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It’s not often that beer and sporting success go hand in hand. However, wind back the clock to Rally Mexico 2014 and this popular beverage played an unlikely, yet vital cameo in saving Hyundai from the heartbreak of throwing away a first World Rally Championship podium at the final hurdle.

Mexico’s famous rough gravel and high altitude mountainous stages last appeared on the WRC schedule in 2020, although the event, won by Sebastien Ogier, was shortened by the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Following a a discussion during last week’s World Motor Sport Council in Bahrain, the world motorsport governing body has ratified a new rule which will be enforced from 1 May.

M-Sport founder Malcolm Wilson has returned to the cockpit to shake down a World Rally Championship-specification Ford Puma Rally1 car.

M-Sport founder Malcolm Wilson has returned to the cockpit to shake down a World Rally Championship specification Ford Puma Rally1.

M-Sport boss Richard Millener hopes Ford's partnership with the Red Bull Racing Formula 1 team from 2026 will strengthen and help grow the World Rally Championship squad.

Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville believes hybrid boost will be “crucial” and “more effective” than at any other rally when the World Rally Championship heads to Mexico later this month.

Mr Asari described the employee as becoming angry, saying that he would meet him in court.

Rally Finland organisers have announced this year's World Rally Championship event will feature a heavily revised route, featuring new stages and the return of iconic roads.