Skoda has ruled out running rebranded Volkswagen Polos in the World Rally Championship next season following the manufacturer's withdrawal from the series.In the wake of Volkswagen's shock exit – announced two days after it secured a fourth straight manufacturers' title – there was talk the VW Group could transfer the...

Sebastien Loeb began his World Rallycross Championship campaign with fifth as double champion Petter Solberg led home an epic season opener at Montalegre in Portugal.Loeb (ABOVE), who was knocked out in the semis on his last RX start in the series' European predecessor at Loheac in 2013, was the only...

All-new World Rally Championship cars from Volkswagen, Citroen and Toyota will run in 2017 specification for the first time in the next two weeks.Volkswagen has been running a current Polo with development parts since last August, but the 2017 machine will be tested imminently, along with Citroen's C3 WRC and...

Sebastien Ogier established an early lead over Volkswagen teammate Andreas Mikkelsen as a truncated Rally Sweden got under way.With temperatures having fallen sufficiently to freeze the surface on Friday's opening Torsby stage and adequate snow on the following two stages over the Norwegian border, conditions proved better than had been...

Jari-Matti Latvala has been given a suspended one-round ban from the World Rally Championship after hitting a spectator as he rejoined from an incident on the Monte Carlo Rally.Video footage showed Latvala's Volkswagen knocking a fan to the ground as it went through a field on the way back onto...

Norwegian rally and rallycross driver Ole Christian Veiby will replace compatriot Tord Linnerud in the VW Team Sweden World Rallycross squad for the championship's finale in Argentina this weekend.Linnerud, who has been Johan Kristoffersson's team-mate in the Volkswagen Polo team all season, has been forced to withdraw from the Rosario...

Citroen's 2016 hiatus is not the first time it has taken a year away from the World Rally Championship. It did exactly the same thing in 2006 when the C4 replaced the ageing Xsara.This time around, though, the initial news isn't nearly as bad. News of 2006 came late in...

McLaren-Honda Formula 1 driver Jenson Button joined 13-time grand prix winner David Coulthard at Lydden Hill on Wednesday to test a pair of World Rallycross Championship Supercars.Driving the cars for a BBC-TV F1 feature that will be aired later in the season, Button completed a number of laps in a...

Jari-Matti Latvala fell to fifth in the overall Rally Poland standings after his last-stage crash forced repairs to his Volkswagen and a penalty.The Finn had entered the powerstage just 1.1 seconds behind Ott Tanak's M-Sport Ford Fiesta in the battle for third, but he understeered wide on a left-hand corner...

Former Indy car racer Patrick Carpentier will compete at his home round of the World Rallycross Championship for the second year in succession, driving a JRM Racing Mini RX. The British team will also field a second Mini at the Canadian round of the championship for reigning NASCAR Canadian Tire...