Funeral held for Colin McRae
GLASGOW, Scotland – About 200 mourners gathered Wednesday for the funeral of former world rally champion Colin McRae and his five-year-old son, who both died in a helicopter crash earlier … Read More
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GLASGOW, Scotland – About 200 mourners gathered Wednesday for the funeral of former world rally champion Colin McRae and his five-year-old son, who both died in a helicopter crash earlier … Read More
(GMM) 24 hours after former rally world champion Colin McRae was killed, Prodrive chief David Richards survived a helicopter crash when returning from the Belgian grand prix. Richards, McRae's former … Read More
(GMM) F1 veteran David Coulthard recently tried the controls of a rally car. The Red Bull driver was a guest of Ireland's rally tarmac champion Eugene Donnelly, and according to … Read More
The competitor killed in a roll-over accident during a Baja California road race wasn't wearing a seat belt. Race officials said Tuesday that Chris Lokken was a rider in a … Read More
Marcus Gronholm has increased his lead at the top of the drivers' championship following his victory on the Acropolis Rally of Greece on Sunday. The Ford driver will now go … Read More
Marcus Gronholm won the Rally d'Italia Sardegna, having inherited the lead after Sebastien Loeb went out in Stage 13; Mikko Hirvonen finished second, 29.2secs adrift to give Ford a 1-2 … Read More
Marcus Gronholm and fellow Ford runners, Mikko Hirvonen, Jari-Matti Latvala, Henning Solberg, Matthew Wilson and Gareth MacHale have all been handed 5 minute penalties after failing post-event inspection at the … Read More
Citroen's Sebastien Loeb has won the Rally de Portugal, the fifth round in the 2007 FIA World Rally Championship. Marcus Gronholm was runner-up in his BP Ford, after losing time … Read More
Sebastien Loeb drove his new Citroen C4 to a 55.8 second win over the Ford of runner-up Marcus Gronholm in the Rally Mexico. Pos Driver Make Time 1. Loeb Citroen … Read More
Rocks were purposely placed on the road in front of the competing cars and thrown at them while at speed in the Rally Mexico Friday. Speaking at the end of … Read More
(GMM) Former F1 team owner Eddie Jordan has returned to the world of motor racing. The Dublin-born 58-year-old, who at the end of 2004 sold his Silverstone based grand prix … Read More
Mikko Hirvonen has led home the first Ford 1-2-3 in World Rally competition since 1979 ahead of teammates Marcus Gronholm and Henning Solberg in the Rally of Norway. Hirvonen led … Read More
Seventy of the 74 original starters left Hamar Saturday morning for the second leg of this third round of the FIA World Rally Championship, with 15 of those competing under … Read More
BP-Ford World Rally Team lie first and second after controlling today's opening leg of Rally Norway. Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen led this third round of the FIA World Rally … Read More
Marcus Grönholm and Timo Rautiainen won their fifth Swedish Rally today as BP-Ford World Rally Team closed to within a point of the leaders in the FIA World Rally Championship. … Read More
Finland's Marcus Gronholm has the lead after the first full day of the Swedish Rally. The Finn took his Ford Focus into an 11.3 seconds lead over Citroen's triple world … Read More
UPDATE French motorbike rider Eric Aubijoux was probably the victim of a crash and not a heart attack, organizers of the Dakar Rally have suggested. The 42-year-old died near the … Read More
41-year-old Frenchman Stephane Peterhansel cruised to victory in the Dakar Rally on Sunday. He beat his Mitsubishi teammate Luc Alphand by 7m:26s. This race was a tortoise and hare fairytale … Read More
Sebastien Loeb (pictured right) sealed his fourth Rally Monte Carlo victory as he took a debut win for the Citroen C4 on Sunday morning 38.2 seconds ahead of his Citroen … Read More
Volkswagen managed another top performance on the 14th and penultimate leg of the Dakar Rally: For the ninth time, a Race Touareg clinched a stage victory, for the third consecutive … Read More
Thanks to a score of six one-two stage times from Friday's six stages, the Citroën C4 WRCs of Sébastien Loeb/Daniel Elena and Dani Sordo/Marc Martà put themselves in a good … Read More
Another stage victory for Volkswagen in the Dakar Rally: After yesterday’s exploit Carlos Sainz/Michel Périn (Spain/France) also won the 13th of 15 legs of the desert classic, a 458-kilometre section … Read More
Pos Driver Make Time 1. Loeb Citroen 23m29.9 2. Sordo Citroen + 23.9 3. Gronholm Ford + 29.1 4. Hirvonen Ford + 51.7 5. Solberg Subaru + 57.6 6. Atkinson … Read More
One-two for Volkswagen on the twelfth stage of the Dakar Rally: Factory driver Carlos Sainz (Spain) and co-driver Michel Périn (France) won the 484 kilometer stage from Ayoun-el-Atrous (Mauritania) to … Read More