WRC Archive

  • Yvan Muller - Photo credit: FIAWTCC.com

    Yvan Muller To Compete In Home WRC Event

    Frenchman Yvan Muller will compete in this years French round of the World Rally Championship, adding to his already hectic schedule in the coming months. Muller currently competes in the World Touring Car Championship with Chevrolet, but has elected to try his hand at the...

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  • Sebastien Loeb on shakedown duties

    Shakedown Domination For Citroen

    Citroen dominated the dry shakedown session for ADAC Rally Deutschland. The French marque ended the shakedown with five of it’s C4 World Rally cars featuring in the top seven times on the 5.9km stage. The Citroen Total World Rally Team and the Citroen Junior Team...

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  • Wittman

    Wittmann & Wicha enter ADAC Rally Deutschland

    After a break from the Intercontinental Rally Challenge, Franz Wittmann and Klaus Wicha are to enter Rally Deutschland in preparation for their entry on the Czech round of the IRC. ADAC Rally Deutschland event is part of the World Rally Championship calendar, and is based...

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  • Juho Hanninen

    Hanninen takes dominant home SWRC win

    Finnish wildcard and IRC points leader Juho Hanninen led a Skoda rout of the new for 2010 class, doing a Citroen by locking out the top four places.

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  • Jari-Matti Latvala on route to his win

    Latvala edges out Ogier for home victory

    There were both (quite literally) highs and lows for Ford this weekend, while as Jari-Matti Latvala fended off an army of Citroen C4s to snatch victory, his team-mate and Ford number 1 Mikko Hirvonen was left licking his wounds (not literally) after a monster shunt...

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  • Sebastien Loeb

    Rally Finland 2010: Preview

    Finland is the second home of rallying (in chronological terms only, without Sebastien Loeb, France would barely have a claim to being the first) but of late the natives have been rather lacklustre. A country so used to success is in the doldrums, and have recalled an old national hero to try and brighten the mood.

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  • Mini Countryman WRC

    Mini Confirm World Rally Championship Entry

    As reported last week, Mini have now confirmed their return to the international rallying stage in 2011 to complete in selected rounds of the FIA World Rally Championship. 2012 will see a full program from Mini with planned involvement over several years. The Mini Countryman...

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  • Prodrive

    Prodrive Mini tie-up to be announced

    Prodrive will announce its latest WRC venture with BMW Mini later this week, according to Autosport.

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  • Duval at the 2008 Rallye Deutschland

    Duval makes Rally Deutschland comeback

    Francois Duval has come out of retirement for next month's Rally Deutschland, and will replace Henning Solberg at Stobart Ford for the all tarmac event.

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  • Colin Turkington - Photo credit: Vince Pettit Photography

    Good Week Bad Week 8

    It’s been a relatively quiet week – unless of course you woke up a dormant volcano. The volcano in question is of course metaphorical, but just when you think these two have stopped getting at each others throats, they manage to find a new way...

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  • Sebastien Ogier

    Ogier stays with Citroen for 2011

    Sebastien Ogier has signed a three year deal for Citroen, along with an inevitable contract renewal for Sebastien Loeb, starting from 2011.

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  • Markko Martin

    Märtin considering rally comeback

    Former Ford and Peugeot WRC driver Markko Märtin is looking to return to the top level of rallying, after a one-off drive at this weekend's Rally Estonia.

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  • Kimi Raikkonen

    Loeb Urges Raikkonen To Stay

    With rumours of Kimi Raikkonen returning to Formula 1 with Renault circulating, six-time World Rally Champion Sebastien Loeb has urged him to stay where he is. Loeb who is looking good for his seventh consecutive world championship told Autosport why he thinks the 2007 F1...

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  • Sebastien Ogier

    The Future Is In Ogier’s Hands

    The WRC Silly Season may not be as buzzing with action as the F1 equivalent - but arguably it has one mover that can change the entire shape of the sport for years to come, simply by choosing between two teams. It's not just Sebastien Ogier who'll be affected by his own decision between Citroen and Ford, the implications will change the careers of many around him as well.

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    Citroen crushes Ford as Loeb wins again

    The final day of Rally Bulgaria was only ever going to produce one result - a Citroen monopoly. Sebastien Loeb spearheaded the French marque's domination all weekend - taking a clean sweep of stage wins on the opening day, but letting his team-mates race amongst themselves behind and just managing the time gap.

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  • Sebastien Loeb, Rally Bulgaria

    Loeb cruising as Ford struggles on

    Sebastien Loeb looks set for yet another asphalt win, after making light work of unpredictable conditions to maintain a steady lead over team-mate Dani Sordo, whose 2nd place is under severe threat from Petter Solberg heading into the final two stages of the rally tomorrow.

