Elfyn Evans says he will use his Rally GB win as a springboard to fight for the 2018 World Rally Championship crown. Evans, who is expected to be confirmed as an M-Sport driver soon, dominated his home round of the championship in Wales last week. He had previously finished second in Argentina and Finland earlier

Rally GB 2017 was so successful its biggest problem was being too popular. That’s a huge turnaround for Britain’s World Rally Championship round, as DAVID EVANS explains Five years ago Wales Rally GB departed Cardiff for the final time. It wouldn’t be missed. It had barely been noticed. Thirty-one cars started Britain’s round of the

Rally GB winner Elfyn Evans is expected to be brought back into the main M-Sport line-up for the 2018 World Rally Championship. An announcement of Evans’s move from the DMACK entry that runs alongside M-Sport’s works cars into the frontline squad is expected soon. M-Sport team principal Malcolm Wilson is still trying to finalise a

Rally GB will implement an overhaul of ticketing for the 2018 event following overwhelming demand for Britain’s round of the World Rally Championship. More than 100,000 fans poured into the forests last week, with advance ticket sales up 30%. Spectator car parks were filled, many within hours of opening, forcing fans to ditch their cars

Peugeot has announced it will end its Dakar Rally programme after the 2018 event. The news had been long anticipated following Peugeot’s victories in the 2016 and ’17 events, and given its dissatisfaction with rule changes that are set to hamper its rear-wheel-drive cars. Peugeot Sport director Bruno Famin said: “As this will be the

Sebastien Ogier says winning the 2017 World Rally Championship with M-Sport was the most emotional moment of his career. After four WRC titles in factory Volkswagens, Ogier secured a late deal with M-Sport’s independent Ford programme for this season when VW pulled out. He clinched his fifth championship on Rally GB, where Malcolm Wilson’s M-Sport

Sebastien Ogier sealed the 2017 World Rally Championship with third place for M-Sport on Rally GB, as Elfyn Evans claimed a dominant first win for himself and DMACK. Wales was tipped as one of the events where DMACK’s tyre would be advantageous, and Evans used it to dominate from the start of the forest stages

Elfyn Evans is two stages away from becoming Rally GB’s first British winner since Richard Burns in 2000, with Sebastien Ogier poised to seal the World Rally Championship in Wales. Evans nursed his lead through Sunday morning’s first three stages and now holds a 43.4-second advantage in his DMACK Ford. The extremely tight five-way podium

Elfyn Evans maintained his Rally GB lead as fog shook up the rest of the leaderboard on the Saturday night stages. Sebastien Ogier was one of those to gain most, moving up to second place and closer to clinching the 2017 World Rally Championship this weekend – despite going off the road and picking up

Elfyn Evans stabilised his Rally GB lead at just under 50 seconds as the event headed towards Saturday evening’s after-dark stages. Thierry Neuville became the first man to outpace Evans on a Saturday stage when he won the second running of Dyfi, but the runaway rally leader was still second quickest and maintained a 47.9s

Elfyn Evans continued to storm away from the field on Saturday morning’s Rally GB stages, as Thierry Neuville leapfrogged World Rally Championship rivals Sebastien Ogier and Ott Tanak into second. A clean sweep of four more stage wins brought DMACK Ford driver Evans’s overall lead up to a massive 49.3 seconds as light rain averted

Elfyn Evans added to his Rally GB lead on Friday afternoon to end the first full day of World Rally Championship action in Britain with a 25-second advantage. M-Sport driver Evans picked up where he left off at the start of the afternoon loop by winning SS5 Myherin, going 4.3 seconds faster than anyone else

Elfyn Evans leads the Rally GB round of the World Rally Championship after setting the pace on Friday morning’s opening loop. Fifth after Thursday evening’s opening superspecial, Evans flew to the fastest time on two of the morning’s three stages – the longer Myherin and Hafren tests – in his DMACK-shod Ford Fiesta, to build

Sebastien Ogier leads Rally GB after the short Tir Prince stage that kicked off the event on which he could become World Rally champion for a fifth straight year. M-Sport Ford driver Ogier leads team-mate Ott Tanak by 37 points and Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville by 38, with only 30 available after this weekend. Ogier completed

Kris Meeke has criticised the Citroen World Rally Championship team’s decision not to test locally before this week’s Rally GB. Winner of the previous WRC round, Meeke fears his chances of success on his home rally have been hit by struggling to find the most appropriate set-up for his C3 WRC on Thursday’s shakedown stage.

