Young Finn Kalle Rovanperä set the early pace at Rally Estonia after charging to fastest time by the narrowest of margins in the curtain-raising speed test in Tartu on Thursday night. The 20-year-old Toyota Yaris driver edged Craig Breen by 0.1sec in the twisty 1.64km Visit Estonia Tartu special stage, ahead of three days of … Read more
Present: Elfyn Evans (GBR), Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team Ott Tänak (EST), Hyundai Shell Mobis World Rally Team Teemu Suninen (FIN), M-Sport Ford World Rally Team Q: Ott, winner here in dominant fashion last year. Many changes to the stages we saw last time out, what are your views on this year’s route? OT: … Read more
The M-Sport Ford World Rally Team (WRT) today revealed for the first time a prototype of the new Puma Rally1 rally car that will help usher in an exciting new era of electrified competition in the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) from 2022. Making its global public debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, West … Read more
Sébastien Ogier snatched an unlikely victory at Safari Rally Kenya on Sunday afternoon after longtime leader Thierry Neuville’s dreams were shattered alongside his car’s suspension. When Neuville retired his Hyundai i20 in Sunday’s opening speed test after hitting a rock and smashing the right rear damper, the Frenchman was perfectly placed to capitalise. He demoted … Read more
2021 Safari Rally Kenya – Saturday afternoon Thierry Neuville stretched his Safari Rally Kenya lead to almost a minute on Saturday after a tense finale to the penultimate leg. On a day when the African classic appeared to be showing its more benign side after Friday’s brutal opening leg, Neuville increased his advantage over Takamoto … Read more
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