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The World Rally Championship’s 2027 return to the United States now has a civic map. Knoxville will host the rally centre, Nashville’s Lower Broadway will stage the ceremonial start, and the gravel route will cross more than 15 counties in Tennessee and Kentucky from 26 to 29 August.
M-Sport has begun testing an upgraded Fiesta Rally2 fitted for the WRC27 era. The distinction matters: it is a Rally2-based route into the new top category, ahead of Ford Racing’s announced factory return and all-new car in 2029.
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has again put a V8 return on the horizon, with reports from Kigali pointing to 2030. It is a powerful prospect for fans, though the final formula still has to reconcile sound, sustainability, electrification and manufacturer support.
MotoGP’s title fight has tightened again, WRC has unveiled an expansive 2027 calendar, and a fresh wave of launches and championship finales is bringing the season into focus.
The 15-round schedule brings the championship back to the United States and Britain, adds a Rome-based Italian round and ushers in a new cost framework for the top class.
Five times a runner-up. One puncture with the title in his hands. Then a final Power Stage that swung away from Oliver Solberg two corners from the end. Elfyn Evans has become world champion after years of coming close, in a finish that will live in rallying for a very long time.
Thierry Neuville and Martijn Wydaeghe overturned a 4.7-second deficit across Friday’s closing stages to lead Adrien Fourmaux by just 0.4 seconds. Oliver Solberg, Sébastien Ogier, Sami Pajari and Elfyn Evans complete a remarkably close first six.
Hyundai is continuing i20 N Rally2 development, but its 2027 WRC direction and any WRC2 customer entries remain unconfirmed. The FIA’s Rally2-WRC-Kit route is a separate matter, covering eligibility in the new top category.
After the Finnish Rally Championship finale in Porvoo, Lappi will step away from professional rallying with two WRC wins, 15 podiums, 77 stage victories and titles at home, in Europe and in WRC2.
Elfyn Evans leads Sami Pajari by 17 points and Oliver Solberg by 21, but 35 points remain at Sardinia. Nineteen guarantees Evans the title, and a victory would secure it outright.
After their WRC Chile programme with TSI Racing, Dean Mascarenhas and Gagan Karumbaiah returned to India and won Rally of Coimbatore in the Arka Motorsports Polo.
The BBC has secured a three year agreement to show live stages from every WRC round in the United Kingdom from 2027 to 2029, including the Wolf Power Stage, one hour highlights programmes and extensive Rally Scotland coverage.
The WRC element of Rally Saudi Arabia has been removed from the 2026 championship because of regional uncertainty and its effect on logistics. Rally Italia Sardegna, from 1 to 4 October, is now the 13th and final round, subject to FIA World Motor Sport Council approval.
The road to a world-stage team is made of multiple crew. Fabid Ahmer’s international experience and TSI Racing’s expanding bench show how the ecosystem grows around a headline pairing.
The man backing TSI Racing’s world-stage attempt has spent decades trying to make Indian rallying more professional, more visible and more ambitious.
A left-hand-drive Peugeot arrived from Europe and immediately changed the conversation around what a two-wheel-drive Indian rally programme could be.
Oliver Solberg and Elliott Edmondson won Rally Chile by 16.6 seconds, Toyota secured its sixth consecutive manufacturers title, and Elfyn Evans fell from second to fifth after a puncture on the penultimate stage.
Six stage wins, a controlled response to Sebastien Ogier and Power Stage pace turned Oliver Solberg's first Rally1 start in Chile into his third WRC victory.
Dean Mascarenhas and Gagan Karumbaiah completed Rally Chile in 3 hours 32 minutes 29.0 seconds, taking eighth in WRC3 and 28th overall for TSI Racing.
Naveen Puligilla and Musa Sherif finished 12th in WRC3 and 34th overall at Rally Chile, adding a full 16-stage finish to their South American WRC campaign.
The first ueno Rally del Paraguay has finished, leaving the WRC with a new gravel reference built around red earth, heat and a very different kind of rhythm.
Sami Pajari and Marko Salminen won the inaugural ueno Rally del Paraguay by 25.8 seconds, while Diego Domínguez won WRC2 at home and Naveen Pulligilla completed the WRC3 podium.
The FIA is preparing a more flexible technical future for the World Rally Championship, with manufacturers potentially free to choose the powertrain that best represents their technology from 2029.
They missed the opening round, changed cars, won in Coimbatore, dominated Coorg and K1000, then sealed the 2025 INRC title at Indore.
The TSI Racing driver missed the opening round, debuted a new Peugeot in Coimbatore, won repeatedly and turned a national title into an international programme.
For the world-stage programme, TSI Racing is pairing Indian drivers and an Indian team with PH Sport’s Ford Fiesta Rally3 preparation and event-service experience.
The FIA Asia-Pacific talent pathway winner returned to Indian rallying, became the first woman to win an INRC2 round and kept moving forward when the events became punishing.
From an Asia-Pacific talent pathway to the first woman to win an INRC2 rally round, Pragathi Gowda’s 2025 season became part of the wider Indian team story.
The 2026 Safari Rally returned as Round 3 of the WRC with 350 kilometres of competition, rough gravel, deep mud and a route designed to punish fragile confidence.
TSI Racing’s return to the world stage was built through a Peugeot, a professional operating plan and a championship season that finally made the ambition believable.
Sami Pajari and Marko Salminen won Secto Rally Finland on 2 August, turning the fastest rally of the season into an emotional home victory.
Sami Pajari and Marko Salminen led Delfi Rally Estonia from start to finish, taking a first WRC victory in a Toyota GR Yaris Rally1 by 19.5 seconds.
Sébastien Ogier and Vincent Landais won the 2026 Acropolis Rally Greece by 58.3 seconds, closing a demanding gravel weekend with a perfect Sunday.
