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• Seven-time rallycross champion joins Sydney ROC

  17-11-2024 23:00 via speedcafe.com
  
  FIA World Rallycross Championship icon Johan Kristoffersson has confirmed his participation in next year’s Race Of Champions.
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• Hybrid dead? WRC becomes latest to abandon electric power

  16-11-2024 00:40 via speedcafe.com
  
  FIA World Rally Championship organisers have abandoned hybrid power for 2025 after just three years with the system.
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• New-look Targa Tasmania to return in 2025 after inquest

  12-11-2024 01:01 via speedcafe.com
  
  Targa Tasmania will return in 2025 after a three-year hiatus.
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• Shannons Adelaide Rally taken out by Rullo and Glenney

  11-11-2024 04:10 via speedcafe.com
  
  Former Supercars driver Alex Rullo with navigator Steve Glenney won the overall Competition category
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• WRC legend Sebastien Loeb to race in Sydney

  29-10-2024 23:00 via speedcafe.com
  
  Sebastien Loeb, the most successful FIA World Rally Championship driver of all time, has confirmed he will contest the Race Of Champions in Sydney next year.
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• What’s on in Australian motorsport this weekend

  23-10-2024 04:13 via speedcafe.com
  
  Want to know what motorsport events are on around Australia this weekend? Speedcafe has got you covered
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• Australia back on World Rallycross Championship calendar

  23-10-2024 03:57 via speedcafe.com
  
  Australia is set to host the finale of the FIA World Rallycross Championship in 2025.
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• Speedcafe.com readers to benefit from Race Of Champions partnership

  14-10-2024 01:00 via speedcafe.com
  
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• Speedcafe readers to benefit from Race Of Champions partnership

  14-10-2024 01:00 via speedcafe.com
  
  Speedcafe readers can register for their tickets ahead of the public release.
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• Toby Price’s rally debut ends in a stream

  10-10-2024 13:32 via speedcafe.com
  
  In his first rally Toby Price was quick and so was his exit from the Working Dog Rally
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• Toyota reduces WRC points deficit with Rovanpera win

  30-09-2024 00:03 via speedcafe.com
  
  Kalle Rovanpera led Elfyn Evans in a Toyota one-two in Rally Chile to boost the Japanese manufacturer’s title hopes with two rounds remaining.
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• The bold plans to revolutionise Australian rallying

  29-09-2024 22:00 via speedcafe.com
  
  There are bold plans in the works for the Australian Rally Championship as it eyes its new era outside of Motorsport Australia's direct control.
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• Third Adelaide Hills Rally in a row win for Bates and McLoughlin

  15-09-2024 15:10 via speedcafe.com
  
  Lewis Bates and Anthony McLoughlin won the Adelaide Hills Rally after they took out Heat 2 in the ARC fifth round
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• Heat 1 of Adelaide Hills Rally won by Bates and McLoughlin

  14-09-2024 15:08 via speedcafe.com
  
  Harry Bates and Anthony McLoughlin have come from behind to win Heat 1 of the Adelaide Hills Rally
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• Adelaide Hills are ready for the Australian Rally Championship

  13-09-2024 12:20 via speedcafe.com
  
  The fifth round of the Bosch Motorsport Australia Rally Championship will be in South Australia this weekend
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• Joint venture partnership to run Australian Rally Championship

  12-09-2024 07:00 via speedcafe.com
  
  Motorsport Australia and Adrian Coppin’s Innate Event Group will manage and deliver the championship from 2025
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• Hoonigan goes bankrupt with over $1.8 billion in debt

  10-09-2024 08:47 via speedcafe.com
  
  The brand made famous by internet icon Ken Block, has filed for bankruptcy citing $1.8 billion (USD 1.2 billion) in debt.
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• Ogier rolls out of WRC podium as ‘karma’ bites

  09-09-2024 05:37 via speedcafe.com
  
  Two days after some pointed criticism at Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville, it was Sebastian Ogier who admitted “karma” had come back to bite.
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• Reliability wins four-day cross country rally for Kaplan/Penney

