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Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya won the Rally de Asturias Histórico in the Ford Puma Rally1 after Sébastien Loeb and Isabelle Galmiche retired with a clutch problem. The result turned a tribute weekend into a genuine contest that changed direction on the final day.
Aryan Narola won both Sunday races in the F4 Indian Championship, while Ruhaan Alva took the second Indian Racing League race as the Indian Racing Festival completed its Buddh International Circuit weekend on 1 November.
Marc Márquez won the Malaysian Grand Prix by 4.1 seconds over Pedro Acosta, with Alex Márquez third. His seventh victory of 2026 gives him an opportunity to clinch the championship at Qatar next weekend.
A third place in Mexico City gave Kimi Antonelli the 2026 Drivers’ Championship at 20. Max Verstappen won a turbulent Grand Prix, while Antonelli kept his season-long points lead intact and became the youngest champion in Formula One history.
Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah and Candido Carrera won the Petrolina Cyprus Rally by 4.63 seconds after three punctures and a late Power Stage push. The victory secured Al-Attiyah’s record 21st FIA Middle East Rally Championship title and his 93rd win in the series, extending a career that has shaped the region’s rallying for more than two decades.
The CTR-JK Tyre FMSCI Indian National Car Racing Championship returns to Kari Motor Speedway from 13 to 15 November for Round 2. Its late-October opener brought a record 137 driver and rider registrations, close Formula 4 finishes and a programme spanning eight categories. The same Coimbatore circuit now offers the field another weekend to build on that start.
Rugved Barguje won the SX1 class at Round 5 of the MRF MOGRIP FMSCI National Supercross Championship in Nashik. His 37 point total came from a second place in Moto 1 and a victory in Moto 2. Nine classes brought the national field together at Pethe Nagar Grounds, with riders from the leading teams and local competitors sharing the same compact, demanding arena.
F4 India and the Indian Racing League arrive at Buddh International Circuit on 31 October and 1 November. For the festival, it is a new venue. For Indian single-seater racing, it is a return to one of the country’s most recognisable international circuits, with a live title fight already taking shape.
The 49th Dakar Rally will begin in the Algarve and finish in Marrakech after a 7,824 kilometre journey through Portugal and Morocco. The published route has 4,341 kilometres of timed special stage, a prologue, 12 stages and an Agadir rest day. One detail matters for every calendar: the dates remain subject to FIA World Motor Sport Council approval.
Sébastien Loeb and Carlos Sainz have arrived in Asturias with different cars and the same instinct for detail. Friday’s provisional order put Loeb and Isabelle Galmiche ahead of Sainz and Luis Moya by 24.9 seconds. Six Saturday stages now stand between the two crews and the finish of a rally built around memory, friendship and very current competition.
The Indian Racing Festival reaches Buddh International Circuit on 31 October and 1 November for the first time. F4 India arrives after Luviwe Sambudla took the championship lead at Madras, while the Indian Racing League returns for its second round in a season that will also visit BIC again in late November.
Jorge Martín has been cleared for Friday practice after fracturing his right wrist at Phillip Island. MotoGP will review him again after FP1. He reaches Sepang ten points behind Marc Márquez, with Marco Bezzecchi 50 points back and four rounds left in a title fight that has changed direction twice in a week.
Charles Leclerc set the pace in both Friday practice sessions at the Mexico City Grand Prix, edging Lando Norris by 0.103 seconds in FP2. George Russell and Kimi Antonelli kept Mercedes close, while Lewis Hamilton’s afternoon ended early with a power-unit problem. Antonelli still has the drivers’ title within reach, with qualifying and the race ahead.
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.
The opening weekend of the CTR JK Tyre FMSCI Indian National Car Racing Championship closed at Kari Motor Speedway with eight Sunday races, a photo finish, a final corner clash and rain across the LGB Formula 4 finale. Dhruvh Goswami and Anish Shetty were among the day’s defining winners.
