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Sebastien Ogier’s lead of the 2018 World Rally Championship season opener has been cut back to under 40 seconds by Ott Tanak as the hunt for victory intensifies at Rallye Monte-Carlo.

Ott Tanak has slashed Sebastien Ogier’s lead at Rallye Monte-Carlo to less than 15 seconds at the end of Friday’s action after the M-Sport Ford survived a scare on SS7.

Top 15 classification after SS8 at Rallye Monte-Carlo, the first round of the 2018 World Rally Championship.   1. Sebastien Ogier FRA M-Sport Ford Fiesta WRC 17 2h 07m 15.4s 2. Ott Tanak EST Toyota Yaris Gazoo Racing +14.9s

Fernando Alonso believes he has a "50/50" chance of appearing at this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans as he looks to further his bid to complete the 'triple crown of motorsport'.

Tom Ingram has re-signed for Speedworks Motorsport Toyota for the 2018 British Touring Car Championship having produced a stellar title challenge last year before narrowly coming up short in third place in the drivers’ championships.

A year on two fronts beckons for Fernando Alonso as he looks to balance WEC duties with his F1 commitments.

A consortium in Japan has announced its plans to bring back the World Rally Championship to the country for the first time since 2010 with initial targets as early as next year.

Mark Webber believes it would be a “mistake” if Fernando Alonso attempted to combine his 2018 campaign with a dual Formula 1 and World Endurance Championship focus and feels the two-time F1 world champion must concentrate on one.

Sebastien Loeb has clinched victory on stage four of the 2018 Dakar Rally to chip away at Stephane Peterhansel’s lead as Peugeot profits from its rival’s issues to take a 1-2-3 in the standings, while defending bike champion Sam Sunderland retires from the event.

Nasser Al-Attiyah has won his second stage of the 2018 Dakar Rally to jump into third overall in the classification and break the Peugeot domination at the top of the leaderboard.

Fernando Alonso stayed largely coy on suggestions he could enjoy a multi-race programme with Toyota in the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2018, but admitted he would "love" to do more sports car racing alongside his McLaren Formula 1 commitments.

Toyota LMP1 technical director Pascal Vasselon was pleased with Fernando Alonso's first sports car test outing in Bahrain on Sunday, saying the McLaren Formula 1 driver was both "disciplined" and "keen" in his display.

Fernando Alonso remained coy on his chances of making his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans next June with Toyota following a report that a deal has been signed and he will test the Japanese manufacturer's LMP1 car in Bahrain next week.

Full Race results for the FIA World Endurance Championship's fourth round of the season, the 6 Hours of Nurburgring.

Full Qualifying results for the FIA World Endurance Championship's fourth round of the season, the 6 Hours of Nurburgring.

A bizarre and unfortunate moment of confusion led to the #7 Toyota retiring from the lead, it has been revealed.

Full race results and classification for the 2017 Le Mans 24 Hours after 24 of 24 hours of racing at the Circuit de la Sarthe

The new leader is LMP2's #38 Jackie Chan DC Racing Oreca as the #1 Porsche is forced into retirement with an oil pressure problem.

Problems for the second place #31 Vaillante Rebellion Racing lift the #38 Jackie Chan DC Racing car into podium contention.

Sebastien Buemi has wrestled the lead for the #8 Toyota from its sister #7 driven by pole-sitter Mike Conway.

The #7 and #9 Toyotas retire within minutes of each other, all but ending the manufacturer's hopes of an elusive Le Mans win.

Full Qualifying results and grid line-up for the 2017 Le Mans 24 Hours at the Circuit de la Sarthe

Kamui Kobayashi has set a new lap record during qualifying for the Le Mans 24 Hours in the #7 Toyota Gazoo TS050 Hybrid of 3m 14.791s.

Porsche LMP team principal Andreas Seidl says the option of returning to a three LMP1 car attack for Le Mans was declined due to budget issues.