Jari-Matti Latvala heads into Rally Sardinia having defeated World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier in Portugal. But is it another false dawn for the Finn? A couple of days before the start of last month's Rally of Portugal Jari-Matti Latvala described Sebastien Ogier as a piano player. It was an entirely...

British World Rallycross Championship driver and team owner Liam Doran will return to the series for the final round in Argentina next month after his suspension.Doran last raced for his Monster Energy-branded LD team at Mettet in Belgium in July, but was forced onto the sidelines for following events after...

Newly crowned European Rallycross champion Robin Larsson plans to graduate to the World Rallycross Championship next season with his Audi A1 Supercar.Larsson claimed the European title at the final round of the series in Italy last month, topping the table ahead of World Rally Championship regular Henning Solberg. The European...

Factory Ford driver Andreas Bakkerud won the 11th round of the World Rallycross Championship at former Turkish Grand Prix Formula 1 venue Istanbul Park.Peugeot-Hansen driver Timmy Hansen had started on pole after topping the intermediate classification and winning his semi-final. Bakkerud started on row two alongside Marklund Motorsport Volkswagen man...

British World Rallycross driver Liam Doran has been forced to stand aside at Loheac due to an ongoing investigation into an incident at the World RX of Great Britain.A statement released by the Monster Energy team said Doran will act as team manager for the French event as investigations are...

M-Sport has unveiled the facelifted version of the Ford Fiesta RS WRC that will make its World Rally Championship debut on Rally Finland next week.Although a totally new Fiesta will not be seen in competition until 2015, M-Sport and its former factory partner Ford have collaborated on a restyling of...

Robert Kubica posted the fastest time on the Rally Italy shakedown stage.Kubica's M-Sport Ford Fiesta RS WRC was a tenth of a second faster than world championship leader Sebastien Ogier's Volkswagen Polo across the 2.6-mile Putifigari stage. Kubica benefited from cleaner conditions at shakedown after he elected to run further...

Ramona Karlsson will become the first female to race in the new-for-2014 World Rallycross Championship this season.The experienced rally driver has signed a deal to race an Eklund Motorsport Saab 93 Supercar in a minimum of seven events in 2014. She will be joined in the team by World Rally...

Volkswagen driver Andreas Mikkelsen set the fastest time on the opening special stage to take an early lead on Rally Sweden.The Norwegian (LEFT) completed the 1.9km Karlstadt Super Special 0.8 second quicker than his reigning world champion teammate Sebastian Ogier, who lost time by picking the wrong line in the...

Mads Ostberg made the perfect start to Rally Sweden by setting the pace at Wednesday morning's shakedown stage. The Citroen driver ended the 2.47-mile test close to Hagfors four tenths of a second faster than Volkswagen's Jari-Matti Latvala.Ostberg was fastest through much of the morning, but remained cautious about the...