Luviwe Sambudla won twice at the Madras International Circuit to take command of the F4 Indian Championship, while 15 year old Aaron Mehta became its youngest race winner. The weekend also opened the Indian Racing League season with a close first victory for Shahan Ali Mohsin.
Kimi Antonelli led a measured Mercedes charge to victory at Circuit of The Americas, finishing 13.078 seconds clear of Charles Leclerc. Max Verstappen completed the podium after a race shaped by a strong opening lap and a one stop strategy.
The Blueband Sports FMSCI Indian National Rally Championship is due in Kodagu from 20 to 22 November for Round 3, the Robusta Rally. The calendar gives the season a fresh setting after the gravel roads of Coimbatore, with teams now waiting on the event bulletin for the detail that turns a date into a route.
Reduced visibility kept the medical helicopter on the ground, leaving MotoGP, Moto2 and Moto3 with no safe route to race on Sunday. Riders completed two parade laps and stopped to greet the crowd in the final Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island before the event moves to Adelaide in 2027.
Marc Márquez began the Australian Grand Prix with the quickest lap of 1:27.985, only 0.048 seconds ahead of Raúl Fernández. Jorge Martín arrived as championship leader by two points, with the first morning already bringing a close fight and a hard fall for home favourite Jack Miller.
Nicolò Bulega finished his final WorldSBK campaign with 726 points from a possible 744, 32 wins in one season and a run of 49 consecutive podiums. The scale of the numbers is striking. The steadiness behind them is the deeper story.
The CTR and JK Tyre FMSCI Indian National Car Racing Championship returns to Kari Motor Speedway for Round 2 from 23 to 25 October. Seventeen races bring single seaters, touring cars, the Levitas Cup and the Royal Enfield Continental GT Cup together for a full weekend of Indian circuit racing.
The Indian Racing Festival brings F4 Indian Championship Round 3 and the Indian Racing League season opener to Madras International Circuit on 22 and 23 October. Aris Kyriakou arrived five points ahead of Luviwe Sambudla, while Chennai Turbo Riders begins its campaign on home ground.
Four riders are scheduled to take MotoGP machinery onto the Circuit of The Americas during Saturday of the United States Grand Prix weekend. The short showcase puts two global racing series together on one of the sport’s most recognisable modern circuits.
Further examinations in Milan have confirmed that Toprak Razgatlıoğlu will undergo surgery on his injured shoulder on 26 October. Yamaha says the three-time WorldSBK champion will miss Phillip Island and the remaining rounds of the 2026 MotoGP season, with Augusto Fernández planned as his replacement.
Krish Gupta, Rivaan Dev Preetham, Arshi Gupta and Ayansh Patil finished the six-round MECO RMC India season as champions in Senior Max, Junior Max, Mini Max and Micro Max. None won the final race in their class, a reminder that a championship is carried across a season, not decided by one chequered flag.
Nicolò Bulega closed WorldSBK’s 2026 season with a clean sweep at Jerez. A rain-softened Race 2 brought his career victory total level with Troy Bayliss, while Sam Lowes made a final-lap pass for third and Iker Lecuona secured second in the championship.
Formula 1 returns to Circuit of The Americas from 23 to 25 October. The 5.513-kilometre Austin circuit rewards commitment and precision, with its steep climb to Turn 1 and a sequence of corners that asks each car to change direction without losing its balance.
National karting runs at Meco Kartopia in Bengaluru on 17 and 18 October while the FMSCI Supercross championship brings its fourth round to Baroda on Sunday. The meetings show how Indian motorsport grows through different kinds of track, different kinds of machine and the people who keep each paddock moving.
Jorge Martín leads Marc Márquez by two points after Mandalika. Phillip Island comes next, from 23 to 25 October, with fast corners, open water beyond the circuit and a title fight that has no room for a quiet weekend.
Nicolò Bulega arrives at Jerez already crowned champion, but the final weekend still matters. The WorldSBK paddock will close its 2026 campaign at Circuito de Jerez from 16 to 18 October, with one last set of races and a major change in the championship’s future approaching.
