Two-time World Rally champion Marcus Gronholm will drive the opening Harju Special Stage at this week's Secto Rally Finland.

Concern is growing that the new generation of World Rally Cars for 2017 could be both too fast and provide an inadequate spectacle.World Rally Championship stage records are expected to tumble next season when the new cars emerge. More powerful engines, the return of a center differential to make the...

Two-time World Rally champion Marcus Gronholm has played down expectations of his son Niclas' rookie year in the World Rallycross Championship.Gronholm Jr. and fellow 19-year-old Kevin Eriksson will front the Olsbergs MSE team's assault on this year's World RX series in a pair of Ford Fiesta RX Supercars. His WRC...

Elfyn Evans will carry Autosport International branding on his M-Sport Ford Fiesta WRC during this week's Wales Rally GB.The logo for the Jan. 14-17 motorsports show in Birmingham, UK will be featured across the Ford in the final round of the World Rally Championship, marking M-Sport's presence as a major...

Marcus Gronholm drove Volkswagen's 2017 Polo R WRC mule for three days on asphalt in France last week. The Finn was testing in classic Monte Carlo stages around Roquesteron and Col de Bleine in the German firm's first asphalt development running of its next-generation machine.Volkswagen's technical project leader Francois-Xavier Demaison...

The FIA Drivers' Commission has raised the prospect of young drivers undertaking a mandatory course before graduating from karting to racecars.The age of drivers in open-wheel championships has been in the spotlight, and driving standards have also attracted scrutiny on occasion. Led by two-time Formula 1 world champion and Indy...

Two-time World Rally Champion Marcus Gronholm has tested the first incarnation of Volkswagen's 2017 Polo R WRC. The Polo will form part of the next generation of the world championship, with louder, faster and more extreme cars competing in the series.Gronholm drove the car for three days in Finland last...

Four-time Formula 1 world champion Sebastian Vettel will return to the Race of Champions for this year's edition in London.Vettel (LEFT) teamed up with Michael Schumacher to win the Nations Cup element of the RoC every year from 2007 to '12, when he last contested the end-of-season head-to-head event (BELOW).The...

Niclas Gronholm, son of two-time World Rally champion Marcus, is set to make his World Rallycross Championship debut this year at Holjes in Sweden, driving a Ford Fiesta Supercar. The 18-year-old Finn will contest the Finnish Rallycross Championship alongside his World RX appearance and three events in the Swedish Rallycross...

Marcus Gronholm says there is no chance he will compete again in the World Rally Championship despite his recent appointment as Volkswagen's test driver.The Finn retired from full-time rallying seven years ago, and says he has no desire to return to the series, but he is enjoying his new role...