Rally & Rallycross

Another fast gravel event this week as the WRC heads to Chile for round 11! This is Sébastian Ogier's 200th WRC start, which is quite impressive. The title fight is currently very close, with the top four drivers separated by only 18 points!

WRC Standings:

WRC2 Standings:

Round 7 of the European Rally Championship returns to Wales for another fast asphalt rally this week. The title fight is still very close, so it'll be very interesting to see how this one plays out ahead of the finale in Croatia.

Current Standings:

An all new rally for this week! It will be interesting to see how the drivers get to grips with the new stages, and who manages to pull off a win. Due to his position in the standings, Sébastian Ogier has decided to do the remaining rounds and will be competing for yet another championship. The event will be streamed on rally.tv, and highlights should be available on the WRC YouTube channel.

Current WRC Standings:

Current WRC2 Standings:

Another round of the World Rallycross Championship is coming up this weekend, this time at the KymiRing in southern Finland. The redesigned track hosted a round of RallyX earlier in the year, and with a few changes is ready to go again. This is Niclas Grönholm's home round, so he'll be pushing hard for a win here. However, the biggest story of the weekend so far is CE Dealer Team sponsoring Hansen Motorsport for this round, giving them a little bit more time to secure funding to complete the rest of the year.

Links to the livestreams are down below.

WorldRX standings:

EuroRX1 standings:

EuroRX3 standings:

WorldRX Live Stream Homepage

Qualifying 1

Qualifying 2

Qualifying 3

Qualifying 4

Finals

In a move I definitely didn't see coming, Hansen Motorsport's closest rival will be helping them get on the grid for this week's round in Finland!

If you hadn't been keeping up on the latest news, Hansen Motorsport announced recently that they would be pulling out of the Finland round due to funding issues with a major sponsor, presumably Red Bull. It would have been the first round of the World Championship that Timmy Hansen didn't compete in since it started 12 years ago. Fortunately the people at Volvo and the CE Dealer Team decided to step in and keep them going for another round, even though they're only 10 points ahead of them in the driver's and team's championships! It's nice to see sportsmanship like this, as it would have pretty much taken the Hansens out of the title fight this year if they missed a round.

This is the home round for quite a few of the ERC regulars, so it will be interesting to see how the event plays out! It is a tarmac rally, but they often run on roads that are more rough and bumpy than many events.

Standings before the event:

Estering is one of my favorite tracks, so I'm looking forward to some good racing! Over 100 drivers are entered for these two days. Estering is the final event of the RallyX season as well, so last chance for the title!

There's a packed entry list for this week's RallyX event in Denmark! It's the home round for Ulrik Linnemann, who arrives this week in second in the RallyX North standings. All the drivers will be pushing to get good results before the final event in Estering next week, so it should be an entertaining weekend!

Rally Finland is almost here! One of the fastest events on the calendar every year, as well as an unofficial home round for Toyota due to the team being based there. Ott Tänak arrives with a 1 point championship lead, which relegates him to road sweeping duties for this round.