Ishaan Madesh and Krishay Gutte shared the MRF Formula 2000 wins at the Madras International Circuit. Viswas Vijayaraj swept the Formula LGB 1300 races for a third straight triple crown.
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.
A ten-year agreement puts the Formula 1 African Grand Prix on the horizon for the early 2030s, with a new FIA Grade 1 circuit planned at Bugesera. The date is still to come, and so is the circuit itself. The promise is already unmistakable.
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.
Third beneath the Singapore lights left Kimi Antonelli 102 points clear of George Russell with six Grands Prix still to come, beginning in Austin.
Marco Bezzecchi won at Mandalika, Raul Fernández held second with two broken fingers, and Jorge Martín’s third place restored his lead over Marc Márquez.
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.
Max Verstappen kept his Red Bull ahead through 62 laps beneath the Singapore lights to claim a first Grand Prix victory at Marina Bay. Charles Leclerc finished second and Kimi Antonelli took third after a late fight reshaped the places behind them.
Marco Bezzecchi passed Raul Fernández with eight laps remaining and rode away to win at Mandalika. Fernández finished second despite two broken fingers, Jorge Martín reclaimed the championship lead, and Aprilia celebrated a historic top-four lockout.
Seth Quintero and Topi Luhtinen finished second at Lake Superior Performance Rally, then used a decisive Power Stage to take the 2026 American Rally Association National Championship. The season’s title fight came down to its final competitive stage.
Max Verstappen put Red Bull on pole at Marina Bay with a 1:31.373, edging Charles Leclerc by just 0.054 seconds. Lewis Hamilton starts third, while George Russell’s sixth-place qualifying result is set to be reshaped by an engine penalty.
A 30-minute rain delay, a first-lap crash for George Russell and a final-lap McLaren collision turned Singapore’s Sprint into a night of survival. Max Verstappen kept his Red Bull ahead of Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc to take the win.
Max Verstappen found 1:31.156 on his final run at Marina Bay, edging George Russell by 0.120 seconds as the Singapore Grand Prix opened its first Sprint weekend.
Lake Superior Performance Rally brings the ARA National Championship to its final round, where Lia Block leads Seth Quintero into a 16-stage contest across Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
Karan Patel and co-driver Tauseef Khan arrived in Morogoro as African champions, then won the Serengeti Rally to finish their 2026 campaign with four victories from four rounds.
George Russell starts from the back after a power-unit penalty, while Mercedes gives Kimi Antonelli its latest package. A final Sprint weekend and a resurgent title fight make Singapore a revealing test.
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.
A rain-delayed, 56-lap Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia gave Max Verstappen his first victory of the season. Kimi Antonelli and Lewis Hamilton joined him on a podium shaped by changing conditions, calm tyre calls and a late retirement for George Russell.
Marc Márquez won the Japanese Grand Prix after taking Saturday’s Sprint, turning a 37-point weekend into a direct challenge to Jorge Martín’s championship lead. Martín finished second, with Marco Bezzecchi third for Aprilia.
Lando Norris turned a red-flagged, tyre-sensitive Dutch Grand Prix into his second consecutive victory, with Kimi Antonelli and George Russell completing a Mercedes double podium.
Marc Márquez won Saturday’s Misano Sprint from Marco Bezzecchi and Jorge Martín after Bezzecchi became the first rider under 90 seconds around the circuit in qualifying.
Charles Leclerc topped FP2 by 0.099 seconds from Isack Hadjar, with Lando Norris third. Max Verstappen set the reference in FP1 before Leclerc’s Ferrari led an even closer second session.
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.
Naveen Pulligilla and Musa Sherif enter the African championship’s final round second in ARC3, after winning in Rwanda and adding WRC3 podiums in Kenya and Paraguay. Duran Racing’s poster names the Indian pair for Tanzania, while the official calendar and the promotion differ on the event label and dates.
