The VW drivers, as they say, do not hang about, and Latvala and Ogier are setting the pace on the opening day of Rally Finland 2014…both quicker than on the first run of the Lankamaa stage and setting equal fastest time…11 minutes 11.2 seconds. Drier conditions, but some big ruts… Jarkko Nikara off on the […]
Back in the itinerary after an absence of 22 years, it flows from from crest to corner to crest to corner. It’s wide at the start but narrows in the second part. It has often been used for testing and Kris Meeke hit a rock here in 2011 when working with Mini. Jari-Matti Latvala posted […]
A challenging test and perfect curtain-raiser as it offered a mix of everything competitors encounter over the four days. Wide and narrow roads, crests, jumps and dips were all there on roads close to the home of Finnish legend Juha Kankkunen.Jari-Matti Latvala set the early pace at Neste Oil Rally Finland, the Finn blasting his […]
After a short summer break, the Hyundai Shell World Rally Team will resume its debut campaign in the FIA World Rally Championship today at Rally Finland, the fastest and most spectacular round of the series.The Alzenau-based team secured a well-earned podium result in Poland last month with all three Hyundai i20 WRC cars finishing a […]
Round five of the Super Series on Saturday, 2 August, sees the racers compete at a circuit that is a driver-favourite. Phakisa Freeway has a challenging layout that keeps drivers focused and demands a high level of dedication from the competitors.There are few as dedicated as those who contest the Bridgestone Production Car Championship, with […]
Six foreign crews have enetered the Shell V-Power Pearl of Africa Rally that is scheduled for August 15-16 .According to the Clerk of the Course (COC) , the current ARC point leader, Gary Chaynes and Roain Comas from Ivory Coast (76pts), former ARC champion Mohamed Essa and Gareth Dawes from Zambia (75pts) have cleared the […]
Three-time European Rallycross champion Sverre Isachsen will race at the seventh round of the World Rallycross Championship in Trois-Rivieres in Canada next week.The Norwegian will drive the Subaru Rally Team USA Impreza that he uses in the American-based Global Rallycross Championship, where he finished second last time out at Charlotte to Gymkhana star Ken Block, […]
The GT86 CS-R3 rally car will make its public debut at ADAC Rallye Deutschland, the ninth round of the 2014 FIA World Rally Championship, TOYOTA Motorsport GmbH (TMG) can confirm.TMG has chosen to return to its rallying roots with a rear-wheel-drive car to entertain drivers and fans alike, following in the wheel tracks of cars […]
The South African round of the FIM Superbike World Championship, provisionally scheduled to be held at Phakisa Freeway in the Free State on October 19, will now no longer form part of the 2014 series but could be included in the 2015 calendar, possibly as early as March. This was announced today by GAS Sports, […]
Finn Jari-Matti Latvala delighted his home fans by posting fastest time at this morning’s (Thursday) shakedown stage for Neste Oil Rally Finland.The Volkswagen Motorsport driver was quickest by 0.6sec from Mads Østberg’s Citroen DS3 over the 4.19km Laajavuori test around the ski jump on the edge of host city Jyväskylä. Latvala, rally winner in 2010, […]
Former BMW and Renault F1 driver Robert Kubica will tackle Rally Finland this week buoyed by his maiden victory at the wheel of a Fiesta RS WRC earlier this month.Piloting an A-Style run Fiesta with technical support from M-Sport, Kubica secured a dominant win on the Italian asphalt of Rally Internazionale del Casentino and he […]
Prosecutors in Bernie Ecclestone’s trial for alleged bribery will decide whether to accept an offer of nearly £20 million ($36 million) for the criminal case against the formula one chief executive to be dropped.In a dramatic twist in his Munich trial, lawyers for Ecclestone revealed he was prepared to pay €25 million to the Bavarian State Bank, […]
he 2014 World Touring Car Championship resumes with Jose Maria Lopez taking a 44 point advantage to his home round at the Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo, scene of his eye-catching series debut last season. Recruited by the privateer Weichers-Sport team to drive its BMW on his home soil, Lopez – who had been racing […]
