WRC Sweden: Elfyn Evans leads as Oliver Solberg drops to P5 after lucky escape
Elfyn Evans claimed the Rally Sweden lead to head a Toyota 1-2-3 as overnight frontrunner Oliver Solberg dropped to fifth following a dramatic Friday morning.After three snow stages, Evans headed to the midday service with a 14.5s lead over Toyota’s Takamoto Katsuta, with team-mate Sami…
WRC Sweden: Oliver Solberg sets the pace to grab early lead
World Rally Championship points leader Oliver Solberg kicked off Rally Sweden in fine style by winning the opening stage to grab an early lead on Thursday night.The Monte Carlo winner, spurred on by his home crowd, kicked off the championship’s only dedicated snow rally by…
Low snowfall throws up extra curveball for WRC crews at Rally Sweden
Rally Sweden is renowned for being one of the fastest on the World Rally Championship calendar, as crews thread their way through snowbank-lined stages. This year, that might not be the case, and they will have to be extra careful.Snow levels in the lead up…
Martins Sesks sets out target ahead of WRC return
Rising World Rally Championship star Martins Sesks has set out two key objectives ahead of his return to rallying’s tip tier at Rally Sweden this weekend.Sweden’s snow stages mark the start of Sesks’ seven-round partial programme with M-Sport-Ford that includes the same line-up of rallies…
Fermin Aldeguer to miss Thai GP, Gresini names replacement
Fermin Aldeguer will sit out MotoGP’s season-opening Thailand Grand Prix on 1 March as he continues to recover from a femur fracture.Although Aldeguer had already been declared unfit for the first pre-season test at Sepang earlier this month, he hadn’t ruled out the possibility of…
Jorge Martin sought Marc Marquez’s advice before undergoing further surgery
Jorge Martin, who returned to riding on Tuesday, sought advice from Marc Marquez before undergoing surgery again this winter to address persistent issues with his collarbone and scaphoid.The winter has not unfolded exactly as Martin had planned. Despite making his comeback in Valencia at the…
Joan Mir fears early silly season could leave MotoGP riders regretting their decisions
Joan Mir believes MotoGP’s increasingly early silly season could risk pushing riders into decisions they may come to regret, as teams move at a record pace to finalise 2027 line-ups.Even before testing for the upcoming season began in Malaysia last week, speculation was already rife…
Oliver Solberg keeping feet on the ground ahead of “dream” WRC homecoming
Oliver Solberg says he is “taking everything rally-by-rally” and still has a lot to learn despite emerging as an early contender for this year’s World Rally Championship.Toyota’s new signing tops the championship standings after scoring a dominant victory in Monte Carlo last month. In doing…
Ducati: Resurgent Francesco Bagnaia back to his ‘2024 mentality’ in MotoGP
Ducati team manager Davide Tardozzi believes Francesco Bagnaia is firmly back on track in MotoGP, saying he is once again displaying the mentality that defined his 2024 season.Factory Ducati rider Bagnaia made an impressive start to pre-season testing in Malaysia last week, after immediately feeling…
Why Toprak Razgatlioglu is slower than he expected
Over the past few days in Sepang, one of the main attractions of the opening 2026 tests was beginning to gauge what realistic objectives Toprak Razgatlioglu should aim for in his rookie MotoGP season. And those expectations do not look the same now, after the…
