Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The final stage of Rally GB has been delayed while emergency services attend an incident unrelated to the running of the Great Orme Llandudno test. Originally scheduled to start at 12:18, the all-asphalt SS23 has been put back with a provisional start

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota’s Jari-Matti Latvala snatched a Rally GB lead of two tenths on the Sunday morning loop, demoting the M-Sport Ford of title hopeful Sebastien Ogier to second. Latvala – in search of a third Rally GB win – reduced his deficit from

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jari-Matti Latvala says he needs to temper his enthusiasm as he bids to overhaul Sebastien Ogier on Rally GB and win a first World Rally Championship round since 2017. Latvala sits just four seconds behind Rally GB leader and former Volkswagen team-mate

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. M-Sport Ford driver Sebastien Ogier holds a narrow Wales Rally GB lead overnight on Saturday, after title rival Ott Tanak’s Toyota retired from a long-term lead in the afternoon loop. Tanak pulled off during the second of four stages in the afternoon

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ott Tanak has retired his Toyota Yaris from the lead of Rally GB on Saturday afternoon, allowing World Rally Championship title rival Sebastien Ogier to assume the top spot. Toyota driver Tanak had been leading the event by 41.9s from Ogier and

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally Championship title hopeful Ott Tanak has extended his Rally GB lead on Saturday morning, while Sebastien Ogier continued to jump up the order after a troubled Friday. Across the five stages, Tanak drew out another 15s at the top of

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally Championship leader Thierry Neuville’s title hopes were dealt a blow when he slid off road and into a ditch on the second stage of Saturday’s Rally GB running. The Hyundai driver began the day second overall, half a minute behind

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Ogier has promised to take a “full risk” approach to the second day of Rally GB, as he bids to keep his 2018 World Rally Championship title assault alive. Ogier is currently sat fifth overall after Friday’s running and he made

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The World Rally Championship’s in-form driver Ott Tanak holds a commanding overnight lead after Friday’s Rally GB running, ahead of his title rival and current standings leader Thierry Neuville. Tanak’s lead has grown to 28.8 seconds over Neuville after he won the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota World Rally Championship driver Esapekka Lappi established an early lead on Rally GB after setting the fastest time on the Tir Prince superspecial. The Finn heads compatriot and team-mate Jari-Matti Latvala by just 0.3 seconds following the 1.7-mile opening stage. Championship

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Ogier is still the driver Thierry Neuville fears most in the 2018 World Rally Championship title fight, despite Ott Tanak now being ahead of the reigning champion. Heading into this week’s Rally GB, Neuville leads Tanak by just 13 points following

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Leading World Rally Championship drivers believe the revised route for this year’s Rally GB is the best itinerary produced since the event moved to Wales. The 2018 event, which starts on Thursday evening, has undergone significant change with two days in mid-Wales

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. M-Sport Ford has decided against using its new-specification engine for Rally GB this week and taken a “safe” option instead. Sebastien Ogier had been hoping to run the new more powerful engine for Britain’s World Rally Championship round, but a failure during

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Ogier gave Ford an ultimatum to back M-Sport’s World Rally Championship effort more, and its failure to do so prompted his decision to leave for Citroen. Ogier and M-Sport won the 2017 WRC titles as effective privateers, and appeared set for

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nine-time World Rally champion Sebastien Loeb made a surprise appearance with Citroen’s pre-Rally GB test last week. Loeb has one more event in his three-round WRC comeback programme with Citroen remaining this season – the mixed-surface Rally Spain at the end of

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Ogier believes his World Rally Championship title streak will end if he cannot beat rivals Thierry Neuville and Ott Tanak on Rally GB this week. The five-time WRC champion is down to third in the standings after his crash in Turkey

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. An unclear 2019 World Rally Championship calendar is causing increasing disquiet among WRC stakeholders, with an extraordinary meeting of the FIA WRC Commission in Paris due next week. Monte Carlo, Sweden and Mexico are widely expected to keep their positions as the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Ogier believes his 2019 employer Citroen is ready to do what is necessary to regain its World Rally Championship supremacy after a period of “doing things by half”. Reigning WRC champion Ogier is leaving M-Sport Ford to return to Citroen seven

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. X-raid Mini has announced the signing of ex-Peugeot trio Stephane Peterhansel, Carlos Sainz Sr and Cyril Despres for its Dakar Rally programme, as predicted by Autosport. The trio and nine-time World Rally champion Sebastien Loeb had formed Peugeot’s factory cross-country rallying line-up

Wales Rally GB title sponsor Dayinsure explains the new innovations that are making Britain’s World Rally Champonship round more exciting than ever in 2018 As we enter our third year of sponsorship with the Dayinsure Wales Rally GB we are seriously excited that the opportunity has been presented to compete on Welsh roads, with the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. M-Sport World Rally team managing director Malcolm Wilson says he will not be rushed into any decisions regarding his team’s WRC future following Sebastien Ogier’s departure for Citroen. The five-time world champion has spearheaded M-Sport’s assault on the WRC for the last

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Citroen has announced Sebastien Ogier will return to the team to drive a C3 WRC in the 2019 World Rally Championship. The reigning WRC champion will depart M-Sport Ford following Rally Australia in November and begin testing with Citroen soon after. M-Sport

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The revised route for Britain’s 2018 World Rally Championship round Rally GB will “catch a few out”, reckons its co-ordinator. This year’s itinerary spends two days in north Wales, with the mid-Wales stages that have usually been spread across Friday and Saturday

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Volkswagen is putting its new R5 car for WRC2 through a similar testing programme to its Polo World Rally Car, which dominated the WRC from 2013-16. VW’s Polo GTI R5 will make its competitive debut on Rally Spain next month, driven by

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Petter Solberg’s return to the World Rally Championship at the wheel of Volkswagen’s Polo GTI R5 car in Spain has been confirmed. The Norwegian will join Eric Camilli in a two-car factory team for the debut of VW’s all-new Polo GTI R5

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota team principal Tommi Makinen has discussed the possibility of bringing Kris Meeke back to the World Rally Championship in a Yaris WRC for 2019. Makinen looks increasingly likely to need a replacement for Esapekka Lappi next season – last year’s Rally

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ott Tanak insists Toyota needs to push harder to win the 2018 World Rally Championship, despite his recent hat-trick, as its Turkey one-two came on a poor weekend for pace. Heading into the series’ summer break in June, Tanak was 72 points

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Ogier looks increasingly likely to return to Citroen for the 2019 World Rally Championship. The reigning WRC champion, currently driving for M-Sport Ford, is expected to reveal his future imminently. Ogier has already made it clear his next contract will be

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Ogier remains at a loss to explain precisely what happened when he slid off the road and dropped a possible World Rally Championship victory at last weekend’s Rally Turkey. Ogier and title rival Thierry Neuville had both suffered suspension problems on

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Citroen will fully investigate the cause of the fire that destroyed Craig Breen’s C3 World Rally Car in Turkey when the shell arrives back at the team base this week. Breen, who had led Rally Turkey on the opening day before being