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VW may be interested to join the WRC as sports chief Kris Nissen was in Finland 2008-08-05 06:50:49 Kris Nissen of VW was in Finland
at the rally and had a meeting with ISC CEO Simon Long as well as the manufacturer team leaders, according to rallye-magazin.de.
Nissen asked the team bosses about the future marketing prospects and new technical regulations. Nissen’s presence was taken as indication that VW are seriously considering the WRC.
Mark Deans of Ford [...]
Colin McRae Forest Stages Rally 08 statement from Coltness Car Club 2008-08-04 19:14:06 Statement from Coltness Car club.
All Star Rally
Tribute
Five World Rally Champions, four British Champions, three American Champions and at least six Scottish Champions are all set to contest the ColinMcRaeForestStages
Rally, in association with Pirelli, on Saturday the 27th of September.
In a unique, national rally entry list, which will never again be [...]
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, statement
Dogleap Stages Rally 2008 Kevin Lynch wins for the sixth time in a row 2008-08-04 09:02:30 Winner Lynch
records another fastest time on SS8
Kevin
Lynch walked away with his 6th Dogleap victory in a row driving the Focus 05 WRC and was unchallenged in his home event and won by over a minute. Glenn Allen took second to score valuable points in the Pacenotes MSA Northern Ireland Rally
Championship and put [...]
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Suzuki show some improvement with upgraded SX4 WRC at the end of Rally Finland 2008 2008-08-03 14:29:09 Suzuki WRT news at the finish of RallyFinland
Toni Gardemeister and Tomi Tuominen drove an inch-perfect final day to bring
their Suzuki SX4 WRC home in eighth place. Gardemeister’s drive is rewarded
with a drivers’ championship point for him and two for the Suzuki World
Rally Team. The Finn’s team-mate P-G Andersson did not re-start this morning
following an incident [...]
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Toddsleap.com Ulster International Rally 2008: Look back at old Ulster Rally videos 2008-08-20 16:25:59 As the BRC and ITRC converge again this weekend let’s take a look at some classic footage from past Ulster
rallies.
1982 Ulster Rally
: Bertie Fisher’s first International
win
1984 Ulster Rally: Rohrl dominates
1985 Ulster Rally: Brookes makes up for Circuit disappointment
1986 the last Group B battle
1992 early stages McRae v Fisher
1993 Ulster: Wi Read more:videos
Xavier Pons could join Brice Tirabassi in a two car Subaru “B” team for Rally Spain and Tour de Corse 2008-08-20 14:53:28 According to French magazine Auto-hebdo it appears that Xavier Pons might join Brice Tirabassi for the two tarmac WRC rounds, Rally
Catalunya and Tour de Corse, in a second works Subaru
. This could perhaps form a sort of Subaru “B” team for these events.
Pons had been linked to a drive with the Subaru WRT by Autosport the other [...]
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Brice Tirabassi has been confirmed for the third Subaru WRT seat in Rally Catalunya and Tour de Corse 2008-08-19 17:46:27 It has been reported on www.wrcisfree.com from a French newspaper article that French ace Brice Tirabassi has been confirmed for the remaining asphalt rounds in a works Subaru
Impreza S14 WRC. Tirabassi had just recently announced his withdrawal from this year’s IRC, due to reliability problems with his BSA Peugeot 207 S2000 and as a [...]
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, third
Francois Duval is Gigi Galli’s replacement for Repco Rally New Zealand 2008 2008-08-19 07:17:09 Stobart have just released a press statement saying that Francois Duval will stand in for Galli in Zealand
.htm">New Zealand
. Duval finished fourth on the 2005 Rally
NZ in a Xsara.
Stobart VK Ford Team statement:
Duval has been chosen to replace the injured Gigi Galli for Repco Rally New Zealand as the second Stobart VK M-Sport Ford [...]
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Adapta World Rally Team have signed a contract to become a Manufacturer Team in the 2009 WRC 2008-09-11 17:18:33 Adapta WRT signed a contract
today with the Subaru WRT to become a MT in 2009, according to norsk-rally.com. The agreement is for all the 10 European WRC events in 2009, and there is also an option for Adapta to contest Argentina and Australia with these two events being jointly co-ordinated by SWRT and the AWRT.
Adapta team principle Morten Ostberg commented:
With today's [...]
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, Rally
, World
Stuart Jones plans to contest the 2009 Intercontinental Rally Challenge in his MSD MG S2000 2008-09-11 10:10:06 Stuart Jones hopes to contest next year's IRC by raising funds through a deal struck with his existing sponsor Lico, according to Motorsport News.
His family run SJR Motorsport team distributes Lico products and 10% of all sales will go towards raising the £250,000 required to enter the IRC series. Jones will continue to use the MSD MG S2000 [...]
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, plans
, Rally
, Stuart
Network Q RAC Rally 1993: Juha Kankkunen wins a very snowy RAC in his Toyota Celica Turbo 4WD 2008-09-10 17:36:54 Juha Kankkunen was already World Champion by that year's RAC and in typical Scandinavian conditions he was fortunate to stay out of trouble and take the win. Though it wasn't as easy as that, as first he had a hard charging Colin McRae threatening for a first British victory since 1976, then he had a storming [...]
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, Toyota
, Turbo
Rob Arthur RIP - Former navigator to Tony Pond passes away 2008-09-25 05:56:30
Co-driving legend Rob Arthur
passed away last night in hospital after suffering a heart attack. Arthur navigated at WRC level making his first appearance in 1981 with Terry Kaby in a Datsun 160J on the… Continue reading
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Too Fast to Race - Documentary on the Group B Rally cars 2008-10-16 18:00:24 A documentary chronicalling the history of the Group
B category in rallying. The film begins in the late seventies when FISA, the governing body of world motorsport, consider a new formula and Lancia unleashes the Stratos.
Group B was implemented in 1982 with quite a bit of technological freedoms allowed for the manufacturers encouraging Formula 1 like performance. The [...] Read more:Documentary
, Rally
MEM Proton Satria S2000 new livery for Rallye Antibes that Bryan Bouffier will pilot 2008-10-16 14:53:45 Here are a some pics from the MEM site www.memuk.com of the livery that Bryan
Bouffier will sport on this weekend's ERC Rallye Antibes 2008 Cote D'Azur.
This will be the cars competitive debut and it is expected that the car will be seen on various championships around the globe next year, as interest in the car is thought [...] Read more:Proton
Could you be the Bernie of the WRC? FIA release details of the tender for WRC Global Promoter 2008-10-16 10:25:20 The FIA have released the details
of the tender for the WRC Promoter
.
The 16 page document explaining the role and responsibility of the Promoter.
Highlights of the position are organising the Television and media coverage with where possible free to air coverage, ensuring at least three manufactures team take part in the championship and maintaining the [...] Read more:Bernie
, Global
Lancia ECV and ECV 2 Group S prototype rally car video 2008-10-15 22:53:34 Lancia developed the ECV as a prototype Group
S car to replace the Delta S4 for the 1987 WRC.
Due to some horrific accidents in 1986 Group B was canned by FISA, and so too was its would be successor Group S, which was to have been the replacement category in '87. Lancia had already built [...] Read more:video
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