Hyundai shelves its 2025 WRC car upgrades for Safari Rally Kenya
Hyundai insists it has made the “better choice” to contest next week’s Safari Rally Kenya without its much anticipated 2025 car update package that debuted in Sweden last month.The South Korean manufacturer will head to Africa for the toughest event on the WRC calendar with…
FIA steps in after WRC fuel supplier goes into administration
Safari Rally Kenya is set to go ahead unaffected despite the World Rally Championship’s fuel supplier P1 Fuels being placed into administration. The WRC became the first FIA sanctioned world championship to move to 100% sustainable fuel after German company P1 Performance Fuels won a tender…
Meet Claire Schonborn, the engineer turned WRC competitor almost overnight
Last year, the World Rally Championship set out on a bold mission to unearth its next female star. This global talent search wasn’t purely focused on finding a driver who could perhaps one day follow in the footsteps of the great four-time WRC rally winner…
WRC drivers call on FIA president for “urgent solution” to swearing sanctions
World Rally Championship drivers have called for communication with FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem to find an “urgent solution” following the governing body’s move to sanction drivers for swearing. WRC drivers and co-drivers through the World Rally Drivers Alliance (WoRDA) have today issued a statement opposing…
Fourmaux fined for swearing on WRC TV broadcast
Adrien Fourmaux has been fined €10,000 and hit with a further suspended €20,000 fine for using “inappropriate language” during a World Rally Championship television interview.The Hyundai driver’s comments following the end of stage 18 at Rally Sweden have been deemed to have breached FIA Article…
WRC women’s driver development programme winner selected
Claire Schonborn has claimed a fully funded drive in the Junior World Rally Championship after winning the Beyond Rally Women’s Driver Development Programme shootout at Rally Sweden.The WRC conducted a global search to unearth the next female rally star last year with the programme reaching…
How Toyota plans to manage Rally Sweden grandstand finish
Toyota will need to think about “strategy for its drivers” as a grandstand finish awaits Rally Sweden with only three seconds splitting team-mates Elfyn Evans and Takamoto Katsuta.The Japanese marque has always operated a firm no team orders policy among its crews but team principal…
“Messy” startline incident dents Fourmaux’s Rally Sweden victory bid
Hyundai’s Adrien Fourmaux has explained a bizarre “messy» startline issue that has severely dented his Rally Sweden victory hopes after starting stage 11 without his helmet properly fastened.Fourmaux had been in the thick of an intense five-way fight for victory, having started the day in…
Toyota lifts lid on near «impossible» mission to upgrade its WRC car
Toyota had to pull «some favours and tricks» to complete the almost «impossible» job of upgrading its World Rally Championship car following a late change in regulations for 2025.The reigning WRC manufacturers’ champion successfully debuted updates to its GR Yaris, which required spending three homologation…
Fourmaux to keep ‘head on shoulders’ after stunning Hyundai WRC debut
Adrien Fourmaux believes he must keep his ‘head on his shoulders’ after scoring a World Rally Championship podium on debut for Hyundai and finishing ahead of his world champion team-mates. Fourmaux impressed throughout last weekend’s 2025 season-opener in Monte Carlo, quickly gelling with his team and…
