Four-time Australian rally champion Neal Bates will return to competition this week driving a fully-restored 1980 Toyota Celica RA40 at the opening round of the Australian Rally Championship in Melbourne. Bates, who completed testing over the weekend, has spent the past 18 months building the iconic Celica from a bare shell and will debut it [...]

Australia will again be represented in the World Rally Championship when Victorian brother and sister rally team, Brendan Reeves and Rhianon Smyth, take up the fight in the WRC Academy.   The Academy, a one-make series promoted by M-Sport, who run the Ford World Rally Team, will again consist of six rounds in Europe with [...]

Thierry Neuville, who is recognized as one of the rising stars in world rallying, will drive a Citroën DS3 WRC in the 2012 World Championship. The Belgian will race in a minimum of nine events. Citroën Racing, which is heavily committed to the training and promotion of young drivers, will give Thierry Neuville the opportunity [...]

After an exceptional 2011 season with ten victories, the seventh Manufacturers’ title for the Citroën Total World Rally Team and Sébastien Loeb’s eighth Drivers’ title, Citroën Racing is already turning its attention to 2012 with the arrival of a new crew for next season.   Initially contracted until December 2013, Citroën Racing has decided to [...]

Australian rally driver Molly Taylor has finished fifth outright after a challenging final round of the WRC Academy. Run in rain, mud, sleet and heavy fog, Wales Rally GB (November 10-13) was the grand final for this year’s World Rally Championship series, and for the six-round, junior driver development series that has been run this [...]

Sébastien Loeb may have his name against just about every record in the World Rally Championship, but his bid for an eighth World Rally Drivers’ Championship title this weekend (10-13 November 2011) at Rally GB will not be neither easy or a fair accompli for the Citroen driver to secure the required points to fend [...]

Volkswagen has successfully started the tests with the new Polo R WRC. Dr Ulrich Hackenberg, Member of the Volkswagen Board of Management for Technology, and the two-time World Rally Champion and “Dakar” winner Carlos Sainz (Spain) completed the first test kilometres without any problems in the vineyards of Veldenz near Trier, the location that normally [...]

ŠKODA has won its first FIA World Rally Championship title in its history, after the Red Bull ŠKODA Fabia S2000 crew of Juho Hänninen and Mikko Markkula (Finland) secured victory on the last rally of this year’s Super 2000 World Rally Championship (SWRC) – the RACC Rally de España (20-23 October). The world title is [...]

The Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) has nominated rally driver Brendan Reeves to be considered for the second intake of the FIA Institute Young Driver Excellence Academy.   The FIA Institute programme is designed to prepare the most talented young drivers to compete at the pinnacle of their sport, while improving driver and road [...]

Citroen has launched the all-new Citroen C4 in Australia with a new style matched by new pricing, lifting equipment levels and new features and technology to improve safety and comfort. The new Citroen C4 arrives with a recommended retail opening price of $22,990 excluding statutory charges, delivery and dealer costs for the 1.6 88 kW [...]