Photo Gallery: 18th Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles - Fiat Sedici

Abarth will launch its all-out title challenge when the 2008 IRC season gets underway with the Istanbul Rally this weekend, the gravel-surface event based in Turkey’s historic capital where Europe meets Asia

Former World Rally Champion Didier Auriol will be renewing a very successful relationship with Fiat Group when the Frenchman gets behind the wheel of a Grande Punto Abarth in May's Rally de Portugal

Although it is going all out to win the 2008 Intercontinental Rally Challenge the Abarth factory rally team's Super2000 Grande Puntos could appear in selected FIA World Rally Championship this year

The way has been made clear for Abarth to compete on rallying's world stage as the FIA choose to adopt Super2000 regulations as the basis for the upcoming new generation of World Rally Cars

Abarth driver Giandomenico Basso – contesting his first full year of the IRC series – says that his lack of experience should not stop him challenging for victory on the Istanbul Rally next weekend

Spaniard Dani Sola, who starred on last year’s Intercontinental Rally Challenge with Honda, is planning to contest at least four events this year – this time driving the Super 2000 Grande Punto Abarth

The Tour Auto Lissac, which seeks to recreate the magic of the Tour de France, will honour the OSCA marque this year, half a century after its epic giant killing performances on the historic

Rapid Belgian rally driver Francois Duval has confirmed that he will enter the second round of the IRC, the Rally de Portugal, the second round of this year's IRC driving a Grande Punto Abarth S2000

Jan Kopecký's bid to bring the Grande Punto Abarth S2000 its first category victory on a World Rally Championship event has ended in mechanical failure on the first stage of the México Rally

Photo Gallery: FIA World Rally Championship Rd 3, México Rally - Jan Kopecký/Petr Starý (Grande Punto Abarth S2000)

The Latvian Rally Championship, got underway with the Rally Sarma 2008 on Sunday and the 'Offroad' T1 Class was impressively won by Emīls Jakrins and Mārtiņš Priede in a Panda 4x4

Former World Rally Champion Bjorn Waldegård will be reunited with the Lancia Stratos on the opening round of the Dunlop/Gambia MSA British Historic Rally Championship, the Robin Hood Stages

Abarth announce Renato Travaglia and Andrea Navarra in double factory-run Italian rally title challenge, while Giandomenico Basso and Anton Alén are presented ahead of their IRC programme

Michał Sołowow will contest the European and Polish Rally Championships this year with the Grande Punto Abarth S2000 run by the Cersanit Rally Team and supported again by Fiat Auto Poland

The Grande Punto Abarth S2000 will make its first trip to the Americas at the end of this month when it takes part in the third round of the FIA World Rally Championship, the México Rally

After a 28 year gap Abarth is set to challenge for victory again on the most famous rally of them all, the Rallye Monte Carlo, with the news that the legendary event is set to join the IRC in 2009

Video: Race of Champions, Wembley Stadium - Grande Punto Abarth S2000

Sabelt was present during Autosport International at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham showing a Grande Punto Abarth S2000 rally machine as it celebrates a new partnership with Abarth

Photo Gallery: Autosport International - Sabelt

Photo Gallery: Autosport International - Grande Punto Abarth S2000

Fiat’s super-quick Grande Punto Abarth, which F1 legend Michael Schumacher drove in last month’s Race of Champions, will be a star attraction at this week’s Autosport International Show 2008

Race Retro 2008 will see the first appearance of the very rare Michelotto-prepared Ferrari 308GTB QV Group B cars of the 1983 season, which have never been seen outside mainland Europe

Fiat's Luís Tedesco and Bruno Mega claimed second in the A6 final standings following the eighth and final round of the Brazilian Rally Championship, the Rally Paraná Campina Grande do Sul

Photo Gallery: Brazilian Rally Championship 2007, Rd 8 - Rally Paraná Campina Grande do Sul