Rallying is a sport that brings people with the same interest together in the same place and the FIA WRC Academy is full of young talent wanting to make their way to the top of the sport. M-Sport, one of the biggest companies in rallying, has announced a new award for the FIA WRC Academy’s [...]

Brendan Reeves and Rhianon Smyth were having an excellent battle for outright honours before suffering a heartbreaking end to Targa Tasmania. On the final day of the event the pair suffered a mechanical problem forcing their retirement. Reeves and Smyth had driven a smart rally in their Mazda RX8 SP and were sitting in third [...]

The Citroen DS3 WRC of Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen, who won the fourth round of the World Rally Championship, the 2012 Rally of Portugal, at the weekend (29 March – 1 April 2012) have been excluded from the event following irregularities with their car. After completing the post-rally technical scrutineering, the Rally de Portugal [...]

Australian rally team, Brendan Reeves and Rhianon Smyth, will start their 2012 World Rally Championship (WRC) campaign this weekend with the running of the opening round of the WRC Academy, Rally Portugal.   Reeves and Smyth are contesting the six-round one-make series for drivers under the age of 25, and have been in Europe for [...]

Australia’s Brendan Reeves has unveiled the livery of his Ford Fiesta R2 in which he’ll contest the 2012 World Rally Championship Academy.   Reeves, and co-driving sister, Rhianon Smyth, will tackle the six-round series in Europe after an impressive debut season in 2011, where they finished fifth outright.   After a massive effort to secure [...]

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 brother-sister rally team, Brendan Reeves and Rhianon Smyth, have completed their first year in the gruelling World Rally Championship (WRC) in fifth place in their Category. Competing in the inaugural FIA WRC Academy, Reeves and Smyth contested six events in Europe in a Ford Fiesta R2 after Reeves won a fully-funded drive in the [...]

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 [...]