WRC Features What makes Akio Toyoda so important for rallying The chuckling is slightly surprising. And then completely understandable. It’s all in the aura. I’ve been fortunate to interview an assortment of royalty, presidents and… Read more by David Evans January 26, 2026 3 min
WRC News What did Solberg mean by ‘prepping his studs’? Fail to prepare and prepare to fail is the thinking, so Oliver Solberg’s stress at failing to prep his Hankook studs was clearly a cause… Read more by David Evans January 25, 2026 2 min
WRC News Marcus Grönholm column comes to Club DirtFish New signings are always big news in motorsport. Last year, Lewis Hamilton’s move to Ferrari was huge. Oliver Solberg landing into planet Toyota for the… Read more by David Evans January 20, 2026 2 min
Cars News How we proved a Bentley stereotype wrong Demonstrably, this was wrong. This shouldn’t be happening. It would have been like… King Charles riding a skateboard. Yet there it was: a beautiful Bentley… Read more by David Evans January 20, 2026 3 min
ARA News Toyota’s ARA signing wants to build US rallying Toyota driver Seth Quintero has talked of his desire to help build the ARA National Championship into a powerhouse domestic series. While also competing in… Read more by David Evans January 18, 2026 2 min
WRC News Hyundai considered 35 drivers for its third car The 2026 return of Hayden Paddon, Esapekka Lappi and Dani Sordo to Hyundai Motorsport understandably raised questions among some of the sport’s younger drivers: why… Read more by David Evans January 17, 2026 3 min
Rally Features When I drove on ice with future F1 driver Carlos Sainz Carlos Sainz smiled at me. He understood what I’d just experienced. So did his son. And so can you. Right now, you can start your… Read more by David Evans January 15, 2026 3 min
New Cars Opinion Win on Sunday, sell on Monday is alive and well It’s rare that I’m sufficiently moved by a road car that I just have to write about it. It happened last week. I mean… have… Read more by David Evans January 14, 2026 2 min
WRC News The reason Hyundai put Neuville in a Rally2 car today Why was Thierry Neuville driving a Hyundai i20 N Rally2 in the French Alps on Wednesday? Simple: it was one small step backwards to take… Read more by David Evans January 7, 2026 3 min
WRC News Toyota to be called ‘Gazoo Racing’ from WRC 2027 Almost two decades ago Akio Toyoda wanted to go racing. Toyota wasn’t so sure. He did it anyway. But he did it, respectfully, under the… Read more by David Evans January 7, 2026 3 min
WRC News Hyundai moves its test base from Finland to France Hyundai has switched the location of its permanent test site from Finland to the south of France. Having tested out of a central Finland base… Read more by David Evans January 6, 2026 2 min
WRC News Should Evans do things differently in 2026? Whether it was Albert Einstein’s initial thought or not, the general consideration is that doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different… Read more by David Evans January 4, 2026 2 min
WRC News Ogier says goodbye to his “hardest” competitor Sébastien Ogier wasn’t having it. He wasn’t prepared to stand by and watch his friend suffer. Putting the hood of his coat on his head,… Read more by David Evans December 30, 2025 3 min
Rally Features How MRF won on its Safari debut Standing on Vipingo Ridge, just north of Mombasa, reality bites hard for the MRF engineers. The ambient temperature is knocking on the door of 40… Read more by David Evans December 24, 2025 3 min
ARA Features Stryker one-make series coming to ARA in 2026 Standing on the shoulders of giants is never a bad thing. Just ask Sir Isaac Newton. Or Cole Powelson. It was Sir Isaac who first… Read more by David Evans December 23, 2025 5 min
WRC News Solberg: My dream is to be like Ogier History is about to repeat itself. Sébastien Ogier, brace yourself: the full force of a studious and single-minded Solberg is coming right at you. Rewind… Read more by David Evans December 23, 2025 2 min
ARA News Toyota develops GR Corolla RC2 for ARA More than a quarter of a century since the last one, Toyota has developed a new Corolla rally car – and this one’s coming to… Read more by David Evans December 19, 2025 3 min
WRC News New constructor Project Rally One enters WRC 2027 The World Rally Championship has its first confirmed ‘constructor’ for the 2027 season, with former Citroën team principal Yves Matton jointly heading the development of… Read more by David Evans December 17, 2025 3 min
