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Sport newsAhead of the first competitive stage of Secto Rally Finland, Round 9 of the 2024 FIA World Rally Championship, stakeholders from across motor sport and the wider mobility landscape spent the day in Jyväskylä focused on a collaborative future for sustainability.With topics ranging from the innovations needed to be able to broadcast such a vast sport as the WRC, to the latest projects to deploy new energies such as hydrogen into integrated transportation systems…

Sport newsAll-new stops in Spain, Paraguay and Saudi Arabia highlight a spectacular 14-round 2025 FIA World Rally Championship calendar.After the traditional start amongst the glitz and glamour of Monte-Carlo in late January, the WRC will take in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America before arriving in Saudi Arabia in late November to complete the largest calendar in the championship since 2008.The first three rounds of 2025 take on a similar look and feel to 2024,…

Sport newsStages like Ouninpohja, Myhinpää, and Ruuhimäki need little introduction for rally fans. Their blistering speeds, heart-stopping jumps and blind crests have earned the rally its unofficial moniker, the ‘Finnish Grand Prix’. To succeed, drivers will need plenty of ‘sisu’ – a Finnish word for implacable courage.The rally, which starts on Thursday (1 August) and runs through Sunday (4 August), is a new challenge for many FIA Junior WRC crews as it has not featured…

Members newsOver the past three decades, Rallye Jeunes has been the starting point for numerous successful racers, including Sébastien Ogier, Sébastien Loeb, and Adrien Fourmaux. This year, the program marks its milestone anniversary with a fresh visual identity while maintaining its core mission: providing an accessible entry point into motorsports.Aspiring racers can participate in selection competitions organised by the FFSA. The criteria for entry are simple: candidates must be of French nationality, be under 26 years old,…

Sport newsThe Belgian and his Andorra-based co-driver won the opening two stages and finished third on stage three to record a winning margin of 6min 26.8sec over their Toyota team mates Rokas Baciuška and Oriol Vidal. De Mévius is not registered for FIA World Baja Cup points, however, so the scoop of valuable points for first place in the eight-round series went to Baciuška.De Mévius said: “So, here we are at the end of the race and we…

Sport newsThere was little to separate fully-electric and sustainably-fuelled combustion engined cars at the World RX of Hungary, as Niclas Grönholm (EV) and Johan Kristoffersson (ICE) won Rounds 3 and 4 of the FIA World Rallycross Championship respectively as an evenly matched ‘Battle of Technologies’ raged at a blisteringly hot Nyirád Racing Center double header.Grönholm clinched his first victory of the season on day one – the CE Dealer Team by Volvo Construction Equipment driver…

Sport newsWith Pietro Ometto co-driving his Citroën C3 Rally2, Pirelli-equipped Crugnola repeated his breakthrough Rally di Roma Capitale triumph of 12 months ago on the back of a faultless performance in the scorching Italian sunshine.Despite an intercom issue, Simone Campedelli finished second driving a Škoda Fabia RS Rally2 on Pirelli tyres with Efrén Llarena third on his first outing in a Michelin-shod Fabia RS Rally2, the Spaniard’s first ERC podium since May 2023. But it was…

Sport newsGeorge Russell has been disqualified from the Belgian Grand Prix after his Mercedes W15 was below the 798kg minimum weight, handing victory to team-mate Lewis Hamilton.Russell took a sensational win at Spa with a well-worked one-stop strategy, but following the race the FIA Technical Delegate reported that while Russell’s car was initially weighted it met the minimum weight of 798.0 kg. However, when “fuel was drained out of the car and 2.8 litres of…

Sport newsGeorge Russell spring a strategic suprise at Spa, making a one-stop strategy wiork to snatch a third career grand prix victory from under the nose of long time race leader Lewis Hamilton who finished a little over half a second ahead behind his Mercedes team-mate and 0.6s clear of third-placed McLaren driver Oscar Piastri. At the start of the race, Ferrari polesitter Charles Leclerc got away well to take the lead. Behind him fellow front-row starter…

Sport newsDRIVERS 1 – George RUSSELL (Mercedes)2 – Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes)3 – Oscar PIASTRI (McLaren)  TRACK INTERVIEWS(Conducted by Guenther Steiner)   Q: Oscar, It’s a fantastic result, your third, you know. I mean, again, a podium, you keep on bringing them. Did you think you can get the Mercedes after the last stop?Oscar PIASTRI: Honestly, yes, I thought I could, but I mean, clean air was such a big difference today. Once I got a little bit of clean air in the middle stint,…