Jari-Matti Latvala's "experience, aggression and exceptional speed" convinced Volkswagen Motorsport that the Finn was the ideal candidate to partner Sebastien Ogier in its factory line-up from the start of the 2013 FIA World Rally Championship.
Sebastien Loeb will contest his penultimate event as a full-time FIA World Rally Championship driver when he tackles Rally Italia Sardegna this week in his Citroen DS3 WRC alongside co-driver Daniel Elena. Here are his thoughts ahead of the rally.
M-Sport boss Malcolm Wilson plans to make the Ford Fiesta RS WRC even faster ahead of the 2013 FIA World Rally Championship season firing into life on Rallye Monte-Carlo in January.
Never mind finishing second, Ford aces Jari-Matti Latvala and Petter Solberg want wins on the closing rounds of this season's FIA World Rally Championship, starting with the trip to Sardinia from 18-21 October.
Calos Sainz was reunited with former co-driver Luis Moya when they wowed 60,000 fans with a demonstration of Volkswagen's new-for-2013 Polo R WRC during the Rallylegend San Marino last weekend.
Five month after the opening round held in Suzuka, Japan, the CIK-FIA World Karting Championship will reach its climax on the circuit of Coloane, one of the two main islands composing Macau.
McLaren left the Korea International Circuit with just one point to show from the weekend after a torrid grand prix saw Jenson Button crash out at the start and Lewis Hamilton finish tenth after his race was wrecked by an anti-roll bar failure.
