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Dirt Rally: Believe the Hype!

Good day all, It has been a little over a year, since I wrote that exciting piece about Dirt Rally, just after it was announced that codemasters was coming to save us all and finally get back to making a serious Rally Oriented game. After a year a long wait, I was finally able to get my hands on both a PS4 and the dirt game and now I must say, I’m the happiest man in Barbados. I’ve had the game…

Ogier takes commanding lead for VW as Meeke hits bad luck

Volkswagen  are in relative command as they hold a one-two at the Rally Monte Carlo. Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia were in a league of their own in their Polo R WRC after a day of classic Monte Carlo Rallying yesterday. Their closest rivals are now Volkswagen teammates Andreas Mikkelsen and Anders Jæger  who climbed into second place overall courtesy of a clever tyre selection. The longest…

Volkswagen and Citroën in thrilling duel for the lead at the classic rally

Sébastien Ogier (F), Julien Ingrassia (F) Volkswagen Polo R WRC (2016) WRC Rallye Monte Carlo 2016 Sébastien Ogier alongside his co-driver Julien Ingrassia have finished day two of the 2016 Rally Monte Carlo in the lead, driving their VW Polo R WRC. The three-time world champions were embroiled in a thrilling duel with Ireland’s Kris Meeke and his co-driver Paul Nagle of Citroë and over the…

Volkswagen and Citroën in thrilling duel for the lead at the classic rally

Sébastien Ogier (F), Julien Ingrassia (F) Volkswagen Polo R WRC (2016) WRC Rallye Monte Carlo 2016 Sébastien Ogier alongside his co-driver Julien Ingrassia have finished day two of the 2016 Rally Monte Carlo in the lead, driving their VW Polo R WRC. The three-time world champions were embroiled in a thrilling duel with Ireland’s Kris Meeke and his co-driver Paul Nagle of Citroë and over the…

2015 World Rally Championship / Round 05 / Rally de Portugal // Worldwide Copyright: M-Sport/McKlein M-Sport World Rally Team’s Elfyn Evans and Ott Tänak head to the Italian round of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) in good spirits having completed a successful pre-event test earlier this week. Experimenting with set-up and various tyre configurations, the duo are feeling positive ahead of…

©WorldRX Petter Solberg is leading the Motorsport News World RX of Great Britain, round four of the FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy, after winning the first two heats at Lydden Hill in Kent today. Volkswagen Team Sweden’s Johan Kristoffersson and EKS owner Mattias Ekstrom are second and third respectively. A total of 29 Supercars, 18 TouringCars and 12 RX Lites are…

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The 2015 Red Bull Global Rallycross season begins in just 10 days with a brand new event at the Bahia Mar Resort in Fort Lauderdale, FL. The race will kick off a 12-round schedule, the longest in series history, for both the Supercar and GRC Lites classes.

Defending Supercar champion Joni Wiman will return to Olsbergs MSE to defend his crown, but numerous other drivers will attempt to…

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Renault Sport Technologies opens its WRC3 World Rally Championship campaign at Rally de Portugal. Andrea Crugnola and Michele Ferrara will compete in a Clio R3T, prepared by ASM H. Motorsport. The ambitious goal of winning the title by the end of the season means the Italian crew will be aiming to score heavily in the Iberian Peninsula.

After making a successful start to its…

19 Vaillant Benoit-Delesque Théo, during the 2015 French rally championship, rallye de Dieppe from May 15th to 17th, 2015 at Dieppe France. Photo Wilfried Marcon / DPPI

The second round of the France area Clio R3T Trophy was held this weekend, a few weeks after the opening rallying of the season at Épernay. The Rallye National du Pays de Dieppe thus provided a second opportunity for the drivers…

Montalegere 2015-04-25 Rallycross, VM premiär i Portugal Topi Heikkinen Foto Tony Welam ©WorldRX

Round three of the FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy will take place at Mettet in Belgium this weekend and will include a total of 83 cars (38 Supercars, 25 Super1600 entries and 20 TouringCars).  Ladbrokes World RX of Belgium will also form the first of five rounds in this…

MAKING A POINT AT SOL RALLY BARBADOS 2015

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As competitors in the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Driver’s and Class Championships prepare for the two most important weekends of the year – LIME King of the Hill and Sol Rally Barbados 2015 – Reigning Champion Rhett Watson has picked up where he left off last year, leading the standings by two points from Wayne Archer, with Justin Campbell, Jeremy Croney and Paul Horton tied…

Sardegna Rally Organizers are bring the length back to the WRC

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For the 2015 edition of the Rally Italia Sardenga the engineers, drivers, and cars faces one of their toughest challenges for the year or a single leg in a rally thus far throughout the in the entire World Rally Championship (WRC) calendar.

Back in February they announced that they where going for a leg distance of over 200km and after some tweaks to the route they have held…

Finland’s Toni Gardemeister claimed Suzuki’s first WRC stage win in 2008. At Sol Rally Barbados 2015, he will get behind the wheel of an SX4 once again, when he campaigns the Red Bull Global Rally Cross/Simpson Motors/Bushy Park Barbados Suzuki SX4 WRC, with co-driver and fellow-countryman Timo Alanne. With six World Championship podiums to his credit – he was fourth in 2005 in a works Ford Focus…

All stages run in a single direction; times indicate Car 0 due

Friday, May 29

1800 SS1 – Bushy Park Barbados 1 (1.8km) SS2 – Bushy Park Barbados 2 (1.8km) Total stage distance, leg 1 – 3.60km

Saturday, May 30

1000 Restart – Simpson Motors 1030 SS3 – Sailor Gully 1 (4.50km) 1100 SS4 – Spring Vale 1 (4.80km) 1120 SS5 – LIME/Banks/Automotive Art Vaucluse 1 (6.80km) 1250 SS6 – Sailor Gully 2 (4.50km)

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The Barbados Rally Club (BRC) promises “a party to remember” when it celebrates the 25th Anniversary of its premier event with two spectacular weekends of motor sport at the end of this month. LIME King of the Hill (May 24) and Sol Rally Barbados (May 29-31) will not only offer competitors a challenge worthy of such a milestone, but will also give the island’s thousands of…

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Key to nationalities (competitor from Barbados unless shown): ANT – Antigua & Barbuda; AUS – Australia; CDN – Canada; ENG – England; FIN – Finland; FRA – France; GUY – Guyana; IRL – Republic of Ireland; JAM – Jamaica; NED – The Netherlands; NIR – Northern Ireland; NZL – New Zealand; SCO –…

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Two-time British Rally Champion Guy Wilks will join JRM Racing for the British round of the FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy. Albatec Racing will also field two cars at Lydden Hill (22-24 May) driven by British Rallycross ace David Binks and Albatec Team Principle, Andy Scott.

Wilks will drive one of JRM’s 1.6-litre MINI RX Supercars at the Kent-based circuit…