World Rally News

Stephane Peterhansel has battled back into the podium places at the 2018 Dakar rally with his 40 th career stage victory at the iconic event as overall leader Carlos Sainz saw his healthy lead trimmed, while Monday’s stage nine has been canned due to weather conditions.

Carlos Sainz has taken the overall lead of the 2018 Dakar rally thanks to back-to-back stage wins coupled with Peugeot team-mate Stephane Peterhansel's lengthy stop with a broken left-rear suspension.

Teemu Suninen has secured an eight-round deal with M-Sport Ford in the 2018 World Rally Championship as well as entries into the WRC2 class.

Carlos Sainz has chipped away at Peugeot team-mate Stephane Peterhansel’s 2018 Dakar Rally lead with his first stage victory of this year’s event as the rally left Peru for Bolivia.

Stephane Peterhansel has returned to the top of the leaderboard at the 2018 Dakar Rally with victory on stage five as former leader Sebastien Loeb is forced out of the event.

Hyundai has outlined how it will slot its four driver combinations into three entries for the 2018 World Rally Championship, with both Thierry Neuville and Andreas Mikkelsen set for full campaigns while Dani Sordo and Hayden Paddon will split driver duties in its third car.

Sebastien Loeb has clinched victory on stage four of the 2018 Dakar Rally to chip away at Stephane Peterhansel’s lead as Peugeot profits from its rival’s issues to take a 1-2-3 in the standings, while defending bike champion Sam Sunderland retires from the event.

Nasser Al-Attiyah has won his second stage of the 2018 Dakar Rally to jump into third overall in the classification and break the Peugeot domination at the top of the leaderboard.

M-Sport has confirmed that Bryan Bouffier will join its line-up for the opening two rounds of the 2018 FIA World Rally Championship season, driving a third EcoBoost-powered Ford Fiesta in Monte Carlo and Corsica.

Cyril Despres has taken control of the 2018 Dakar Rally on the first marathon day of the event as Peugeot locked out the top two spots.

Two-time Dakar Rally winner Nasser Al-Attiyah has set the early pace on the short opening stage to the 2018 edition of the iconic endurance event as he heads up a Toyota 1-2, while brake trouble saw Sebastien Loeb tumble down the order.

Nine-time FIA World Rally Championship winner Sebastien Loeb will return to the series with Citroen in 2018, entering three events.

Five-time rally world champion Sebastien Ogier says he will keep racing once his time in the World Rally Championship comes to an end, setting his sights on a future entry to the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Thierry Neuville says his front suspension break is the “sort of back luck in the World Rally Championship” as he sees his world title dreams take a near-fatal hit with two rounds remaining.

The top 15 results for the 2017 Rally Finland, the ninth round of the 2017 World Rally Championship after SS21

Jari-Matti Latvala's exit from the Rally Finland with technical issues opens the door to an astonishing potential win for Esapekka Lappi.

Ott Tanak has taken an early advantage on the opening stage of Rally Finland ahead of Rally Poland winner Thierry Neuville.

The shakedown results for the 2017 Tour de Corse, Rally France, the fourth round of the 2017 World Rally Championship.

Mobil 1 and Toyota announce a new partnership for the 2017 World Rally Championship season.

Rally Sweden organisers have binned SS12 on FIA safety recommendations after cars were considered to be going too fast through the route.

Volkswagen is disallowed from homologating its 2017 specification Polo WRC R for any privateer entries.

Defending WRC champion Sebastien Ogier has already warned M-Sport must not set expectations too high at the 2017 season-opening Rally Monte Carlo.

DMACK shows off its 2017 World Rally Championship contender, a latest specification Ford Fiesta WRC RS to be driven by Elfyn Evans.

M-Sport pulls the wraps off its aggressive-looking Ford Fiesta challenger for the 2017 World Rally Championship.