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01/05
This is South Wales (UK): New year starts badly for motorsport
Some have further speculated that these factors may have influenced Fuji Heavy Industries — owners of the Subaru car manufacturing business — to pull the plug on a WRC campaign amid fears that a Prodrive F1 effort would compromise development of the 2009 Impreza S15 model rally car, and prevent an improvement of the relatively poor performances of the Impreza S14 experienced throughout the 2008 WRC season.
Sports Illustrated: Dakar restarts in South America
Transferred from Africa by the threat of terrorism, the Dakar Rally starts on Friday with a symbolic drive in Argentina's capital before heading out on an adventure that will also take in Chile. The first Dakar Rally to furrow the soil of South America will last 14 stages and 5,949 miles before it rolls back into Buenos Aires on Jan. 18.
Rallysport Magazine (AU): Atkinson eager to drive Citroen C4 WRC
Reports in the UK suggest that Chris Atkinson has inveseted money he received from Subaru, following their withdrawal from the WRC, to rent the best car available to him, which was a PH Sport Citroen C4 WRC.
The Age (AU): When the wheels wobble, a crash usually follows
IN SPORT, there's a fine line between irony and tragedy. Like it's ironic if, after all Stevie Gerrard's done for Liverpool, he's the man who derails Anfield's best chance at a Premier League title in 19 years because he belted a pub DJ who refused to play Phil Collins. Unless you're a Reds fan, that is, in which case it's tragic.
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