WRC News Ogier moves into second place on Rally Italy Sébastien Ogier has stolen second position from Dani Sordo on the first stage of Friday afternoon on Rally Italy, but Ott Tänak maintains his 100%… Read more by Luke Barry June 4, 2021 3 min
WRC News Mikkelsen explains “bizarre” Italy retirement Andreas Mikkelsen has been forced out of Rally Italy for the entire weekend after a crash on stage four. Mikkelsen had been chasing fellow Norwegian… Read more by Luke Barry June 4, 2021 2 min
WRC News Why Ogier is smiling for once as the Sardinian road sweeper World Rally Championship leader Sébastien Ogier believes he “could have hardly done more this morning” on Rally Italy as he feels he has “adapted better”… Read more by Luke Barry June 4, 2021 3 min
WRC News Rovanperä drops out of Rally Italy as Tänak extends lead Kalle Rovanperä has dropped out of second place on Rally Italy, parking his Toyota up on stage four as Ott Tänak continued to dominate out… Read more by Luke Barry June 4, 2021 3 min
WRC News Tänak extends Italy lead as Neuville finds form on SS3 Ott Tänak has pulled another couple of seconds clear of Kalle Rovanperä as the pair continue to boss the early phases of Rally Italy. Rovanperä… Read more by Luke Barry June 4, 2021 3 min
WRC News Stall costs Rovanperä shot at Rally Italy lead on SS2 Toyota’s Kale Rovanperä squandered the chance to assume the Rally Italy lead from Ott Tänak with a stall towards the end of the stage restricting… Read more by Luke Barry June 4, 2021 3 min
WRC News Tänak to the top as Suninen rolls on Rally Italy opener Ott Tänak has made a blistering start to Rally Italy to carve open an early 1.6-second lead over Kalle Rovanperä as M-Sport’s Teemu Suninen crashed… Read more by Luke Barry June 3, 2021 3 min
WRC News FIA plans for teams to run fourth car for ‘junior’ driver Junior drivers in the World Rally Championship could be in for the biggest career boost ever with FIA rally director Yves Matton considering a rule… Read more by David Evans June 3, 2021
Nitrocross News Nitro Rallycross reveals first teams for 2022 electric class Nitro Rallycross has named the first six teams to commit to its all-new electric class which will debut in 2022. The series will begin this… Read more by Dominik Wilde June 3, 2021 2 min
WRC News Neuville fastest on Rally Italy shakedown Thierry Neuville set the pace on the Rally Italy shakedown stage, besting Hyundai Motorsport team-mate Ott Tänak by almost a second. Both Neuville and Tänak… Read more by Luke Barry June 3, 2021 3 min
Rally News Sordo and Lappi emerging as Toyota contenders for 2022 Esapekka Lappi and Dani Sordo have emerged as the key contenders to share a Toyota Yaris WRC with Sébastien Ogier next season. If Ogier tackles… Read more by David Evans June 3, 2021 2 min
WRC News M-Sport evaluating “every P1 driver” for 2022 seat M-Sport is keeping its 2022 driver options very much open as team principal Rich Millener has admitted “every P1 driver in the last few years… Read more by Luke Barry June 2, 2021 3 min
WRC News The Rovanperä mystery explained Less than two seconds off the fastest time on Saturday afternoon’s Cabeceiras de Bastos test on Rally Portugal, there was nothing to indicate there was… Read more by David Evans June 2, 2021 2 min
WRC News Gryazin feels hindered without “special surname” World Rally Championship-2 driver Nikolay Gryazin says his future prospects in the top class of rallying will be hindered by not having a “special surname”…. Read more by Ida Wood June 2, 2021 3 min
WRC News Ogier could stay on full-time with Toyota if he wins 2021 title A while ago, I wrote a story pondering a theory that Hyundai Motorsport’s decision to retain Ott Tänak and Thierry Neuville had moved Elfyn Evans… Read more by David Evans June 2, 2021 3 min
WRC News Østberg: Mikkelsen not my biggest WRC2 rival Defending WRC2 Champion Mads Østberg believes Andreas Mikkelsen isn’t the biggest threat to his title defense with Citroën, despite the Toksport driver’s hopes of ‘dominating’… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay June 1, 2021 2 min
WRC News Toyota went “miracle” hunting with change to pre-Italy test Toyota changed its test plan last week in an effort to find more pace for this week’s Rally Italy in Sardinia. While Elfyn Evans won… Read more by David Evans June 1, 2021 3 min
Extreme E News JBXE’s “weird” route to the Ocean X-Prix podium explained Ahead of Sunday’s showpiece Ocean X-Prix final, a lot of the talk was about Extreme E’s impending first four-car final. Once we saw the semifinalss… Read more by Dominik Wilde June 1, 2021 2 min
