Archive for the ‘Rally in the World’ Category

Double European Rally Champion Basso joins Proton Motorsports

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Italian rally star Giandomenico Basso will drive a Proton Satria Neo S2000 on six rounds of this year’s Intercontinental Rally Challenge. The double FIA European Rally Champion will join two-time Junior World Rally Champion P-G Andersson at Proton, ensuring the Malaysian team will field arguably the strongest driver line-up in the series.

New year and new projects for MML Sports

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While for many the early part of the year is a quiet one, the opposite has turned out to be the case for MML Sports Ltd, the Rugby, UK-based motorsport and high performance specialists. Approaching the end of January, the company has recently completed a number of projects and is in the process of several [...]

Latvala crashes, Ford switches test plans for Arctic Rally

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Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team has dropped plans to debut its all-new Fiesta RS World Rally Car in Finland’s Arctic Lapland Rally (28 – 29 January) next weekend – Jari-Mati Latvala had a heavy accident on the second day of the team’s test in Sweden at the weekend forced the team to revise its [...]

FIA considering WRC event in Baltics

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This week, in the Latvian capital of Riga, a meeting was held between the Federation International Automobile (FIA), represented by WRC Commission president Jarmo Mahonen, organisers of the World Rally Championship (NorthOne Sport) and representatives from the Latvian, Estonian, Lithuanian and Polish ASN’s to discuss the possibility of organising a future WRC event in the [...]

Evgeny Novikov quits rallying!

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Rather unexpected decision made one of the best known Russian rally driver Evgeny Novikov – he has announced about the end of his rallying career. Just some time ago there were news about plans for next year’s world championships,  negotiations with teams and sponsors, but from now on rally for Novikov will be just a [...]