Toyota Motor Corporation and the Global Institute for Motor Sport Safety have launched a four-year research project using Toyota's Total Human Model for Safety (THUMS) with the aim of enhancing safety in motorsports.The joint research project covers research on collisions involving not only closed-circuit race cars, but also rally cars,...

Highlights of the dramatic Rally Sweden

Today marks the 22nd anniversary of Ayrton Senna's fatal accident at Imola. In 1986, the Brazilian - already a multiple race-winner with Lotus - was handed the keys to an array of rally cars and set loose in a Welsh forest for a feature in a British magazine. This is...

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...

Hyundai will have a World Rally Championship WRC-2 specification i20 ready to compete by the middle of next season, with testing expected to start later this year.Despite already being committed to building a new i20 WRC, the team received a request from Hyundai's Korean HQ for the brand's motorsport program...

There will not be any "revolutionary" changes to the World Rally Car technical regulations in the FIA's next generation plan, according to its rally director Jarmo Mahonen.The governing body had discussed wide-ranging change for the WRC in its 2017 technical rules rewrite, but those plans have been shelved and the...

Andreas Eriksson gives you an All-Access tour Olsbergs MSE’s Rallycar Shop in Sweden

WRC Commission president Carlos Barbosa says the FIA is determined to reinvigorate the sport's spectacle with the next generation of World Rally Cars.New technical regulations will arrive in the world championship in 2017, but Barbosa is adamant those rules will be written and communicated before the end of this year....

The FIA is meeting with the World Rally Championship promoter in Geneva today to lay the foundations for the next generation of WRC cars in 2017.WRC Commission president Carlos Barbosa confirmed that the FIA has already sought opinion on the way forward for the cars competing at rallying's highest level,...

The FIA Institute is carrying out tests to improve the safety of rally cars in rollovers (scroll down for video of the testing), an area brought into sharp focus by Mads Ostberg's crash on Rally Italy last week.Ostberg's Ford Fiesta RS WRC had to have the A-pillar section of its...