Oliver Solberg on the eve of the 2022 FIA World Rally Championship season opening Rally Monte Carlo: ‘It is a dream come true for me to be joining a factory team for the first time. I am very excited; it’s just fantastically cool to be starting this new season.” The...

Sport newsToyota’s Ott Tänak has reduced Sébastien Ogier’s advantage of one minute 3.4 seconds down to 39.5 seconds after the re-run of this morning’s loop of stages. The Estonian was fastest by 15 seconds in the first stage and with another handful of seconds to his credit in the second...

Sport newsSébastien Ogier has extended his advantage at the top of the Rallye Monte-Carlo leaderboard and now heads Ott Tänak, second position having changed hands twice during the morning’s three stages. Dani Sordo remains third, team-mate Andreas Mikkelsen being forced into retirement.Today’s first full day of competition takes in two...

Kris Meeke leads Rally Monte Carlo overnight in his PH Sport Citroen DS 3, with Sebastien Ogier trailing by 6.9 seconds.Meeke spun on the opening test of the rally, dropping just under 10s, but the Northern Irishman – who signed a three-year deal with Citroen in the off-season – went...

The World Rally Championship released a list of what it described as nine 'initial' rallies for the 2016 calendar on Wednesday, with Rally GB just one glaring omission.Submitted to the World Motor Sport Council for approval, Monte Carlo (January 21-24) and Sweden (February 12-14) have dates attached, while Argentina, Australia,...

Pioneering racer, historian and automotive journalist Denise McCluggage passed away on Wednesday, May 6 at the age of 88.One of the first female sportswriters in the 1950s, McCluggage covered motorsports and skiing for the New York Herald Tribune (ABOVE: McCluggage, with camera, readies to be among the first to interview...

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...

Robert Kubica will remain in the World Rally Championship next season.The 2008 Canadian Grand Prix winner had labored over the decision of whether to remain in rallying or return to circuit racing for the first time since he finished fifth at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in November 2010.Sources within...

Despite a troubled start to his Hyundai career, Dani Sordo says he wants to remain with the Korean manufacturer for next year's World Rally Championship.Last year's Rally Germany winner was the first i20 WRC driver to score a fastest time and lead a round of the world championship at Rally...