IRC Archive

  • Kris Meeke - Photo: Peugeot

    Peugeot’s Hopes Dashed In Zlin

    Any hopes Peugeot had of retaining the driver’s title for the fourth consecutive year were dashed as the Intercontinental Rally Challenge left the Czech Republic last weekend. Defending series champion, Kris Meeke was looking to deliver a strong result and hope those ahead of him...

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  • Meeke

    Kris Meeke And Peugeot To Step Into Enemy Territory

    This weekend’s running of the Barum Czech Rally sees Peugeot and their champion driver Kris Meeke head into the Skoda stronghold of the Czech Republic, to take on both local knowledge and fanatical partisan crowds in the Zlin based event. Defending Intercontinental Rally Challenge champion...

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  • Wilks

    Guy Wilks Aiming For Strong Run In Zlin

    An enforced twelve week break due to an injury sustained on Rally d’Italia-Sardegna in June, has meant that Guy Wilks has been forced to watch from the sidelines for three events, as his competitors in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge built an advantage in the championship....

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  • IRC

    Loix Leads Skoda Domination In Madeira

    As Peugeot continues to bemoan Skoda's recent domination of the IRC, Freddy Loix further compounded their misery by leading a Skoda podium lockout at the Rali Vinho Madeira - while the other frontrunners were nowhere to be seen.

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  • Kris Meeke in action - Photo credit: Peugeot Media

    Peugeot in IRC quit threat over factory teams

    Peugeot Sport team boss Olivier Quesnel has warned the French manufacturer will pull out of the IRC completely if Skoda are allowed to enter as a full factory-supported team next season, claiming it is unfair to the other competitors in the series.

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  • Kris Meeke - Photo Credit: Peugeot Media

    Meeke leads in Madeira

    As the scorching sunlight beat down on the spectators lining the Funchal seafront, Kris Meeke sprinted his way to victory in the opening stage of Rally Madeira, with Peugeot team-mate Bruno Magalhaes backing him up three tenths behind. “This event was completely new to me...

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  • Franz Wittmann

    Interwetten eyes 2011 IRC campaign

    Interwetten Racing has entered a wide variety of series over the years - and they are looking to turn their rally program into a full-time effort in the Intercontinental Rally Challenege.

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  • Bruno Magalhaes on the Podium

    Magalhaes ecstatic with first win

    Bruno Magalhaes celebrated his debut IRC victory last week on home soil, which was also his second Azores rally win of his career.

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  • Bruno Magalhaes - Photo Credit: IRC

    Magalhaes capitalises on Skoda disaster for Azores win

    Bruno Magalhaes may have been in contention for victory during much of the Azores rally - but his victory was a shock nonetheless as the works Skoda team self destructed in the final loop of Sunday's stages to hand arch rivals Peugeot a 1-2 finish.

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  • Juho Hanninen - Photo credit: IRC

    The Azores Awaits The IRC

    The Intercontinental Rally Challenge enters the second half of it’s 2010 season this weekend, as the crews visit the mid-Atlantic island group of the Azores, to compete in the second successive running of Rally Azores as a championship round of the IRC. A combination of...

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  • Sebastien Ogier Busts in Monte Carlo

    Sebastien Ogier Busts in Monte Carlo

    “When I headed out from the service park in Monaco for the last two stages of the rally, I had every intention of pulling out all the stops to try to win, but a red light suddenly lit up on my dashboard.” It’s a situation...

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  • Mikko Hirvonen Takes Monte Carlo Win For Ford

    Mikko Hirvonen Takes Monte Carlo Win For Ford

    2009 WRC runner-up Mikko Hirvonen got his year off to the perfect start after winning the Monte Carlo Rally, now part of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC), in an M-Sport built S2000 spec Ford Fiesta. Hirvonen, along with regular co-driver Jarmo Lehtinen, won three of...

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  • Meeke Out, Ogier Leads Peugeot’s Monte Challenge

    Meeke Out, Ogier Leads Peugeot’s Monte Challenge

    Frenchman Sebastien Ogier continued his recovery on the Monte Carlo Rally, bouncing back from the delays of day one to win three of the six stages on day two. The defending Monte winner is now the lead Peugeot as the pack chase down the Ford...

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  • Peugeot Pack Chasing Down Hirvonen On Monte Carlo Day One

    Peugeot Pack Chasing Down Hirvonen On Monte Carlo Day One

    WRC regular Mikko Hirvonen leads the Intercontinental Rally Challenge’s (IRC) Monte Carlo Rally after day one, heading a pack full of Peugeot 207s, led by defending series champion Kris Meeke. “I was expecting today’s leg to be the most difficult of the rally,” said Meeke....

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  • Rally’s stock is going up in 2010

    Rally’s stock is going up in 2010

    It’s now official. Kimi Raikkonen will do what the more perceptive amongst us suspected he would do since the day he decided to roll out his S2000 Abarth Grande Punto and participated in the penultimate (Finnish stages) of the 2009 WRC.  I remember watching Raikkonens’...

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  • See Peugeots’ winning cars at Autosport International

    See Peugeots’ winning cars at Autosport International

    Peugeot are set to display it’s winning cars at the upcoming Autosport International show at the NEC, Birmingham on 14-17 January. The French manufacturer will be showing off Kris Meeke’s Intercontinental Rally Challenge Championship winning Peugeot 207 Super 2000 along with as the 2009 2WD...

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  • Cronin leads BRC assault on final IRC round of 2009

    Cronin leads BRC assault on final IRC round of 2009

    A third of the upcoming IRC 2009 MSA British Rally Championship will be made up of British Rally Championship drivers, including three past and present champions. The challenge of the final round of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge will be taken on by 2007/2008 champion Guy...

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  • Meeke and Bogie launch RACMSA Rally of Scotland

    Meeke and Bogie launch RACMSA Rally of Scotland

    Newly crowned IRC champion Kris Meeke has launched this year’s inaugural RACMSA Rally of Scotland along with new Scottish national rally champion David Bogie. November 19 see’s the start of the rally which follows a route across some of Scotland’s most picturesque countryside. “This is...

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  • IRC Round 10 – Sanremo: Preview

    IRC Round 10 – Sanremo: Preview

    Kris Meeke goes into the penultimate round of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge with a 1 point lead over Rally Principe de Asturias winner Jan Kopecky. Kopecky brought the Britons lead down to a single point in Spain after a dramatic second leg with Meeke lucky...

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