WRC News Rovanperä becomes Ogier’s closest rival with third stage win A stage win on the Friday afternoon pass of Serra de la Llena by Kalle Rovanperä has resulted in a Toyota one-two on Rally Spain,… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay October 21, 2022 3 min
WRC News Ogier reclaims Rally Spain lead from Neuville Sébastien Ogier has retaken the lead on Rally Spain, winning stage five to pass Thierry Neuville for the top spot. Eight-time world champion Ogier went… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay October 21, 2022 3 min
WRC Features Why Loubet’s car was billowing smoke Pierre-Louis Loubet was already frustrated. Stage three of Rally Spain had derailed his hopes of fighting in the midfield, as a front-left puncture had cost… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay October 21, 2022 3 min
WRC News Neuville edges past Ogier into Rally Spain lead Thierry Neuvllle has become the third leader of Rally Spain in as many stages, usurping the lead Toyota of Sébastien Ogier, as Hyundai team-mate Ott… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay October 21, 2022 3 min
WRC News Ogier steals Rally Spain lead with huge stage win v Sébastien Ogier has shot into the lead of Rally Spain with a commanding stage win on Les Garrigues Altes, with Toyota team-mate Kalle Rovanperä… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay October 21, 2022 3 min
WRC News Rovanperä extends Rally Spain lead, Tänak down to fifth Kalle Rovanperä has extended his Rally Spain lead, maximizing his road order advantage in damp conditions to further his advantage over Thierry Neuville to 3.3… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay October 21, 2022 3 min
WRC News Rovanperä leads Hyundais on first Rally Spain stage Kalle Rovanperä has taken the early lead on Rally Spain, heading off Hyundai’s pair of full-time drivers as road order appeared to play a part… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay October 21, 2022 3 min
WRC News Tire strategy leads to Toyota shakedown domination Toyota dominated the shakedown test for Rally Spain courtesy of a divergent tire strategy, with M-Sport’s Pierre-Louis Loubet the only thing stopping a GR Yaris… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay October 20, 2022 3 min
WRC Features The WRC record Halttunen would like to beat It’s been talked about a lot lately – how long will Kalle Rovanperä’s career last? Reaching the heights of becoming a world champion at such… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay October 19, 2022 3 min
WRC Features Mikkelsen’s no longer Kajetanowicz’s big WRC2 threat When Andreas Mikkelsen dumped his Škoda Fabia Rally2 evo into a concrete barrier inside Athens’ Olympic Stadium, his hopes of retaining the WRC2 title looked… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay October 18, 2022
WRC Features The pacenote change that helped Rovanperä to WRC glory It’s easy to get distracted by how ridiculously young Kalle Rovanperä is. Becoming a world champion a day after turning 22 is incredible. It’s like… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay October 14, 2022
WRC Features A reason to believe Junior WRC’s big change is going to work A big call was made a few years back. A huge call. Rallying’s junior ladder was broken, missing a critical piece. The gap between R5… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay October 13, 2022 3 min
WRC Features How a secret Rovanperä test transformed Halttunen’s career Jonne Halttunen remembers the moment well. The day it all changed – when he went from an aspiring professional rally co-driver to the real deal…. Read more by Alasdair Lindsay October 11, 2022 5 min
WRC News How Toyota rebounded after its Acropolis disaster Acropolis Rally Greece was an oddity in the 2022 World Rally Championship season. It was the roughest gravel rally of the lot. And what it… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay October 10, 2022 3 min
Rally Features Paddon’s perfect Rally New Zealand route There was an element of disappointment about Rally New Zealand. Not in the spectacle it put on: the World Rally Championship had dearly missed its… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay October 9, 2022 2 min
WRC Features ‘We are f***** in the future’ – Lappi on a young Rovanperä Esapekka Lappi knew. He was in a race against time. In the late 2010s, it was he who was the burgeoning flying Finn. The flag-bearing… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay October 6, 2022 3 min
WRC News Latvala thinks WRC drivers will now retire younger Toyota team principal Jari-Matti Latvala believes World Rally Championship drivers will start to bring their careers to an end at a younger age than in… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay October 4, 2022 2 min
WRC Features How Rovanperä can wrap up the title in New Zealand We’ve reached a key moment that’s been months in the making – the rally Kalle Rovanperä can wrap up a maiden World Rally Championship title… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay October 1, 2022 5 min
