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Mini Prepping Countryman for Dakar Rally in January

Mini Prepping Countryman for Dakar Rally in January

Mini is prepping again for the 2013 Dakar Rally on January 5, 2013, that will cover over 8,000km through Peru, Argentina and Chile. Like last year, they will be competing with two of MINI ALL4 Racing's highly modified Countryman rally cars. It...
19.11.2012 | 15497 views | 0 comments
Dani Sordo Will Rejoin Citroën WRC Team Next Season

Dani Sordo Will Rejoin Citroën WRC Team Next Season

Dani Sordo has signed with the Citroën WRC team for the 2013 season to bring him back to the team for the first time since 2010. For the last two seasons Sordo has been driving for the MinI WRC team, which will not participate as a factory ef...
15.11.2012 | 5983 views | 0 comments
Citroën Offering Customer Version of DS3 WRC

Citroën Offering Customer Version of DS3 WRC

Citroën will begin selling the DS3 Regional Rally Car that is based on the DS3 WRC. It is eligible to race in rally series below the WRC including the European Rally Championship and Middle East Rally Championship. The car meets the ...
31.10.2012 | 21649 views | 0 comments
VW Signs Jari-Matti Latvala for Polo R WRC for 2013

VW Signs Jari-Matti Latvala for Polo R WRC for 2013

Volkswagen Motorsport has signed current Ford factory rally driver Jari-Matti Latvala to drive the Polo R WRC next season. Latvala will race the car for the first time at the Rally Monte Carlo from January 15 to 20. It makes sense that La...
17.10.2012 | 2731 views | 0 comments
Ford Announces End to Factory Rally Program

Ford Announces End to Factory Rally Program

Ford announced on Monday, October 15, that it will no longer sponsor a factory rally team in the WRC next season. The M-Sport rally team who currently operates the factory team will continue to operate next season with the Ford Fiesta without fact...
16.10.2012 | 6836 views | 0 comments
Works Mini Teams Leaving WRC in 2013

Works Mini Teams Leaving WRC in 2013

After just two years of competition Mini has announced that it will no longer have a works WRC team starting in 2013.  It released this statement on its web site on October 12:  “MINI will abandon its works involvement in ...
12.10.2012 | 14139 views | 0 comments
Loeb Wins 9th, and Likely Last, WRC Title in France

Loeb Wins 9th, and Likely Last, WRC Title in France

Sebastien Loeb won his ninth WRC title at the Rally France over the weekend with two rallies to go in the season. It will likely be Loeb's last rally championship because he will only be competing in select rounds of the WRC next season, and h...
08.10.2012 | 2341 views | 0 comments
Latvala and Anttila Win for Ford in Wales; Loeb Second; Solberg Third

Latvala and Anttila Win for Ford in Wales; Loeb Second; Solberg Third

Jari-Matti Latvala and his co-driver Miikka Anttila have broken Sebastian Loeb's winning streak by taking the win at the Rally Great Britain. Loeb had won every rally since the Rally Argentina in April. Loeb did manage to break a Ford 1-2 fini...
16.09.2012 | 2991 views | 0 comments
Toyota Takes a Step Back Into Rallying with Yaris R1A

Toyota Takes a Step Back Into Rallying with Yaris R1A

Toyota left rallying in 1999 to pursue sports car racing and Formula 1. Its Corolla WRC went out with a bang by winning the manufacturers championship that year. At the Rallye Deutschland, Toyota will make its first tentative steps back into rally...
13.08.2012 | 2214 views | 0 comments
Red Bull is a Finalist to be Promoter for World Rally Championship

Red Bull is a Finalist to be Promoter for World Rally Championship

The World Rally Championship has had a very rough year since the owner of its promoting company North One Sport was arrested for fraud just before the first rally of the year. That arrest caused the WRC to terminate its contract and has left it se...
08.08.2012 | 10068 views | 0 comments

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