Olivia Kairu

The 2026 FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) reaches its conclusion this week with Rally Italia Sardegna, where three Toyota drivers will fight for their first WRC drivers’ title.

The World Rally Championship (WRC) does not get much time to catch its breath this week. Just days after the gravel roads of Paraguay delivered the opening chapter of the WRC’s South American double-header, the championship heads west for the second and final leg of its continental visit, Rally Chile Biobío.

The World Rally Championship (WRC) heads south into the first of two South American encounters lined up for the season, with the title race entering an increasingly important phase. Rally del Paraguay brings the crews to the border of Argentina, in the city of Encarnación, for 22 stages and almost 359 kilometres of competition in the championship’s latest round.

Based in the UAE, Mansur Kildiyarov, a competitive GT4 driver racing under the Kyrgyzstani flag, sat down for a video chat with DIVEBOMB, where karting, endurance racing and, oddly, fishing were among the topics of conversation.