The battle for Targa Tasmania honours has developed in to a two horse race between the Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera of Kevin Weeks and the Nissan GTR of Tony Quinn with only the final leg from Strahan to Hobart now remaining

South Australian Kevin Weeks and Tasmanian Jason White have been the big movers on day three of Targa Tasmania, wrestling the lead off Tony Quinn and making it a Lamborghini Gallardo 1-2 with two days of the event still to run

The Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera of Jason White lies just 6 seconds off the overall lead after the first day of action on the Targa Tasmania while the other similar machine of John Weeks is well placed in fourth, nine seconds adrift

Abarth UK has kicked off its celebrity media motorsport programme with a class win last weekend which came courtesy of Autocar’s Matt Rigby during Bognor Regis Motor Club’s well supported Sprint at Goodwood circuit near Chichester

Photo Gallery: Bognor Regis Motor Club Sprint, Goodwood

Former Targa Tasmania winner Jason White will be in action when the 18th edition of Australia’s ultimate tarmac rally gets underway tomorrow with the 36 year-old once again driving the rear-wheel drive Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera

Abarth factory star Giandomenico Basso behind the wheel of a 'private' Grande Punto Abarth S2000 has won the 33rd Rally 1000 Miglia, the third round of the Italian Rally Championship and first of the European Rally Championship

Retired star cyclist Paolo Bettini, who has contested a handful of Italian rallies, will make his Intercontinental Rally Challenge debut when he contests the Ypres Rally in Belgium in June driving a privately-entered Grande Punto Abarth

The Abarth factory team kicked off its challenge for the 2009 Italian Rally Championship title with a strong second place finish for Luca Rossetti on this weekend's 16th Rally Adriatico while team mate Umberto Scandola was sixth

The second season of the Trofeo Fiat de Rally gets underway this weekend in Brazil; the formula of bringing together exciting competition and money for the prizes worked very well in the first edition of the championship last year

Abarth factory team driver Anton Alén insists he can still be a contender for this year’s Intercontinental Rally Challenge title despite the Finnish youngster failing to score on the opening two rounds of the series in Monte Carlo and Brazil

Although the Abarth team struggled for a good result on the 29th Rally Internacional de Curitiba at the weekend the domestic Fiat Rally Team got off to the best possible start in its bid to retain the Brazilian Rally Championship title

Giandomenico Basso collected Abarth's first podium of the season with third place on the 29th Rally Internacional de Curitiba yesterday afternoon after a hard-fought rally; team mate Anton Alén retired after rolling out on the final day

Photo Gallery: Intercontinental Rally Challenge, Rd 2 - 29th Rally Internacional de Curitiba (II)

It was mixed fortunes on the opening day in Brazil on Friday for the Abarth team with Giandomenico Basso fighting his way into second place on the final stage of the leg, although team mate Anton Alén hit a rock to slow his pace

Anton Alén and Giandomenico Basso were right on the pace during yesterday's gravel shakedown stage as the factory Abarth team made its final preparations before the start of the 29th Rally Internacional de Curitiba this morning

Photo Gallery: Intercontinental Rally Challenge, Rd 2 - 29th Rally Internacional de Curitiba (I) Shakedown

Rapid Portuguese youngster Bernardo Sousa who is already committed to a FIA P-WRC campaign with a privately entered Grande Punto Abarth S2000 has announced that he has plans to also squeeze in up to three IRC rounds

In Brazil next week Anton Alén will be treading in the hallowed footsteps of history, his legendary father Markku came to the populous Latin American nation exactly 30 years ago to contest the first ever Rally Internacional de Brasil

From the snow and ice of the Monte Carlo Rally the Abarth team switches to a gravel surface on the other side of the world as the IRC goes into the final countdown to the start of the 29th Rally Internacional de Curitiba in eight days time

Kimi Raikkonen tackled his second ever rally this weekend and again the F1 star proved to be adept at the sport never posting a time outside the top-10 in his Grande Punto Abarth before he landed in a ditch on the penultimate stage

Toni Gardemeister won't be driving the Astra Racing Grande Punto Abarth S2000 on next month's Rally Internacional de Curitiba after the former WRC star who impressed in Monte Carlo failed to secure the necessary backing in time

The factory Abarth team has been testing the Grande Punto Abarth in preparation for the forthcoming gravel rounds of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge with all three drivers, Basso, Alén and Rossetti, getting behind the wheel

Fresh from his rally debut on the Arctic Lapland Rally last month, Kimi Raikkonen will continue his exploits on the snow this time on the Vaakuna Rally and once again the Finn will be behind the wheel of a Grande Punto Abarth S2000

The factory Abarth team will be looking for a swift change in fortunes when the IRC heads to Brazil next month for round two and an entirely different set of conditions from the ice and asphalt of the season-opening Monte Carlo Rally