Sebastien Ogier feels the way in which Toyota Gazoo Racing team-mate Kalle Rovanpera won this year’s World Rally Championship title bore all the hallmarks of “a great champion”.
Finland’s 20-year wait for a new World Rally champion was ended by Kalle Rovanpera as he cruised to victory on the final day of Repco Rally New Zealand.
Toyota Gazoo Racing driver Kalle Rovanpera celebrated his birthday in dream fashion on the penultimate leg of Repco Rally New Zealand by ending Saturday with a near half-minute lead to inch closer to lifting a first World Rally Championship title.
On a day that produced plenty of drama and no fewer than three different leaders, it was Ott Tanak who ended the Friday leg of Repco Rally New Zealand at the top of the time sheets.
How do you prepare for a relative unknown in the World Rally Championship? That is one of the questions surely being asked by team personnel, drivers and co-drivers ahead of Repco Rally New Zealand in just a few days’ time.
Round eleven of the FIA World Rally Championship takes teams and crews to Repco Rally New Zealand for what is arguably the most eagerly-anticipated event on the 2022 calendar - and one team could already have a march on its rivals.
Adrien Fourmaux says the decision to withdraw his entry for next week’s Repco Rally New Zealand was made “by mutual agreement” between him and the management at M-Sport Ford.
Sebastien Ogier says the fact he has “unfinished business” at Rally New Zealand is the core reason why he is returning to the Auckland-based event later this month with the Toyota Gazoo Racing squad.
The World Rally Championship will visit four continents next season, with New Zealand making its long-awaited comeback after two decades away from the series.
As drivers with something to prove, Jari-Matti Latvala and Francois Duval's retirement from the Rally New Zealand could probably not have come at a worse time.
BP Ford Abu Dhabi team boss Malcolm Wilson has branded the final leg of the Rally New Zealand as 'one of the most disappointing days' the team has ever experienced.
Sebastien Loeb has extended his lead in the WRC standings to eight points with only four rallies remaining, two of which will occur on his preferred Tarmac surface.
Former Formula 1 star Juan-Pablo Montoya has insisted the sex scandal enveloping Max Mosley is merely 'a laughing matter', as one of the sport's team owners also sprang to the FIA President's defence but further high-profile motoring bodies deserted him.
BF Goodrich rally manager, Aime Chatard has said that their latest success at the weekend on the Rally NZ, clinching the manufacturers' championship with BP Ford, to add to their success in the drivers' with Sebastien Loeb, is a 'tremendous reward' for all their hard work.
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution driver 'Dani' Sola has been the star of the FIA Production Car World Rally Championship [PCWRC] today [Saturday] and the Spaniard not only now leads the registered contenders, but set six fastest times in the eight stages run in the second leg of Propecia Rally New Zea
Mitsubishi drivers head for the third round of the 2004 FIA Production Car World Rally Championship [PCWRC], Rally New Zealand, with high hopes of maintaining their unbeaten record this season.
King Carlos Sainz will be hoping for an ideal birthday present when he competes in this week's Propecia Rally New Zealand starting on Thursday. Sainz, a two-time world champion and four time winner of Rally New Zealand, celebrates his 42nd birthday today [Easter Monday].
Citroen returned from its exploratory visit to the World Championship's most distant fixture last year with five points in the bag thanks to Sebastien Loeb's fourth place, a superb result for the Frenchman's maiden competitive outing to New Zealand - and it won't have escaped rugby union fans tha