Kalle Rovanperä and Jonne Halttunen (FIN / FIN, Toyota GR Yaris Rally1) won the Central European Rally. 100,000 spectators flocked to round twelve of this year’s World Rally Championship to see the 25-year-old double world champion and his co-driver take victory ahead of the fellow Toyota pairing of Elfyn Evans (GBR) and Scott Martin (GBR), and Ott Tänak (EST) and Martin Järveoja (EST) in a Hyundai i20 N Rally1. Evans now leads the Drivers’ Championship (247 points), followed by Rovanperä and...

That was the third day of the Central European Rally 2025! After an action-packed day and some dramatic retirements, Kalle Rovanperä arrived at the Dreiländerhalle in Passau as the overall leader ahead of Ott Tänak, where the teams drove through the final service. In the WRC2 and Rally2 classes, local heroes are dominating the action behind Oliver Solberg, who has already secured the lead: Jan Černý (Skoda Fabia), Filip Mareš (Toyota Yaris, both CZE) and Philip Geipel (Toyota Yaris, GER)...

The longest leg of the Central European Rally provided fans and drivers in the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) with high tension and spectacular scenes – and a real motorsport drama. Sébastien Ogier (Toyota), who started the day in the lead, spun off the track after a collision on the selective second stage of the day in Keply, Czech Republic, and was forced to retire. This made it easy for his brand colleague Kalle Rovanperä, who had already closed the narrow gap to Ogier on the first...