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Kimi Raikkonen admitted he would like to return to Formula One and win some more championships from 2011 onwards, but the prospect of staying in the World Rally Championship and growing into a world champion is just as attractive. According to Citroen's boss ...
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After one year of absence from of all major rallying competitions worldwide, Japanese manufacturer Subaru announced its official return in the FIA-sanctioned series. However, the good news only extends to the International Rally Challenge (IRC), as this is the only ...
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Rally Monte Carlo may not be part of the World Rally Championship schedule anymore – as they gave up their WRC programme last season for a place in the International Rally Challenge – but that isn't to mean some of the WRC high-ranked drivers will miss ...
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Kimi Raikkonen has been confirmed as official Citroen driver in the Junior Team squad, while backed by his and Citroen's major sponsor Red Bull energy drink. The Finnish driver will however not be teammate with Sebastien Loeb in 2010, but with last year's rookie ...
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FIA to Create Special Series for S2000 Cars in the WRCWRCNothing has been yet confirmed, but the International Automobile Federation (FIA) is on its way to approving a brand new format of the Production World Rally Championship for the 2010 campaign. It seems the aforementioned series will be split in two different championships next year, in order to create a competitive field for both Group N and Super 2000 machineries. Throughout the duration of the 2009 season, it has been quite obvious that S2000 and Group N cars were not in the same league (to say the least) for the title. So the FIA decided to bring an end to that controversy and, according to the WRC official site, split the 2010 P-WRC in 2 series: one for each type of cars. The Group N series – using AWD production cars – will bear the same designation as before ... >> Read more |
Sebastien Loeb holds a very good chance of making the Peugeot squad for the upcoming Le Mans 24 Hours Race in 2010. The Frenchman, who missed the last 3 editions of the famous endurance event, already conducted the first tests for his home manufacturer last week ...
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Although every piece of information regarding Kimi Raikkonen – that suggested the Finn is to sign a deal with Citroen in the World Rally Championship – has been denied by the Citroen officials, more and more people seem to already welcome the former ...
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Following Mikko Hirvonen's almost clinching his maiden title in the World Rally Championship this season, Ford's boss Malcolm Wilson admitted confidence over his driver's prospects for the future. Ever since he joined the British team, the Finnish driver has ...
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This year's runner-up driver in the World Rally Championship, Ford's Mikko Hirvonen, admitted yesterday that it would be great for the WRC caravan to have Kimi Raikkonen in the entry list of the 2010 season. While welcoming his fellow countryman however, Hirvonen ...
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The World Rally Championship will benefit from the part-time presence of another Finnish champion during the upcoming campaign in 2010. According to the WRC official site, 2-time Finnish Rally champion Janne Tuohino will join M-Sport for the FIA WRC Cup for Super ...
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Although everybody is trying to secure the details of the upcoming season as soon as possible – manufacturers, calendar, technical rules, etc – it seems the World Rally Championship is holding back at announcing the 2011 schedule.
Being that ...
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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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The 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 ...
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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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