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Hyundai boss Andrea Adamo admits nothing less than a win will do for the World Rally Championship team on this weekend’s Arctic Rally Finland. The squad already finds itself twenty-two points adrift of Toyota in the manufacturers’ championship after last month’s opening Monte Carlo Rally which Sebastien Ogier won for a record eighth occasion. Adamo

The man tasked with overseeing work on M-Sport’s new Rally1 car believes it will be an immediate title contender in the 2022 World Rally Championship. As part of the ongoing process in developing a car for WRC’s rules overhaul, a workshop team dedicated to the project, and a separate test programme, have been created, while

Sebastien Ogier says Toyota Gazoo Racing team-mate Kalle Rovanpera can make World Rally Championship history and become the series’ youngest-ever winner in this week’s Arctic Rally Finland. The snow-based event is a new addition to the WRC calendar and replaces Rally Sweden, which was cancelled in December due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Rovanpera, whose father

Rising French talent Adrien Fourmaux will step up to the World Rally Championship’s top division at April’s Rally Croatia with M-Sport. Confirmation of the drive in a Ford Fiesta WRC car coincides with the news that Red Bull has finalised terms to support the 25-year-old going forward. Last month, M-Sport said Fourmaux would be handed

Adrien Fourmaux will tackle the premier category of the World Rally Championship during the next Rally Croatia, scheduled for April. He will be involved with the M-Sport team, which will entrust him with a Ford Fiesta WRC in the colors of Red Bull, with whom a new agreement has been finalized to support the young

Andreas Mikkelsen has admitted the uncertainty over Hyundai’s World Rally Championship future could hinder his comeback plans for 2022. On Monday, Hyundai’s team principal Andrea Adamo revealed the team’s WRC participation was not guaranteed beyond this year as the company’s South Korean board had yet to give its full backing to building a car to

While Toyota and M-Sport are not very far from when they will be able to run their test Rally1 cars, the work on Hyundai’s new version has yet to receive approval from the management of the Korean brand. This is what Andrea Adamo confirmed to Motorsport.com. As confirmed by the FIA ​​World Motorsport Council last

Hyundai is still awaiting “the green light” to develop its 2022 World Rally Championship challenger, with the Korean marque’s board yet to confirm whether it will compete next year. While Toyota and M-Sport are inching closer to running their Rally1 test mules in the open for the first time, work on Hyundai’s new challenger has

Ott Tanak says there is “a big job” to be completed before he is in a position to win the World Rally Championship’s Arctic Rally Finland in a fortnight’s time. Tanak warmed-up for the next round of the WRC by taking part in yesterday’s Otepaa Winter Rally, dominating the competition by going fastest on every

Ott Tänak expects to have the tough part against the Toyota in the next round of the WRC which will be Arctic Rally Finland. The 2019 World Champion sees only one obvious solution to achieve this: to do a lot of work by this meeting. To prepare, he took part this weekend in Estonia in

Ott Tanak threw down the gauntlet to his World Rally Championship rivals by cruising to a 33.4 second victory on today’s Otepaa Winter Rally, a warmup for Arctic Rally Finland. Despite fresh snow making for “pretty demanding” conditions, the 2019 WRC champion set fastest times on all eight special stages in the Estonian event to

Currently without a wheel in the WRC, after leaving M-Sport at the end of last year, Esapekka Lappi said he was ready to play test drivers for a manufacturer in order to regain a place next season. Crowned WRC2 Champion in 2016, the Finnish driver clinched a WRC victory at Rally Finland 2017 under the

Esapekka Lappi says that he would be happy to perform test and development duties for a World Rally Championship manufacturer team as a means to earn a seat for 2022. The 2016 WRC2 champion is currently without a seat in the WRC following his departure from the M-Sport Ford squad in December. Following his title

Former World Rallycross champion and double DTM title-winner Mattias Ekstrom will return to the World Rally Championship for the Arctic Rally Finland later this month, driving a Skoda Fabia R5. The 2016 World RX champion is contesting selected events in preparation for his 2021 programme with the ABT Cupra team in the new Extreme E

Oliver Solberg has said making the switch to a World Rally Car was “easier” than he expected, following his first test ahead of his Arctic Rally debut in the class. The Swede experienced Hyundai Motorsport’s i20 Coupe WRC for the first time at a test in Finland on Sunday, after confirmation came last week of

