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Watch Sebastien Loeb Crash His Citroen DS3 WRC
Watch Sebastien Loeb Crash His Citroen DS3 WRC

8 Oct 2013, 09:42 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / After winning the last nine consecutive WRC titles with Citroen, French driver Sebastien Loeb decided to end his rallying career with a part time 2013 season. His last WRC race occurred this weekend...

 
Sebastien Ogier Wins 2013 World Rally Championship
Sebastien Ogier Wins 2013 World Rally Championship

7 Oct 2013, 13:45 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / French driver Sebastien Ogier (Volkswagen Polo) is the new WRC champion, after sealing the 2013 season title with a win in his home country. Ogier and co-driver Julien Ingrassia finished Rallye de F...

 
New 300 hp Volkswagen Golf R Makes Dynamic Debut
New 300 hp Volkswagen Golf R Makes Dynamic Debut

2 Sep 2013, 10:06 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / In many ways, the VW Golf is a perfect demonstration of the difference between what regular people want to buy and what crazy journalists think they should buy. With four wheel drive and a turboc...

 
2014 Hyundai i20 WRC Makes "Strong Progress" in Gravel Test
2014 Hyundai i20 WRC Makes "Strong Progress" in Gravel Test

7 Aug 2013, 12:57 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / As the 2013 World Rally Championship season is well underway, Hyundai Motorsport is busy developing their 2014 i20-based rally car. The Korean automaker announced that its Motorsport division just f...

 
Volkswagen’s Ogier Leads Rally Finland in His Polo
Volkswagen’s Ogier Leads Rally Finland in His Polo

3 Aug 2013, 14:31 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Flying Fins? Forget about it, what you need is some flying Frenchmen. Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia have shown their skill by leading the fastest rally of the WRC on day two. The du...

 
Volkswagen Polo R WRC Production Car: Pics Aplenty
Volkswagen Polo R WRC Production Car: Pics Aplenty

5 Jul 2013, 13:38 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / For weeks now, we've been looking left and right, high and low for actual examples of the road-going Polo R WRC. We've checked every spotter website, searched on dealer's lots and onl...

 
Ford Fiesta R5 Rally Car by M-Sport Revealed
Ford Fiesta R5 Rally Car by M-Sport Revealed

24 Jun 2013, 12:56 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / British rally car specialist M-Sport has unveiled the long-awaited Ford Fiesta R5 during a public outing at the company’s Northern England base last week. Sporting a new grey and red livery...

 
Watch the Polo R Get Perfect WRC Air in Italy
Watch the Polo R Get Perfect WRC Air in Italy

24 Jun 2013, 10:08 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The fact that VW is dominating the WRC scene on the first try with the Polo R and a lot of help from Sébastien Ogier. That probably means absolutely nothing for the folks who drive Polos to a...

 
Toyota Celica GT-Four - A Trip Down the Memory Lane
Toyota Celica GT-Four - A Trip Down the Memory Lane

30 May 2013, 14:45 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Already a successful road car in the early 1980s, the Toyota Celica was about to become even more in 1990 thanks to its GT-Four high-performance pack. Created to compete in the World Rally Champions...

 
Hyundai i20 WRC Starts Testing for 2014
Hyundai i20 WRC Starts Testing for 2014

28 May 2013, 12:38 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Hyundai has announced it's successfully completed the first shakedown session of their i20 WRC. The car is set to enter the WRC scene next year, the i20 race car has been put together by a team...

 
Andreas Mikkelsen Celebrates Premiere in Polo R WRC
Andreas Mikkelsen Celebrates Premiere in Polo R WRC

7 Apr 2013, 13:02 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Seemingly out of nowhere, Volkswagen’s Polo R WRC team has become the one to watch out for in 2013. Now, the team has added a new new third man, Andreas Mikkelsen, who managed to come in fourt...

 
Sebastien Loeb Wins 7th Monte Carlo Rally
Sebastien Loeb Wins 7th Monte Carlo Rally

21 Jan 2013, 08:38 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / This year's edition of the Monte Carlo Rally, as part of the World Rally Championship, went to French driver Sebastien Loeb, who has now won the famed rally venue for the seventh time, despite ...

 
Volkswagen to Debut Polo R WRC at Monte Carlo Rally on January 16
Volkswagen to Debut Polo R WRC at Monte Carlo Rally on January 16

15 Jan 2013, 14:11 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The rally version of the new Polo R, the WRC variant, to be more specific, will make its competition debut at the Monte Carlo rally, on January 16 - tomorrow. The all-wheel drive Polo, powered by a ...

 
Sebastien Loeb is Europe’s Ken Block
Sebastien Loeb is Europe’s Ken Block

10 Dec 2012, 10:48 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Sebastien Loeb, 9-time World Rally Champion, really knows his way round a rally car, yet he also knows his way round a tight course, in slippery conditions, at the wheel of a rally car. He was recen...

 
Petter Solberg Eyes Rally Norway Drive
Petter Solberg Eyes Rally Norway Drive

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Former WRC champion Petter Solberg has already resigned himself to the impossibility of competing in Rally Ireland at the end of January, but has every intention of making the World Rally Championsh...

 
Solberg Urges WRC to Better Promotion
Solberg Urges WRC to Better Promotion

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Petter Solberg insisted that, despite the economical downturn in recent months, the World Rally Championship will survive any crisis and only grow stronger in the seasons to come. The Norwegian argu...

 
Loeb to Test for Red Bull at Barcelona
Loeb to Test for Red Bull at Barcelona

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / With everybody in the F1 paddock trying to secure a strong lineup for the upcoming season, the upcoming test session at Barcelona will become decisive in figuring out how the drivers' roster wi...

 
WRC Announce Rally Ireland Entry List
WRC Announce Rally Ireland Entry List

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / The World Rally Championship has announced the entry list for the first round of the 2009 season, Rally Ireland. The event will get under way on January the 29th and will benefit from the participat...

 
Loeb Clinches 5th Consecutive WRC Title
Loeb Clinches 5th Consecutive WRC Title

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Sebastien Loeb secured his 5th consecutive title in the WRC this weekend, scoring a comfortable 3rd place in Rally Japan. The Frenchman did everything right last weekend and avoided taking any risks...

 
Pirelli Lobbies for Feeder Series in WRC
Pirelli Lobbies for Feeder Series in WRC

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / It's no secret to anyone that most World Rally Championship teams don't have a drivers' youth programme to provide them with talented young drivers at a certain point. Most of those t...