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Lancia’s Rally Resurrection: The Ypsilon Rally2 HF Integrale Marks the Return of a Legend

If you’ve ever spent a late night falling down a YouTube rabbit hole of Delta Integrale stage wins—or if your idea of church is watching Group A cars four-wheel-drifting through a misty forest—Lancia probably occupies a mystical corner of your mind.
And in 2026, that mystique returns to the world stage with a shock of noise, turbo lag, and Italian bravado.

At Stellantis Motorsport’s headquarters in Satory, France, Lancia pulled the wraps off the Ypsilon Rally2 HF Integrale, the brand’s first factory-backed rally weapon in decades and its ticket back into the FIA World Rally Championship—specifically the fiercely competitive WRC2 class.

But make no mistake: this isn’t some nostalgia-fueled heritage cash-grab. Lancia isn’t here to celebrate the past. It’s here to threaten the competition.

A Renaissance Built on Reality, Not Romanticism

For all the emotion tied to Lancia’s past—11 World Rally Constructors’ titles, wins at the Mille Miglia, Targa Florio, and Carrera Panamericana—the brand’s return isn’t about recreating 1980s posters.
This comeback leans on something far more contemporary: Stellantis’ sprawling engineering empire.

Satory serves as a melting pot where French, Italian, Spanish and German engineers work shoulder to shoulder. Balocco, Italy, delivers Lancia’s chassis sensibility. Turin gives the design its unmistakable Lancia flavor. Together, they’ve turned the new HF family into more than a revival story—they’ve created a performance ecosystem.

That ecosystem already proved itself in the 2025 Trofeo Lancia, where the Ypsilon Rally4 HF attracted over 40 teams and helped Lancia clinch the Italian Rally Championship 2WD Manufacturers’ Title. The return wasn’t just emotional. It was effective.

Meet the New Hammer: Ypsilon Rally2 HF Integrale

The Rally2 HF Integrale may share a name with Lancia’s greatest hits album, but it’s a modern machine built to modern rules—and with modern firepower.

Specs That Mean Business

  • 1.6-liter turbo, 32 mm restrictor
    287 hp at 5,000 rpm
    425 Nm at 4,000 rpm
  • SADEV 5-speed sequential, twin-plate clutch
  • Mechanical diffs front + rear
  • Reiger 3-way dampers, all-surface tuned
  • New bodyshell + FIA roll cage for rigidity and safety
  • 355 mm Alcon brakes (tarmac), 300 mm (gravel)

If you know Rally2, you know this class is a knife fight—tight budgets, tight rules, tiny margins. Which is why Stellantis drew on the same brains behind Peugeot and Citroën’s WRC dominance (13 titles, 150 wins) to create this car.

The result is a Ypsilon in name only. In character? This thing wears the HF badge like it means it.

Lancia will field the Rally2 Integrale in at least eight WRC2 events in 2026, starting with Monte-Carlo. Customer cars arrive early 2026, sold through Stellantis’ Racing Shop and aligned with the FIA cost cap.

A Whole HF Family, Not Just a Halo

The Rally2 isn’t launching alone. Lancia now has a full staircase for drivers—from their first rally to their first championship hunt.

Ypsilon HF Racing — The Gateway Car

A 145-hp, 1.2-liter turbo, short-ratio 6-speed, mechanical LSD, FIA cage, and price tag of €38,900.
Think of it as the Miata of rallying, if the Miata wore Sparco underwear and slid on gravel for a living.

Ypsilon Rally4 HF — The Trophy Slayer

212 hp from a turbo triple, SADEV sequential, Ohlins three-way dampers, massive 330-mm brakes.
It’s already the heart of the Trofeo Lancia—fast, lively, and durable enough to survive Italy’s worst tarmac.

Ypsilon HF 280-hp Electric — The Road-Going Shock

The first real glimpse at Lancia’s production future.
280 hp, 0–100 km/h in 5.6 seconds, 54-kWh pack, 370 km WLTP.
Alcon brakes, Torsen diff, Delta-esque stance, and Stratos-inspired taillamps.

It’s the first Lancia road car in decades that earns the HF badge instead of inheriting it.

Ypsilon HF Line — The Daily Driver With Rally Notes

110-hp hybrid, HF visuals, Level-2 ADAS, and enough orange stitching to wallpaper a loft in Milan.
It won’t win a special stage, but it makes your commute feel like one.

2025: The Season That Proved Lancia Still Has It

The 2025 Trofeo Lancia was a full-blown phenomenon.
Six rounds, packed Lancia Villages, historic cars on display, and a Rally4 HF that took 25% of all CIAR entries.

Gianandrea Pisani and Nicola Biagi won the championship early, then bagged the CIAR 2WD drivers’ crown—a milestone Lancia hadn’t touched in over thirty years. As promised, the series champ gets promoted to Lancia’s ERC squad for 2026.

It was more than a return. It was a statement: Lancia still knows how to win hearts—and rallies.

2026: The Real Test Begins

Next season, Lancia goes global again.
WRC2, the ERC, and national championships in Italy, France, Spain, and Belgium. New drivers. New updates. New pressure.

And the Ypsilon Rally2 HF Integrale will be carrying not just a badge but the weight of a dynasty.

As Miki Biasion—two-time world champion and official project advisor—put it:

“When someone dreams of rallying, they dream of Lancia.”

For the first time in decades, that dream has a brand-new shape, a brand-new sound, and a brand-new set of stage times waiting to be written.

Source: Stellantis