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At the end of the Rally of Tasmania the Honda Civic Type R just missed out on a podium finish by seconds to finish overall in fourth place. Fourth place isn’t a bad outcome for the Evans Motorsport Honda Civic Type R’s first go. Over two competitive stages on Friday the Evans and Weston team [...]

Volkswagen has won the legendary Dakar Rally for the second time in succession, with the duos and their TDI-powered Race Touareg prototypes celebrating a one-two-three podium lockout at the finish of the toughest challenge in motorsport. Carlos Sainz/Lucas Cruz triumphed by only 2:12 minutes over team mates Nasser Al-Attiyah/Timo Gottschalk in a thrilling finale on [...]

Walter Rohrl will be 63 years old when he climbs into his Porsche GT3 RS at the Nurburgring 24 Hour Race on May 15 next year, and people in the know are predicting a podium finish. Former F1 guru Niki Lauda called Rohrl a “Genuis on Wheels”. In Italy he was elected “Rallye driver of [...]

Mazda Australia is eyeing off a podium finish with its RX-8 SP as it plans a return to Targa Tasmania next year. On its debut at this year’s Targa Tasmania, amid a field of powerful and expensive rally exotica, the turbocharged Mazda Motorsport RX-8 SP finished an impressive 10th outright at the hands of expert [...]

Alister McRae came third in the Rally of Scotland driving a Proton Satria. This is a first ever podium finish for Proton in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge. Now living in Perth Western Australia McRae recently returned to his native Perth shire in Scotland to race the Proton Satria Neo to its best ever result. Only [...]