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Kalle Rovanpera’s quest for a third straight Rally Estonia victory got off to the ideal start this morning as he went quickest on the shakedown stage alongside Jonne Halttunen.

Kalle Rovanpera kicked off his quest for consecutive Safari Rally Kenya victories in perfect fashion by emerging a clear winner of this morning’s shakedown stage.

Esapekka Lappi led a Hyundai Motorsport one-two on this morning’s Rally Italia Sardegna shakedown stage from Thierry Neuville in the second i20 N Rally1.

Eight-time World Rally Champion Sebastien Ogier has revealed Rally Italia Sardegna is one of the events he has “learned to love” in all the years he has been involved with the sport.

M-Sport Ford’s Ott Tanak has conceded he is still trying to identify the “sweet spot” of his Puma Rally1 despite taking it to second place on last weekend’s Croatia Rally.

Ott Tanak has spoken publicly for the first time about how difficult it will be competing at Croatia Rally this weekend following the sudden death of Craig Breen in the country last week.

The universally known saying, ‘It is the taking part that counts’, rung true for Estonian Ott Tanak over the weekend.

Ott Tanak reckons the best is yet to come from M-Sport Ford’s Puma Rally1 car, especially when it comes to challenging for top honours on Tarmac rounds of the 2023 World Rally Championship.

World Rally Championship leader Ott Tanak says his first foray onto gravel with the Puma Rally1 in the coming days should provide plenty of answers to the questions he has been fielding to his M-Sport Ford engineers in recent weeks.

Reigning World Rally champion Kalle Rovanpera powered his way to a fastest time on the Rally Sweden shakedown stage ahead of the action beginning later this evening with a spectator special in the host city of Umea.

M-Sport Ford’s Team Principal believes the work that has gone on behind the scenes in the period since Rallye Monte-Carlo last month puts their Puma Rally1 in a good place going into Rally Sweden.

M-Sport has enjoyed a “productive” build-up to the new FIA World Rally Championship campaign and can only benefit from having Ott Tanak and Martin Jarveoja within their ranks as the campaign develops.

A Hyundai victory on the season-ending Rally Japan would be the “spark” the Alzenau-based team needs looking ahead to the 2023 World Rally Championship campaign.

Former World Rally champion Ott Tanak will leave Hyundai Motorsport at the end of the season, it has been confirmed.

Hyundai Motorsport’s interim chief says losing out on the drivers’ title with two rounds of this season’s World Rally Championship remaining serves as “motivation and inspiration” to all those under his stewardship.

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.

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.

World Rally Championship leader Kalle Rovanpera threw down the gauntlet to his Rally1 rivals on the short Repco Rally New Zealand shakedown stage.

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.

Bosses at Hyundai Motorsport resorted to deploying team tactics on the final day of Acropolis Rally in Greece to ensure Thierry Neuville led home its first 1-2-3 finish in the World Rally Championship.

The retirement of Sebastien Loeb, and a puncture that robbed his M-Sport Ford team-mate Pierre-Louis Loubet of second spot, has gifted the Acropolis Rally lead to a hard-charging Thierry Neuville.

Three-time Acropolis Rally winner Sebastien Loeb snatched top spot on the closing Friday stage and, in the process, denied M-Sport Ford team-mate Pierre-Louis Loubet the chance to hold the overnight lead for the first time in his career.

Ott Tanak enjoyed his first shakedown stage win of the 2022 World Rally Championship campaign, while the involvement of nine-time champion Sebastien Loeb was curtailed by an engine misfire.

What a difference a month can make in the World Rally Championship. One minute, morale is rock bottom - arguably the worst it has ever been - and the next everyone has renewed impetus, spirits lifted to new heights thanks to quick-fire wins on opposing surfaces.