Toyota young gun Kalle Rovanpera believes this month’s Arctic Finland Rally presents his best chance yet to fight for a maiden World Rally Championship victory. The series travels to the Arctic Circle for the first time later this month for the only snow event of 2021 as a replacement for the cancelled Rally Sweden. Comprising

The 2021 season should be Sébastien Ogier’s last in the WRC, the Toyota driver having already postponed his retirement by a year after a 2020 campaign reduced to seven rallies due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The WRC drivers therefore have only one chance to beat the seven-time World Champion, which Ott Tänak has been the

Oliver Solberg will step up to the premier class in the World Rally Championship with Hyundai at Arctic Rally Finland. The drive is seen by Hyundai as part of the “ongoing learning curve” for the promising 19-year-old, with Solberg sharing the i20 Coupe WRC with Aaron Johnston which will be serviced by French team 2C

Oliver Solberg is already gaining ground at Hyundai! The son of Petter Solberg, World Champion in 2003, was recruited by the brand to race in WRC2 this year, but he will be able to make his debut at the wheel of a Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC entered by 2C Competition from the Arctic Rally Finland,

The 1991 season of the World Rally Championship was marked by the duel between Juha Kankkunen and Carlos Sainz but on Monte-Carlo, concluded 30 years ago to the day, it was a young French driver, François Delecour, who marked the spirits. The northerner had already impressed during the 1990 edition with the factory Peugeot, taking

Toyota has a new manager for its WRC team this year, Jari-Matti Latvala succeeding Tommi Mäkinen. The manufacturer’s former driver’s debut in this role at the Rallye Monte-Carlo saw the Japanese brand clinch a double, with Sébastien Ogier ahead of Elfyn Evans, and a hat-trick was even possible before Kalle Rovanperä’s puncture, finally fourth. Takamoto

Sébastien Loeb’s fifth Dakar, his first in Saudi Arabia since he had skipped the 2020 edition, did not go as he hoped. Aligned on a brand new 4×4, the BRX Hunter, the nine-time World Rally Champion had to retire after yet another puncture, which followed an impressive series of setbacks. At Toyota, Nasser Al-Attiyah was

The Monte-Carlo Rally marked the return of Pirelli to the WRC, a new single manufacturer in place of Michelin. For this first, many drivers were affected by punctures, like the winner, Sébastien Ogier, who briefly lost his head on Friday, but also his teammate Kalle Rovanperä. Ott Tänak suffered two punctures in the same loop

Elfyn Evans believes Motorsport UK has a real fight on its hands if it is to bring the World Rally Championship back to Britain.

 Earlier this month if was announced that the UK had lost its place on the calendar to Belgium’s Ypres Rally.

 The Championship has enjoyed UK representation every year since 1973, with

Sebastien Ogier is “proud” to be a record-breaker like his boyhood idol, Ayrton Senna after becoming the most successful driver in Monte Carlo Rally history.

 Ogier conquered last weekend’s Monte Carlo Rally for an eighth time surpassing the seven event victories he shared with his former-Citroen team-mate and countryman, Sebastien Loeb. The 37-year-old Ogier has

Elfyn Evans believes the gap to Toyota counterpart Sebastien Ogier on last weekend’s Monte Carlo Rally would have been smaller had he been able to “connect” with the new Pirelli tyres. 
The Welshman finished the season opener just over 32 seconds behind the reigning world champion Ogier after struggling to maximise the potential of Pirelli

Arrived almost nine minutes behind his opponents at the SS10 stop point, Saint-Clément – Freissinières, the Estonian violated the sporting regulations of the World Championship. With an I20 Coupe WRC on three wheels and a rim, he nevertheless made the decision to join the service park via the liaison route, which is a journey of

At the end of a rally where his team was all too rarely invited to the table of his rival Toyota, Andrea Adamo showed his usual outspokenness to draw a first assessment. “This rally ended the same as the whole weekend. Clearly it was not in a good way. I don’t know if this is

Rarely has a pilot flown over a rally in this manner recently. Sébastien Ogier quite simply crushed the competition on the Alpine specials to clinch his eighth historic success in the Principality. Having become the only record holder for the number of victories in Monaco ahead of Sébastien Loeb, all with no less than five

The BMC Mini rally team of the 1960s revelled in the dark arts of finding every advantage available, but not everybody approved. NICK GARTON reflects on the disputed 1966 Monte Carlo Rally and argues that its vigorous scrutineering was merely fighting fire with fire The 1966 Monte Carlo Rally is probably the most debated result