Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Volkswagen plans to demonstrate its abandoned 2017 World Rally Car in full livery and Monte Carlo specification for fans in the future. The 2017 Polo R WRC for last year’s new rules package was one of the most eagerly awaited rally

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The takeaway lessons from Sebastien Ogier’s victory in the 2018 World Rally Championship-opening Monte Carlo Rally are demonstrated in this clip from the latest episode of Motorsport.tv’s The Flying Lap. Autosport Rallies Editor David Evans joins host Peter Windsor to explain

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Petter Solberg is chasing a return to the World Rally Championship after testing Volkswagen’s Polo GTI R5 last week. The 2003 world champion completed almost 200 miles of running in northern Sweden, emerging from the Polo intending to contest a full

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Last year’s WRC Trophy champion Jourdan Serderidis will step up to a Ford Fiesta WRC for two rounds of the 2018 World Rally Championship with M-Sport. The 54-year-old Greek privateer will pilot a Fiesta WRC at Rally Germany in August and

PSA Group CEO Carlos Tavares has rubbished suggestions that reducing Citroen’s budget will affect its chances of winning World Rally Championship titles. Sources close to the French team suggest budgets were slashed last year and Tavares insists he wants to see the money available being put to better use. Tavares, who has more than 35

Toyota driver Ott Tanak has revealed he effectively retired from the World Rally Championship when first dropped by M-Sport. Tanak was shown the door by Malcolm Wilson’s team after a turbulent 2012 season (pictured above) and has admitted he turned his back on the WRC at that point. “In 2013 I had no plans to

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kris Meeke says his Monte Carlo Rally powerstage win does not hide the fact the Citroen World Rally Championship outfit needs things to “completely change” to win the event again. Meeke finished fourth overall on the WRC season opener following a

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning World Rallycross champion Johan Kristoffersson will contest next month’s Rally Sweden in a Skoda Fabia R5. The Swede started his home round of the World Rally Championship in 2016 but this will be the first time he competes in a

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota’s double Monte Carlo Rally podium eclipsed the two wins it scored in the World Rally Championship last season, according to team principal Tommi Makinen. Ott Tanak pressured eventual winner Sebastien Ogier before finishing second on his debut for Toyota, with

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hyundai team principal Michel Nandan says his team cannot afford to panic after a problematic 2018 World Rally Championship-opening Monte Carlo Rally. Thierry Neuville was the highest placed Hyundai finisher in fifth place, but the title hopeful’s rally was compromised when

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault Formula 1 driver Carlos Sainz Jr said his father warned him “about 100 times” to be careful ahead of driving the final two stages of the Monte Carlo Rally last Sunday. Sainz Jr drove a Renault Megane R.S. course car

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally champions Petter Solberg and Marcus Gronholm helped conduct the latest test for Volkswagen’s new Polo GTI R5 car in Sweden. Solberg, the 2003 champion, and two-time WRC title winner Gronholm were joined by reigning WRC2 champion Pontus Tidemand for

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Ogier kicked off the 2018 World Rally Championship season with a commanding victory on the Monte Carlo Rally. Ogier led from the very beginning despite spinning on a chaotic, ice-affected, first stage, but his advantage over 2017 WRC team-mate Ott

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier is just two stages away from kicking off his bid for a sixth-straight title with victory on the Monte Carlo Rally. The M-Sport Ford Fiesta WRC driver had his lead trimmed to just over half a

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Carlos Sainz claimed his second Dakar Rally win earlier this month with victory for Peugeot. After his victory, the 55-year-old rallying legend was interviewed by Peter Windsor for the latest episode of Motorsport.tv show The Flying Lap. In this clip from

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Ogier will take a lead of more than half a minute into the final day of the 2018 World Rally Championship’s season-opening Monte Carlo Rally. The reigning champion’s advantage was halved from its largest point as Toyota’s Ott Tanak continued

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ott Tanak hacked a third out of Sebastien Ogier’s Saturday morning Monte Carlo Rally advantage to get the gap at the top down to 39.5 seconds. Tanak dropped back from Ogier dramatically at the start of the day with what he

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Ogier’s Monte Carlo Rally lead ballooned to more than a minute after the first two Saturday stages, despite damaging a wheel. The reigning world champion started the day 14.9s clear but smashed his main rival Ott Tanak on a devilishly

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Ogier’s Monte Carlo Rally lead is down to 14.9 seconds after a mistake on Friday afternoon allowed Ott Tanak to close in. Tanak had already taken six seconds out of Ogier’s advantage on the loop’s first stage, but then began

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Ogier stretched his Monte Carlo Rally lead as second place changed hands repeatedly on the first daylight stages of the 2018 World Rally Championship opener. Ogier had been 17 seconds clear of Andreas Mikkelsen’s Hyundai following Thursday’s night stages, but

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Ogier leads the 2018 World Rally Championship-opening Monte Carlo Rally overnight despite spinning on a chaotic, ice-affected, first stage that caught out most drivers. Ogier’s 2017 WRC title rival Thierry Neuville had the most costly incident of any in the

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hyundai driver Thierry Neuville started the 2018 World Rally Championship with the fastest time in shakedown ahead of the Monte Carlo Rally. The Belgian won Wednesday afternoon’s shakedown stage with a fastest time of 2m00.2s, edging his fellow i20 WRC driver

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault Formula 1 driver Carlos Sainz Jr says his Monte Carlo Rally course car drive on the 2018 World Rally Championship opener is the precursor to future competitive rallying. Sainz will drive a Renault Megane RS as a non-competitive course car

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Carlos Sainz admits his cross-country rally stint with Peugeot would have ended with a “bad taste” if he failed to score a Dakar win for himself. Sainz, who won his first Dakar in 2010 with Volkswagen, joined Peugeot ahead of its

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault Formula 1 driver Carlos Sainz will make his rallying debut at this week’s World Rally Championship season-opener in Monte Carlo. The 23-year-old will drive one of the organisers’ Renault Megane R.S. course cars through the 8.5-mile Col de Braus powerstage

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hayden Paddon will contest five national rallies at home in New Zealand to stay sharp in gaps in his seven-round World Rally Championship programme with Hyundai. Paddon is sharing Hyundai’s third i20 Coupe WRC with Dani Sordo this season while Thierry

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dakar winner Carlos Sainz believes his son, Formula 1 racer Carlos Jr, took “revenge” on him this month for all the advice he has given him during his single-seater career. Sainz Sr has been a regular fixture at his son’s side

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Rally legend Carlos Sainz has scored his second Dakar victory in the 2018 edition of the event. Two-time World Rally champion Sainz had not finished any of the prior three Dakars he had contested as a Peugeot works driver, yet 2018

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Carlos Sainz has edged closer to his second Dakar Rally victory, but his Peugeot team is set to miss out on a one-two finish following a penultimate stage crash for Stephane Peterhansel. Peterhansel was 45 minutes behind Sainz and 20 clear

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota’s Nasser Al-Attiyah beat Peugeot rival Stephane Peterhansel to top the longest timed special of the 2018 Dakar Rally, as Carlos Sainz edged closer to overall victory. Al-Attiyah was two minutes quicker than Peterhansel through the 325-mile run between Chilecito and