The FIA World Rally Championship's early-season pacesetters face a very different kind of test this week as Rally Portugal threatens to turn their strong positions in the points battle into a disadvantage. After five rounds, Toyota Gazoo Racing drivers Elfyn Evans (above, during shakedown), Takamoto Katsuta and Sami Pajari occupy...

Sebastien Ogier will carry a slender 3.8s lead over Toyota teammate Oliver Solberg into the final day of the WRC’s Canary Islands Rally after a close-fought Saturday battle on Gran Canaria’s ever-changing asphalt roads.

WRC points leader Takamoto Katsuta leads the Canary Islands Rally after Thursday evening’s opening super special, edging Toyota teammate Sami Pajari in a closely-fought shootout inside Las Palmas’s Gran Canaria Stadium.Katsuta comes to the FIA World Rally Championship’s second all-asphalt event of the season riding the momentum of back-to-back wins...

Takamoto Katsuta made FIA World Rally Championship history after back-to-back victories in Kenya and Croatia made him the first non-European driver to lead the WRC points.

Thierry Neuville says he will “keep fighting” and “come back stronger” after a dramatic final-stage mistake cost the 2024 FIA World Rally Champion a certain victory at Croatia Rally.Neuville and co-driver Martijn Wydaeghe looked set to claim their first win of the WRC season – and the first for Hyundai...

Toyota’s Takamoto Katsuta (above) snatched a dramatic WRC Croatia Rally victory on Sunday after Thierry Neuville crashed his Hyundai out of a commanding lead on the rally-ending Wolf Power Stage. Neuville had looked set to take Hyundai Motorsport’s first win of the 2026 FIA World Rally Championship season, carrying a...

Thierry Neuville moved into the Croatia Rally lead on Saturday after a brutal afternoon loop on the FIA World Rally Championship’s first pure asphalt rally of the season ripped a potential first WRC win from Sami Pajari’s grasp and transformed the shape of the fight for victory.

Sami Pajari leads the Croatia Rally after a bruising Friday opening leg turned the FIA World Rally Championship’s first pure asphalt event of the season on its head and left two of the pre-rally favorites on the sidelines.The Toyota Gazoo Racing driver completed the day’s eight special stages in the...

After three different winners from three very different opening rounds of the 2026 FIA World Rally Championship, Rally Croatia marks the first pure asphalt event of the year and the start of a crucial new phase in what’s been an all-Toyota title fight so far title.Toyota Gazoo Racing (above, in...

Oliver Solberg has been grabbing the early-season headlines in his first full campaign in Toyota’s World Rally Championship roster. But right behind the title-chasing Swede, factory teammate Sami Pajari believes he’s “getting to a place where he can basically fight with anyone in any condition” after taking back-to-back podium finishes...