Sport newsThroughout the course of last year the World Motor Sport Council approved a number of changes to the Sporting Regulations for the 2018 FIA World Rally Championship. The main amendments are as follows:Private teams or individual drivers will be permitted to enter 2017 specification World Rally Cars on WRC...

Pirelli will not contest the 2017 World Rally Championship, leaving just Michelin and DMACK to supply rubber for the new generation of World Rally Cars.The Formula 1 tire supplier has had a long association with the WRC, including a three-year spell when it was the only control tire supplier in...

Sport newsReigning FIA World Rally Champion Sébastien Ogier continues to head the Wales Rally GB leaderboard, the Frenchman losing only one second to second-placed Ott Tanak after Saturday’s first three stages. Thierry Neuville leads the challenge for Hyundai, the Belgian with one stage win this morning and now 42.1 seconds...

The World Rally Championship's tire war will continue for the foreseeable future, with plans for control rubber now shelved.Discussions over a Formula 1-style single supplier deal were held earlier this year, amid strong speculation such a move was likely. FIA rally director Jarmo Mahonen has now dismissed that plan, following...

The FIA has quashed plans for a control tire in the 2017 World Rally Championship, but admitted it remains an option for after next year.Earlier this month WRC Promoter confirmed discussions about a return to a single tire supply were ongoing. This proved controversial at a time when tire competition...

The expected pace increase of the 2017 World Rally Cars could be pegged back by the tire specification the faster machinery will require.There have been concerns over the speeds next year's significant increase in power will bring, but that is forcing Michelin and DMACK into a redesign of their World...

DMACK wants to lure M-Sport's works team away from Michelin for the 2017 World Rally Championship, and if it cannot it will expand its own squad to two cars.Fresh from its strongest ever WRC showing in Poland earlier this month, where it nearly won with Ott Tanak, DMACK managing director...

The World Rally Championship could return to a control tire for the 2017 season.The FIA opened the WRC up to multiple tire firms in 2011 after Pirelli ran its control tire for three years.Though Michelin has supplied all the factory teams since then, DMACK and Pirelli are also active in...

Ott Tanak came within a whisker of scoring his and DMACK's first World Rally Championship win in Poland on Sunday. Such a result would also have ended M-Sport's three and a half-year drought and given the WRC its first non-Michelin success since the end of 2010.In the end, Tanak and...

Andreas Mikkelsen snatched a dramatic second World Rally Championship victory by overcoming Ott Tanak on the penultimate stage of Rally Poland.The pair had been embroiled in a lead battle, joined by Hayden Paddon, for the whole weekend. By the end of Saturday it had looked like Tanak had done enough...