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Following Monday's closing date, the FIA has confirmed that three manufacturer teams will enter into this year's World Rally Championship. Citroen have entered two teams lead by the six-time World Rally champion Sebastien Loeb in the Citroen Total team while former F1 ...world champion Kimi Raikkonen heads up the Citroen Junior Team with team mate Sebastien Ogier. Mikko [...]
VSC NYE jump story, 2010 Pastrana Red Bull Subaru WRX STi prep. New Year. No Limits.
Leading the way for national supporters at the Motorsport News World Rally display will be two of Prodrive’s Subarus. Colin McRae’s Impreza 555 will be there, alongside the 2000 Safari Rally Subaru Impreza WRC that 2001 title-winner Richard Burns took to victory in Ken...ya. Both Burns and McRae were regulars at Autosport International, and it's [...]
Photo: Willy Weyens ©willyweyens-rallyworld Antofagasta, Chile (January 6, 2010) –Team HUMMER carried the momentum from yesterday’s stage win into today’s performance. Robby Gordon finished fourth, just 4 minutes and 48 seconds behind the winner Mark Miller. Gordon jum...ps to fourth place overall, only trailing Carlos Sainz by 59 minutes and 55 seconds. As Gordon suspected, most [...]
* Chicherit seals sixth fastest time and climbs to eighth * Novitskiy takes 10th; Carlos Sainz inherits outright lead ANTOFAGASTA (Chile): Team X-raid GmbH's Stephane Peterhansel and Jean-Paul Cottret endured a disappointing fifth stage of the 2010 Dakar Rally between... Copiapo and Antofagasta in Chile on Wednesday. The French duo began the day with a 7m 36s [...]
Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah, the defending FIA Middle East Rally Champion, will kick start his challenge for a seventh regional title in eight years at the wheel of a new M-Sport-built Ford Fiesta S2000 in the 2010 Qtel Qatar International Rally. The car is currently bei...ng built at Cockermouth in England by M-Sport mechanics, in conjunction [...]
Sunseeker WRC's for Kenny McKinstry and Richard Cathcart Kenny Mc Kinstry who was the 2001 ANCRO National Rally champion has entered Rallye Sunseeker. He and Harvey Bell will team up to compete in one of Kennys fleet of Subaru WRC's. The Rally Engineer from Banbridge... in Northern Ireland has been persuaded by Harvey to come over [...]
Limuru based Quentin Mitchell, one of the youngest and quickest rally drivers in the country, finds his 2010 rally season in jeopardy after one of his international sponsors pulled out for financial reasons. 23 year old Mitchell, who is a Professional Opera Singer by t...rade, only began competing towards the end of 2007 and immediately made [...]
Former Production Car World Rally Champion will drive a Fiesta S2000 in the inaugural S-WRC series.
Molly Taylor, the 2009 MSA British ladies rally champion, is set to return to the MSA British Rally Championship (BRC) in 2010. 21 year old Taylor, an Australian Motor Sport Foundation Rising Star, will be putting the heartbreak of missing out on the 2009 Suzuki Swift... Sport Cup title behind her to drive a Citroen C2, [...]
Photo: Willy Weyens ©willyweyens-rallyworld Volkswagen took the lead on the so far longest and toughest special stage of the Dakar Rally: As many as three Race Touareg vehicles are setting the pace at the front of the field after five days, both in the stage and overal...l classifications. Carlos Sainz/Lucas Cruz (E/E) are leading the cross-country [...]
SWANN UPPING ANTE FOR SOL RALLY BARBADOS Procter wins first event of the 2010 season in Britain British Rally Championships regulars Rob Swann and Darren Garrod are returning to the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) premier event, Sol Rally Barbados (May 28-30) with just o...ne aim in mind . . . victory in Group N; fourth in 2008, [...]
Prospective customers for the Fiesta SportTrophy Ireland 2010 will get a chance to sample the new Ford Fiesta R2 on Tuesday 19th January 2010. The promotional day takes place at Rally School Ireland, Scotstown, County Monaghan. Prospective customers will have the chanc...e to sit in the co-drivers seat and experience the new car around the [...]
With 14 days to go until the start of Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo, Marc van Dalen has identified Jan Kopecky as the biggest threat to his lead driver, Kris Meeke, successfully defending his Intercontinental Rally Challenge title. Van Dalen is the boss of the Kronos R...acing team, which runs the Northern Irishman in a Peugeot UK-backed 207 [...]
Monster WRT driver Ken Block will drive an Olsbergs MSE prepared Ford Fiesta in the Rally America National Championship, and an M-Sport run Ford Focus in the WRC, during 2010.
Juho Hanninen and Jan Kopecky testing on snow and ice at the Skoda Motorsport test area in the Czech Republic ahead of Rallye Monte Carlo 2010.
Photo: Willy Weyens ©willyweyens-rallyworld * X-Raid's Chicherit maintains 11th; Novitskiy eighth fastest * Spain's Joan Roma forced out after third stage accident COPIAPO (Chile): Team X-raid GmbH's Stephane Peterhansel and Jean-Paul Cottret produced another sensation...al performance to take the second fastest time on the fourth special stage of the 2010 Dakar Rally between Fiambala in Argentina and Copiapo [...]
VW trio remains at Dakar Rally's front of the field.
Photo: Willy Weyens ©willyweyens-rallyworld Copiapo, Chile (January 5, 2010) -- For today the story wasn't about 4-wheel drive systems or restrictors, it was about Robby Gordon in his Monster Energy / Toyo Tires HUMMER proving that he can hang with the best in the 2010... Dakar Rally as he wins Stage 4 from Fiambala to Copiapo. [...]
Frenchman Pierre Campana will compete on the Monte Carlo Rally from January 19-23: the oldest and most prestigious event in the history of the sport. Once more the young Corsican will drive a Renault Clio R3 run by the Italian Munaretto team, which he drove to catego...ry victory on the Sanremo Rally in September and took [...]
This Week in Ford Racing: Ken Block.
Monster World Rally Team launched with Ford and Ken Block, will contest Rally America and WRC 2010.
Photo: Roy Dempster (www.roydempster.com) With the 2010 Safety Direct Galway International Rally fast approaching, the village of Oranmore is preparing for an action packed first weekend in February. Preparations are progressing at a frantic pace with the date for the ...official launch to be announced shortly. As a result of the severe flooding that hit south [...]
The excitement of 30 years of the World Rally Championship both on display and live, will be startling attractions at Autosport International, held 14-17 January 2010 at the NEC in Birmingham. Ten of these spectacular machines are due to appear on the Motorsport News ...World Rally Feature. Leading the way for the home fans will [...]
The latest issue of Handbrakes & Hairpins, the last one of 2009! As always, I hope you enjoy this week's read, and I look forward to many more in 2010 with you all! Please visit http://handbrakeshairpins.wordpress.com to also download previous issues of Handbrake...s & Hairpins. Yours in Rallying, Evan Rothman
Following recent announcements relating to the 2010 MSA Gravel Rally Championship, the Association of National Championship Rally Organisers are delighted to announce that Viking Motorsport has put up a fantastic prize for the winner of the Viking Motorsport Ford Escor...t Challenge. Viking Motorsport proprietor Phil Mills has come up with a package which will see the [...]
Following two successful seasons at the helm, Fiesta SportTrophy UK and Ireland co-ordinator Richard Millener has announced that he will move on from the position ahead of the 2010 campaign. Richard will remain at M-Sport and move to the client support department with... responsibility for the all new M-Sport Ford Fiesta S2000. Replacing Richard as FST [...]
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