WRC News
- Introducing...Kris Meeke
In global motorsport, few arrivals have been as eagerly anticipated as the return of the iconic MINI brand to the FIA World Rally Championship – and as part of that new era in 2011 is the full-time move for Northern Ireland’s Kris Meeke into the Michelin-supported WRC.
Unquestionably one of Britain’s top rallying stars, the 32-year-old certainly has...
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- WRC Summer Testing
The factory teams are profiting from the short break between the WRC’s visits to Greece and Finland to get on some smooth gravel and asphalt testing.
This week, Ford Abu Dhabi WRT is in France’s Vosges Mountains with Hirvonen and Latvala for a busy week given over to set-up work ahead of the season’s asphalt rounds in Germany, France and Spain. For the...
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- WRC & IRC...2011 so far
Michelin’s global rallying programme has delivered some spectacular action so far in 2011 in both the FIA World Rally Championship and the Intercontinental Rally Challenge.
WRC is currently in the midst of its summer break, a good time to reflect on the state of play and also the controversy surrounding the finish of the most recent event – the Acropolis...
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- Loix takes his Ypres total to seven wins
Freddy Loix (Skoda/MICHELIN) has established a new record for the highest number of Ypres Rally victories. This weekend saw the Belgian driver claim his seventh win in Flanders ahead of Frenchman Bryan Bouffier (Peugeot/MICHELIN) and the Netherlands’ Hans Weijs (Skoda).
True to its reputation as one of the calendar’s most punishing rallies, the Ypres Rally...
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- The situation at the season’s halfway point
Last weekend’s Acropolis Rally marked the start of the second half of the 2011 World Rally Championship. That sounds like the ideal moment to look back at the season so far before action resumes in Finland at the end of July. With seven events contested, Citroën Total, Loeb and Elena top the provisional standings.
Thanks to a score of six wins and...
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- Ogier: Greece's new demi-god!
The Acropolis Rally, round seven of the 2011 World Rally Championship, was won by Sébastien Ogier ahead of his Citroën/MICHELIN team-mate Sébastien Loeb. Finland’s Mikko Hirvonen (Ford/MICHELIN) was third.
Citroën notched up its sixth straight WRC success this weekend, with Ogier equalling Loeb’s score of three wins in 2011 on the sun-baked stages of Greece...
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- Legendary gravel challenge awaits WRC contenders in Greece
Sebastien Loeb takes a 13 point lead into this week’s Acropolis Rally – the seventh event of what is proving to be an unpredictable season of FIA World Rally Championship action – and although the campaign has been far from plain-sailing for the Frenchman, he heads to Greece in confident mood.
In Argentina at the end of May, Loeb produced a sensational...
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- Michelin and the WRC
When the World Rally Championship was inaugurated in 1973 not only did the landscape of the sport change forever, it also marked the start of one of the most successful chapters in Michelin’s glorious history.
Rallying has long been in the blood for Michelin, with major victories as far back as 1954 in the Rallye Monte-Carlo. When the WRC was established...
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- Driver quotes after Argentina WRC
Comments from the top three finishers and the Group N winner of the 2011 Rally Argentina after the finish
Argentina 2011 - Driver quotesSébastien Loeb (1st, CITROËN/MICHELIN): “After my minute’s penalty on Friday, I didn’t think I would be able to win when I saw the rhythm of the other drivers. But I just kept pushing as hard as...
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- A sixth straight win for Loeb in Argentina
Sébastien Loeb (Citroën/MICHELIN) overcame a one-minute time penalty to claim his 65th world class win today. He finished ahead of Mikko Hirvonen and team-mate Sébastien Ogier, and is now unbeaten in Argentina since 2005. Today’s result takes Citroën’s score on the South American round to seven consecutive victories to equal Lancia’s record on the same event....
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