Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Punctures for both Sebastien Loeb and Dani Sordo during a a chaotic Guanajuatito stage handed Sebastien Ogier the lead of Rally Mexico. Rally leader Loeb struck a small stone mid-way through SS14 and had to stop to replace the delaminated tyre,

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Loeb moved into the lead of Rally Mexico following his third stage victory of the event, as Citroen dominated the morning loop. Nine-time world champion Loeb had closed in on erstwhile rally leader Dani Sordo, and beat the Hyundai driver

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota’s miserable Rally Mexico continued after the opening stage of day two as Ott Tanak was forced into retirement. The Estonian had been running third, behind Dani Sordo and Sebastien Loeb, when his Yaris WRC slowed half-way through the 30km pass

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hyundai’s Dani Sordo saw his Rally Mexico lead reduced to just under eight seconds as World Rally Championship returnee Sebastien Loeb claimed two stage wins in a dramatic afternoon loop. Nine-time world champion Loeb secured his first stage victory since Monte

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Elfyn Evans has been forced to pull out of Rally Mexico after co-driver Daniel Barritt was taken to hospital with a suspected concussion following a high-speed roll in the morning loop. Evans was running third when he hit a bank in

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hyundai’s Dani Sordo stormed into the Rally Mexico lead on Friday morning, while Sebastien Loeb established himself in third place on his World Rally Championship return. Having retired from Monte Carlo and not been entered for Sweden, Sordo’s zero-point championship position

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Thierry Neuville set a commanding fastest time on the Guanajuato street stage that opened Rally Mexico, as Sebastien Loeb began his World Rally Championship return in 10th place. Thursday night’s short, spectator-friendly curtain-raiser was not representative of the dusty gravel roads

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Loeb made a low-key World Rally Championship return with the 10th fastest time on Rally Mexico’s shakedown stage on Thursday, as Citroen team-mate Kris Meeke set the pace. Loeb, who will contest his first gravel WRC event for five years

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Citroen’s hopes of a home win on next month’s Tour of Corsica have been improved with news that the C3 WRC will undergo further advances to its geometry. Across all surfaces, the lack of grip and stability at the rear of

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Loeb says he is completely in the dark about what to expect from his World Rally Championship return with Citroen at this week’s Rally Mexico. The nine-time champion retired from full-time WRC competition at the end of 2012, but won

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Elfyn Evans starts this week’s Rally Mexico searching for a win to turn around what he admits has been a “rubbish” beginning to the 2018 World Rally Championship. Back in the main M-Sport Ford team this year after winning Rally GB

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Heavy snow brought M-Sport’s test in preparation for Rally Mexico to an early end this week, with World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier only completing half of his intended running. The Ford Fiesta squad was running in Almeria in southern Spain when

Sebastien Loeb says he feels sorry for Craig Breen, who is being benched by Citroen for the next round of the World Rally Championship to make way for him. Nine-time World Rally champion Loeb is tackling three rounds of the 2018 series – next week’s Rally Mexico as well as Corsica and Spain – and

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. FIA president Jean Todt renewed his push to get the Safari Rally back on the World Rally Championship calendar with government talks this week. Todt talked of his determination to use the Kenyan event as a launchpad to promote road safety

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nasser Al-Attiyah is expected to drive a Toyota Yaris on selected rounds of this year’s World Rally Championship, starting with Rally Argentina in April. Al-Attiyah, who finished second on last month’s Dakar Rally in a Toyota Hilux, is closing on a

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Qualifying stages could return to the World Rally Championship amid renewed calls for an overhaul of the running order regulations following the Rally Sweden controversy. Sebastien Ogier finished 10th in Sweden after being forced to sweep loose snow from the road

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally Championship drivers and teams want changes to how national events share WRC bills after a controversial Rally Sweden that ended with Sebastien Ogier and M-Sport taking deliberate penalties. Rally Sweden Historic followed the modern cars onto the stages and

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Craig Breen admitted he is “gutted” that he will give way to Sebastien Loeb in the Citroen World Rally Championship team for two events straight after his WRC career-best result. Breen finished second to Thierry Neuville in Sweden last weekend but

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Thierry Neuville took his first World Rally Championship victory of the season with a dominant performance on Rally Sweden, while Craig Breen took a career-best second. Both Neuville and Breen rebounded fantastically from their showings last year on the event, when

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hyundai World Rally Championship driver Thierry Neuville will carry a 22.7-second lead over Craig Breen into the final day of Rally Sweden after safely negotiating Saturday’s evening stages. Neuville extended his lead on Saturday afternoon’s loop, and bolstered that by another

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Thierry Neuville added to his Rally Sweden lead on Saturday afternoon’s loop as he and nearest challenger Craig Breen opted for different tyre strategies. With gravel beginning to protrude from the icy roads on the second run through the Torntorp and

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Thierry Neuville continues to lead Rally Sweden despite a spin on Saturday morning’s stages, while Craig Breen thrust himself into contention for a first World Rally Championship win. Neuville looked relatively comfortable until SS10 Hagfors, where he and then second-place man

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Thierry Neuville withstood attacks from Andreas Mikkelsen and Esapekka Lappi to maintain his Rally Sweden lead on Friday afternoon, and will start Saturday heading a Hyundai 1-2-3. Toyota driver Lappi had taken second from Mikkelsen on the afternoon’s Hof-Finnskog opener and

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Thierry Neuville leads Andreas Mikkelsen in a Hyundai World Rally team one-two after the first four stages of Rally Sweden. Overnight leader Ott Tanak had initially pulled away from the field by winning the morning’s opener Hof-Finnskog, establishing a 6.8-second cushion

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota World Rally Championship driver Ott Tanak leads Rally Sweden ahead of the first full day of competition after winning the Karlstad superspecial stage on Thursday evening. Tanak, who was runner-up on the season opener in Monte Carlo last month, set

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mads Ostberg was stunned by his Rally Sweden shakedown pace on his return to the World Rally Championship with Citroen. Ostberg was 0.3 seconds shy of Thierry Neuville’s benchmark on the 4.26-mile stage, but a second up on team-mate Kris Meeke.

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Safari Rally’s hopes of a World Rally Championship return have been given a £1.8million boost from the Kenyan government. A bid to get Nairobi back on the WRC calendar by 2020 has been supported by Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta and

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ken Block could return to the World Rally Championship this season, with Ford Performance evaluating giving the American its backing for select outings. Block’s Ford-supported Hoonigan Racing Division team pulled out of World Rallycross at the end of last season, and

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hyundai has revealed the “most important” upgrades yet for its i20 R5 car as it bids to threaten the established category leaders. Skoda’s Fabia R5 and M-Sport’s Ford Fiesta R5 have long dominated the World Rally Championship’s second tier, while Citroen,

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. This year’s Rally GB route is set for its biggest overhaul since the World Rally Championship round moved from Cardiff, with closed roads featuring for the first time. The event moved to Deeside in 2013 and has comprised stages in mid-