Hyundai Motorsport's i20 R5 has been delayed by last-minute homologation complications, forcing works driver Kevin Abbring to miss the Tour of Corsica shakedown.The Dutchman and his British co-driver Sebastian Marshall were forced to sit out final preparations for France's World Rally Championship event, while the FIA finalised its checks on...

Hyundai's i20 R5 will break competitive cover on the Tour de Corse at the end of the month, with three cars contesting the French island event.Hyundai factory crew Kevin Abbring and Seb Marshall will drive the Korean firm's R5, having completed around 3000 miles of development running in the car....

Dani Sordo's pre-Rally Finland crash has ruled him out of the next round of the World Rally Championship. Hyundai has confirmed Kevin Abbring and his co-driver Sebastian Marshall will step in for the injured Spaniard on the July 28-31 event.Team principal Michel Nandan admitted the decision had been taken with...

Hyundai World Rally Championship driver Dani Sordo has fractured a vertebra in a crash during his pre-Rally Finland test.Both the Spaniard and co-driver Marc Marti spent Friday night in hospital following the accident and both were discharged the following day.Marti escaped injury, while Sordo is nursing the fracture at home.A...

Hyundai's 2017 World Rally Car will be based on the three-door i20 it wanted to use this season. The Korean manufacturer's current car was planned to come off the three-door platform, until it was discovered the factory couldn't produce enough cars to satisfy homologation requirements, hence this season's five-door i20...

Dutchman Kevin Abbring will drive a factory Hyundai on three rounds of this year's World Rally Championship, with entries in Portugal and Sardinia confirmed.Abbring, who will be co-driven as usual by Britain's Seb Marshall, is running a limited program of world rallies through 2016, focusing his attentions on developing the...

New Zealander Hayden Paddon has signed a three-year extension to his Hyundai World Rally Championship contract. Paddon, 28, has been driving an i20 WRC on a part-programme for the last two years but will start his first full season in the WRC next year."I am very excited to sign with...

Saturday's first Tour of Corsica stage has been canceled as poor weather conditions continue to hamper the World Rally Championship's French round.The 27.14-mile Casamozza-Ponte Leccia stage had already been called off on Friday due to severe flooding and landslips in the area. It was scheduled to run again as Saturday's...

Hyundai has confirmed Kevin Abbring's programme for the rest of the 2015 World Rally Championship, with the Dutch driver to tackle a further four rounds in an i20 WRC.Abbring's next event will be Rally Poland on July 2-5, before contesting Germany, Corsica and Rally GB. He has experience of all...

Hyundai has delayed its new World Rally Championship i20 until 2016 and canceled plans for the next car to be a three-door version.The team had intended to run a three-door coupe i20 for its next generation World Rally Car and had scheduled its debut for the second half of this...