Toyota World Rally Championship ace Jari-Matti Latvala reveals the secrets of winning Rally GB in the latest edition of The Autosport Podcast. Latvala, who won Britain’s World Rally Championship round in 2011 and ’12 and lies fourth in the standings heading into this year’s event, joins David Evans and Edd Straw for a rally podcast

Elfyn Evans’ fastest time at this morning’s shakedown stage has marked him out as favourite for this week’s Wales Rally GB, according to his M-Sport team-mate Sebastien Ogier. Evans went more than a second a mile faster than anybody through the morning’s Clocaenog test, posting a time of 1m58.1s for the 2.06-mile stage, 2.3s faster

Co-driving for Kris Meeke has been something of a mixed bag for Paul Nagle this year. He has bagged a couple of wins alongside the Northern Irishman, but there has been the odd inversion to go with that success. Offered the chance to sit in Nagle’s seat ahead of Rally Spain, Autosport’s rallies editor David

Sebastien Ogier says he is cautious of taking risks to win a “complicated” Rally GB with a fifth World Rally Championship title at stake. The Frenchman and Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville, one of his two remaining title rivals, were present at the Rallylegend event in San Marino last weekend and both talked of their chances ahead

Last weekend the rallying world paid tribute to Colin McRae, the 1995 world champion who died 10 years ago last month. DAVID EVANS explains what it meant to those involved The big fella took a step back. He turned, grabbed the arms of his friend and whispered. “Sua figlia…” Mystified, I asked an Italian colleague

The ‘Dayinsure Wales Rally GB’, as it will be called for the second year, is being held in Wales on October 26-29 of October, and will feature the penultimate round of the FIA World Rally Championship. Dayinsure are known for providing short term car insurance and so this event in particular seems to be the

Toyota has announced Ott Tanak will join its driver line-up in the World Rally Championship next season. Current M-Sport driver Tanak will join Jari-Matti Latvala and Esapekka Lappi in 2018, leaving Juho Hanninen out in the cold. Hanninen is also expected to miss the final round of this year’s series in Australia, with his co-driver

World Rally Championship teams have been busy completing their pre-event testing for Rally GB, with three manufacturers taking to Welsh roads of late for the task. Hyundai and M-Sport took to the Welsh forests last week in a similar area, while Toyota is completing its own running in Wales this week, and Citroen focuses its

Sebastien Ogier says he is wary of prolonging the World Rally Championship title fight beyond the penultimate round of the season in Britain later this month. Thierry Neuville’s disastrous Rally Catalunya retirement has opened the door for Ogier to seal a fifth straight WRC title. Ogier finished second to Kris Meeke last weekend in his

Dani Sordo will miss the final round of the 2017 World Rally Championship after Hyundai confirmed a three-car team for next month’s Rally Australia. Sordo is the second Hyundai driver to be dropped for a rally recently, after Hayden Paddon was sacrificed to make way for new signing Andreas Mikkelsen in Spain last week. Last

Hyundai driver Thierry Neuville has all but conceded this year’s World Rally Championship to rival Sebastien Ogier after retiring from Rally Catalunya last weekend. A run of six-straight podium finishes, which included three victories, hoisted Neuville into a mid-season share of the lead with Ogier. But the Belgian damaged his transmission and suspension on August’s

Kajetan Kajetanowicz secured a record breaking third consecutive European Rally Championship title despite retiring just after a helicopter crash caused the cancellation of SS11 of Rally Latvia. The Ford Fiesta R5 driver entered the gravel-based event as the favourite with a 24-point lead, although Portuguese frontrunner Bruno Magalhaes still had a chance to take the

Kris Meeke and Paul Nagle completed a brilliant victory on Rally Catalunya, while Sebastien Ogier extended his World Rally Championship lead after Thierry Neuville retired. Meeke has struggled all season with an ill-performing C3 WRC and a number of driver errors – leading to him being dropped for Rally Poland – but the Dungannon driver

A stage of the final European Rally Championship round in Latvia has been cancelled following a helicopter crash. ERC officials confirmed that the 11th stage will not run and that cars have been re-routed to SS12, which will now start 10 minutes late. A statement from the rally organisers said: “There has been a civil

Citroen’s Kris Meeke closed in on Rally Spain victory over the three stage Sunday morning loop, as Thierry Neuville’s title challenge unravelled further with retirement. Meeke was quickest through all three of the stages, most impressively on the second stage of the loop SS15 Riudecanyes. At the infamous Coll de la Teixeta roundabout where drivers