Kalle Rovanperä boosted his FIA World Rally Championship title hopes with a dominant victory at Safari Rally Kenya on Sunday afternoon. The 21-year-old continued his run of irresistible form to chalk up win number four of the season as his Toyota Gazoo Racing squad locked out the top four places for the first time in … Read more
Kalle Rovanperä stretched his Safari Rally Kenya lead to more than half a minute on Saturday afternoon as wet weather conditions spiced up the penultimate leg. On a day which troubled more of the FIA World Rally Championship’s leading drivers, Rovanperä overcame sickness worries to increase his advantage and headed a Toyota GR Yaris quartet … Read more
Amid stunning scenery and on smoother and faster roads around Lake Elmenteita, the FIA World Rally Championship leader adopted a mature approach to consolidate his position as GR Yaris team-mates Elfyn Evans and Takamoto Katsuta completed the leading trio. Rovanperä was third-fastest on the opening Soysambu test and set a similar pace with his colleagues … Read more
Championship leader Rovanperä languished in 11th overall on Thursday evening after puncturing a tyre on the curtain-raising super special stage, but was immediately into the podium fight on Friday’s sandy speed tests on the shores of the Great Rift Valley’s Lake Naivasha. Car-breaking roads and thick fesh-fesh sand punished crews as more than half of … Read more
Clear the way for the new Škoda Fabia RS Rally2: Škoda Motorsport presents the successor to the Fabia Rally2 evo. The new rally model from Mladá Boleslav is based on the fourth-generation Škoda Fabia and follows on from the most successful Rally2 vehicle of recent years. Škoda Motorsport has developed a new engine for the … Read more
Ott Tänak ended his long search for another FIA World Rally Championship victory with a convincing win at Rally Italia Sardegna on Sunday afternoon. The Hyundai Motorsport driver was on dominant form on the Mediterranean island’s punishing rock-strewn roads and brought his hybrid-powered i20 N Rally1 car home 1min 3.2sec clear of M-Sport Ford driver … Read more
Ott Tänak is on course for a much-needed victory at Rally Italia Sardegna after leaving his rivals for dust on Saturday’s penultimate leg. The Estonian driver will start Sunday’s final leg with a hefty 46.0sec advantage over M-Sport Ford’s Craig Breen after pulling clear on what was a disastrous day for Friday leader Esapekka Lappi. … Read more
Ott Tänak moved into the lead of Rally Italia Sardegna after overnight leader Esapekka Lappi swiped a rock on Saturday morning’s opening test. Lappi held a slender advantage over the Estonian driver following Friday’s punishing leg, and entered the first pass of Tempio Pausania 0.7sec in front. However, the Finn’s Yaris got out of line … Read more
This Article is Updated… Esapekka Lappi delivered a near-perfect drive to round out Friday’s punishing opening leg with a slender lead at Rally Italia Sardegna. The Finn, making his gravel debut in a Toyota GR Yaris, won two of the six rock-strewn speed tests to open up a tiny 0.7sec advantage over Ott Tänak on … Read more
