Motor Sport

Sport newsIn three months’ time, on 23 -27 October, the third edition of the FIA Motorsport Games will begin in Valencia. It remains the only event in the world to unite athletes from nations from all four corners of the globe in competition across an unparalleled number of motorsport disciplines. Entries are flooding in for the 2024 multidisciplinary event, which will feature 27 categories in Spain, including from a host of new nations whose athletes will…

Sport newsRovanperä had led round nine of the 2024 FIA World Rally Championship for almost every kilometre of this four-day gravel fixture and looked set to end Finland’s seven-year wait for a home winner with a 45.8s advantage going into the rally’s penultimate stage. However, it all went wrong for the 23-year-old when he clipped a rogue rock, pushing his GR Yaris Rally1 Hybrid off the line and into a rally-ending roll. Rovanperä and co-driver…

Sport newsThe two-time winner of the FIA World Rally Championship completed the penultimate leg of the four-day event with a 44.2s advantage over his Toyota GR Yaris Rally1 Hybrid team-mate Sébastien Ogier. Points leader Thierry Neuville, driving a Hyundai i20 N Rally1 Hybrid, ended up 39.2s further back in third.Finland’s fast and furious Friday turned into a super-speed Saturday with Rovanperä, Elfyn Evans and Ogier heading up a Toyota 1-2-3 this morning. But it all…

Sport newsThe two-time world champion Finn, who is yet to win his home round of the FIA WRC, heads GR Yaris Rally1 Hybrid team-mate Elfyn Evans after winning four of today’s nine stages. Sébastien Ogier rounds out the top three, just 0.6s further back.In stark contrast, rival team Hyundai endured a tough day, with two of its i20 N Rally1 Hybrid cars crashing out. Title hopeful Ott Tänak was forced out by a roll on…

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…