Thierry Neuville leapt from fifth to second in the FIA World Rally Championship standings on Sunday afternoon after clinching a long-awaited victory at Rally Sardinia.The Belgian (above) headed home Hyundai Motorsports teammate Esapekka Lappi by 33.0s in a dream 1-2 finish for the Korean marque and its hybrid i20 N...

Thierry Neuville sits on the brink of his first FIA World Rally Championship win of 2023 having taken control of Rally Sardinia on a thrilling and chaotic Saturday which saw eight-time WRC champ Sebastien Ogier crash out of the lead.Neuville (above) had trailed Toyota Gazoo Racing’s Ogier and his Hyundai...

Hyundai’s Esapekka Lappi (above) demoted Toyota’s Sebastien Ogier in a gripping conclusion to Friday's opening leg of WRC Rally Sardinia, claiming the tiniest of overnight leads.After one of the most daunting days so far in this year's FIA World Rally Championship, where crews braved a total of almost 90 miles...

The World Rally Championship has only been able to announce a partial calendar for 2017 due to the uncertainty caused by the cancellation of this year's Rally China.FIA rally director Jarmo Mahonen admitted to Autosport recently that the loss of the revived Chinese event this year had "derailed" plans for...

Long-standing World Rally Championship privateer Martin Prokop has walked away from the series following the five-minute penalty he was handed ahead of the Rally Italy start.The transmission seals on the Jipocar Czech National Team's Ford Fiesta RS WRC were broken, contravening championship regulations. Team manager Quirin Muller said he had...

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...

Jari-Matti Latvala heads into Rally Sardinia having defeated World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier in Portugal. But is it another false dawn for the Finn? A couple of days before the start of last month's Rally of Portugal Jari-Matti Latvala described Sebastien Ogier as a piano player. It was an entirely...