Rally News

They say you should never meet your heroes. And McRae Kimathi had only a very fleeting encounter with his, asking Colin McRae to sign a copy of the Colin McRae…

The ex-Colin McRae 2001 Ford Focus WRC set a new world record when it sold for £423,300 at Silverstone Auctions’ March collectors’ sale at the RAF Museum in London, becoming…

Ever been fed up stuck in traffic on the M40 and longingly stared at the adjacent fields wishing you could just cut across some Banbury countryside to save time? We’re…

The Ford Focus WRC was an instant hit after being designed in record time – Guenther Steiner remembers how he and the M-Sport team did it

The elderly Spanish-speaking couple I’m sharing the 4x4 with start to fret. I’m not in the best frame of mind either. Our local driver doesn’t seem unduly bothered though, and…

Who said you can't teach old dogs new tricks? Sébastien Loeb, grizzled winner of nine rally world championships and at 47 twice the age of many rivals, won the opening…

The backflip capped it all, didn’t it? At 47, Sébastien Loeb had just eclipsed Björn Waldegard’s record set at the 1990 Safari Rally to become the World Rally Championship’s oldest…

M-Sport pushed itself to the limit to get its incredible new Rally1 Puma ready for the new WRC season – team boss Rich Millener explains how it all paid off

As the battle between Sébastiens Ogier and Loeb swayed to and fro across the notoriously changeable conditions of the Monte Carlo Rally, they needed unquestioning faith in the behind-the-scenes efforts…

Sébastien Loeb could be on to make more 2022 cameo appearances for the M-Sport Ford rally team after his sensational Monte Carlo win this weekend, with his one-time team boss…

As you age, your reactions reduce by between 2-6 milliseconds per decade. Clearly no one has told Sébastien Loeb or Ogier. Both are supposed to be retired, and Loeb is…

The all-new, hybrid WRC has been let loose in anger for the first time as Toyota, M-Sport/Ford and Hyundai battle round the stages of Monte Carlo. 2022 is no mild…

The WRC's new generation of Rally1 cars will be the most powerful since the hair-raising Group B era – scroll down to view our gallery of the 2022 machines

After the Northern Irish government failed to commit to a WRC event in the province, there will be no UK round in 2022

Biofuel, electric or hydrogen – which will power Dakar's first 'green' winner in the rally's fierce new eco war?

Britain's Sam Sunderland won the Bike category for the second time at Dakar, whilst Nasser Al-Attiyah defeated Sébastien Loeb in the Car class

The main Dakar event might seem gruelling enough, but some are bravely taking on the Saudi stages in vintage machinery – some over 50 years old