By: Carl Taylor, Special contributor Motorsport.com Formula 1, NASCAR, and other motorsport have gotten to rich for their own good, and they now they are paying the consequences.We are all aware of the tough financial climate that we currently live in. Times are hard world wide, including the world of motorsports. You only have to […]
Mikko Hirvonen feels Volkswagen’s dominance of the World Rally Championship is likely to prevent him from a home podium finish in Finland.Ford M-Sport’s Hirvonen won the event on his way to the world title in 2009, but heads to this weekend’s 26-stage rally 114 points behind defending champion and standings leader Sebastien Ogier. Frenchman Ogier […]
Round five of the Engen Volkswagen Cup season sees the racers in this Volkswagen Polo Vivo series compete at Phakisa Freeway on Saturday, 2 August. A driver favourite, this track provides more than a few challenges as the drivers seek to post the fastest laptimes. Four rounds into the series and it is Daniel Rowe […]
Toyota’s Yaris WRC will make its first test on asphalt next month, but no firm commitment about a World Rally Championship entry is expected before the end of the year RACER reports. Since the Cologne-built Yaris began testing in March, speculation has been rife that the Japanese firm is on the verge of a world […]
WRC Commission president Carlos Barbosa says the FIA is determined to reinvigorate the sport’s spectacle with the next generation of World Rally Cars.New technical regulations will arrive in the world championship in 2017, but Barbosa is adamant those rules will be written and communicated before the end of this year. And he wants variety back […]
It was the result everybody would have secretly dreamt of, but eventually it also became reality: the Belgian Audi Club Team WRT has won the Total 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, offering Audi its third success in four years in the world’s most prestigious GT race, which, in its 90th anniversary, proved to be worth of […]
In front of 70,000, Jeff Gordon and his No. 24 Axalta Chevrolet has won the NASCAR Sprint Cup Crown Royal presents The John Wayne Walding 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana with a fabulous lap 143 restart catapulting himself around Kasey Kahne. For Gordon, it is his second win of the 2014 season, […]
Finland is well known for its incredible driving talent. Of the eight Finnish F1 drivers who’ve started a grand prix, three have become world champions (Keke Rosberg, Mika Hakkinen and Kimi Räikkönen) while in the World Rally Championship, Finns still lead the way in number of victories, with Finnish drivers having claimed 170 wins to […]
Former multiple national enduro champion, Louwrens Mahoney (Brother KTM) was victorious at this weekend’s Liquorland National Enduro @ Lydenburg, the fourth round of the Liquorland National Enduro Championship that was held in the Lydenburg area in Mpumalanga. E1 and E2 competitors had to post their fastest times at 11 dry and dusty Special Stages that […]
The 11th edition of the infamous Red Bull Romaniacs Rally kicked off in Sibiu, Romania on Tuesday, 15 July with the traditional prologue in the centre of Sibiu where competitors had to complete a challenging course made of man made obstacles such as logs, rocks, tyres and wooden bridges. Close to 400 competitors registered for […]
Emma Gilmour had a rough ride at The Dirt Track in Charlotte, with mechanical issues hampering her Rhys Millen Racing Veloster Turbo’s performance most of the weekend. She missed out on a place in the final but learned more about the car set-up.“Despite our mechanical problems limiting our seat time I am enjoying the racing […]
Back when the Swedes were the only drivers that could compete with the Finns at their home event, Citroën enjoyed its first win at the “1,000 Lakes Rally” in 1962 when local drivers Pauli Toivonen and Jaakko Kallio secured victory in a DS19.Twenty six years later, another Citroën claimed overall victory in Jyväskylä… World Champions […]
After a short summer break, the Hyundai Shell World Rally Team is preparing to resume its debut WRC campaign at the fastest and most spectacular round of the series. The Alzenau-based team secured a well-earned podium result in Poland last month, with the added bonus that all three Hyundai i20 WRC cars finished a WRC […]
Round five of the SA National Rally Championship has a new sponsor – Imperial Toyota – and will see the second half of the season blast off to a quick start from the traditional ramp at the Zonderwater Correctional Services facility in Cullinan, east of Pretoria on Friday, August 15. “We are very grateful to […]