The Bharat Petroleum Autocross 2026 brings a 4W dirt competition to Gold Finch City in Kuloor on 10 and 11 October, with twelve classes, cash prizes and special awards for the fastest driver and best tuner.
Ishaan Madesh ended Saishiva Sankaran’s five-race winning run with the final MRF Formula 2000 victory. Bhuvan Bonu, Viswas Vijayaraj and a broad supporting field shaped Sunday’s final classifications.
Saishiva Sankaran, Bhuvan Bonu and Viswas Vijayaraj began Round 2 with wins, while a red flag and shortened LGB 1300 races underlined the pace of Saturday’s MRF national racing programme.
George Russell turned pole into a fiercely defended Azerbaijan Grand Prix win. Max Verstappen almost caught him at the line after a late Mercedes power issue, while Isack Hadjar completed the podium.
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.
George Russell took pole for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix after Max Verstappen topped final practice. Charles Leclerc and Oscar Piastri completed the top three, while Kimi Antonelli qualified sixteenth.
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.
Formula 1 heads to Baku for round 15 from 24 to 26 September, with Kimi Antonelli arriving as championship leader and a 6.003 kilometre street circuit ready to punish every setup compromise.
MotoFarm’s supplied event posters set #DIRTIFIED Gravel 4W Autocross for 3 and 4 October at Lakkenahalli in Chikkaballapur, with two directions of racing and seventeen listed classes.
The supplied Sportscraft poster announced a 13 September Pune sprint rally for scooters and motorcycles, with FMSCI branding and a dirt focused event identity.
Chethan Chengappa and Sujith Chengappa headed the published FMSCI Gypsy Challenge podium, ahead of Sanjay Agarwal and Dinky Varghese and Kariappa Mekerira and Abhinav Ganapathy.
Venunath V and Sanath G won INRC 3, ahead of Jenu Johnson and Lenin Joseph in second and Abishek Gowda T C and Mahesh Nandi in third.
Anushriya Gulati and Karan Aukta won INRC 3T in the Citroen C3, while Arjun Rajeev and Chandra Mouli finished second and Adith KC and Avinash C A took third in Baleno RS cars.
Pradeep Ravi and Thimmanna Uppapanda headed the published Masters Cup podium, with Dinesh Kumar T and Lohith J M second and Balakrishna J and Bopanna Nelammakkada third.
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.
Aditya Thakur and Virender Kashyap won INRC 2 in the naturally aspirated Polo. Philippos Matthai and Harish K N finished second, while Ritesh M. Guttedar and Suraj M finished third.
Three final stages turned Dean Mascarenhas and Gagan Karumbaiah’s Saturday advantage into a Rally of Coimbatore victory, with Karna Kadur second, Jason Saldanha third and Naveen Puligilla fourth.
Dean Mascarenhas and Gagan Karumbaiah won Round 2 in Coimbatore, ahead of Karna Kadur, Jason Saldanha and Naveen Puligilla, in a rally shaped by speed, new cars and determined recovery drives.
Ritesh M. Guttedar and Suraj M finished third in INRC 2 and tenth overall at Coimbatore, delivering a measured run through a fast national rally.
Tarushi Vikram and Athreya Kousgi finished seventeenth overall, with the official stage timing marking their crew fastest in INRC 3 on SS08.
Venunath V and Sanath G carried the #21 Chettinad Sporting Polo through every recorded stage run to win INRC 3 at the Rally of Coimbatore in 01:40:36.798.
Kimi Antonelli qualified second by 0.011 seconds, reacted when the Virtual Safety Car opened a pit window and managed the final stint to leave Madrid 81 points clear in the championship.
A crash from the Sprint lead did not alter Acosta’s Sunday method. He followed Jorge Martín, passed on lap nine and delivered KTM a home win at the Red Bull Ring.
Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja won the Overmountain Rally Tennessee by 1 minute 4.3 seconds, giving Toyota’s GR Corolla Rally RC2 its first American Rally Association national victory.
