The 2010 Pirelli Star Drivers concluded their programme on this week’s Wales Rally GB, with all five of them making it to the finish of the Cardiff-based event – and two of them on the FIA Production Car World Rally Championship podium. For the third time this season, Estonia’s ...

For the sixth and final time this season, the five Pirelli Star Driver crews will line up in their Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution Xs for Wales Rally GB, the final round of this year's FIA World Rally Championship. After spending the season as part of the young driver training initiative ...

As part of the Pirelli Star Driver scheme, the young drivers chosen for a programme in 2011 will be selected at a Global Shoot-Out held on roads close to Salou, Spain, during the weekend 22-24 October. Sixteen drivers from around the world will arrive at the home of the RallyRACC ...

The five Pirelli Star Drivers will take part in the writing of a new chapter in the history of the Rallye de France, when they participate in the country's first ever FIA World Rally Championship event to run on the mainland next week. For 35 years the nation's ...

New Zealand driver Hayden Paddon turned in an exceptional performance on Rallye Deutschland, which ended in Trier this afternoon, to clinch second place on the latest round of the FIA Production Car World Rally Championship. The Kiwi was comfortably the fastest and most consistent of the Pirelli Star Drivers.

Paddon ...

Rallye Deutschland will be the five Pirelli Star Drivers first time on asphalt this season. And, according to seven-time winner of this event Sébastien Loeb, there couldn’t be a tougher asphalt rally for the graduates to show their skills. The Trier-based event is undoubtedly one of the most complex ...

The tag line for Neste Oil Rally Finland is ‘More than a rally.’ The organisers are absolutely right. This is more than a rally: it’s a flying lesson. For four of the five Pirelli Star Drivers, this event will provide them with an insight into what it’s like ...

The Pirelli Star Driver programme moved on to the Vodafone Rally of Portugal this week, where all five crews made good progress on the hot and dusty stages inland from the event’s Faro base. Four of the five Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution Xs made it to the finish at the ...

The Pirelli Star Driver programme moves to its second event of the season, next week’s Faro-based Vodafone Rally de Portugal. The Rally of Turkey proved to be a tough opener for all five Pirelli Star Driver crews and the fast, tricky Algarve roads will be just as unforgiving for ...

Next week’s Rally of Turkey marks the first event in the second season of the Pirelli Star Driver programme. There will be a universal feeling of the first day in school as the five drivers and co-drivers pull on their Pirelli overalls for the first time at Thursday’s ...

Lebanese driver Nicholai Georgiou, 26, has won the FIA Middle East Rally Championship Pirelli Star Driver Shoot Out. Georgiou beat Meshari Al-Thafiri (Kuwait), when the two went head-to-head on this week's Dubai International Rally.

Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX driver Georgiou collected more points than Al-Thafiri on the two-day final ...

Lebanese driver Nicholai Georgiou claimed an emphatic victory in the Pirelli Star Driver competition, held in conjunction with the Dubai International Rally, the final round of the FIA Middle East Rally Championship on December 4-5.

"It's obviously a great feeling to seal the Pirelli Star Driver here," said Georgiou ...

Lebanese driver Nicholai Georgiou and Kuwait's Meshari Al-Thafiri will go head-to-head at next weekend's Dubai International Rally to determine the destiny of this year's Pirelli ‘Star Driver' (PSD) Award for the FIA Middle East Rally Championship. The event takes place on December 3-5.

The driver who amasses ...

The 31st Dubai International Rally 2009, the final round of the FIA Middle East Rally Championship, brings another first as it will host the Pirelli Star Driver's programme for the Middle East region, according to President of the Automobile and Touring Club of the UAE (ATCUAE) and Organizing Committee ...

Lebanese driver Nick Georgiou will be hoping to earn maximum points in the Pirelli ‘Star Driver' category of the FIA Middle East Rally Championship during next week's Syrian International Rally.

Georgiou lost out on victory in last year's prestigious competition on a technicality to Cypriot Nicos Thomas, but ...

Four of the five Pirelli Star Driver crews finished the opening event of their 2009 campaign, the Vodafone Rally de Portugal, which ended in the Algarve Stadium, Faro, this afternoon (Sunday). Ten competitors and five Mitsubishi Lancer Evo Xs were revealed to the world’s media on Wednesday afternoon at ...

FIA Vice President and regional rally commissioner, Derek Ledger, has announced a revised format for this year's Pirelli 'Star Driver' competition, following the postponement of the Jordan International Rally and the withdrawal of the Sharqia Rally from the FIA Middle East Rally Championship.

The top two drivers from the ...

The Pirelli Star Driver scheme has been launched for 2009, following its successful inaugural year during which five talented young drivers from around the world won a drive in a series of six of this year’s FIA World Rally Championship events.

The programme is designed to find rallying’s ...

Kuwait's Meshari Al-Thafiri is the early leader of the exciting Middle East section of the Pirelli 'Star Driver' competition, which is being run in conjunction with rounds of the 2009 Middle East Rally Championship.

The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX driver overcame intercooler and turbo boost problems to clinch the ...

The FIA and Pirelli have joined forces to usher in a new era of World Rally Championship-based young driver competition, with the arrival of the inaugural Pirelli Star Driver programme. The season-long scheme starts with its first official engagement in Scotland this week.

A year ago, the FIA and Pirelli ...