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WRC Mexico: Ogier powers into commanding lead from Evans

The eight-time world champion, competing in a partial WRC campaign, assumed the lead on Saturday morning after Hyundai rival Esapekka Lappi crashed out on stage 11.

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WRC Mexico: Ogier inherits healthy lead after Lappi exit

The eight-time World Rally Championship title winner had been locked in a fight with Lappi throughout Friday, and faced a 5.3s deficit to the Finn heading into Saturday.

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WRC Mexico: Leader Lappi crashes out as stage 11 red-flagged

The Hyundai driver lost control 10 kilometres into the Ibarrilla test and speared into a bank. The force of the impact flicked the car around, before rear-ending a telegraph pole as it came to a halt in the road.

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Lappi crashes out of WRC Mexico lead on Saturday's opening stage

The Hyundai driver lost control of his i20 N, 10 kilometres into the Ibarrilla test and speared into a bank. The force of the impact flicked the car around before rear ending a telegraph pole as it came to a halt in the road.

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WRC Mexico: Lappi edges Ogier after hectic Friday morning

Lappi made the most of an advantageous road position on the rough gravel stages to win two of the three tests that made up the morning loop.

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WRC Mexico: Tanak heads Rovanpera after superspecial dominance

The M-Sport driver clocked the fastest time through the two passes of the famous street stage held around the Unesco World Heritage site in downtown Guanajuato.

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Mexico will help define Hyundai’s WRC development strategy - Abiteboul

This weekend marks the first gravel rally of 2023 and the third different surface in as many rounds, following the asphalt of Monte Carlo in January and the snow of Sweden last month.

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Tanak: Mexico will be most demanding for WRC hybrid unit

This weekend will see Rally1 cars tackle high altitude for the first time courtesy of Mexico's iconic mountainous stages located as high as 2800 metres above sea level, which return to the WRC for the first time since 2020.

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Toyota confident it will be competitive on rough gravel in Mexico WRC

The reigning world champion squad has been working to solve its pace deficit on rough gravel which was highlighted in Sardinia and Greece last yearm, the only events a Toyota failed to score a podium in 2022.

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Toyota confident of rough gravel improvements for Mexico WRC round

The reigning world champion squad has been working to solve its pace deficit on rough gravel which was highlighted last year in Sardinia and Greece, the only events a Toyota failed to score a podium in 2022.

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Test event announced as WRC Rally USA 2024 bid progresses

As reported in January, Rally USA emerged as a genuine candidate to join the calendar next year when the WRC stated its desire to run a test event this year, which has now come to fruition.

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Test event confirmed as WRC Rally USA 2024 bid progresses

As reported in January, Rally USA emerged as a genuine candidate to join the calendar next year when the WRC stated its desire to run a test event this year, which has now come to fruition.

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When a timely beer helped Hyundai to a maiden WRC podium

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.

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WRC Rally Mexico: Everything you need to know

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.

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Gardai take to the streets in roster protest - and plan another 'day of action'

The protest follows the moving of gardai to a new roster during the Covid-19 pandemic

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Hydrogen power requires more development, says Toyota WRC boss

Toyota is among the pioneers of hydrogen power in motorsport having invested heavily into developing the fuel as a future environmentally sustainable power source.

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Hydrogen power requires "couple more years" of development, says Toyota WRC boss

Toyota is among the pioneers of hydrogen power in motorsport having invested heavily into developing the fuel as a future environmentally sustainable power source.

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Garda Commissioner says day of action by force representative body will not be a repeat of 'Blue Flu'

He told the broadcaster: “I don’t think there’s any risk of a blue flu.”

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FIA introduces rule to make WRC Rally1 cars louder in EV mode

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.

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M-Sport boss Malcolm Wilson drives WRC Rally1 Ford Puma

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

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M-Sport boss Malcolm Wilson drives WRC Rally1 Puma

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

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M-Sport hopes Ford's Red Bull F1 partnership can strengthen WRC team

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.

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Neuville: Hybrid will be more effective than ever at WRC Rally Mexico

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.

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Irish filling station must pay taxi driver €7,500 compensation after worker called him the 'N' word

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

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Rally Finland reveals heavily revised 2023 WRC route

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.

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