Jari-Matti Latvala regained the lead of Rally Sweden after day-long leader Thierry Neuville crashed on the Karlstad super-special stage. Stage 12 was cancelled after average stage speed record broken by 7mph on the first run through the stage.
Thierry Neuville dominated day one of Rally Sweden, coming out on top of a day long battle with Toyota’s Jari-Matti Latvala to hold a 28 second overnight lead.
Mads Ostberg set the fastest time in Rally Sweden Shakedown, giving his brand new team a significant confidence boost for the event. Gus Greensmith in his first WRC2 event with M-Sport was only 0.4 seconds slower than Sébastien Ogier.
Opel has announced it’s three-car line-up for the FIA ERC Junior U27 Championship as the German manufacturer bids for a hat-trick of Junior titles, with English driver Chris Ingram favourite to take the crown.
The second round of the World Rally Championship takes us to Sweden where, unlike last year, there is plenty of snow and chance to see how the new cars perform on ice.
2013 Red Bull Global Rallycross Champion Topi Heikkinen will return to the EKSRX outfit for the 2017 FIA World Rallycross Championship as he competes alongside 2016 champion Mattias Ekstrom for a second season.
JC Raceteknik have announced that they will move up to the Supercar Class for the 2017 FIA European Rallycross Championship and the 2017 RallyX Nordic Championship…
Double DTM champion Timo Scheider has announced that he has signed for his first full season in the FIA World Rallycross Championship with Max Pucher’s renamed squad MJP Racing Team Austria
2016 World RX of Germany winner Kevin Eriksson has been confirmed to join Timo Scheider at MJP Racing Team Austria for the 2017 FIA World Rallycross Championship