keep in contention. Nevertheless, at the final ...Keep reading View the full article

Overnight leader Tanak had begun to build a considerable advantage through Saturday’s stages, dominating the morning loop for Hyundai and continuing to stretch his advantage through the same stages in the afternoon. Tanak set the fastest time on the second stage after the break, thereby claiming the 250th stage win of his career, which handed the 2019 world champion an overall lead of 22.4 ...Keep reading View the full article

The Estonian had vaulted up from third to first on Friday evening after both his team-mates, Dani Sordo and Thierry Neuville, hit trouble. Their misfortune presented Tanak with all the incentive he needed to pull away from the Toyota of Elfyn Evans in second place, with Sordo battling the Welshman hard in his bid to ensure maximum manufacturers’ points for the Korean marque. Tanak closed ...Keep reading View the full article

Neuville damaged the rear suspension on his i20 Coupe WRC when he lost control of it through a left-hander and hit a bank during this afternoon’s ‘Mortagua’ stage of the fourth round of the 2021 World Rally Championship. On the road section between stage seven and tonight’s closing Super Special Stage in Lousada, Neuville and co-driver Martijn Wydaeghe attempted to perform running ...Keep reading View the full article

Tanak’s team-mate, early leader Dani Sordo, continued his strong run after the opening loop service halt to tease out his lead from 6.7 seconds before the break to 8.2s after the next three stages. The Spaniard, driving Hyundai Motorsport’s third entry for the first time since Monte Carlo in January, kept ahead of his full-time team-mates Tanak and Thierry Neuville as they disputed second ...Keep reading View the full article

Toyota Gazoo Racing Team Principal Jari Matti-Latvala says the technology is not comparable to Formula 1 because the power stored in the battery of a Rally1 car will be heavily governed by specialist software. M-Sport Ford boss Malcolm Wilson said recently that he believed the 2022 regulations could heighten the level of gamesmanship in the World Rally Championship. He hinted at “more ...Keep reading View the full article

Spanish star Sordo capitalised on an advantageous road position, with the stages having been swept clean by eight cars before him, to take the early lead in Hyundai’s third entry. The team’s two full-time drivers, Ott Tanak and Thierry Neuville, hold second and third respectively. As the opening gravel rally of the season, Portugal also marks the first time that the field has taken to ...Keep reading View the full article

Wilson confirmed to Motorsport.com that he is in negotiations with “various people” about leading the line. However, M-Sport Ford’s options appear increasingly limited given the events of the past two weeks. Hyundai Motorsport has already agreed multi-year contracts with Thierry Neuville and Ott Tanak and Toyota has confirmed it wants Elfyn Evans to be their number one points scorer ...Keep reading View the full article

Evans agreed terms with the Japanese squad in 2019 and only has seven months to run on his contract. His move followed a 10-year spell with M-Sport Ford, the team with whom he won his first WRC round. In his maiden campaign driving the Yaris, Evans finished a close second in the World Rally title battle to teammate and champion Sebastien Ogier, who is retiring from full-time WRC action in ...Keep reading View the full article