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    • MINI have confirmed they will leave the World Rally Championship (WRC) as a works team at the end of this season, less than two years after entering the championship.

      MINI Withdraw From World Rally Championship

    • Michelin are giving away two pairs of VIP hospitality tickets to the Wales Rally GB on Friday 14 September. The British round of the World Rally Championship takes place over...

      Win VIP Wales Rally GB Tickets With Michelin

    • M-Sport, the company behind Ford’s WRC team since 1997, will open its doors to students on Monday 2 July for a unique engineering seminar in conjunction with the Motorsport Industry Association and National Motorsport Week 2012.

      M-Sport Opens Its Doors For Future Engineers

    • This weekend's Rally New Zealandis going to be especially difficult for the teams and tyre manufacturer Michelin. The rally is taking place in New Zealand's winter, which means temperatures between...

      Michelin Preview Rally New Zealand

    • Welsh co-driver Gareth Roberts has died in an accident while competing on the Targa Florio Rally, a round of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge. He was aged just 24.

      Co-Driver Gareth Roberts Dies In Crash In Italy

    • Jari-Matti Latvala has won his first competitive stage since returning from a broken collarbone to lead Rally Greece at the end of day one, but with the ever present Sebastien Loeb less than three seconds behind.

      Latvala Makes Winning Return In Acropolis Opener

    • Former World Rally champion and current factory Ford driver Petter Solberg has been confirmed as the star turn for Rallyday 2012 at Castle Combe (August 18).

      Petter Solberg Set To Star At Rallyday 2012

    • After days of speculation, Ford has confirmed that Dani Sordo will replace the injured Jari-Matti Latvala for next week's Rally Argentina.

      Sordo Confirmed As Latvala Replacement For Argentina

    • After Mikko Hirvonen's disqualification from Rally Portugal last weekend, Mads Ostberg inherited first place, his first ever WRC win. On paper at least, it was a landmark achievement, the first privateer to win a rally for nineteen years. Ostberg however has mixed emotions on his first win, and has set his sights on earning another win to prove his Portugal victory was on merit rather than circumstantial.

      Ostberg Craves “Proper” Victory Following Portugal Win

    • A sensational Rally Portugal has delivered one last surprise, with rally winner Mikko Hirvonen excluded for use of a n0n-homologated clutch component in his Citroen DS3 WRC.

      Ostberg Inherits Debut Win After Hirvonen Exclusion

    • Mikko Hirvonen capitalised on Friday's carnage to win Rally Portugal, with team-mate Sebastien Loeb and Ford rival Jari-Matti Latvala failing to finish in the points.

      Mikko Hirvonen Seals Rally Portugal Victory

    • Mikko Hirvonen had a trouble free day to take a lead of over one minute into the final day of Rally Portugal, but it was Ford rival Petter Solberg making the biggest impression after jumping from 13th to 5th by winning four out of the day's six stages.

      Solberg Flies As Hirvonen Consolidates Portugal Lead

    • Mikko Hirvonen has so far won the war of attrition, the only works WRC car without the scars of battle tearing it to shreds. Ford were a victim of their own success, the late running order working against them, and making the stages so difficult for Jari-Matti Latvala and Petter Solberg that they crashed out within a stage of each other.

      Hirvonen Emerges From Portugal Chaos With Rally Lead

    • Jari-Matti Latvala leads a blue oval dominated Rally Portugal, after championship leader Sebastien Loeb made a rare mistake that forced the Frenchman's retirement from the rally.

      Ford Capitalise On Loeb Disaster To Lead Rally Portugal

    • Jari-Matti Latvala led a dominant performance by the blue oval in Rally Portugal's qualifying stage - the three mile stage setting the running order for the opening leg of the rally on Thursday.

      Ford Dominate Portugal Qualifying, Citroen Takes Order Risk

    • The WRC circus heads to Portugal for Round 4 of the championship, and the unpredictable nature of the rally could throw up shades of the 2001 catastrophe once again.

      Rally de Portugal Preview

    • Sebastien Loeb scored his sixth career win on Rally Mexico, beating Citroen teammate Mikko Hirvonen by 42.4 seconds over the course of the three day event.

      Sebastien Loeb Seals Untroubled Rally Mexico Victory

    • Sebastien Loeb extended his lead on day two of Rally Mexico, adding to the 11 second lead he brought into the day over Citroen teammate Mikko Hirvonen.

      Sebastien Loeb Increases His Lead Atop Rally Mexico Standings

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