MotorSport

Hyderabad’s speed sensation Anindith Reddy was crowned ‘FMSCI National MotorSports Person of the Year 2017’ at a glittering function in Chennai March 11, 2018. The 26-year-old, who has been scorching the domestic ci...

After their incredible performance at the Force Gurkha RFC India 2017, veteran rallyist Jagat Nanjappa and co-driver Chetan Changappa are all set to compete on the Malaysian soil at the 21st edition of the Rainfores...

Rally Poland was an event full of drama and incredible action, with insane speeds on wet and slippery roads, and lots of unexpected twists involving every one of the leading contenders. In the end, Thierry Neuville ...

Sebastien Ogier claimed his 5th Vodafone Rally de Portugal win on May 21, 2017. With this, he increased his FIA World Rally Championship lead with his second victory of the season by 15.6sec from Thierry Neuville wh...

Thierry Neuville of Hyundai Motorsport, driving a Hyundai i20 coupe, won by a whisker thus making it one of the closest FIA World Rally Championship wins in history at YPF Rally Argentina on the afternoon of April 3...

India’s Gaurav Gill of Team MRF Tyres made the most of the misfortune to overnight leader and team-mate Ole Christian Veiby and turned back a 33-second deficit to win the International Rally of Whangarei, the first ...

Hyundai Motorsport has registered its maiden victory of the 2017 FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) with Neuville and co-driver Nicolas Gilsoul securing victory in Tour de Corse in the #5 Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC. The ...

Toyota celebrated victory just two rallies into its comeback following a 17-year absence from the FIA World Rally Championship with Jari-Matti Latvala winning in Sweden. It was the Finn’s 17th career victory, but on...

Five time National Rally Champion Gaurav Gill was decorated with the prestigious 'Motorsports Person of the Year Award’ at an FMSCI function held in Hyderabad. The function was attended by the entire galaxy of racin...

Sebastien Ogier began the defence of his FIA World Rally Championship crown with a fourth consecutive win in the Monte-Carlo rally on January 22, 2017. He eased through the final leg in the mountains above Monaco to...

Edition 39 of the Dakar (2 – 14 January 2017) will be contested in three countries. A lot of important participants will grace this event.

The 5th leg of Maruti Suzuki National Super League TSD Rally Championship 2016(MS-NStrdRC) – Rally of Arunachal concluded in Dambuk with Jagmeet Gill and Chandan Sen emerging as champions. The duo was driving a Maru...

Karna Kadur and Nikhil Pai jumped to the lead of the MRF FMSCI Indian National Rally Championship (INRC) standings with victory in the prestigious Coffee Day India Rally at the end of three days of hard-fought actio...

Andreas Mikkelsen won the WRC Australia on November 20, 2016 as Volkswagen bowed out of the FIA World Rally Championship with a 1-2 finish. He won despite a tough fight posed by his team-mate and world champion Séba...

Andreas Mikkelsen snatched a dramatic last-gasp victory at the PZM 73rd Rally Poland on the afternoon of July 3, 2016 when long-time leader Ott Tanak was cruelly deprived of a maiden FIA World Rally Championship win...

Belgian driver Thierry Neuville banished memories of a torrid start to the 2016 season by claiming his second career victory in a Hyundai i20 at the WRC Rally Italia Sardegna. He became the fifth different winner in...

India’s ace rally rider CS Santosh who was placed 16th place in the Merzouga Rally in Morocco (Africa), which forms part of the Dakar Series, will now be spending the next three months in Europe to train for the nex...

Kris Meeke, the Northern Irishman won the Vodafone Rally De Portugal , the four-day rough road event by 29.7sec in his Citroën’s DS 3 on Sunday (May 22, 2016). Meeke was back in the championship after missing the pr...

Karthick Maruthi and his co-driver S Sankar Anand, in their Maruti Suzuki Vitara Brezza zoomed past their rivals to reach the finishing line as they took first place in the Deccan Rally, the second round of the Nati...

For once Volkswagen had to eat the humble pie as Hayden Paddon driving his Hyundai i20 scored his first WRC victory at YPF Rally Argentina on the afternoon of April 24, 2016 after fighting off world champion Sébasti...

The 3rd JK Tyre Arunachal Festival of Speed concluded with Philippos Matthai of Delhi winning the overall title after stringing together consistent performances in the Auto Cross, Hill Climb and Rally Sprint events....

Reigning world champion Sebastien Ogier drove his Volkswagen Polo R to a 29.8sec success in the Karlstad-based snow and ice rally to add to his 2013 and 2015 triumphs. He was crowded champion of Rally Sweden, the se...

Lohitt Urs and his co-driver Shrikanth Gowda expectedly won the title in the FIA Asia Cup category besides emerging National champions even as Gaurav Gill (co-driver Musa Sherif) took the Overall crown in the Coffee...

The Erode pair of KP Karthick Maruthi-Sankar Anand won the Pro Expert category in the MRF Rally of Bangalore, the fifth round of the 2015 FMSCI Indian National TSD Rally Championship held on September 27, 2015.

The Swedish pair of Pontus Tidemand and his co-driver Emil Axelsson expectedly clinched the title to lead a clean sweep by Team MRF in the Rally Hokkaido, the fifth and penultimate round of the FIA Asia Pacific Rall...

The much awaited battle between Gaurav Gill and his MRF Tyres team-mate Pontus Tidemand of Sweden fizzled out as the Indian ace retired at the end of the day’s first Special Stage with a mechanical problem in the Ra...

Pontus Tidemand and co-driver Emil Axelsson led a 1-2 finish for Team MRF as the Swedes swept to their third win of the season by claiming the title in the Malaysian Rally, the fourth round of the FIA Asia Pacific R...

