THE stars and cars of the 2019 FIA World Rally Championship have made a dazzling debut at Britain’s Autosport International show, less than two weeks before the season starts at the historic Rallye Monte-Carlo. Thousands of fans were at the Birmingham event on Saturday as manufacturer teams representing Citroën, Hyundai, M-Sport Ford and Toyota introduced [...]
Revealed at Autosport International, Birmingham.
Revealed at Autosport International, Birmingham.
Revealed at Autosport International, Birmingham.
WORLD Rally Championship drivers have selected their own competition numbers for the first time, following an FIA rule change that aligns the WRC with Formula 1. Priority 1 drivers revealed their choices at the Autosport International Show, although number 1# was reserved for Citroën’s Sébastien Ogier as the defending champion. Other drivers will wear the [...]
HYUNDAI Motorsport has renewed its vows to win the FIA World Rally Championships for manufacturers and drivers, on the eve of the season’s official launch at Britain’s Autosport International show today. The team finished runner-up in the manufacturers’ contest in 2018, for the third time in a row, having taken the title fight down to [...]
THE 2019 FIA World Rally Championship will blast into public view for the first time when the new season’s stars and cars are officially launched at Britain’s Autosport International Show on Saturday. PHOTO: After their Birmingham debut in 2018, WRC crews and cars will return to the Autosport show for the 2019 launch on Saturday. [...]
THE official Ford Fiestas in this year’s FIA World Rally Championship will compete with a new bright-blue livery unveiled today by M-Sport Ford at the Autosport International show in Birmingham. The EcoBoost-powered Fiestas will be driven by Elfyn Evans and Teemu Suninen throughout the 14-round season, which ends at Kennards Hire Rally Australia on the [...]
THE WRC’s greatest driver, nine-time champion Sébastien Loeb, is undertaking an intense and unusual preparation for his debut with Hyundai Motorsport at Rallye Monte-Carlo in two weeks’ time. Hyundai’s star new recruit will attempt to win his seventh Monte when the 2019 championship opens on 24 January – but he may start behind the odds, [...]
HYUNDAI Motorsport has parted ways with team principal Michel Nandan and appointed a new director to lead its FIA World Rally Championship program. PHOTO: New Hyundai Motorsport director Andrea Adamo (Hyundai pic) Hyundai announced overnight its customer racing manager Andrea Adamo would become team director immediately, just three weeks before the 2019 season starts at [...]
