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Rallye Sanremo
Rallye Sanremo (Rally di Sanremo), an Italian tarmac rally first held in 1928 in Sanremo, Liguria; former WRC round (1988-2003), now CIAR finale and FIA European Rally Trophy event run each October by Automobile Club del Ponente Ligure.
Rallying
Rallying: timed motorsport on closed public-road special stages, driver plus co-driver with pace notes, lowest cumulative time wins. Term from 1911 Monte Carlo Rally; WRC top class Rally1, 2026 calendar 14 rounds, Ogier and Loeb nine titles each.
Richard Burns
Richard Burns (1971–2005), English rally driver, 2001 World Rally Champion with Subaru and co-driver Robert Reid; 10 WRC wins, 34 podiums; died of an astrocytoma in 2005.
Robby Gordon
Robby Gordon, American racing driver from Cerritos, California; winner in NASCAR, IndyCar, IMSA, off-road and stadium racing; 7 SCORE titles, 3 Baja 1000 wins, founder of Stadium Super Trucks.
Romanian Rally Championship
Romanian Rally Championship (Campionatul Național de Raliuri, CNR), Romania's national rally series run by FRAS on asphalt and gravel special stages. Eight 2026 rounds from Maramureș to Vâlcea; Simone Tempestini holds 11 titles.
Safari Rally
The Safari Rally is Kenya's international rally, first run in 1953 as the East African Coronation Rally and known for decades as the toughest event in world rallying.
Safari Rally in the World Rally Championship
The Safari Rally is Kenya's round of the World Rally Championship, a gravel event based at Naivasha held from 1973 to 2002 and again from 2021.
Scandinavian flick
Scandinavian flick, also called pendulum turn, feint, or Scandi flick: a rally cornering technique from 1960s Finnish and Swedish drivers; steer away then into a loose-surface corner so weight transfer breaks rear traction and rotates the car.
SCCA RallyCross
SCCA RallyCross (RallyCross) is the Sports Car Club of America's timed, one-car-at-a-time dirt autocross on coned unpaved courses, distinct from European wheel-to-wheel rallycross, with Stock, Prepared, and Modified classes.
Scott Speed
Scott Speed (born 1983, Manteca, California), American racing driver; 28 F1 Grands Prix for Toro Rosso 2006-2007, first American in F1 since Michael Andretti; later four straight US rallycross titles (2015-2018).
Scottish Rally Championship
The Scottish Rally Championship (SRC) is a mixed-surface rally championship in Scotland, sanctioned by Motorsport UK, running about seven rounds a year, mostly on gravel.
Sébastien Loeb
Sébastien Loeb (born 1974), French rally driver; nine consecutive WRC titles 2004–2012 with co-driver Daniel Elena and Citroën; records of 80 WRC wins, 120 podiums, 939 stage wins; later Dakar, Extreme E champion, Pikes Peak record.
Sébastien Ogier
Sébastien Ogier, born 1983 in Gap, France, is a French rally driver with nine WRC world titles (2013-2018, 2020-2021, 2025), tying Sébastien Loeb's record, 69 wins, and titles with Volkswagen, M-Sport, and Toyota.
Silk Way Rally
The Silk Way Rally is an international rally raid marathon for cars, trucks, and motorcycles, held since 2009 on routes across Russia and neighboring Eurasian countries with Gazprom as main partner.
Škoda Motorsport WRC results
Škoda Motorsport WRC results: Octavia WRC (1999–2002) and Fabia WRC (2003–2005) in the top class, best result third at the 2001 Safari Rally; WRC2 titles with Fabia R5/Rally2 from 2015 to 2023.
South American Rally Championship
The South American Rally Championship, formally the FIA CODASUR Rally Championship, is an all-gravel FIA regional rally series organized by Codasur and held since 1997.
Spanish Rally Championship
The Spanish Rally Championship (Campeonato de España de Rally) is Spain's national rallying series, run by the Real Federación Española de Automovilismo. Since 2021 its flagship title has been the mixed-surface S-CER, alongside the asphalt-only CERA-RECALVI.
Subaru World Rally Team
Subaru World Rally Team (SWRT), Subaru's factory WRC entry run by Prodrive from 1990 to 2008; won manufacturers' titles 1995-1997 and drivers' titles with McRae, Burns, and Solberg before withdrawing after 2008.
Super 2000 World Rally Championship
The Super 2000 World Rally Championship (SWRC) was a FIA support championship to the World Rally Championship for Super 2000 rally cars, running three seasons from 2010 to 2012.
Tanner Foust
Tanner Foust, American racing and stunt driver, Top Gear USA host; three-time US rallycross champion, four X Games golds, two Formula Drift titles, 2019 ARX champion, McLaren Extreme E driver.
Targa Florio
Targa Florio, Sicilian open-road motor race in the Madonie mountains, founded by Vincenzo Florio, first run 6 May 1906, won by Alessandro Cagno; 61 editions to 1977, World Championship round 1958-1973, Porsche 11 wins, a rally since 1978.
Toby Price
Toby Price (Toby Joseph Price, OAM), Australian rally raid racer; two-time Dakar Rally bikes champion (2016, 2019), first Australian and first non-European bikes winner; later switched to cars with Toyota.
Toyota Gazoo Racing
Toyota Gazoo Racing (TGR, now reverting to GAZOO Racing) is Toyota's motorsport division; its World Rally Team returned to the WRC in 2017 with the Yaris WRC under Akio Toyoda and Tommi Mäkinen and has since won consecutive manufacturers' titles.
Travis Pastrana
Travis Pastrana (born 1983, Annapolis, Maryland) is an American action sports star and racing driver: 11-time X Games gold medalist, first double backflip, six-time US rally champion, Nitro Circus and Nitrocross co-creator, and NASCAR competitor.
Vilkyciai Rx
Vilkyčiai RX (Vilkyciai Rx) is an FIA Grade 6R rallycross circuit in Šilutė District, Lithuania, with an 872 m lap of 45% gravel and 55% tarmac, hosting Latvian-Lithuanian, Baltic, and FIA European autocross events.
Wales Rally GB
Wales Rally GB, formerly the RAC Rally (1932), was the UK's founding WRC gravel forest round, run every year 1973–2019, renamed in 2003 under Welsh Government funding, last won by Ott Tanak, replaced by Rally Scotland from 2027.
World Rally Car
World Rally Car is the WRC's rally car formula, introduced in 1997 to replace Group A and free manufacturers from mass-producing road-going versions of their racers.
World Rally Championship
FIA World Rally Championship (WRC), the FIA's premier rally series since 1973, promoted by WRC Promoter GmbH. Rally1 top class since 2022, hybrid dropped 2025, WRC27 regulations from 2027; 13 rounds in 2026, 15 in 2027.
World Rally Championship manufacturer results
The World Rally Championship manufacturer results record how factory teams have competed for the FIA manufacturers' world title from 1973 to the present, with 13 marques winning.
World Rally Championship records
World Rally Championship records: statistical bests of the FIA WRC. Loeb holds 9 consecutive titles (2004-12), 80 wins, 939 stage wins; Ogier matched 9 titles in 2025; Lancia and Toyota lead manufacturers with 10 titles each.