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Sport newsOtt Tänak kept his cool under increasing pressure from Esapekka Lappi to lead after Friday’s fast-paced opening leg at Secto Rally Finland.The Estonian – twice a winner of this classic gravel fixture – snatched the top spot from early leader and Hyundai colleague Thierry Neuville on the very first stage and clung onto the position all day long.Set-up frustrations threatened to rattle Tänak’s confidence, especially during the first half of the leg on stages…

Sport newsBased at the town of Várpalota, in the western Transdanubian country of Veszprém, the event is also a counting round of the FIA CEZ Cross-Country Championship. The organising Garilla Racing Kft. has attracted 12 entrants in the FIA T1 section, five in T3 for lightweight prototype machines and four in the T4 category. In the Drivers’ Championship, Ferreira has guided his Mini John Cooper Works Rally to a two-point advantage over Poland’s Michal Maluszyński, who also drives an…

Sport newsThe double Olympic gold medal winner and five-time world champion is no stranger to setting and breaking records, as Svindal is the only man to secure three major global downhill titles. His Olympic gold in alpine skiing in South Korea in 2018 made him the oldest skier to achieve such a feat at the age of 35. He remained ultra-competitive right up to the moment he hung up his skis following the 2019 FIS World…

Sport newsThierry Neuville edged Hyundai Motorsport team-mate Ott Tänak to win Thursday night’s opening speed test at Secto Rally Finland.Neuville – currently second in the points – showed no shortage of commitment as he threaded his hybrid-powered i20 N car through the mixed-surface Harju curtain-raiser in front of massive crowds near the centre of host town Jyväskylä.The Belgian driver outpaced colleague Tänak by 1.2sec in the 3.48km blast as Takamoto Katsuta filled the final podium…

Sport newsCATEGORY 4 (1982 – 1990)Category 4 will feature 17 entries with Audi, BMW, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Opel, Skoda and Toyota all represented.Category 4 championship leaders Ville Silvasti and Risto Pietilainen will be swapping their Lancia 037 for the Audi quattro A2 they won last year’s Lahti Historic Rally in for their home event.  Silvasti is currently 20 points ahead of his nearest championship rival Mats Myrsell, with Pietilainen just 9 points ahead of Esko Junttila in…

Sport newsSpain will host the final round of this year’s FIA European Rally Championship (ERC) after being added to the calendar yesterday (Monday).*Rising stars of the ERC will cross paths with FIA World Rally Championship legends as both series combine at RallyRACC Catalunya-Costa Daurada – offering the ultimate spectacle to rally fans worldwide.The sealed-surface fixture fills the date left outstanding when the 2022 calendar was announced and takes place from 20 – 22 October.Fast and…

Sport newsThe experienced Lucas Di Grassi sealed a popular London E-Prix win in the second ABB FIA Formula E World Championship round of the weekend (31 July) for ROKiT Venturi Racing. FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem attended the event and met executives, Team Principals and drivers from across the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship before presenting the winning trophy to di Grassi on the podium. Meanwhile, in the fight for the championship crown, Stoffel…

Sport newsMax Verstappen took a well-worked Hungarian Grand Prix win, rising from 10th on the grid to beat Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton and George Russell as strategic woes led to Ferrari missing out on podium places as Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc finished fourth and sixth respectively.At the race start polesitter Russell made a good start to hold off challenges from front-row-starter Leclerc and Ferrari team-mate Sainz. And as the Ferrari drivers swapped places in the middle…

Sport newsThéo Pourchaire has thrown down the gauntlet to long-time Championship leader Felipe Drugovich by snatching victory in the Budapest Feature Race. As the last race before the summer break, it was fitting that all the lessons the ART Grand Prix driver has learned so far this season came into play, as he balanced carving his way through the field and surviving long enough to get his tyres to the chequered flag.Enzo Fittipaldi risked it…

Sport newsAlexander Smolyar kept a cool head to win the Feature Race in Budapest, maintaining his advantage from pole position. Zane Maloney and Oliver Bearman were his closest pursuers but ended as they started in second and third places respectively.Zak O’Sullivan was the driver of the day though as the Carlin man made the most of the changeable conditions to make a pit stop and swap to slicks work to immense effect, ending up fourth…