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Now that he made it very clear that he leaves the entire 2010 open for new motor racing challenges outside of Formula One, Finnish champion Kimi Raikkonen seems to receive plenty of offers for a part-time campaign in the World Rally Championship.
Mainly for ...
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The wait is over, as Ford Europe has finally unveiled their Ford Fiesta S2000 rally car after approximately 9 months of development and research by the design and engineering team at M-Sport.
Although the car is yet to be homologated by the International Automobile ...
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The World Rally Championship has finally upped its game in terms of worldwide broadcasting, as the promoter of the series Simon Long announced a 3-year partnership with Motors TV for more in-depth coverage of the WRC action.
According to Long, this new deal will ...
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After Bridgestone, another important tire manufacturer announced it may quit a FIA-sanctioned competition in the near future. While the Japanese tire manufacturer already announced it will no longer supply the F1 teams with tires from 2011 onwards, their Italian ...
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Rally France Moves to Alsace-VosgesWRCThe French motorsport federation, Federation Francaise du Sport Automobile (FFSA) decided last night on the new course for the Rally France, starting 2010. As a consequence, the French Rally will be based in the Alsace-Vosges region until 2012, instead of the Tour de Corse, which has been France's WRC home since 1973. The French round will also be moved from May, when it was scheduled until now, to October. The mainland course will bring WRC some 150 miles from Trier, the city where Germany's Rally is based. According to Autosport, the move from the island of Corsica to the mainland France was a result of the need for the rally to be held closer to more populated areas. Heavily backed by WRC promoter International Sportsworld Communicators, the move was voted unanimously by the ... >> Read more |
Lack of funds will prevent Russian teenager Evgeny Novikov from making the entry list in the 2010 World Rally Championship. Although he looked like one of the most promising young drivers in this year's WRC campaign for Citroen Junior Team, the 19-year old Russian will ...
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This year's runner-up driver in the World Rally Championship Mikko Hirvonen insisted that he is happy with what he had accomplished during the past season in the series, despite losing the chance to become world champion by a single point.
The Finn revealed that he ...
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Ford's boss Malcolm Wilson insisted that he stands by his decision not to issue any team orders between his drivers during this season's Rally d'Italia, in Sardegna. At the time, Sebastien Loeb had already secured 5 wins out of the first 5 rallies and it seemed ...
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Sebastien Loeb admitted that this was the toughest race to the World Rally Championship title in his entire career, as he managed to successfully defend his crown in the very last round of the season. Coming to Great Britain with a one-point deficit to Ford's Mikko ...
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Sebastien Loeb has clinched his 6th overall crown in the World Rally Championship, after winning Rally Great Britain ahead of his title rival Mikko Hirvonen. Coming into Day 3 of the event with more than 30 seconds of advantage over his Ford counter-candidate for ...
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Sebastien Loeb will enter the second day of competition in Rally GB still on top of the timing sheets, but his lead has now been cut to only 5.3 seconds after the last 3 special stages of the day. The Frenchman began the day on a high note and put almost 9 seconds ...
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Sebastien Loeb has set off his title-defending effort in Great Britain with a great few runs on Friday, as the Frenchman leads the WRC field after SS3 by a comfortable 8.9-second lead over title rival Mikko Hirvonen.
The weather forecast for this weekend's Rally Great ...
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Sebastien Loeb has the chance to become the first 6-time champion of the World Rally Championship in the history of the sport, yet he insisted he will not think about it too much during the upcoming season finale in Great Britain. The Frenchman is currently ...
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The WRC world is about to heat up next season, with rumors surfacing that rally and extreme sports star Ken Block is about to sign a deal with Monster Energy Drink World Rally Team, in a move which according to Autosport may be one of the most important in the ...
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Heading to the season finale with only a one-point advantage over Sebastien Loeb, Ford's Mikko Hirvonen will today begin his preparation for the most important event in his rallying career so far, the upcoming Rally Great Britain. The Finnish driver is set on ...
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Rally New Zealand will become a mixed-surface event next year in the World Rally Championship, even if only for one super special stage. According to a statement from the organizers of the aforementioned event, the rally will feature a street-circuit Super Special ...
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Although enthused with the behavior of his brand new Citroen C4 WRC during Rally of Spain the other weekend, Norwegian driver Petter Solberg is still not convinced he will use the car during the 2010 campaign. The former world champion admitted he still doesn't ...
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Sebastien Loeb needed his teammate Dani Sordo to deliver an outstanding performance in his home rally last weekend, and the Spaniard did not disappoint him. The Citroen driver who is yet to win a WRC event in his career drove a perfect rally in the first two days ...
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Sebastien Loeb got exactly what he wanted this weekend: a perfect 1-2 finish in Rally Spain that would get him within one point of his title rival Mikko Hirvonen with only one round to go. The Frenchman started the Catalonian event trailing his teammate Dani Sordo ...
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Dani Sordo took off to a perfect start in his home rally of Catalonia on Friday, as he topped the timing sheets after special stage 1, a full second ahead of championship leader and title favorite Mikko Hirvonen. Sordo's teammate and reigning champion Sebastien ...
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