World Rally News

World champion Petter Solberg will take a five second lead into the second full day of the Propecia Rally New Zealand on Saturday.

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.

The 34th Propecia Rally New Zealand takes place this coming weekend - the fourth round out of sixteen in the 2004 FIA World Rally Championship. NZ will also play host to the third round in the 2004 FIA Production Car WRC.

A charity auction ahead of this week's Propecia Rally New Zealand last night raised more than $100,000 for the Possum Bourne Family Education Trust.

Even more than in the case of road cars, hydraulics play a fundamental role in the performance of a World Rally Car. Peugeot Sport's chief engineer, Michel Nandan explains... Q: Michel, in what ways are hydraulics used on the 307 WRC? Michel Nandan:

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

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].

The Ford Rallye Sport team today [Friday] unveiled the Focus RS World Rally Car 04, after it successfully completed the FIA homologation process this week.

Two-time world champion Carlos Sainz has given the new Citroen the thumbs-up after testing ahead of next month's Propecia Rally New Zealand.

Telstra Rally Australia has appointed a new general manager for this year's event, which will be held in Perth and surrounding areas between 11-14 November.

There's no Possum Bourne at next month's Propecia Rally New Zealand, but his influence will be strongly felt on the fourth round of the 2004 World Rally Championship.

Organisers of the Possum Bourne Charity Auction and Dinner have been inundated with a wide variety of items from the motorsport world and beyond.

A unique signed print of Petter Solberg and co-driver, Phil Mills, the 2003 World Rally champions, will go 'under the hammer' soon, with all the proceeds being donated to the County Air Ambulance, the entirely publicly funded rapid paramedic response service.

Alister McRae retired from the Corona Rally Mexico when he rolled while chasing a podium position in the FIA Production Car World Rally Championship [PCWRC].

Subaru's Petter Solberg has lost the lead of the Corona Rally Mexico after stewards handed him a five-minute penalty for an incident in the time control before the final service.

SS4 - Ortega-La Esperanza 2 (29.06 kms): Loeb fastest through SS4; Solberg second; Gronholm third; Sainz fourth; Rovanpera fifth; Duval sixth; Sola heads the PCWRC category; Solberg leads the overall event by 5.6secs at the end of test 4.

Rally fans can expect more spectacular racing after organisers decided that changes needed to be made to Manukau City's superspecial stage in time for April's Propecia Rally New Zealand.

Possum Bourne's ultimate Subaru Impreza rally car will be driven at this year's Queenstown Race to the Sky Hillclimb by Swedish driver Kenneth Eriksson.

Subaru World Rally team driver, Petter Solberg has revealed that he is looking forward to the Corona Rally Mexico this weekend, the third round in the 2004 FIA World Rally Championship.

The Subaru World Rally Team has joined forces with the world's best selling Mexican beer, Corona Extra, in a sponsorship deal to be unveiled at Corona Rally Mexico, which starts from Leon on 11 March.

Alister McRae will take part in the Production Car World Rally Championship [PCWRC] category of the Corona Rally Mexico next weekend, here the Scot looks ahead to that event, talks about the new Subaru he will be using and reflects on his second place finish in Sweden...

Propecia Rally New Zealand officials have received support from the world motorsport body, the Federation Internationale De L'Automobile [FIA] on the new format for April's round of the World Rally Championship.

Complete technical specifications for Ford TeamRS's new Fiesta Junior World Rally Car [JWRC], unveiled this evening at the Geneva Motor Show.

Ford TeamRS today unveiled its exciting new Fiesta Junior World Rally Car [JWRC] at the Geneva Motor Show.