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Francois Ribeiro: We have worked on this calendar for many months with the objective of creating a schedule of events that offers a wide variety of surfaces and terrain but spread over the balance of the season...

Andreas Mikkelsen: It will be shoulders down in Cyprus, I really want to enjoy the rally and push to the maximum.

Thierry Neuville walks away with a prize fund of 40,000 Euros after winning the second Cyprus Golden Stage Rally.

Skoda UK driver becomes youngest IRC champion.

Nasser Al-Attiyah has made it a brace of victories for M-Sport's Ford Fiesta S2000 and become the eighth different winner of the 2010 IRC campaign after taking advantage of problems for early leader Martin Prokop to triumph in Cyprus

Henning Solberg has been forced to retire from the opening day of Rally Cyprus after an accident on his way to the first stage of the event.

The FIA World Rally Championship heads to the Mediterranean this weekend for the twelfth event of the 16-round series - the Cyprus Rally.

Britain's Matthew Wilson will revert to the 2005 spec Focus this coming weekend, when he tackles the Rally Cyprus, the twelfth round in the 2006 FIA World Rally Championship.

Peugeot number one Marcus Gronholm has lost his Cyprus Rally victory after stewards ruled the water pumps fitted to the 307 WRCs did not conform to the technical regulations. As a result, Citroen's Sebastien Loeb has been declared the new winner.

Peugeot #1 Marcus Gronholm could yet lose his Cyprus Rally win, after the FIA issued a statement today [Thursday], explaining that representatives of the French team have been called to a stewards meeting next Wednesday.

The result of Sunday's Cyprus Rally, the fifth round of the 2004 FIA World Rally championship, in which Marcus Gronholm claimed his maiden win in the new Peugeot 307 WRC, are to remain provisional until tomorrow [Wednesday].

Cyprus played host to the fifth round of the FIA World Rally Championship at the weekend and, by all accounts it was an historic occasion, with Marcus Gronholm claiming the first victory for the new Peugeot 307 WRC.

As one of the hottest and roughest rallies of the year, Cyprus can be a gruelling event for cars and drivers alike. Drivers and co-drivers can spend up to 13 hours a day in the car and, contesting some of the twistiest stages in the Championship, they face an enormous physical challenge.

Subaru's Petter Solberg has taken the lead on the Cyprus Rally this morning - the Norwegian is now 5.0 seconds up on Marcus Gronholm, following the first three tests.

From mid-May to the end of June, the World Rally Championship will set up its base-camp in the eastern part of the Mediterranean for a sequence of three events reputed as the toughest of the calendar, for the drivers and their machines alike.

The fifth showdown of the 2004 season takes Peugeot Sport to the twisty gravel mountain stages of Cyprus which recently celebrated its entry into the European Union.