In a tragic turn of events, the Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI) President R Bharath Raj passed away late in the afternoon on August 15, 2015. He was only 56 years old. He was also the Chairman of t...

At the Rally of Poland, the 7th round of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC), Sebastian Ogeir once again came out victorious holding off his Volkswagen Motorsport team mate Andreas Mikkelsen who finished 2nd. ...

Hyundai has just introduced a new virtual reality gaming app called “Hyundai VR+” available on all smart phones as of now The gaming app allows the user to get a feel of how it’s like to be in the shoes of a Worl...

With two victories of the FIA World Rally Championship season in the bag for Ogier/Ingrassia, Rally of Mexico was the third win for the duo in their 2015 Volkswagen Polo R WRC car. Teammate Mikkelsen /Floene finish ...

As the 2015 FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) season started with the legendary Monte Carlo Rally, Volkswagen annihilated the competition to create history by locking out all three steps of the podium. The 2014 cha...

The popular Coffee Day Rally has been confirmed as a round of the 2015 FIA Asia Cup and will be held from December 11 to 13 in Chikkamagaluru, Karnataka. This was stated in a press release issued by FMSCI. The event...

Vikram Mathias and co-driver Swaroop Mohan in their Mitsubishi Evo IX continued with their overnight lead to win the Coffee Day Rally. This was the sixth and concluding round of the FMSCI Indian Rally Championship i...

On a day of mayhem on the Special Stages, 11 competitors, including National champion Gaurav Gill (co-driver Musa Sherif) failed to finish while Vikram Mathias and his first-time navigator Swaroop Mohan, took the ov...

Mahindra Adventure’s Super XUV500 won the top three positions at the 40th edition of the K 1000 rally, the 5th round of the Indian Rally Championship (IRC) 2014. The team has thus sealed the overall title in this pr...

Team MRF completed their best season ever in the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship (APRC) by winning all six races in the 2014 Championship with Jan Kopecky coasting to the win in the China Rally Longyou. Kopecký driv...

Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia were crowned World Rally Champions of 2014 defending their title victory from last year in their Volkswagen Polo R WRC cars, while breaking WRC records along the way. With the...

The Renault Sport R.S. 01 made its first laps in public on October 18 at the Jerez track in Spain, for the last leg of the World Series by Renault. At the wheel was racing champion Alain Prost who was impressed by i...

In the high-risk, high-speed Xtreme category of the Raid, which takes off on October 5, 2014 women rallyists are driving four out of the total 41 vehicles

Volkswagen Motorsport WRC team after taking all three podiums in the 10thround of the World Rally Championship 2014 at Rally Australia and also with three more rounds to go, leads the pack with 194 points standing t...

It was a great day for Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila, a great day for Volkswagen, and a great day for Finland. The reason for this was obvious as for the first time in four years, a Finnish duo triumphed in ...

Overnight leaders Gaurav Gill and Musa Sherif, won the JK Tyre-powered Rally of Coimbatore, the second round of the FMSCI-Indian Rally Championship (IRC), by over two minutes, on July 13 2014. The winners were drivi...

Mahindra’s smart SUV vehicle, the XUV500 triumphed in the ‘Mahindra Adventure Rally of Maharashtra’, as Team Mahindra Adventure, won the 1st round of the Indian Rally Championship (IRC). Thus Mahindra has got off to...

Mahindra’s smart SUV vehicle, the XUV500 triumphed in the ‘Mahindra Adventure Rally of Maharashtra’, as Team Mahindra Adventure, won the 1st round of the Indian Rally Championship (IRC). Thus Mahindra has got off to...

Yokohama India, the 100pc subsidiary of the Yokohama Rubber Co is introducing for the first time Team Yokohama for the Indian Rally Championship (IRC). The rally will be held at Nashik from June 13 to 15, 2014 and w...

Yokohama India, the 100pc subsidiary of the Yokohama Rubber Co is introducing for the first time Team Yokohama for the Indian Rally Championship (IRC). The rally will be held at Nashik from June 13 to 15, 2014 and w...

The Board of Directors of German automobile major Volkswagen has decided on a long-term involvement in the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC). The board has given its affirmation for continuing with its commitment t...

Reigning World Rally Champions Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia driving their Volkswagen Polo rally car have won the Rally Italia Sardegna, the sixth round of the FIA World Rally Championship. The victory is duo...

Battling slushy conditions as a result of heavy rains, the works-assisted Skoda MRF team went on to claim another one-two at the second round of the FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship (APRC). European champions Jan...

Mercedes is doing it in Formula One and now it’s the turn of Volkswagen to do in the FIA World Rally Championship. Before you wonder what it’s all about, we are talking about the one-two victory. In Formula One, off...

It was an exciting and great comeback for reigning APRC Champion and Team MRF Skoda driver Gaurav Gill of India as he went on to beat overnight leader and team-mate Jan Kopecký to win the VINZ International Rally of...

The 2014 FIA Formula 3 European Championship will see more powerful Volkswagen engines in their cars which will see an extra 15hp added on to the old 210-hp generation of Formula 3 engines. Thus, it would be 225-hp ...

Santosh, the champion biker who won the top title in Rally Moto at the 12th Maruti Suzuki Desert Storm in 2014 will now be heading for the World Cross Country Rally Championship in Abu Dhabi. Santosh had won the Ral...

India’s longest motorsport extravaganza – The 12th Maruti Suzuki Desert Storm 2014, zooms off from New Delhi on February 22, 2014. APRC champion Gaurav Gill will take on home grown hero Suresh Rana at the Desert Sto...

After a second extended term of being FMSCI President, Vicky Chandhok has confirmed that he will not