Rally US’ bid to join next year’s FIA World Rally Championship calendar took another step forward this week following the completion of its candidate event.... Read more

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Hyundai driver Adrien Fourmaux has been patiently biding his time. That time is now. It’s no secret the i20 N Rally1 he drives has struggled... Read more

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Toyota is the only current World Rally Championship manufacturer building a car for the new 2027 regulations; meanwhile its rival Hyundai is still deciding whether... Read more

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Formula 1 had the Schumachers, while the World Rally Championship had the McRaes and, later, the Solbergs. Today, rallying’s most prominent siblings are so in-tune... Read more

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M-Sport driver Josh McErlean says this week’s Donegal International Rally will be good for his soul as he competes at home, away from the pressure... Read more

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It appeared as if Takamoto Katsuta followed the expected trend. You win once, it’s easier to do so twice. Kimi Antonelli serves as a strong... Read more

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Jon Armstrong is targeting the top five, and potentially a podium finish, through the second half of the 2026 World Rally Championship. Armstrong was called... Read more

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Jon Armstrong is targeting the top five, and potentially a podium finish, through the second half of the 2026 World Rally Championship. Armstrong was called... Read more

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When Malcolm Wilson was starting out in rallying, there was only one championship for him. And one rally he wanted to win. Welcome to Scotland.... Read more

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A generation of American rally fans, make that two – if not three – have grown up not knowing a home round of the World... Read more

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World Rally Championship leader Elfyn Evans is expected to compete at home for the first time in six years when he tackles the Grampian Rally... Read more

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By every metric, Toyota beat Hyundai in the first half of the 2026 World Rally Championship. It’s won more rallies, more stages, scored more podiums... Read more

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Oliver Solberg’s Tarmac form has been tricky since graduating to Toyota’s Rally1 car in 2026. While he won the season-opening Monte Carlo Rally, wintry conditions... Read more

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Standing on the verge of the World Rally Championship’s seven-round gravel mini-series, points leader Elfyn Evans has put forward his thoughts on how to avoid... Read more

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Sébastien Ogier may have won more Tarmac rounds than any of his rivals using Hankook rubber, but he’s famously never gelled with the Korean firm’s... Read more

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It feels early to wave goodbye to an era, but the way the World Rally Championship calendar is structured this year means that’s exactly what... Read more

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Hankook faces a race against time to deliver a revised specification of hard compound gravel tire in time for the Acropolis Rally later this month.... Read more

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Ask Elfyn Evans who’s still in this year’s World Rally Championship title fight and he smiles a wry smile. Mentally, he’s going down the list... Read more

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We’ve all been there, late for a meeting and looking for a short cut to avoid the worst of the traffic. Finnish prime minister Petteri... Read more

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Rallying is about more than just machines. It’s the people, and the landscapes, that make it so unique to photograph. Rally Japan is always a... Read more

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Hyundai sporting director Andrew Wheatley says there’s “no question” Hayden Paddon has done enough to earn a gravel round of the World Rally Championship –... Read more

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The first half of Oliver Solberg’s 2026 World Rally Championship campaign has been a contradiction. He’s been faster than anybody with 41 stage wins (the... Read more

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Sami Pajari is back where his 2026 form suggested he belonged: on the podium. Rally Japan delivered his fifth piece of silverware in the World... Read more

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Urmo Aava and co-driver Silver Kütt will make World Rally Championship history at Rally Estonia, becoming the first founders of a rally to compete in... Read more

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Takamoto Katsuta had high hopes to build on his first two career World Rally Championship wins earlier this year with a victory on home soil... Read more

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Piloto que defende a TOYOTA GAZOO Racing no WRC, Elfyn Evans venceu pela terceira vez em quatro anos o Rally do Japão, prova que marcou a sétima etapa da temporada 2026. O galês liderou a esquadra da fabricante japonesa na classificação final da prova, disputada nesse final de semana e que terminou com pilotos TGR nas quatro primeiras posições. [caption id="attachment_553799" align="alignnone"…

Hyundai’s full-time World Rally Championship drivers have spoken of their relief that sealed-surface events won’t feature in the second half of the 2026 season, after... Read more

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Farewell Tarmac, the current generation of Rally1 cars can now say. If they could talk, that is… The WRC isn’t a Disney Pixar movie, but... Read more

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Sébastien Ogier has advised Oliver Solberg to not want too much too soon after making another mistake at Rally Japan. Solberg won last year’s Rally... Read more

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Elfyn Evans extended his World Rally Championship lead to 20 points after taking a second victory of the season at Rally Japan. Although it was Oliver Solberg who... Read more

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