Pedro Acosta passed Jorge Martín on lap nine and controlled the Austrian Grand Prix, with Marco Bezzecchi third and the title fight tightening before Motegi.
Six Saturday stages put Dean Mascarenhas and Gagan Karumbaiah at the head of a fast, carefully prepared Coimbatore rally, with new cars and hard mechanical lessons already reshaping the weekend.
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.
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.
Kimi Antonelli won at Madring by 4.351 seconds from Max Verstappen, with pole-sitter Lando Norris third after a Virtual Safety Car and slow pit stop changed the first Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid.
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.
Sarthak Chavan led Rakshith Dave and Chiranth Vishwanath in a Petronas TVS Racing one, two, three, while Ann Jennifer, Kabilesh Rajini Krishnan and six more winners shaped a busy Saturday at MMRT.
Arshi Gupta won Mini Max at RMC India Round 5, while Zidaan Arshaan Anees, Akshat Mishra and Hridaan Sanadhya took the other class victories at Meco Kartopia in Bengaluru.
Dust to the Clouds 5 made its first hill climb at Penukonda Hills, with bikes and cars giving the 2026 event a two-machine identity and a record entry drawing a new line through the Indian motorsport calendar.
Pragathi Gowda, Sahil Khanna and Vidyuth Iyer give India a sharp international thread as the 2026 Asia Auto Gymkhana trail moves towards its Thailand stage.
Chikkamagaluru’s DIRTPRIX XIII and V12 Autocross Round 3 in Coimbatore put two very different venues into the same September conversation, while Bengaluru’s Gravel Attack showed why the grassroots ladder still matters between the major dates.
The passing of Maletira Jagath Nanjappa at 68 has left Indian rallying without one of its most respected champions, a driver whose record and generosity helped define the sport across generations.
Kimi Antonelli did not inherit the Italian Grand Prix. He drove from nineteenth to a home victory, then made the final laps look calmer than the journey that created them.
Kimi Antonelli drove from 19th to win the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, leading a Mercedes one-two with George Russell ahead of Max Verstappen.
Lia Block and Alex Gelsomino scored their first overall ARA National victory at Ojibwe Forests, extending the 2026 championship lead to 21 points before Overmountain Rally Tennessee.
A full day of gravel testing in Coimbatore brought together Sonakshi, Dheeraj Salimath, Arvind Dheerendra, Aditya Thakur, Daraius Shroff and Arjun Dheerendra, alongside a newly imported Peugeot 208, for a close look at the work behind the rally.
Marc Márquez resisted Pedro Acosta and Marco Bezzecchi at MotorLand Aragón to take a Ducati victory that moves him to second in the 2026 standings, 19 points behind Jorge Martin.
Katsuhiko Taguchi and Takahiro Yasui won the 2026 Asia Cross Country Rally in Thailand, turning a 2,145 kilometre route into a story about pace, navigation and mechanical sympathy.
Daniel Sanders won the bikes at Argentina’s Desafío Ruta 40, Seth Quintero took his first Ultimate car victory and the 2026 World Rally-Raid Championship now turns towards Morocco and Abu Dhabi.
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.
An all women motoring show grew into a confident, curious and highly visible Indian automotive community, bringing cars, travel and the joy of driving into the same conversation.
From Coimbatore workshops and Sholavaram airstrips to Formula Maruti, Super Speeds and Kari Motor Speedway, Kari built the machinery and the confidence for a generation of Indian racers.
From Pragathi Gowda and Athira Murali to Anushriya Gulati, Diana Pundole, Bani Yadav and Alisha Abdullah, Indian women are building careers across rally stages, circuits, bikes and the communities around them.
Saishiva Sankaran, Bhuvan Bonu, Viswas Vijayaraj, Ritesh Rai, Diljith TS and Pratik Sonawane led a multi-class opening round at Madras International Circuit.
