Solberg To Join British Rally Championship
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20-year-old Oscar Solberg is to join the Junior British Rally Championship class in a Ford Fiesta R2T ran by MH Motorsport for a full season campaign alongside Patrik Barth.
Mads Østberg will miss the next round of the World Rally Championship in Mexico to avoid the chance of missing his son’s birth.
Toyota have had a fairytale start to their return to the WRC Jari-Matti Latvala victory in Rally Sweden, but he must thank Thierry Neuville for his solid points haul due to the Belgian throwing away two dominate victories this season. Gus Greensmith was the stand out of the British drivers this weekend.
The managing director of the Prestone British Rally Championship Ben Taylor is sure that: “This year is going to take the UK’s premier championship to another level”.
Patrik Sandell triumphs in Rally Sweden Historic
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Subaru’s new driver wins on first outing of 2017
Tommi Makinen was delighted to see Jari-Matti Latvala take victory in Rally Sweden, but admits that his Toyota team will continue to keep their feet on the ground.
Jari-Matti Latvala was delighted to take victory in Rally Sweden on Sunday, with the Finn dominating the final day of proceedings, winning all three stages including the power stage.
Jari-Matti Latvala secured Toyota’s first victory in the WRC since 1999 with an excellent performance on Rally Sweden. The Finn also secured maximum Power Stage points to take the championship lead away from Sébastien Ogier.
Despite admitting to driving steadily in Sweden, Thierry Neuville saw his chance of victory disappear for a second successive rally after crashing whilst leading on Saturday.
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.
Jari-Matti Latvala was quickest on the Karlstad Super Special stage and secured Toyota’s first stage win since their return to the WRC.
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.
Volkswagen will not be allowed to hire out its 2017 Polo R WRC this year after a ruling by the FIA.
Kris Meeke crashed into a ditch and rolled his Citroen C3 WRC during testing for this weeks Rally Sweden, and afterwards took full responsibility.
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.