  08-09-2024 09:02 via speedcafe.com
  
  In his Dakar-spec Nissan V8 powered Rivo T1, Adam Kaplan with Aleshia Penney won the 2024 Sunraysia Safari
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• Australian Rally Championship releases 2025 calendar

  05-09-2024 04:30 via speedcafe.com
  
  Motorsport Australia has revealed the six-round Australian Rally Championship calendar for 2025, which features some small year-on-year changes.
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• Reeves set to compete in New Zealand’s Daybreaker Rally

  23-08-2024 01:10 via speedcafe.com
  
  Australian Brendan Reeves will take part in the 2024 Daybreaker Rally on September 13-14
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• WRC flirting with $800,000 sale of promotion business

  20-08-2024 02:00 via speedcafe.com
  
  WRC Promoter GmbH, the business that oversees the FIA World Rally Championship, could be sold for more than $800,000 according to a report.
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• WRC flirting with $800 million sale of promotion business

  20-08-2024 02:00 via speedcafe.com
  
  WRC Promoter GmbH, the business that oversees the FIA World Rally Championship, could be sold for more than $800,000 according to a report.
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• Bates/Taylor win Gippsland Rally and extend championship lead

  11-08-2024 13:05 via speedcafe.com
  
  From a narrow overnight lead, Harry Bates and Coral Taylor went on to win the ARC fourth round
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• Bates just ahead of Pedder in close-fought Gippsland Rally

  10-08-2024 13:52 via speedcafe.com
  
  At the halfway mark of the Gippsland Rally, Harry Bates and Coral Taylor hold a slender 12.3s lead
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• High-flying Aussies land history-making JWRC win

  05-08-2024 02:38 via speedcafe.com
  
  Taylor Gill and Daniel Brkic have won Rally Finland, becoming the first Australia's to win an FIA Junior Rally World Championship event.
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• WRC part-timer wins as rock ruins Rally Finland for Rovanpera

  05-08-2024 01:51 via speedcafe.com
  
  Kalle Rovanpera was just a few kilometres away from winning Rally Finland until a stray rock fired him off into the woods.
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• WRC expands global footprint with three new rallies

  01-08-2024 02:21 via speedcafe.com
  
  The FIA World Rally Championship will grow to 14 events in 2025 and feature three new rallies.
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• Aussie WRC junior days away from “daunting” Finland debut

  30-07-2024 00:51 via speedcafe.com
  
  Taylor Gill and co-driver Daniel Brkic are just a matter of days away from contesting their de facto home rally in Finland.
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• WRC whacked over “bizarre” banner incident

  21-07-2024 04:02 via speedcafe.com
  
  Ott Tanak has shredded WRC organisers after an inflatable arch fell onto the stage and got tangled in his Hyundai i20.
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• Molly Taylor extends Extreme E lead with Scotland clean sweep

  15-07-2024 01:06 via speedcafe.com
  
  The inaugural Extreme E champion is vying for her second title after a perfect weekend in Scotland.
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• Craig Lowndes to guest star at the Shannons Adelaide Rally

  09-07-2024 02:26 via speedcafe.com
  
  Craig Lowndes and his wife Lara will take part in the 2024 Shannons Adelaide Rally on November 8-10.
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• WATCH: Supercheap Auto’s biggest, wildest video yet

  04-07-2024 00:14 via speedcafe.com
  
  It's finally here – the biggest, wildest Best Performing Oils Supercheap Auto has ever produced.
  Watch it now!
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• Pedder and Macneall take first Rally Championship round in 10 years

  30-06-2024 12:13 via speedcafe.com
  
  Scott Pedder and Glenn Macneall won their first Australia Rally Championship round in a decade
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• Pedder and Macneall first heat whitewash at Australian Rally Championship

