World Rally News

Staff at Ford's historic motorsport operation at Britain's Boreham Airfield, Essex are relocating to the company's nearby Dunton Engineering Centre, in a move to consolidate motorsport activities in one site under the leadership of Ford Team RS director, Jost Capito.

Citroen's Carlos Sainz has admitted that talk of retiring at the end of 2004 was premature at best. Sainz revealed last month that next year would be his last in the WRC after crashing out on the first day of the Rally GB.

1995 World Rally champion Colin McRae has admitted that a return to Subaru in 2004 is currently not 'looking very good'.

R.E.D Motorsport, which has prepared and ran rally cars for three former World Champions - in Ari Vatanen, Didier Auriol and Colin McRae - has announced it's 'outline plans' for 2004.

R.E.D Motorsport have announced that the team will run Alister McRae in a Prodrive built Subaru Impreza Sti Group N rally car, in the 2004 FIA Production Car World Rally Championship [PCWRC].

Two teenagers will debut Ford's exciting all-new Fiesta rally car in next season's FIA Junior World Rally Championship.

Citroen reject Colin McRae now looks almost certain to re-join Subaru in 2004, following news yesterday that Ford will continue next year, and thus Markko Martin, will not be available to fill the void left by Richard Burns' absence.

Mitsubishi Motors motor sports subsidiary, MMSP, has unveiled the car that will spearhead its 2004 FIA World Rally Championship campaign - the Mitsubishi Lancer WRC04.

Peugeot Sport have today confirmed that Harri Rovanpera will not drive for the team in 2004, despite the fact the Finn has a contract for all 16 World Rally Championship events.

Colin McRae's decision to race in the Paris-Dakar Rally in 2004 could rule the Scot out of driving for Subaru in the FIA World Rally Championship.

Since fainting at the wheel of his road car on Sunday November 2, Richard Burns has been undergoing tests in hospital to determine the cause of his health problems. These have been concluded and doctors have confirmed Burns has an 'Astrocytoma' - a form of brain tumour.

Petter Solberg may have won the Wales Rally GB two weeks ago, but he wasn't the only star of the event, here Crash.net talks exclusively to 'Mini men' Neil Burgess and co-driver, Jim Holder.

The world famous single-point injection Mini Cooper was given the perfect send-off in its final World Rally Championship event, last weekend's Wales Rally GB, taking a class victory on one of the most gruelling events on the calendar.

Kris Meeke gave the best performance of his career to date on the Rally GB at the weekend, taking the battle to the JWRC frontrunners in his Team Palmer Opel Corsa before an untimely exit from the event.

History was made in Wales today when 555 Subaru World Rally Team driver Petter Solberg became the first Norwegian to win the FIA World Rally Championship for drivers.

Subaru's Petter Solberg has won the 2003 World Rally Drivers' Championship following his victory today on the Wales Rally GB; the Norwegian ends the season with 72 points, while Sebastien Loeb is second on 71, and Carlos Sainz third on 63.

The 555 Subaru World Rally Team enjoyed an excellent day today [Friday] on the opening leg of the Wales Rally GB, both Pirelli-shod Subaru Impreza WRC2003s proving 100 per cent reliable, Petter Solberg ending the day in overnight first, while Tommi Makinen is third.

2003 British Peugeot 206 Super Cup Champion, Shaun Gallagher and co-driver Richard Pashley were distraught as their debut on Wales Rally GB came to an abrupt ending after an electrical fault brought their car to a standstill on SS2.

Subaru's Petter Solberg has re-gained his overnight lead on the Rally GB following SS4 and SS5 today, the Norwegian now leads championship rival, Sebastien Loeb, who is second by 7.8 seconds.

Skoda's Didier Auriol will take part in the Wales Rally GB this weekend, here he reflects on October's busy schedule of events and looks ahead to the exciting finale of the 2003 World Rally Championship... Q: Didier [Auriol], are you glad that October is behind us?

Skoda's Toni Gardemeister is hoping that his recent test session in Moravia will set him up for a good result to end the 2003 FIA World Rally Championship. Here the Finn talks about that test, his hopes for Wales Rally GB and a lot, lot more...

Ford BP Rallye Sport will start the final round of the FIA World Rally Championship in Great Britain this week intent on creating a record unmatched in the modern era of the sport.

The Milton Keynes workshops of Volkswagen Racing UK are playing host this week to the Junior World Rally Championship [JWRC] Polo Super 1600s of Kosti Katajamaki and Oscar Svedlund as they prepare for the final round of the series, the Wales Rally GB.

Peugeot's Richard Burns has predicted that 'anything can still happen' in the battle for the 2003 World Rally drivers' title.