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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.
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 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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
