Dakar News Loeb and Al-Attiyah hit trouble in Dakar opener Nasser Al-Attiyah and Sébastien Loeb, two of the favorites for Dakar Rally victory ran into trouble on the very first stage, while Guillaume de Mevius… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay January 6, 2024 3 min
Dakar News A taste of what’s to come from Dakar 2024 Day zero, as it were, of the Dakar Rally is behind us. The Prologue stage is done and dusted. With such an open and competitive… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay January 5, 2024 2 min
Rally Features The good news about rallying’s real season opener What am I supposed to do for three months? This is the annual off-season cry from single-seater fans the world over, as they twiddle their… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay January 5, 2024 3 min
Dakar News René Metge obituary: Three-time Dakar champion dies aged 82 On Wednesday, January 3, my colleague James Bowen pointed out the symbiosis between car and driver; that to think of one driver is often to… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay January 3, 2024 2 min
Pressroom Opinion Introducing DirtFish’s new editor I have a terrible memory. At any given time, there’s a 50/50 chance I won’t know where my keys are. Just a couple of weeks… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay January 1, 2024 3 min
ARA News Semenuk leads LSPR, Block can’t restart Brandon Semenuk is all set to achieve a 100% win record in the 2023 American Rally Association season, leading the Lake Superior Performance Rally by… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay October 13, 2023 2 min
Rally Features Meet the man and his van that go rallying Modern social media is a weird beast. It picks out videos it thinks we’ll like on our behalf; that means as I’m scrolling through apps… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay September 23, 2023 3 min
Rally Features I feel like a rally driver – and it’s all thanks to DirtFish Alasdair Lindsay took DirtFish Rally School’s three-day program this week, here’s what he made of the whole experience: Can you go from zero to rally… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay August 25, 2023 3 min
Rally Features Applying your skills on a rally stage Doing the final day of a three-day DirtFish program the week of the Ojibwe Forest Rally was apt timing. After two days of hitting the… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay August 24, 2023
Rally Features You don’t always need a stopwatch in rallying At DirtFish, you’re not on the stopwatch during classes. There are no podiums or trophies. But on day two of the three-day program, I felt… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay August 23, 2023 3 min
Rally Features Learning the basics of life on the loose Alasdair Lindsay is taking DirtFish Rally School’s three-day program this week, and charting his progress! Here’s his account of day one: I’d sat in the… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay August 22, 2023 3 min
Rally Features The rally experience I’ve been waiting all year for This is it. The moment I’ve been waiting all year for, counting down the days for. 300 horsepower delivered to four wheels awaits at the… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay August 21, 2023 2 min
ERC News The other ERC title fight is heating up Title race. What title race? That would have been a reasonable question after Rally Liepāja. Ola Nore Jr had European Rally Championship Junior under his… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay August 18, 2023 3 min
WRC Features Rovanperä’s role in rebuilding Katsuta’s confidence The monkey is finally off Takamoto Katsuta’s back. Yes, he’d stood on a World Rally Championship podium before. Thrice, even. And at the legendary Safari… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay August 14, 2023 2 min
WRC News Räikkönen’s WRC potential on show in Rally Finland win One year on from his World Rally Championship debut, Justus Räikkönen is back where he started: topping the Rally4 class at Rally Finland. It wasn’t… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay August 13, 2023 3 min
World RX Features Susann Hansen – From champion driver to champion team boss A European champion behind the wheel. A two-time world champion and more European titles than a person can count with their fingers as a team… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay March 24, 2023 3 min
WRC Features How Estonia is building a rallying legacy Do you remember what first instigated your own passion for rallying? Chances are there was a driver – perhaps a national hero, or a family… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay December 27, 2022 3 min
Rally Features Rallying’s “sacred cow” who just won’t quit Sébastien Loeb’s Monte Carlo win, aged 47 years, 10 months and 28 days, is a stark reminder that even in the era of a 22-year-old… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay December 16, 2022 3 min
