Norwegian Petter Solberg has officially unveiled his own ‘Petter Solberg World Rally Team’ six days before the start of his home round of the 2009 WRC season. Solberg decided to build his own team after Subaru’s departure from the series coupled with a lack of seats at the other manufacturer teams left him without a drive for 2009...

In Norway, a country with fiercely active rally competition, a unique one-make series has started this year. Using the Impreza WRX STI as a base, roll cage, guards and safety equipment etc. are added. The fact that E85 bio ethanol fuel is used is a feature of the series...

As usual during the short World Rally Championship off-season, motorsport’s governing body, the FIA, has tweaked the regulations for the forthcoming year. Running to more than 90 pages, the newly published 2009 FIA World Rally Championship Sporting Regulations is a hefty and detailed document...

Petter Solberg will drive a privately owned 2006 specification Citroen Xsara WRC on Rally Norway and is planning on tackling the complete 2009 WRC season from then on. The 2003 World Champion was left without a drive this year after his previous team, Subaru, pulled out of the series at the end of last year...

Chris Atkinson is relishing the chance to compete on level terms with Sebastien Loeb and Dani Sordo when he takes the wheel of a factory spec Citroen C4 WRC on January’s Rally Ireland. Atkinson was left out in the cold after Subaru’s shock...

After 20 years in the sport, during which time the Prodrive-run Subaru World Rally Team has won six World Rally Championship titles, this is not only sad news for Subaru and the team, but also for millions of rallying fans around the world. Thanks to its highly successful World Rally Championship programme, Subaru has developed into one of the world’s most...

After a long season, a final brace of four stages on the last day of competition in the 2008 World Rally Championship confirmed both fourth position on Wales Rally GB for Petter Solberg and Phil Mills, and third position in the WRC Manufacturers’ Championship for the Subaru World Rally Team...

Just a few hours south of the Subaru World Rally Team’s headquarters, the gravel roads of Wales Rally GB will be the scene of the finale of the 2008 World Rally Championship season on 4 – 7 December. Run on Wales’ notoriously tricky forest tracks, mud, rain and fog are sure to feature heavily throughout the weekend...

Engineers and the technical department of the Subaru World Rally Team spend countless hours fine-tuning the performance of each Impreza World Rally Car, searching for every last drop of performance in a sport that is measured in tenths of a second. But the car is only one element in the quest for speed, and just as critical to its performance is...

On Thursday 27 November, Petter Solberg met HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at the Subaru World Rally Team’s headquarters in Banbury, UK. HRH was on a Royal visit to Banbury with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and had requested to visit Prodrive and the Subaru World Rally Team, where he was given a tour of the facility by Chairman and SWRT Principal David Richards...