World Rally Champion Sebastien Ogier will miss next month's Rally Italy if his wife Andrea goes into labor with their first child.The Volkswagen driver will travel to the Sardinian round of the WRC on June 9-12, but he will have a private plane waiting at Alghero airport for the duration...

June's Rally of Italy is promising to provide the toughest single-day challenge in the 2015 World Rally Championship, after announcing a revised route.Stung by criticism that there was not enough action to keep the drivers occupied last year, the organizers of the Sardinian event have put together the longest and...

Rally Italy organizers have defied the FIA's calls to return to the mainland and intend to keep the event on the island of Sardinia next season.Last week's event shifted its base from Olbia to Alghero and, while that was considered an improvement, there were still criticisms of the rally. Running...