2021 Safari Rally Kenya – Saturday morning Thierry Neuville’s Safari Rally Kenya lead climbed to almost half a minute on Saturday morning as the Belgian threw down the gauntlet to his FIA World Rally Championship rivals. Amid stunning scenery and on smoother and faster roads around Lake Elmenteita, the Hyundai i20 pilot was quickest out … Read more
2021 Safari Rally Kenya – Friday afternoon Thierry Neuville led the survivors of Safari Rally Kenya’s vicious opening leg that destroyed the hopes of virtually half the top-flight drivers on Friday. The Belgian won three of the six punishing and sandy speed tests on the shores of the Great Rift Valley’s Lake Naivasha to lead … Read more
2021 Safari Rally Kenya – Friday morning Thierry Neuville led Safari Rally Kenya on Friday morning as Africa’s unremitting roads cut a swathe through the FIA World Rally Championship’s big names. Neuville, driving a Hyundai i20, held a 5.1sec advantage over Kalle Rovanperä’s Toyota Yaris, but Kenya’s rugged roads showed they had lost none of … Read more
Sébastien Ogier set a hot early pace at Safari Rally Kenya on Thursday afternoon as the top three drivers were blanketed by less than a second at a thrilling opening in Nairobi. As the FIA World Rally Championship returned to Africa for the first time in 19 years, the series leader was 0.3sec faster than … Read more
Transcript of the pre-event press conference organised by the FIA for the 2021 Safari Rally Kenya FIA WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP Present: Sébastien Ogier (FRA), Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team Thierry Neuville (BEL), Hyundai Shell Mobis World Rally Team Takamoto Katsuta (JAP), Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team Adrien Fourmaux (FRA), M-Sport Ford World Rally … Read more
The FIA World Rally Championship will return to the African continent and the legendary Safari Rally Kenya for the first time in nearly 20 years, when round six of the 2021 season takes place on June 24-27. First held in 1953, the Safari Rally was part of the WRC schedule from the inaugural season in … Read more
FIA WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP 2021 Rally Italia Sardegna – Transcript of the post-event press conference organised by the FIA Present: Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT – Sébastien Ogier (FR) Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT – Elfyn Evans (GBR) Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT – Thierry Neuville (BEL) Q: Toyota have finally won Rally Italia Sardegna. Congratulations Sébastien, … Read more
Sébastien Ogier stretched his FIA World Rally Championship lead with a convincing but surprise victory at Rally Italia Sardegna on Sunday afternoon. The reigning champion headed a Toyota Yaris 1-2 finish on the Mediterranean island’s punishing rock-strewn gravel roads to claim his third win of the season. He finished 46.0sec clear of Elfyn Evans, extending … Read more
Sébastien Ogier is on course for a remarkable victory at Rally Italia Sardegna after Saturday’s gruelling second leg decimated his challengers to leave Toyota Gazoo Racing first and second. The FIA World Rally Championship leader will start Sunday’s final leg with a 38.9sec advantage over Yaris World Rally Car team-mate Elfyn Evans after a disastrous … Read more
Ott Tänak retired from the lead at Rally Italia Sardegna after swiping a rock in Saturday morning’s final speed test. The Estonian had dominated this fifth round of the FIA World Rally Championship since Friday morning’s start and entered the second pass of the Lerno – Monti di Ala’ test with a comfortable 40.6sec advantage … Read more