Imperial Toyota today announced its financial support of the Cullinan Rally, round 5 of the South African National Rally Championship. The event, which takes place on August 15 and 16, 2014, will again feature spectacular rally stages in and around the town of Cullinan, Northeast of Pretoria,Gauteng. “When we heard that the event was without […]
Passes Alonso and Hamilton in final five laps to win; Alonso second; Hamilton third having started from pit laneand Rosberg finishes fourth after rain-affected start and two safety car periods Daniel Ricciardo took a stunning victory in a thrilling Hungarian Grand Prix as Lewis Hamilton beat team-mate Nico Rosberg despite starting from the pit lane. […]
The first pictures of the facelifted Ford Fiesta RS WRC have just been released. The new cars will be in the hands of Mikko Hirvonen and Elvan Evans this week on the Rally Finland.The car has new front-end styling, bringing it in line with the latest Ford Fiesta ST road car on which it is […]
Norway’s Mads Ostberg gave himself a pre-rally boost today, when he truimphed over some legendaryopposition at the Neste Oil Rally Heklsikni Battle.The Helsinki Battle featured a stellar line-up of WRC drivers.The Citroen DS3 WRC driver was overall winner of the rally sprint event, which took place on the streets of downtown Helsinki and pitted six […]
After seven rounds in Europe, the FIA WTCC crosses the Atlantic for a meeting at the Termas de Río Hondo circuit in Argentina • José-María López, who leads the World Championship standings, will be given a hero’s welcome by his home crowd • Sébastien Loeb, who has won Rally Argentina on eight occasions, will perhaps […]
Nico Rosberg will start the Hungarian GP from pole after an action packed Formula One qualifying session saw his rival Lewis Hamilton fail to set a qualifying time after suffering a spectacular fire.The Q1 session started with the astonishing sight of Hamilton coasting into the pit lane entry with the rear of his car well […]
With political tensions running high between Britain and Russia, at least two British politicians have put on pressure on Formula One to cancel the Russian Grand Prix, which is scheduled to take place in Sochi on Oct. 12.The F1 event was thrust into conversations after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed in Ukraine, killing 298 people. […]
For many it is the essence of rallying: the Rally Finland. The Volkswagen works duos go into the eighth round of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC), from 31 July to 3 August, in first, second and third place in the championship. Sébastien Ogier/Julien Ingrassia (F/F), Jari-Matti Latvala/Miikka Anttila (FIN/FIN) and Andreas Mikkelsen/Ola Fløene (N/N) […]
Drivers will discover different stages when the start their recce on Monday for the Rally Finland Neste (31 July – 3 August for round eight of the World Rally Championship.Just three of last year’s special stages remain in the same format but what hasn’t changed is the DNA of one of rallying’s classics. Smooth gravel […]
Porsche South Africa’s Toby Venter has swooped like a modern super hero to save the Kyalami racetrack and set the minds of motorsport fans at rest after many years of uncertainty about the venue’s future.Speculation has been rife over what might become of the circuit, especially given the multitude of purposes the huge property could […]
The Super Series heads to the Free State for round five of the 2014 season. Here, the Engen Xtreme team will contest the Bridgestone Production Car Championship at Phakisa Freeway on Saturday, 2 August. The event makes the start of the second half of the season, with the Engen Xtreme racers a strong presence in […]
But the outspoken 1997 world champion says it is not just the drivers’ fault, as the F1 of today does not bring out the “wild animal” in them. “The rules are too restrictive,” French Canadian Villeneuve told Schwetzinger Zeitung newspaper. “I have always regarded formula one as an extreme sport, but not really anymore,” he […]
In his striking yellow MINI ALL4 Racing, Joan “Nani” Roma (ES) has won the sixth round of the 2014 FIA World Cup for Cross Country Rallies. After four demanding special stages and 666.13 competitive kilometres during the 2014 Baja Aragón the Spaniard and his co-driver Michel Périn (FR) claimed the victory for the Monster Energy […]