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  • Sebastien Loeb

    Junior Senior: Loeb leads as Ogier drops places

    Sebastien Loeb showed us why he's the master of asphalt by taking a full house of stage wins today - and having a lead of just under half a minute over Citroen team-mate Dani Sordo. However the Junior drivers did not have such a great day, with Sebastien Ogier down in 6th after missing a junction, and Kimi Raikkonen retiring after crashing during the final stage of the day.

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  • raikkonen

    Raikkonen Crashes Out Of Rally Bulgaria

    Citroen Junior Team driver Kimi Raikkonen is out of Rally Bulgaria after a dramatic accident on SS4. The Finnish driver was lying in fourth place as he entered the stage and 19.5km in to the final stage of the day. Specific details of the accident...

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  • Sebastien Ogier

    Ogier in talks with Ford for 2011

    Sebastien Ogier may not be as cemented to the Citroen as everyone first thought – after entering talks with the Ford World Rally Team – meaning he is the key to the driver market this season, having the pick of the two best teams in...

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  • Citroen

    Rally Bulgaria 2010: Preview

    As the WRC heads into the second half of the season, there is a long, asphalt paved road ahead. 4 tarmac rallies means the race to Rally GB is Loeb territory - the Frenchman winning every pure tarmac event since 2005. And to compound arch rivals Ford's misery - Citroen has already won here despite the rally being new to the WRC - Bruno Thiry won the event in a Xsara as part of the European Rally Championship.

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  • Chris Patterson

    Solberg Chooses Patterson As New Co-driver

    Chris Patterson will be Petter Solberg's new co-driver from next month's Rally Bulgaria onwards, after the Norwegian's former co-driver Phil Mills left the team a few weeks ago.

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  • Sebastien Loeb - Photo credit: Citroen Racing

    Sebastien Loeb To Drive Ferrari

    World Rally Championship dominator Sebastien Loeb will make another of his forays into sports car racing this weekend, driving a Ferrari F430 in the French GT3 Championship. The six-time champion is no stranger to sports cars, having contested the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice...

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  • Toyota Celica

    Toyota’s Past, Present And Future For Festival of Speed

    The 2010 Goodwood Festival of Speed will included a mouth-watering array of Toyota machinery from over twenty years of WRC cars to some on of the most recent and powerful chapters of Toyota’s racing history. The treat for rally fans will include the 1980s “King...

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  • 2010 Rally Serbia - Mikko Hirvonen / Jarmo Lehtinen - Ford Focus RS WRC

    Hirvonen Battles The Elements For Serbian Victory

    Mikko Hirvonen took a dominant victory at Rally Serbia, winning by a margin of over 7 minutes - though his task wasn't as easy as you might expect.

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  • Everybody Hates Citroen – but they shouldn’t

    Everybody Hates Citroen – but they shouldn’t

    In the WRC, all-conquering teams and drivers usually come in pairs - Miki Biasion and Lancia, Carlos Sainz and Toyota, Tommi Makinen and Mitsubishi, Marcus Gronholm and Peugeot to name a few of them. However all of these past greats have paled into insignificance compared to one duo that has been unstoppable since what feels like the dawn of time these days - Sebastien Loeb and Citroen.

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  • Juniors dominate Rally della Lanterna

    Juniors dominate Rally della Lanterna

    The Citroen Junior team wrapped up their asphalt 'test' at the Rally della Lanterna in style, with a close 1-2 finish for their drivers Sebastien Ogier and Kimi Raikkonen.

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  • Mills retires from WRC

    Mills retires from WRC

    After 152 events together, Phil Mills has parted ways with Petter Solberg, after leaving the Norwegian's family run team.

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  • Citroen Juniors go asphalt testing in Italy

    Citroen Juniors go asphalt testing in Italy

    With four of the remaining six rallies on the WRC calendar being pure tarmac events, everyone is piling on the asphalt testing to try and catch the seemingly unstoppable Sebastien Loeb. While Ford head out to Serbia, the Citroen Junior team and their driving pair of Sebastien Ogier and Kimi Raikkonen are heading south to the Rally della Lanterna in Italy this weekend.

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  • Ogier hangs on to secure debut victory

    Ogier hangs on to secure debut victory

    Sebastien Ogier claimed his first ever WRC victory, after succesfully keeping multiple world champion team-mate Sebastien Loeb at bay for the last two days of competition.

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  • Ogier continues to lead Citroen quartet

    Ogier continues to lead Citroen quartet

    Sebastien Ogier retained his lead of Rally Portugal, but his lead was slashed in half during the morning loop by Sebastien Loeb, and with more roadsweeping ahead for the younger Sebastien, a 21 second lead may not be enough to hold the multiple champion at bay.

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