Some regard Volkswagen's decision to quit the World Rally Championship as inevitable. How can a company continue to justify a multi-million dollar budget to go rallying when billions are being shipped in the wake of VW's diesel emissions scandal?Of course, the cost of running the World Rally Championship is a...

With Volkswagen committed for the long term and Toyota and Citroen coming back, the World Rally Championship is regaining manufacturer momentum. But is it sustainable this time? Just over a decade ago, the bubble burst. I remember the realization of what was coming. It was Argentina 2005 when the pieces...

Elfyn Evans is likely to stay with M-Sport in 2016, albeit only contesting selected World Rally Championship events.The British team announced on Monday that it had replaced Evans and Ott Tanak with Citroen refugee Mads Ostberg and newcomer Eric Camilli for 2016. Tanak will remain behind the wheel of an...

Sport newsFIA Pre-event Press ConferencePresent: Sébastien Ogier, Volkswagen Motorsport Malcolm Wilson, M-Sport World Rally Team Mads Østberg, Citroën Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team Thierry Neuville, Hyundai Motorsport Q: Sébastien, you continue to lead the championship as we come into this event. Argentina was a disappointment for the team -...

Present:Sébastien Ogier, Volkswagen MotorsportSébastien Loeb, Citroën Total Abu Dhabi World Rally TeamBryan Bouffier, M-Sport World Rally TeamElfyn Evans, M-Sport World Rally TeamThierry Neuville, Hyundai Motorsport Q:The start of the 2015 season and defending your FIA World Rally Championship title for the second time; how are you feeling about Monte Carlo...

M-Sport will field Ott Tanak and Elfyn Evans in its main line-up in the 2015 World Rally Championship.Tanak returns to the frontline fold to replace the retiring Mikko Hirvonen two years after his stint as a factory Ford driver with M-Sport, while Evans is kept on following a promising first...

Volkswagen driver Andreas Mikkelsen posted fastest time at this morning's Wales Rally GB shakedown stage.Mikkelsen was three tenths of a second faster over the two-mile Clocaenog stage than his fellow Polo drivers Sebastien Ogier and Jari-Matti Latvala, who were tied on second quickest, ensuring Volkswagen a clean sweep for the...

WRC.com photo. Click here to view the full photo sequence.Jari-Matti Latvala continued his fine run of World Rally Championship form by topping shakedown for Rally Germany, while rival Thierry Neuville faces a fight to make the start after rolling his Hyundai i20 WRC.Shakedown was halted after Neuville crashed heavily on...

Robert Kubica will not restart Rally of Portugal tomorrow following his second accident in as many days.The M-Sport Fiesta RS WRC driver slid off the road 12 miles into the Santana de Serra test this morning. In his efforts to get the car back on the road, the clutch was...

Ott Tanak has admitted he feared he might have lost his edge before his World Rally Championship comeback on Rally Sweden.The Estonian was dropped by M-Sport after a tough 2012 season, but bounced back with fifth place in Karlstad in a private Ford Fiesta RS WRCs."I was a lot closer...