Frenchman triumphs at 2023 season opener, heading home Kalle Rovanperä in 1-2 finish for Toyota. Sébastien Ogier celebrated a record ninth triumph at Rallye Monte-Carlo, confirming a lights-to-flag victory at the opening round of the 2023 FIA World Rally Championship on Sunday afternoon. Ogier is undertaking selected drives for Toyota Gazoo Racing this year and … Read more
Frenchman closes on record-breaking victory, team-mate Kalle Rovanperä 16.0sec behind. Sébastien Ogier sits on the brink of a record-breaking ninth Rallye Monte-Carlo victory after producing another faultless drive in the French Alps on Saturday. Having built up a sizeable advantage of over half a minute on Friday, Ogier’s attentions switched to lead preservation as the … Read more
Frenchman makes his intentions clear as 2023 season gets underway on Thursday evening. Sébastien Ogier threw caution to the wind on Thursday evening’s opening leg at Rallye Monte-Carlo to end a spectacular opening night of the 2023 FIA World Rally Championship season with a useful advantage. Ogier, an eight-time winner in the French Alps, was … Read more
M-Sport Ford World Rally Team have unveiled a new-look line up for 2023. Ott Tänak and rookie Pierre-Louis Loubet will be the new lead drivers for the team. For the 2019 World Rally champion Tänak, the goal behind his move to M-Sport Ford is clear: He’s here to win. The Estonian was locked in a … Read more
Sebastien Loeb gave Bahrain Raid Xtreme the lead in the 2023 World Rally-Raid Championship today as Nasser Al Attiyah secured his fifth Dakar Rally victory in Saudi Arabia. Guerlain Chicherit and Alex Winocq took the final 136km stage from Al-Hofuf to Dammam for their second success in this year’s event, and a ninth Prodrive Hunter … Read more
Sebastien Loeb took Bahrain Raid Xtreme to a remarkable new Dakar Rally record today when he secured a sixth successive stage victory in Saudi Arabia. With another stunning performance in their BRX Prodrive Hunter, Loeb and co-driver Fabian Lurquin eclipsed the previous best run of five Dakar stage wins in a row set by Ari … Read more
40 years ago, Mercedes-Benz triumphed in the world’s toughest rally: racing driver Jacky Ickx and his co-driver, actor Claude Brasseur, won the 1983 Paris–Dakar Rally with the Mercedes-Benz 280 GE. The project was managed by Mercedes-Benz France. From Germany, engineers of the company assisted with the engine and aerodynamics of the off-road vehicle. At that time, … Read more
: Sebastien Loeb has earned a vast array of titles in his career, and he now has a new one as master of the Empty Quarter after a fifth straight Dakar Rally stage win for Bahrain Raid Xtreme in Saudi Arabia. Victory on today’s 185km 12th stage, which crossed some of the most spectacular and … Read more
Thursday saw the remaining 2023 Dakar Rally competitors take on the first part of the Marathon Stage with the T3 and bike podium places shuffling around over the relentless sand dunes. – Stage 11 took the convoy deep into the Empty Quarter with the 274km timed route taking competitors over every type of desert sand … Read more
Whilst the drivers battle it out over the opening stages of Rallye Monte-Carlo, motor industry experts will be meeting in the Principality to discuss how the innovations developed for and tested on the stages of the FIA World Rally Championship can accelerate the transition to a more sustainable mobility for all. In collaboration with Pirelli, … Read more