Rally News Max McRae stuns on 4WD debut despite fuel pump failure Sixteen-year-old Max McRae delivered a quite remarkable four-wheel-drive debut at Saturday’s Novus Glass Winvale Park Stages in Western Australia, winning eight stages and only losing… Read more by David Evans April 18, 2021 2 min
Rally News Paddon returns with crushing NZ win in rebuilt Hyundai It might have been 546 days since the last round of the New Zealand Rally Championship, but one thing hadn’t changed. Hayden Paddon remains the… Read more by David Evans April 18, 2021 2 min
Rally Features Inside the Toyota GR Yaris’s first-ever rally It’s probably fair to say that the headline ‘Bates wins in Australia’ wouldn’t garner many website clicks or sell many newspapers. After all, Harry Bates’… Read more by Luke Barry April 18, 2021 5 min
WRC Features How “cool” Fourmaux can reignite M-Sport’s season M-Sport has been here before. Petter Solberg, Markko Märtin, Francois Duval, Mikko Hirvonen, Jari-Matti Latvala, Ott Tänak, Elfyn Evans… need we go on? If there’s one… Read more by Luke Barry April 17, 2021 5 min
Rally Opinion The WRC omertà that’s increasingly hard not to break Seven months and a couple of weeks. That’s how long we’ve got before the teams are booking roads in the Gap area for their Monte… Read more by David Evans April 17, 2021 3 min
WRC News WRC hybrid testing suspended as parts recalled DirtFish understands hybrid testing for all three manufacturer teams in the World Rally Championship has stopped after the parts supplier requested the return of its… Read more by David Evans April 16, 2021 1 min
WRC Features The virtual/real-life collision that’s offered a third JWRC chance Jon Armstrong has been here before. When he fires his Ford Fiesta Rally4 into the first stage of Rally Croatia next week, he will have… Read more by Luke Barry April 16, 2021 5 min
WRC News Toyota’s 2022 testing program underway DirtFish understands that Toyota’s 2022-specification Yaris WRC has begun its test program with the car now running in France. No pictures of the car have… Read more by David Evans April 16, 2021 2 min
WRC News Auriol nearly made WRC comeback at 60 with M-Sport There is a long-held tradition among World Rally Championship drivers hailing from Finland to make a return to their home WRC round on their 50th… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay April 16, 2021 3 min
WRC News How Max McRae is feeling ahead of Subaru debut The moment’s not lost on Max McRae. He gets it. Of course, he does. As any McRae would when they step aboard a Subaru rally… Read more by David Evans April 15, 2021 3 min
WRC News Ypres organizer optimistic of welcoming spectators Anybody who has ever been to the Ypres Rally knows how important the fans are to the event – they don’t just provide a key… Read more by David Evans April 15, 2021 2 min
WRC News Ogier: No point leading the championship right now Who’s holding the poisoned chalice right now? Sébastien Ogier’s pretty sure it’s not him. By extension then, it must be his Toyota Gazoo Racing team-mate… Read more by David Evans April 15, 2021 3 min
ERC News ERC’s Azores Rally postponed at health authority’s request The Azores Rallye has been postponed, meaning the European Rally Championship will now – hopefully – kick off with Rally Poland, in June. A statement… Read more by David Evans April 14, 2021 2 min
Dakar Features How Audi is using existing tech for its Dakar debut When news surfaced last winter that Audi was switching its factory motorsport efforts from the burgeoning circuit racing world of Formula E and pursuing a… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon April 14, 2021 5 min
WRC News Neuville and Wydaeghe’s intercom problem now fixed Thierry Neuville has told DirtFish the “very stupid” and “basic” intercom problem that had been affecting the delivery of new co-driver Martijn Wydaeghe’s pacenotes has… Read more by Ida Wood April 14, 2021 2 min
Nitrocross News Vermont SportsCar committed to electric RX with or without Subaru Long-term Subaru partner Vermont SportsCar plans to embrace rallycross’s electric future with boss Lance Smith telling DirtFish the organization is “committed to having at least… Read more by Dominik Wilde April 13, 2021 3 min
WRC News Rally Finland might move to September Rally Finland will not run without fans being admitted to the summer classic, according to well-placed sources in the event, meaning an alternative September date… Read more by David Evans April 13, 2021 3 min
Dakar News GCK to run bioethanol car on 2022 Dakar Rally Dakar Rally veteran Guerlain Chicherit will contest next year’s edition of the rally raid in an interim bioethanol powered car ahead of a full hydrogen… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon April 13, 2021 2 min
