Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alexey Lukyanuk has been gifted the 2018 European Rally Championship title as rival Bruno Magalhaes has withdrawn from the rest of the season. Magalhaes is 35 points behind Lukyanuk with two rounds remaining, but has been forced out after his funding dried

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota’s Ott Tanak completed a hat-trick of World Rally Championship event wins on Rally Turkey, capitalising on the retirement of title rivals Sebastien Ogier of M-Sport and Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville. Many of the top World Rally Championship cars retired in one of

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota World Rally Championship team-mates Ott Tanak and Jari-Matti Latvala will hold station in first and second place for Sunday’s final leg of Rally Turkey. The two Yaris WRC drivers are a minute clear of Hyundai’s Hayden Paddon in third and with

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ott Tanak took the Rally Turkey lead and neared a World Rally Championship win hat-trick on Saturday afternoon, boosting his title hopes as Sebastien Ogier joined Thierry Neuville in retirement. Tanak referred to his Toyota as “undriveable” on the afternoon’s opening Yesilbelde

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Ogier has crashed out of Rally Turkey leg two, losing a perfect chance to capitalise on World Rally Championship leader Thierry Neuville’s earlier retirement. Ogier had started the Yesilbelde stage fourth and 46.1 seconds off the lead he had lost when

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier had admitted he came close to giving up on his efforts to keep his M-Sport Ford in Rally Turkey. Ogier’s Fiesta suffered front-right damage in a heavy landing on Saturday’s second stage, just after taking the lead

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andreas Mikkelsen leads Rally Turkey again, with World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier down to fourth after a penalty and points leader Thierry Neuville out. Neuville was the first casualty of a highly-dramatic morning, having to retire from the rally lead after breaking

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The 2018 World Rally Championship title battle took another dramatic twist on Saturday morning in Turkey as Sebastien Ogier hit trouble just one stage after title rival Thierry Neuville’s retirement. Ogier had moved into a 25-second rally lead when Neuville sustained broken

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally Championship leader Thierry Neuville’s title bid has received a huge blow with a suspension breakage while first on Rally Turkey on Saturday morning. His problem has launched his championship rival Sebastien Ogier into the lead, and gives the M-Sport Ford

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally Championship title rivals Thierry Neuville and Sebastien Ogier are split by just 0.3 seconds in the Rally Turkey lead battle after a highly dramatic Friday afternoon. A surge in pace from the championship’s top two coupled with chaos elsewhere in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Rally Turkey organisers have listened to the complaints of the World Rally Championship manufacturers and agreed to run four-minute gaps between the lead drivers on Friday afternoon’s stages. The leading drivers all complained bitterly about the dust problem on the Cetibeli stage

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hyundai driver Andreas Mikkelsen set the fastest time through Rally Turkey’s opening Marmaris test, while a mistake by Sebastien Ogier left the reigning champion 14th after the short city stage. As the only driver to take a set of medium compound tyres,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally Championship crews are bracing themselves for this week’s Rally Turkey being the roughest event in years, with many predicting chaos on Friday’s opening day. Turkey returns to the WRC for the first time in eight years, but moves from its

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally Championship leader Thierry Neuville has signed to stay with Hyundai Motorsport for the next three years. The 30-year-old Belgian’s deal is the first of numerous announcements that will shape the WRC driver market in the coming weeks. Neuville gave Hyundai

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Petter Solberg, the 2003 World Rally champion, is tipped to be part of Volkswagen’s driver line-up when its new Polo GT1 R5 makes its WRC debut in Spain next month. VW will run two of its new WRC2 cars on Rally Spain

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Citroen appears to be stepping up its efforts to secure a 2019 World Rally Championship driver line-up that includes Sebastien Ogier, Esapekka Lappi and Craig Breen. Discussions with Ogier about a potential return to Citroen have been ongoing for weeks, but talks

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former Citroen World Rally Championship driver Kris Meeke will return to rallying for next month’s RallyLegend event in San Marino. Meeke has stayed away from the rallying scene since he was dropped by Citroen following his accident on this year’s Rally of

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Double World Rally champion Marcus Gronholm could be in line for a WRC return with Toyota in 2019. Gronholm is expected to discuss a one-off drive for next February’s Rally Sweden with fellow Finn and Toyota team principal Tommi Makinen in the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA is considering significant changes to the structure of the World Rally Championship to increase privateer participation and help young drivers. The introduction of a separate manufacturers’ award in the second-tier WRC2 category is under consideration for 2020, along with a

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota will be forced to revert to its older-specification World Rally Championship engine for Rally Turkey later this month. Homologation regulations stipulate the team must take a backwards step with the engines in the Yaris WRCs of Ott Tanak, Jari-Matti Latvala and

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota World Rally Championship driver Ott Tanak says he is still not fully comfortable with his Yaris despite taking convincing wins on the two most-recent rallies. Back-to-back wins in Finland and Germany have brought the Estonian back into contention for the 2018

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Carlos Sainz Sr will enter the 2019 Dakar to defend his title after signing with the X-raid Mini squad alongside Stephane Peterhansel and Cyril Despres, Autosport has learned. Sainz made clear it after winning his second Dakar last January that if he

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Volkswagen Motorsport has defended the strength of its Polo R5 following the release of shocking pictures of the car at a recent test. The pictures of the R5, circulating on social media, shows the complete rear axle of the Polo having broken

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally Championship driver Dani Sordo took a podium finish from his one-off European Rally Championship outing in Hyundai’s R5 car on Rally Zlin. Hyundai entered Sordo on the Czech event, which was his first run in the R5 car, in a

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning champion Sebastien Ogier will only make one more deal to drive in the World Rally Championship before he retires from the series. Ogier is in the middle of negotiations for next season and wants to conclude those talks before the end

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. WRC Promoter has confirmed Rally Japan will return to the World Rally Championship next year, providing it is signed off by the FIA. Rally Japan organisers held a press conference overnight to provide further details about the country’s first WRC rally since

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ott Tanak clinched a second straight dominant rally win in Germany, as Sebastien Ogier dropped just two points to World Rally Championship leader Thierry Neuville. It had looked like Germany would be a huge blow to Ogier’s title defence when he fell

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ott Tanak continues to lead Rally Germany, but Thierry Neuville’s World Rally Championship title bid has been boosted by Dani Sordo and Jari-Matti Latvala both hitting trouble early on Sunday. Hyundai driver Sordo began the final day just 0.8 seconds ahead of

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota driver Ott Tanak takes a 44-second lead over the battling Dani Sordo and Jari-Matti Latvala into Rally Germany’s final day, while Sebastien Ogier is flying on a comeback drive. World Rally champion Ogier was Tanak’s nearest rival until he had to

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. M-Sport Ford team principal Malcolm Wilson says Sebastien Ogier’s response to his Rally Germany puncture sends a clear message that the World Rally Championship title fight is far from over. Ogier lost second place when he suffered a puncture on the second