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Sport newsBased at the Igora Drive Sports and Entertainment Complex – 54km from Saint Petersburg – for a third successive season, the 18th running of the only snow and ice Baja in the world will be fought out over three days and nine stages on February 11th-13th.Al-Rajhi won the event on his only visit in 2014 with German co-driver Timo Gottschalk and will tackle this year’s Baja with Northern Ireland’s Michael Orr. The duo finished…

FIA newsGathered in digital format, the meetings marked an important milestone, chaired by the President alongside his team: Deputy President for Sport Robert Reid, Deputy President for Automobile Mobility and Tourism Tim Shearman and Senate President Carmelo Sanz de Barros.In respect of the commitments already made by the President and the strong will expressed by the FIA Members at the 2021 Annual General Assembly (AGA) last December in Paris, governance topics such as transparency and…

The 2022 WEC curtain-raiser (16-18 March) will mark a series of firsts for the championship including the introduction of an all-new renewable fuel from TotalEnergies: Excellium Racing 100. This 100% renewable fuel will be produced on bioethanol basis and allows for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions savings of at least 65% compared with traditional fossil fuels.Sebring will also see Hypercars in action for the first time on American soil as Toyota Gazoo Racing, Glickenhaus Racing and…

As announced following last December’s FIA World Motor Sport Council meeting, the championship will be held across an eight-round calendar spanning from the penultimate weekend of May to the beginning of October and featuring venues well established on the truck racing map. Following the curtain-raising event in Misano, Italy, the FIA ETRC fraternity will move to the Hungaroring. July is set to mark the return of two familiar circuits to the calendar – the Slovakia Ring (featuring…

Sport newsWith the hard work done on Friday’s gravel stages, Al-Attiyah avoided risks over the closing half dozen speed tests to secure a seventh victory in Oman by the margin of 15min 13.8sec in his Autotek Volkswagen Polo GTI. It was the Qatari’s 79th career MERC win and gave him the perfect foundations on which to build a challenge for an 18th regional title.Sánchez González, who was standing-in for Mathieu Baumel as Al-Attiyah’s co-driver, became…

FIA newsA message from our Chinese Federation, Federation of Automobile and Motorcycle of the People’s Republic of China (CAMF), represented by Zhan guojun (President), He jiandong (VP), Zhang Tao (Deputy General Secretary and member of FIA World Motorsprt Council).  Video of Chinese New Year: a message from CAMF

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Sport newsProspective teams planning to contest the full season have until Monday, February 28 to submit their entries for the 2022 campaign, which is set to total 20 races over 10 weekends.To be eligible for WTCR points, each team must enter two cars, but a third entry per team can be added for a driver eligible for the FIA WTCR Junior Driver Title, if the driver is female or if the team uses a car…

Sport newsRomet becomes Europe’s representative in the 2023 FIA Rally Star Training Season. This includes six rallies in an M-Sport Ford Fiesta Rally3, plus physical and intellectual assessment, driver coaching and testing. Sweden’s Patrik Hallberg was selected as the reserve driver.The women’s award was shared by Maja Hallén Fellenius of Sweden and Great Britain’s Katie Milner. They will both progress to the Women’s World Final in the United States later this year.The other two candidates…

Sport newsROKiT Venturi Racing’s Edoardo Mortara battled to the third victory of his ABB FIA Formula E World Championship career in Saudi Arabia this evening (29 January), as yesterday’s winner Nyck de Vries (Mercedes-EQ) endured a bruising bout that saw him only just scrape a top ten finish.Qualifying had promised a close contest around the Riyadh Street Circuit – and so it would prove to be. From pole position, de Vries controlled proceedings early on…

Sport newsToday’s plan was for the 33 drivers who had progressed to Stage 2 to be whittled down to 12 for tomorrow’s Stage 3 shootout.However, rain made the track slippery in parts catching out unwary drivers with a number of off-track excursions and stoppages –some resulting in damage to the TN5 XC Cross Car. Despite the best efforts of support crews, racing was curtailed for the day before the completion of Stage 2.The two remaining…