The Suzuki World Rally Team has homologated a number of upgrade components for its SX4 World Rally Car in time for the next round of the WRC series, Rally Finland.

The second of our nominees for the title of ‘Greatest WRC Driver’ is two times World Rally Champion and cool perfectionist, Walter Rohrl.  Rohrl, who was born in 1947, is the only German to have won the WRC drivers’ title - let alone twice - and was one of the sport’s biggest names during the 1970’s and 1980’s. His driving career got off to an unorthodox start, however, when as a teenager he worked as a chauffeur for the Bishop of his home town of Regensburg, clocking up thousands of kilometres on the roads of Bavaria. But having proved himself a useful driver, he started his first rally in 1968 at the age of 21, and won his first WRC rally, the Acropolis, in an Opel Ascona in 1973.

Felipe Massa took the lead of the drivers’ championship after a decisive victory for Ferrari at Magny-Cours on Sunday. The Brazilian trailed team mate Kimi Raikkonen for the first 38 of the 70 laps, but moved ahead decisively as the Finn’s F2008 developed an exhaust problem. The latter cost Raikkonen the win, but nobody else ever got close enough to the red cars for this to be a problem to the team.