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Sport newsThe famous Rally Sanremo Storico will play host to the penultimate round of the FIA European Historic Rally Championship from October 7-8, with intense battles in store for Europe’s leading Historic rally crews.Whilst the Category 1 title for pre-1969 cars has already been decided in the favour of British husband and wife crew Ernie/Karen Graham, attention now turns to the remaining three championship categories where matters are far from settled in the race for…

Sport newsM-Sport Ford World Rally Team’s Ott Tänak and co-driver Martin Järveoja became Rally Chile Biobío winners for the second time on Sunday as Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT secured the FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers*.Tänak, driving a Ford Puma Rally1 Hybrid, seized the lead of the South American round on Friday and, thanks to clever tyre tactics, built a commanding buffer which he carried through to Sunday.With Thierry Neuville finishing second for Hyundai and…

Sport newsOtt Tänak is two stages away from winning round 11 of the 2023 FIA World Rally Championship.Driving a Ford Puma Rally1 Hybrid for the M-Sport Ford World Rally Team, Tänak leads Rally Chile Biobío by a comfortable margin of 51.6s.Starting Sunday’s deciding action in front by 58.3s, Tänak went for a cautious approach through the opening pair of challenging gravel stages.“For sure in the back of our minds we have no need to push…

Sport newsM-Sport Ford World Rally Team driver Ott Tänak has closed in on back-to-back Rally Chile Biobío triumphs after he dominated the second leg of the FIA World Rally Championship qualifier to build a commanding lead.Tänak, who drives a Ford Puma Rally1 Hybrid, began the penultimate day of action in South America with a small 4.2s advantage over Hyundai Shell Mobis World Rally Team’s Teemu Suninen, but ended the leg 58.3s clear as world title…

Sport newsOtt Tänak is 47.8 seconds in the clear in his bid to win for the second time in this season’s FIA World Rally Championship.With nine stages of Rally Chile Biobío complete, the M-Sport Ford World Rally Team driver holds a comfortable margin following another inspired tyre choice.The Estonian left service in Concepción this morning aboard his Ford Puma Rally1 Hybrid with four hard-compound Pirelli tyres and two softs, the only P1 driver to make…

Sport newsElfyn Evans won two of this morning’s three all-gravel stages to lead Hyundai rival Teemu Suninen by a slender margin on Rally Chile Bio Bío.On its return to the FIA World Rally Championship calendar for the first time since 2019, the challenging nature of the South American fixture was underlined almost from the outset.Esapekka Lappi rolled his Hyundai i20 N Rally1 Hybrid on a fast left-hander in the very first stage before Pierre-Louis Loubet…

Sport newsFollowing the recent cancellation of November’s Kuwait International Rally, the Cyprus Rally will bring this year’s FIA Middle East Rally Championship (MERC) to a thrilling conclusion on October 6th-8th.Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah is a record-breaking 18-time winner of the regional title, but the Qatari trails his arch rival Abdullah Al-Rawahi by six points heading into what promises to be a thrilling battle for both the Drivers and Co-drivers’ Championships – Al-Rawahi’s co-driver Ata Al-Hmoud and…

Sport newsThe penultimate round of the FIA European Autocross Championship season at Maggiora Offroad Arena in the picturesque Piedmont region of Italy produced a spellbinding weekend of autocross and cross car action for a capacity crowd – as ever.This year, however, there was an additional celebration for the Maggiora event organisers as they hosted the FIA Volunteers Weekend as the crowning moment of a social media and local engagement campaign that doubled the number of…

Sport newsThe Hungarian has been a dominant force this season and the Le Mans round turned out to be business as usual for him. The 38-year-old took both pole positions and remained unbeaten in qualifying this year. He also took two race wins, one third and one fourth place to accumulate a total of 55 points.It was, however, his victory in Race 3 that allowed him to bag his fifth series title with five races…

Sport newsJoão Ferreira and Filipe Palmeiro claimed a narrow and hard-fought victory in Portugal’s Baja TT Sharish Reguengos Mourão, the penultimate fourth round of the 2023 FIA European Cup for Cross-Country Bajas.The Mini JCW Rally Plus crew were pushed for the majority of the 373.64 competitive kilometres on the three-day event by their fellow Portuguese crew of Tiago Reis and Valter Cardoso in an Overdrive Racing-supported Toyota Hilux. The two teams were separated by a…