The official route and entry documents remain useful after Round 2, now joined by the completed classification led by Dean Mascarenhas and Gagan Karumbaiah.
Four voices from the INRC paddock on Coimbatore, preparation, pressure and the fight that begins when the first pace note comes through.
Lando Norris won the final scheduled Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, with Kimi Antonelli second and George Russell third after the circuit’s first Formula 1 Sprint weekend.
From Chennai to Coimbatore, Kodagu, Bengaluru, Indore and Bastar, the official Blueband Sports calendar gives India’s national rally championship six rounds and a reserve weekend.
Eight national events spread across the United States give the ARA season its own identity, from Michigan snow to Colorado gravel and the forests of Minnesota.
Fabid Ahmer and Milen George took the inaugural ARCH Rally overall victory and won the ARCH Rally 2 category in the JA Motorsport and TSI Racing Hyundai i20 N Line.
The 18 July Gravel Attack Autocross and 19 July Rally Sprint weekend near Bengaluru Airport showed how quickly local motorsport can move when a venue gives drivers a real surface to learn on.
From Fabid Ahmer’s INRC2 wins to Tarushi Vikram’s Women and Junior results, Chettinad Sporting keeps putting competitive crews into the same fight.
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.
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.
A passenger TSD rally in Jaipur, an endurance race at MECO Kartopia and a national two-wheel stage rally in Chennai are the next verified entries on the FMSCI calendar.
The Sumatera Utara Rally ran from 7 to 9 August, while Indonesia continues to build the case for a future World Rally Championship event in Toba.
The 2025 Karnataka 1000 produced a TSI Racing one-two, a historic INRC2 win for Pragathi Gowda and a finish rate that explained why this rally still matters.
The former champion and team owner represents the part of rallying that lasts beyond a single driver’s result: preparation, judgement and the transfer of experience.
The next Bengaluru autocross weekend is being presented as a full motorsport day with timed classes, tuned cars, simulators, music and food around the racing.
The man backing TSI Racing’s world-stage attempt has spent decades trying to make Indian rallying more professional, more visible and more ambitious.
At the 49th South India Rally, Musa Sherif reached a number that says as much about endurance and trust as it does about time spent in a competition car.
A left-hand-drive Peugeot arrived from Europe and immediately changed the conversation around what a two-wheel-drive Indian rally programme could be.
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.
The 2026 RAAT Thailand Rally Championship sits inside a wider Thai rallying programme that is pairing competition with events, streaming and a stronger public presence.
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.
Lando Norris took the 2026 Hungarian Grand Prix ahead of Max Verstappen and Kimi Antonelli, while Oscar Piastri’s gearbox failure changed the race’s shape.
Kimi Antonelli converted a measured Spa-Francorchamps drive into victory at the 2026 Belgian Grand Prix, with Charles Leclerc second and Max Verstappen third.
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.
Marc Márquez won his tenth MotoGP race at the Sachsenring, with Ai Ogura second and Raul Fernández third after a perfect summer-break weekend for Ducati.
Charles Leclerc won the 2026 British Grand Prix at Silverstone, with George Russell second, Lewis Hamilton third and Lando Norris fourth in a close 52 lap finish.
Ai Ogura won his first MotoGP Grand Prix at Assen, with Raul Fernández second and Jorge Martín third after Marco Bezzecchi’s early crash changed the championship order.
Sébastien Ogier and Vincent Landais won the 2026 Acropolis Rally Greece by 58.3 seconds, closing a demanding gravel weekend with a perfect Sunday.
Bengaluru's Arvind Dheerendra and co-driver Shahid Salman won INRC 3 on the team's first competitive outing, and finished third overall.
Tarushi Vikram and co-driver Athreya Kousgi won both the Ladies class and Junior INRC at the South India Rally, and finished inside the overall top ten.
Karna Kadur and Kumar Ramaswamy took Arka Motorsports to victory at the Madras International Circuit, holding on after the boost went.
