Breen Confirmed to Enter Ypres with Hyundai
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Craig Breen will drive the third Hyundai i20 WRC at the 2020 FIA World Rally Championship season-finale in Belgium on the Ypres Rally.
Francois Delecour is set to debut the all-new Alpine A110 R-GT in the FIA World Rally Championship at the 2021 season-opener in Monte Carlo.
Ken Block will be returning to the Rally Legends festival in San Marino this weekend after his successful appearance last year
Petter Solberg will return to rallying at Rally Italia Sardegna where he and Andreas Mikkelsen will be debuting next year’s Scorpion KX WRC tyre on the Power Stage of the WRC event.
Opel Motorsport have now unveiled the Opel Adam R2 predecessor, the all-new Opel Corsa Rally4 which will be entering the rallies from early next year.
Motorsport UK has signed an agreement for rallying to continue in Wales until 2023.
Toyota Gazoo Racing team principal Tommi Mäkinen is not happy over the tactical moves by Ott Tänak to go slower in the second-to-last special stage to save tyres for the Power Stage – where the Estonian claimed four extra championship points
Pontus Tidemand won Rally Turkey last weekend and as a result sees him taking the WRC2 championship lead,
Adrien Fourmaux took second in WRC2 on last weekend’s Rally Turkey behind rival Pontus Tidemand.
Teemu Suninen was forced to retire from last weekend’s Rally Turkey with broken suspension on the final day of the event.
Esapekka Lappi was disappointed not to be able to show his potential pace on the final day of Rally Turkey last weekend.
Gus Greensmith took his best WRC result to date on last weekend’s Rally Turkey with fifth place.
Thierry Neuville claimed his second podium finish of the year in Turkey last weekend but admitted he was annoyed not to take the overall win.
Sébastien Loeb is rumored to have made his final WRC appearance on Rally Turkey last weekend.
By winning Rally Turkey, Elfyn Evans has taken the championship lead by 18 points over teammate Sébastien Ogier.
The Italian Monza Rally Show is now looking to host the FIA World Rally Championship season-finale in December – the event has regularly attended by several WRC teams and drivers in the past.
Tommi Mäkinen will step away from his role as the team manager at Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team at the end of 2020 and will become an advisor for the Japanese manufacturer starting next season.