  29-06-2024 13:11 via speedcafe.com
  
  Scott Pedder and Glenn Macneall dominated Heat 1 of Rally Queensland with a clean sweep of the stages
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• Bates brothers have both crashed at Rally Queensland

  29-06-2024 03:22 via speedcafe.com
  
  Both Harry and Lewis Bates have crashed during Heat 1 of Round 3 of the Australian Rally Championship
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• The Australian Rally Championship set for sunny Queensland

  28-06-2024 06:09 via speedcafe.com
  
  More than 60 crews will compete at Rally Queensland, the third round of the Australian Rally Championship
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• Supercars talent joins ARC broadcast

  25-06-2024 04:37 via speedcafe.com
  
  Supercars big screen regular Charlie Barlow will join the broadcast team for this weekend's Queensland round of the Bosch Motorsport Australia Rally Championship.
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• The 51st Bega Valley Rally was won by Walters and Crowley

  12-06-2024 00:49 via speedcafe.com
  
  The 2024 Bega Valley Rally was taken out by Riley Walters and Andrew Crowley in a Subaru Impreza WRX
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• Comeback for Bates and Taylor to win Australian Rally Championship round

  19-05-2024 15:17 via speedcafe.com
  
   
  Coral Taylor and Harry Bates celebrate their Forest Rally win. Image: MA / Dakar Press Team
  After mechanical dramas with their Toyota GR Yaris Rally 2 and time penalties, they worked their way to fourth in Heat 1, then headed the second heat and won the event outright.
  The reigning champions took Heat 2 by 30s over Toyota Gazoo Racing Australia teammates Lewis Bates and Anthony McLoughlin (GR Yaris AP4), while Alex Rullo and Steve Glenney (Hyundai i20) were third in the heat over Eddie Ma
  
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• Pedder and Macneall win Heat 1 of the ARC’s Forest Rally

  19-05-2024 01:26 via speedcafe.com
  
  In their Skoda Fabia R5, Scott Pedder and Glenn Macneall beat the might of Toyota GAZOO in Heat 1 of the Forest Rally. ImageL MA / Dakar Press Team
  As Skoda Fabia R5s finished first and second, they won the opening day by 23.4s over Eddie Maguire and Zak Brakey. Third were Lewis Bates and Anthony McLoughlin (Toyota GR Yaris AP4) less than 1min off the leaders, but later penalised.
  Pedder and Macneall won the first stage as they took advantage of championship leaders Harry Bates and Coral Taylor
  
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• Perfect weather for Australian Rally Championship round in the West

  16-05-2024 12:01 via speedcafe.com
  
  Lewis Bates and Anthony McLoughlin in Toyota GR Yaris AP4 during the Forest Rally test sessions. Image: Supplied
  Expected to take place in perfect weather conditions, the ARC component will run in two heats with championship points awarded on both Saturday and Sunday. The event will be contested over 104kms over six stages on Day 1, and 76kms on Day 2's five stages.
  Regular rally crews will be familiar with the schedule and stages from previous events including the Nannup roads. The biggest chan
  
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• Gill and Brkic score second in Junior World Rally Championship round

  24-04-2024 07:48 via speedcafe.com
  
  Gill and Brkic were the first Aussies to net a World Rally Championship podium since 2012. Image: Supplied
  It was just Gill's third rally on the tarmac surface, and the Newcastle youngster started steadily on the first morning. As the rally progressed, so did his speed and he gradually climb up the leaderboard.
  They were seeded seven in the JWRC. On Special Stage One, Gill spin his Ford Fiesta Rally3, which resulted in ninth fastest time. Then on Stage Three, a late puncture saw him lose more ti
  
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• WRC champion contracts COVID, son to miss Rally Sardegna

  22-04-2024 00:42 via speedcafe.com
  
  Oliver Solberg (left)
  World Rally Championship up-and-comer Oliver Solberg has been forced to withdraw from the upcoming Rally Sardegna after his famous father contracted COVID-19.
  It has been announced Petter Solberg, the 2003 WRC champion, tested positive for coronavirus on Monday this week.
  That has had a ripple effect on 19-year-old Oliver as a close contact.
  The Swede, who enjoyed a fine run to seventh on his top-flight debut at the Arctic Rally Finland in February, was due to compete again
  
