Bonnefis to race with Team Renault in ERC

According to FIAERC website, one of the rising French stars of rally, Germain Bonnefis, has signed a contract with Team Renault Sport Technologies for 7 events in ERC series. He will be driving the new Megane RS teaming with another French driver Robert Consani.

Al Rajhi praised for performance in Sweden

The winner of WRC2 in Rally Sweden, Yazeed Al Rajhi from Saudi-Arabia was voted "Driver of the rally" by readers of wrc.com. This is by far the best runner-up performance we've seen in a long-time in WRC rallies. Rally Talent wishes Yazeed best of luck and good performances for upcoming events!

VW's got the package for WRC title

The start of Rally Sweden is proving that Team VW has got everything to fight for WRC victory this year. Period.

Loeb to lead the pack for the first full day of Rally Sweden

Sebastien Loeb was quickest on yesterday's short opener and will start as the leader of Rally Sweden for today's 8 demanding stages. Rally Talent is most excited to see how the young and rising Scandinavian talents will do in the competition with WRC cars. The names to watch are: Jarkko Nikana, Pontus Tidemand, Jari Ketomaa and Juho Hänninen. We are also excited to see how Al Rajhi Yazeed is doing with a less familiar soil to him, snow.

Rally Sweden kicks off

Rally Sweden 2013 has kicked off by shakedown which was dominated by VW drivers Jari-Matti Latvala and Sebastien Ogier. Latvala was fastest on shakedown with Ogier only 0.1s slower.

An excellent live feed is available here for followers of the rally.

First FIAERC win for Ketomaa, Immonen doubles victory for Finns

Jari Ketomaa and his co-driver Kaj Lindström have won their first ever FIA European Rally Championship event in Latvia this weekend. The next overall positions went to Craig Breen and Francois Delecour. Alexey Lukyanuk who was in brilliant pace with his Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X production car over the weekend broke his car on the 2nd last stage of the day and was forced to retire from the 3rd place before Delecour.

The event was a great success for Finnish drivers. In ERC 2wd class, Risto Immonen (Citroen C2 R2 Max) took home victory after an exciting battle with French rising star Stephane Lefevre.

FIAERC series continues in Mid-March with Rally Canarias.

Lukyanuk and Lefevre shine in Latvia, Ketomaa leads

Alexey Lukyanuk, driving a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X production car has done amazing job in ERC round 2 event in Latvia. This young Russian driver was able to climb on 3rd place overall ahead of former WRC star Francois Delecour (Peugeot 207 S2000). After the 2nd day, Lukyanuk is leading the production car class with by more than a minute. In ERC 2wd, Stephane Lefevre of France leads the pack by a very narrow 10s gap over Risto Immonen of Finland. Both Lukyanuk and Lefevre are young rising drivers with very little experience (Lefevre driving his first rally on snow!).

Jari Ketomaa, driving a Ford Fiesta RRC, kept his overall lead in the rally with Craig Breen (Peugeot 207 S2000) of Ireland on second place.

The 2nd round of FIAERC starts in Latvia

Rally Liepāja-Ventspils - the 2nd round of FIAERC series launches today in Latvia. A total of 240 kms of power stages will be driven during the next 3 days. Live results will be available via FIAERC website.