Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nasser Al-Attiyah has claimed a milestone first Dakar Rally win for Toyota in the 2019 edition of the race. Al-Attiyah, who previously won the Dakar with Volkswagen in 2011 and Mini four years after that, switched to driving a Toyota

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stephane Peterhansel’s co-driver David Castera has been cleared of fractures to his spine after the crash that ended the X-raid Mini pair’s 2019 Dakar Rally on Wednesday. Peterhansel and Castera endured a heavy landing over a dune 16 miles onto

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dakar Rally leader Nasser Al-Attiyah set the pace in the penultimate stage of the 2019 marathon, edging ever closer to a milestone first victory for Toyota. The Qatari bagged his third stage win of the event on a day which

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stephane Peterhansel has retired from the 2019 edition of the Dakar Rally after the 13-time champion crashed on the penultimate stage. Peterhansel, who entered Wednesday’s test in fourth place overall, had an incident shortly after the start of the 312km

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Loeb scored his fourth stage win of the 2019 Dakar Rally on Tuesday, as Nasser Al-Attiyah stretched his lead in the overall standings to 46 minutes. PH Sport Peugeot driver Loeb began the eighth stage of the event over

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stephane Peterhansel was left ‘seeing stars’ and suffering whiplash after a nasty landing early on the seventh stage of the 2019 Dakar Rally. The Mini driver made good headway on leader Nasser Al-Attiyah by winning Monday’s stage, and moved back

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Two-time World Rally champion Marcus Gronholm will return to the series to drive a Toyota Yaris WRC at next month’s Rally Sweden. The car, privately entered by Gronholm, will be run by Toyota Gazoo Racing, but not as part of

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. X-raid Mini driver Stephane Peterhansel headed the seventh stage of the 2019 Dakar Rally, reclaiming second place overall thanks to a technical issue for Sebastien Loeb. Loeb – already trailing Toyota’s Nasser Al-Attiyah in the overall order – gave up

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally Championship regular Mads Ostberg has confirmed he will contest this year’s WRC 2 Pro series – which supports the main WRC category – in a Citroen C3 R5. Ostberg contested eight world championship rounds with the Citroen factory

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stephane Peterhansel says his hopes of a 14th Dakar Rally victory are “slipping away” after losing more than 20 minutes on Sunday’s sixth stage. The X-raid Mini driver got stuck while turning around to help team-mate Nani Roma, a stoppage

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Loeb picked up his third stage win of the 2019 Dakar Rally as the event resumed on Sunday, while Nasser Al-Attiyah extended his advantage at the front. Toyota driver Al-Attiyah (pictured above) controlled the majority of the 193-mile Arequipa-San

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Loeb’s long-time co-driver Daniel Elena says he is so incensed by the inaccurate roadbook on the 2019 Dakar Rally he would be prepared to quit the event. Nine-time World Rally Championship-winning duo Loeb and Elena lie fourth overall at

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Autosport can reveal that over the last two months Toyota has been planning for the eventuality that two-time Formula 1 champion Fernando Alonso will decide to contest the Dakar Rally. Alonso – who won the Le Mans 24 Hours with

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ott Tanak says he is now prepared for a World Rally Championship title tilt off the back of his form in his “rookie” year with Toyota in 2018. Tanak was brought into WRC by M-Sport, spending several years with the

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ott Tanak says he is now prepared for a World Rally Championship title tilt off the back of his form in his “rookie” year with Toyota in 2018. Tanak was brought into WRC by M-Sport, spending several years with the

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Citroen team principal Pierre Budar has said his team ‘has to win’ the 2019 World Rally Championship after acquiring the services of six-time world champion Sebastien Ogier. Citroen has not won a WRC title since the full-time exit of Sebastien

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally Championship drivers have selected their own competition numbers for the first time at Saturday’s series launch at Autosport International. The FIA confirmed the WRC would follow Formula 1’s lead and allow drivers to carry permanent numbers at the

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. PH Sport Peugeot driver Sebastien Loeb dominated the gruelling fifth stage of the 2019 Dakar Rally, as leader Nasser Al-Attiyah pulled away from Stephane Peterhansel. Loeb completed 519 kilometres between Tacna and Arequipa in just under five hours to pick

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dakar Rally 2019 leader Nasser Al-Attiyah extended his advantage over the chasing pack by topping the event’s fourth stage, running from Arequipa to Tacna. The Toyota driver was quickest over the 252-mile timed special, the longest of the rally so

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Esapekka Lappi says he has seen enough potential in his new Citroen C3 WRC to know it can be the fastest car in this year’s World Rally Championship. The 27-year-old, who will make his debut with Citroen on the Monte

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Defending Dakar Rally champion Carlos Sainz Sr called the roadbook of the 2019 edition “a disaster” after his costly accident on the third stage. Sainz, who was sixth heading into Wednesday’s 331km test but trailed the marathon leader by less

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The M-Sport Ford World Rally Championship outfit has revealed its new livery for the 2019 season. M-Sport cars carried Red Bull liveries for the past two seasons after the squad signed and subsequently retained Sebastien Ogier for the 2017 and

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stephane Peterhansel secured his first stage win of the 2019 Dakar Rally, while the hopes of his X-raid Mini team-mate Carlos Sainz were practically ended on the event’s third stage. As he recovered from dropping 20 minutes on Tuesday after

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. British driver Gus Greensmith could contest as many as 13 rounds of this year’s World Rally Championship, with at least one of those coming in a Ford Fiesta WRC. The 22-year-old will spearhead M-Sport’s WRC2 Pro assault with 10 rounds

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Thirteen-time Dakar Rally winner Stephane Peterhansel says electrical problems led to the “rookie error” that cost him the best part of 20 minutes on the second stage in Peru. Peterhansel was left stranded on a dune after being distracted by

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dakar Rally frontrunner Nasser Al-Attiyah says he has spoken with two-time Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso about the possibility of testing his Toyota Hilux in Qatar in February. Alonso, who is currently preparing for a second Daytona 24 Hours

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. European Rally Championship regular Catie Munnings hopes to make her World Rally Championship debut in 2019 after becoming the first female motorsport driver to be signed by Red Bull UK. Munnings has competed in the ERC for the last three

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nine-time World Rally champion Sebastien Loeb set the pace through the second stage of the 2019 Dakar Rally in Peru, as Toyota’s Giniel de Villiers took the overall lead. Loeb, contesting the rally in a PH Sport-run 2017-spec Peugeot 3008

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota Gazoo Racing South Africa driver Nasser Al-Attiyah topped the opening stage of the 2019 Dakar Rally in Peru. The Qatari completed the dune-populated 52-mile timed stage near Pisco, which came after a lengthy road section that started at Peruvian

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota starts 2019 chasing back-to-back World Rally Championship manufacturers’ titles for the first time in 25 years. It already has its rivals worried with a raft of developments for this season, as David Evans explains When Toyota brought a four-wheel