Toyota’s Elfyn Evans leads Safari Rally Kenya after a dramatic and attritional Friday leg, the FIA World Rally Championship points leader grabbed the advantage after frontrunner Ott Tanak fell foul of mechanical problems late in the day.In true Safari fashion, few crews emerged unscathed from the first full day of...

Sport news Rally Poland, the seventh round of the FIA World Rally Championship, makes its appearance on the calendar for the fifth time, although it has the accolade of being the second oldest rally in the world behind Monte-Carlo. It was first included in the inaugural WRC season in 1973,...

Circuit of Ireland organisers have renewed their push for a World Rally Championship slot ahead of this week's record-breaking 2016 edition.This year's event counts for both the British and European Rally Championships and the Irish Tarmac Championship. It has attracted a 38-strong international entry of R5/S2000 machinery, and there were...

Esapekka Lappi has clinched the 2014 European Rally Championship ahead of this weekend's Corsica finale after a testing crash sidelined his Skoda team-mate and title rival Sepp Wiegand.Following his Valais win last month, Lappi only needed five points from Corsica to clinch the crown, but that was made academic when...

Esapekka Lappi moved to the brink of the 2014 European Rally Championship title with a commanding Rally of Valais win. The Finn was untroubled in Switzerland once he had overcome his factory Skoda team-mate Sepp Wiegand on Friday, repeating his 2013 triumph on the event.Lappi's third victory of the year...

M-Sport could parachute drivers from its World Rally Championship lineup into the European Rally Championship in response to the threat of Peugeot's new 208 T16.Malcolm Wilson's team won the ERC opener in Austria in January with Robert Kubica driving one of its Ford Fiestas, but last year's Rally Poland winner...

Craig Breen gave Peugeot's new 208 T16 victory in its European Rally Championship debut in the Acropolis Rally, taking his own first series win in the process.Peugeot's latest car led the entire event, with Breen's Sainteloc teammate Kevin Abbring on top initially before a water leak halted him halfway through...

Peugeot's new 208 T16 dominated day one of the Acropolis Rally on its top-level competition debut, with Craig Breen leading at the end of the leg.The 208 won four of the six Saturday stages between Breen and Kevin Abbring, his teammate in the Sainteloc-run Peugeot squad.Both 208 T16s led, as...

Kajetan Kajetanowicz claimed his second European Rally Championship victory after a faultless performance on home soil in Poland.Driving a new-generation Ford R5, the Pole had a trouble-free event and was there or thereabouts throughout the first day of the competition, before picking up the pace during the opening stages of...