rally News and Analysis

Mercedes Formula 1 driver Valtteri Bottas finished ninth on this weekend's Arctic Lapland Rally in Finland, which was won by new Toyota WRC recruit Kalle Rovanpera.

Subaru won't field a factory team in next year's Australian Rally Championship.

Mercedes Formula 1 driver Valtteri Bottas claimed his first win in rallying in the Paul Ricard-based Rallycircuit Cote d'Azur.

BMW GT racer Tom Blomqvist followed in the footsteps of his World Rally Championship-winning father by contesting his first rally last weekend.

The Americas Rallycross Championship won’t continue next year, it has been revealed by the series’ promoter.

Hayden Paddon’s team is developing a world-leading all-electric Hyundai Kona EV rally car.

Former Toro Rosso Formula 1 driver Scott Speed has broken his back following a heavy jump landing in a standalone rallycross event in America.

Multiple Isle of Man TT winner Michael Dunlop will return to the Isle of Man’s Southern 100 races in a fortnight's time, despite suffering a “serious” injury in a Rally Donegal crash that will mean he misses this weekend’s Pikes Peak Hillclimb in the USA.

Australian Rally champion Molly Taylor has labelled her TCR Australia debut a "baptism of fire" and says she is "relearning everything" as part of her circuit racing transition.

Dreyer & Reinbold Racing will enter its regular Indy 500 driver Sage Karam in four ARX2 Rallycross rounds this year starting at Mid-Ohio in June.

Formula 1 driver-turned Super GT racer Heikki Kovalainen will contest a part-campaign in the All-Japan Rally Championship this year.

The Australian Rally Championship has launched new branding ahead of its 2019 season.

Molly Taylor will drive for a new team during the 2019 Australian Rally Championship, as part of a shake-up of Subaru's factory programme.

MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi has claimed his seventh victory in the Monza Rally Show, sweeping all nine stages of the event's 2018 edition.

The governing body of UK motorsport has had a rebrand, a refresh and a refocus. Can its quest to promote the sport and stimulate the grassroots help change the course of its potentially troubled future?

Toyota has confirmed its return as a full-blown manufacturer in the Australian Rally Championship.

Toyota is set to make a full-blown return to the Australian Rally Championship, with Harry Bates to drive a Toyota Gazoo Racing entry from Rally Australia onwards.

Former Toro Rosso Formula 1 driver Scott Speed has signed for Subaru’s works team to defend his Americas Rallycross title next season. 

The path from Formula 1 to rallycrossing a Volkswagen Beetle, via NASCAR’s Cup series and Formula E, is trodden by very few. Well, one person, to be precise.

Travis Pastrana, 17-time X Games medalist, will make his Americas Rallycross debut at Circuit of The Americas on July 14 in a Subaru WRX STI.

An electric rally car piloted by an all-female crew will tackle the Finke Desert Race in Australia next month.

Team Penske’s three-time Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves says he’s “already having so much fun” testing the Olsbergs MSE rallycross car in Norway, just a week after teammate Josef Newgarden’s debut in the RallyX on Ice series.

The deaths of Shawn Rayner and Steve Dear on the Loco 2 Stages Rally on December 29 have rocked the world of UK historic rallying.

MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi scored a record-breaking sixth victory in the Monza Rally Show, overcoming a late 10-second penalty for having an underweight car.

Despite an engine failure two stages from the end, Sebastien Loeb fulfilled his goals with the Peugeot 306 Maxi: putting on a show and fighting for the win.

India’s Gaurav Gill (co-driver Stephane Prevot) retained the FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship title, his third since 2013.

Team MRF’s Gaurav Gill (co-driver Stephane Prevot) led the Coffee Day India Rally after Saturday’s action.

Team MRF’s Gaurav Gill (co-driver Stephane Prevot) gave an indication of things to come by winning the 2.1Km Super Special Stage of the Coffee Day India Rally 2017 on Friday.

Ahead of this weekend's Rallye du Var, Sebastien Loeb and his team took to the roads in the Vosges region to test with the iconic Peugeot 306 Maxi they had dismantled and then thoroughly upgrated.

Hyundai Motorsport will field one car and two drivers when Thierry Neuville and Andreas Mikkelsen share an i20 WRC at the Monza Rally next month.

Sebastien Loeb's long-time co-driver Daniel Elena will partner the nine-time WRC champion again in Rallye du Var, in which they will campaign the Peugeot 306 Maxi rebuilt by Sebastien Loeb Racing.

Sebastien Loeb Racing co-founder Dominique Heintz has spoken to Motorsport.com about the early stages of the Peugeot 306 Maxi project ahead of the Rallye du Var.

Sherco TVS Rally Factory team’s Joan Pedrero (Spain) and Adrien Metge (France) bagged the top two places respectively in the PanAfrica Rally 2017 in Morocco.

Gaurav Gill (co-driver Stephane Prevot) won the Rally Hokkaido, the fourth round of the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship on Sunday.

Australian Rally Championship front-runner Harry Bates says he’s looking to get a part-time European programme in place as soon as possible, as he looks to expand his career beyond local shores.

There was not much to stop Team MRF’s Ole Christian Veiby (co-driver Stig Rune Skjarmoen) from winning the International Rally of Johor (Malaysia) on Sunday.

Oliver Solberg, son of former WRC champion Petter, has become the youngest ever rallycross Supercar winner by claiming victory in the second round of the RallyX Nordic Championship at Arvika.

India’s Gaurav Gill finished runner-up to MRF teammate Christian Veiby in the APRC National Capital Rally in Australia.

India’s Gaurav Gill overturned a 33.2s deficit in Sunday’s final leg to win the opening round of Asia-Pacific Rally Championship in New Zealand.

Renée Brinkerhoff brings her ‘56 Porsche to Road Atlanta to prepare for one of the “world’s most dangerous road races.”

There is ‘discussion’ regarding the return of a Toyota factory rally programme in Australia, according to marketing executive director Tony Cramb.

A tarmac rally crash in Australia has led to a bunfight between the two major motorsport governing bodies in Australia.

Factory-backed squad Subaru do Motorsport has began testing its new PRC-spec WRX ahead of Molly Taylor’s Australian Rally Championship title defence.

The winter-based Andros Trophy ice racing series is expected to become the first category in the world to allow electric and conventionally-powered cars to compete in the same races next winter.

Canberra will replace Queensland as the host of Australia’s Asia-Pacific Rally Championship round this year.

Subaru will continue its factory involvement in the Australian Rally Championship, with reigning champion Molly Taylor signed on for another season.

A new series for electric rallycross cars called E/RACING is set to get underway later this year in North America, it has been announced.

In-form Gaurav Gill clinched victory in the Wurth Asia-Pacific Rally Championship's India Rally, thereby completing a clean sweep in the intercontinental series in 2016.