, the Italian
Miki Biasion and his
Lancia Delta Integrale in the colors of
Martini Racing. Prior to the forming of the
World Rally Championship, Lancia took the final
International Championship for Manufacturers title with the
Fulvia in 1972. In the WRC, they remain the most statistically successful marque (despite having withdrawn at the end of the
1993 season), winning
constructors' titles with the
Stratos (
1974,
1975 and
1976), the
037 (
1983) and the
Delta (six consecutive wins from
1987 to
1992). The Delta is also the most successful individual model designation ever to compete in rallying. All this gave Lancia a total of 10 championships over the years.
Juha Kankkunen and
Miki Biasion both won two
drivers' titles with the Delta. Among other drivers to take several World Rally Championship wins with Lancia were
Markku Alén,
Didier Auriol,
Sandro Munari,
Bernard Darniche,
Walter Röhrl,
Björn Waldegård and
Henri Toivonen. The history of the brand in rallying is also tainted with tragedy, with deaths of Italian driver
Attilio Bettega at the 1985
Tour de Corse in a
Lancia 037 and then Finnish championship favourite Toivonen in a
Lancia Delta S4 at the same rally exactly a year later. These deaths would eventually lead to the end of
Group B rallying.
Martini Racing In
1982, just as they had done one year previously with sports cars, Martini Racing signed with the works Lancia team, sponsoring the brand new
Group B Lancia 037, with
Attilio Bettega and
Markku Alén as drivers. The Lancia Martini partnership in the World Rally Championship was one of the company's longest, remaining until the end of the
1992 season, with several cars, including the Group B
Delta S4 and
Group A Delta Integrale winning events and titles with drivers such as
Juha Kankkunen,
Bruno Saby,
Massimo Biasion and
Didier Auriol. The Martini Lancia cars won the WRC
Drivers' title in
1987 and
1991 with Kankkunen, and
1988 and
1989 with Biasion, as well as the
Constructors' title with the 037 in
1983, and consecutively with the Group A Delta from 1987 to 1992. In 1993, Martini managed a smaller sponsorship program, restricted to the Italian Rally Championship with Italian rallyman
Dario Cerrato Lancia Corse HF After more than 30 years, Lancia officially returns to rallying with the
Lancia Ypsilon, from which two rally cars have been developed, the
Lancia Ypsilon Rally4 HF for the
Rally4 Group in 2024 and the
Lancia Ypsilon Rally2 HF Integrale for the
Rally2 Group in 2025. In 2025, the Ypsilon Rally4 HF competed in both the
Italian Rally Championship, with a single-make trophy, the Trofeo Lancia Rally, and in the
European Rally Championship. In 2026, the Ypsilon Rally2 HF Integrale competed in the
WRC2. On 21 January 2026, the Ypsilon Rally2 HF Integrale made its debut in the
2026 Monte Carlo Rally. On 12 April 2026, the Lancia Ypsilon Rally2 HF Integrale achieved its first victory in the
World Rally Championship 2, in the
2026 Croatia Rally, won by driver
Yohan Rossel and co-driver Arnaud Dunand. A victory in the
World Rally Championship that Lancia had not achieved for 34 years since the
1992 season. Lancia enthusiasts, "lancisti", had been waiting for decades for this return to victory in the World Rally Championship. On 26 April 2026, the Lancia Ypsilon Rally2 HF Integrale driven by Yohan Rossel and co-driver Arnaud Dunand achieved its second victory at the
2026 Rally Islas Canarias. The driver Yohan Rossel and the co-driver Arnaud Dunand proved to be precise, solid and effective with a Lancia Ypsilon Rally2 HF Integrale, which is equally reliable, solid and fast. == Sports car ==