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• New location for Rally Tasmania

  16-04-2024 05:04 via speedcafe.com
  
  Burnie will host Tasmania's ARC round this year. Image: CarsMosport
  The Apple Isle will host the season finale in November, however it will be a new-look Rally of Tasmania.
  The event will shift north from Launceston to Burnie thanks to support from the Burnie City Council and Events Tasmania, while naming rights backing will come from Buckby Motors.
  “Burnie has a proud history of hosting rally events and we look forward to welcoming competitors and their hundreds of support crew to our cit
  
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• Bates and Taylor take all stages and win shortened Rally of Canberra

  07-04-2024 13:24 via speedcafe.com
  
  Harry Bates and Coral Taylor dominated the first round of the Australian Rally Championship in the new Toyota GR Yaris Rally 2. Image: Supplied
  Saturday’s competition was cancelled due to heavy rain, and the event was reduced to just Sunday’s Heat, through six challenging forest stages.
  It was the reigning champions who proved too strong as they clean swept of stages, which included the Galvanize Insurance Power Stage, in their new Toyota GR Yaris Rally 2.
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• Massive rains has caused cancellations in rally, offroad and hillclimb events

  06-04-2024 05:38 via speedcafe.com
  
  All the Saturday stages of the Techworkz Automotive Rally of Canberra, Round 1 of the Australian Championship have been cancelled with Sunday’s programme pending.
  The Condo 750, an annual offroad navigational rally for cars, motorbikes, buggies, quad bikes and side cars has been cancelled, and the third round of the NSW Hillclimb Championship has also been called.
  Due to the amount of water that has fallen and continued to fall, the decision was made to cancel Saturday’s stages of t
  
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• Rally Championship starts with Techworkz Automotive Canberra Rally

  02-04-2024 04:36 via speedcafe.com
  
  Eddie Maguire in his Skoda Fabia R5, takes on the Toyota GAZOO Racing Australia’s Harry and Lewis Bates in Rally of Canberra. Image: Supplied
  The Techworkz Automotive Rally of Canberra will see the debut by reigning champions, Harry Bates and Coral, of their new Toyota Yaris Rally 2, among 11 new era cars.
  They will line up alongside their Toyota Gazoo Racing Australia teammates Lewis Bates and Anthony McLoughlin in their Toyota GR Yaris AP4.
  The two crews will have stiff opposition in Sco
  
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• First round Queensland Rally Championship won by Brinkman and Hughes

  27-03-2024 22:55 via speedcafe.com
  
  Glenn Brinkman and Jacci Hughes took out both heats of the Manumbar Rally. Image: Smiley Kez Photography
  Spread across the Nanango, Elgin Vale and Gallangowan State Forest areas, 30 crews looked to start their seasons on a high over two heats and eight stages.
  In their Mitsubishi Evo 9, Brinkman and Hughes won both heats and had a 1:30 advantage overall. They finished ahead of Ian Menzies and Robert McGowan (Evo 9) with Erik Johnsson and Larisa Biggar (Subaru Impreza WRX STi) another 1:03 behind
  
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• Stratford and Staltari take both heats of Victorian Rally Championship opener

  25-03-2024 02:10 via speedcafe.com
  
  An early brake issue failed to halt Adrian Stratford and Anthony Staltari from winning the Mitta Mountain Rally.
  After two heats, they finished 4mins clear of Warren Lee and David Lethlean in their Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9 with a further 1:47 ahead of Michael O’Hagan/Eoin Moynihan (Ford Escort)
  The event was Round 1 of the Victorian Rally Championship, jointly hosted by the North Eastern Car Club and the Albury-Wodonga & District Car Club and based at Mitta Mitta in Victoria. It was als
  
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