With promising results across the categories between 2009 and 2011, he was signed by the Citroën Junior Team and made his World Rally Car debut in 2012.

In 2013, driving for the Qatar World Rally Team, he was a surprise runner-up in the championship, having scored his first podiums in the sport, finishing 114 points behind Sébastien Ogier.

In addition to rallying, Neuville has also contested circuit racing, debuting in the 2019 German Touring Car Championship.

[6] For the 2008 Rally Finland, he was entered in a Ford Fiesta ST[7] and would have made his WRC debut, but he did not start the event.

Instead, he made his WRC debut at the 2009 Rally Catalunya with a Citroën C2 R2 with Nicolas Klinger as his co-driver, an event he eventually would retire in.

[8] Neuville drove a self-entered Citroën C2 S1600 in five of the six rounds of 2010 Junior World Rally Championship, alongside Klinger.

[11] Despite leading many of the events, along with many stage wins, of the season, Neuville would finish the championship in seventh position, due to the many retirements.

[13] His first event was the 2010 Rally Islas Canarias, where he retired due to suspension damage while running in seventh position.

[20] In the next event, 2011 Rally Islas Canarias, Neuville battled for the win but finished third behind winner Juho Hänninen and second placed Jan Kopecký.

[23] He was the early pacesetter at the following 2011 Prime Yalta Rally but going off-road and a puncture meant the Belgian could only finish in sixth position.

[30] Neuville held the rally lead early on, but soon after, an issue with the alternator on his car developed and the Belgian had to retire.

[43] His best result of the season came in France, where he led a World Rally-event for the first time in his career and eventually finished fourth, after many stage wins.

With Sébastien Ogier comfortably in the lead, he needed to finish in second place overall and in the PowerStage in order to still have a mathematical chance at the title.

[51] On 5 November 2013, Hyundai Motorsport GmbH confirmed it had signed Neuville on a multi-year deal to lead its entry into the WRC from 2014.

[53] Previous year's winner Dani Sordo, who was now his teammate, finished second, so it was not just Hyundai's first win, but also a double victory.

Despite rumours suggesting him considering other options, he decided to stay with the Alzenau-based team for 2017 and 2018 when new regulations for the competing cars would enter.

[60] Lightning then struck twice for the Belgian, as a lackluster performance in Spain ended when he clipped a rock on stage 16 and broke the steering, leaving him pointless for the second rally in a row and dropping him to third in the standings behind Ott Tänak.

Unable to match the pace set by rally winner Elfyn Evans, who used DMACK tyres, Neuville was the fastest of the drivers competing on Michelin.

The event was characterized by changeable conditions but after initial leader Andreas Mikkelsen suffered a double puncture, Neuville held off Latvala who was his closest challenger for most of the rally, the Finn eventually crashed on the last stage.

Eventually, he took his seventh win and first on the snow in the WRC, though he had an electrical glitch with his Hyundai's paddle shift gearchange system in Saturday morning and made a few small mistakes.

After winning the rally, he led the championship by ten points, ahead of defending world champion, Sébastien Ogier.

In Portugal, Neuville secured his eight win in the WRC and inherited the lead of the championship when both title rivals Ogier and Tänak hit trouble and scored zero points.

[70] Just before Rally Turkey, it was announced that Neuville, along with Gilsoul, had signed an extension with Hyundai to drive for the team until the end of 2021.

[71] Neuville's advantage in the standings was reduced when his suspension broke in Turkey while he was leading, with Tänak eventually winning the event,[72] and when he slid off the road in the next rally in Wales from second place.

[76] On the final day, Neuville hit a tree and lost a wheel of his i20 Coupe and ultimately had to retire from the event, ending his title bid.

[81] His first victory of 2019 was achieved at the Tour de Corse, Elfyn Evans had been leading most of the rally but a puncture on the last stage dropped the Welshman to third and Neuville was able to win the event.

[83] When the championship headed to Rally Chile for the first time, Neuville crashed heavily after misjudging a fast crest which saw the Belgian require medical assistance.

[86] With no major injury sustained from the crash in Chile, Neuville contested the next event in Portugal and finished second behind Tänak.

[88][89] Both title rivals, Tänak and Ogier, suffered from issues in Sardinia and also did not score well while the event was won by Neuville's teammate Dani Sordo.

[91] He lost further ground in the title race in the following event in Turkey, as he rolled his car and could only finish eighth while Ogier won.