In an exciting video featuring Luca Napolitano, Miki Biasion, and Eugenio Franzetti, the Lancia brand has officially announced its return to the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) during the final round of the 2025 Trofeo Lancia in Sanremo. Specifically, the 2026 WRC season will open with the Monte-Carlo Rally, scheduled for January 22-25 on the icy Alpine roads of France, one of the most iconic stages in motorsport. This Ypsilon Rally2 HF Integrale is part of the customer racing program, making it available to drivers and teams to compete around the world. Full details about the new car and Lancia's sports car program will be announced at a later date by Stellantis Motorsport.
With the arrival of the Ypsilon Rally2 HF Integrale, which will compete in WRC2, Lancia's rally range becomes even more complete and ambitious, complementing the Rally4 HF and Rally HF Racing with a new protagonist ready to return the brand to the world stage.
The announcement of Lancia's return to the World Championship comes at the most significant time, at the end of a season that celebrated the brand's sporting rebirth and the strength of the Lancia Corse HF project. The Sanremo Rally spectacularly closed the 2025 Lancia Trophy, offering a thrilling final chapter to a championship that marked the brand's official return to rallying. Against the stunning backdrop of the Ligurian hinterland and the Riviera dei Fiori, the Ypsilon Rally4 HF once again proved to be the undisputed star, showcasing its reliability, speed, and spectacular performance.
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