WRC News Ogier may consider delaying WRC retirement by a yearSix-time World Rally champion Sébastien Ogier will consider remaining in the series for one more year due to the 2020 season being truncated by the… Read more by David Evans May 28, 2020 3 min
WRC News New WRC rules direction for 2022 could help rookie driversBringing the World Rally Championship’s top class cars to a level equivalent to Rally2 with the 2022 regulations could help bridge the gap between the… Read more by David Evans May 27, 2020
WRC News Tänak almost quit driving after tricky 2012Reigning World Rally champion Ott Tänak came close to leaving the driver’s seat after he was dropped by M-Sport at the end of the 2012… Read more by David Evans May 26, 2020 2 min
Tech News Prodrive’s ventilator project ready for useSuccess in Africa is nothing new for Prodrive – the team guided Subaru Impreza WRCs to vicory twice on the Safari Rally in 1997 and… Read more by David Evans May 26, 2020 2 min
WRC Features The untold theory about Toyota’s 1998 WRC heartbreakDirtFish’s Spin, The Rally Pod has offered fresh insight into the conclusion of one of the most hotly fought battles in the World Rally Championship’s… Read more by David Evans May 26, 2020
WRC News Ogier: I shouldn’t be champion after three ralliesToyota star Sébastien Ogier has told DirtFish the World Rally Championship needs more action on the stages in 2020 before any titles can be won…. Read more by David Evans May 26, 2020
WRC News Breen to compete at Rally Finland for HyundaiCraig Breen has been confirmed to drive Hyundai Motorsport’s third car at August’s Neste Rally Finland. The Irishman, who finished on the podium in Jyväskylä… Read more by David Evans May 25, 2020 2 min
WRC News DirtFish Portugal Week: And the winner is…Toyota Gazoo Racing driver Sébastien Ogier scored his second win of the season at last week’s Vodafone Rally de Portugal. The Frenchman was comfortably ahead… Read more by David Evans May 24, 2020 1 min
WRC Features The disaster of Rally Portugal 1986Markku Alén has never been one for chasing the limelight. So when he – voluntarily – appeared in the Portuguese media in the days before… Read more by David Evans May 24, 2020 5 min
Rally Features The best Portuguese drivers from six decades of rallyingPortugal is undoubedly a rally-mad nation. Finding old photos and videos of the long-time World Rally Championship staple without walls of fans either side of… Read more by David Evans May 23, 2020 5 min
WRC News Tänak drives rally car for first time since Mexico in R5 testOtt Tänak has returned to the wheel of a rally car for the first time since Rally México, driving a Hyundai i20 R5 at a… Read more by David Evans May 23, 2020 2 min
Rally Features How a new Subaru burned the Portugal oppositionGirona. About as far from Portugal as Spain can get. But it was in the hills high above the north-eastern Catalan city that Richard Burns… Read more by David Evans May 22, 2020 5 min
WRC Features Rally Portugal’s memorable 1990s momentsTwo stories, both Scottish, bookend the Nineties on Rally Portugal. Both are incredibly dramatic and both well worthy of their place in #DirtFishPortugalweek, but which… Read more by David Evans May 22, 2020 5 min
BRC Features Motorsport UK defends rally return adviceMotorsport UK CEO Hugh Chambers will clarify the position of British rallying in the coming days following criticism of the governing body’s “Getting back on… Read more by David Evans May 22, 2020 5 min
Rally Features What Portugal offers when the rally’s not in townPortugal. Without the rally? No problem. There’s plenty to keep you occupied, especially up in the north of the country. Down south, it’s mostly about… Read more by David Evans May 22, 2020
WRC Features Life in lockdown with Martin JärveojaReigning World Rally Champion co-driver Martin Järveoja is, quite literally, smashing his coronavirus lockdown period at home in Estonia. The man who Ott Tänak spends… Read more by David Evans May 21, 2020 2 min
WRC Features Four minutes gained in 26 miles – Röhrl’s epic Portugal driveThe recollection of the conversation still gives me goosebumps. Talking to Walter Röhrl does that to you. Especially when you wind the clock back to… Read more by David Evans May 21, 2020 2 min
WRC Features Alén beats Mikkola in epic finish: The 1978 Rally PortugalEvery now and then everything clicks for a driver with a rally. That was Markku Alén and the Rally of Portugal. He took his maiden… Read more by David Evans May 20, 2020 3 min
