WRC Features The rival visions for what the WRC should be Two decades ago, David Richards was extolling the virtues of manufacturer participation in the World Rally Championship while simultaneously restricting privateer access to the sport’s… Read more by David Evans February 12, 2021 3 min
WRC News Arctic Rally Finland reveals packed entry list This month’s Arctic Rally Finland will feature the strongest World Rally Car entry since Rally Finland in 2017 with 13 cars. The Rovaniemi-based event has… Read more by David Evans February 12, 2021 2 min
WRC News Latvala to compete against father in local Finnish rally For the first time in 17 years Latvalas father and son will go head-to-head in identical machinery at Saturday’s Mesikämmen Ralli in Finland. Toyota team… Read more by David Evans February 11, 2021 3 min
WRC News Ekström to make first WRC appearance in 15 years Not long back from Saudi Arabia and very much in the planning stages of another trip to Saudi Arabia, you could be forgiven for thinking… Read more by David Evans February 11, 2021 2 min
WRC News Hyundai’s early season blip can be traced to last year Every round of the World Rally Championship is important to a manufacturer that is investing millions to be there, but Arctic Rally Finland carries that… Read more by David Evans February 11, 2021 2 min
WRC News The hidden speed challenge of WRC 2022 In performance terms, the World Rally Championship is bracing itself for a single step forward leading to a couple in the opposite direction next season…. Read more by David Evans February 10, 2021 2 min
WRC News 2022 Rally1 seat motivation behind Lappi’s Arctic entry It’s the call of the wild. Anybody who’s read Jack London’s classic adventure story of the same title will get where Esapekka Lappi’s coming from…. Read more by David Evans February 9, 2021 3 min
WRC News New manufacturer could join WRC’s hybrid era after 2022 FIA rally director Yves Matton has confirmed the potential for another manufacturer joining the World Rally Championship during the coming hybrid generation of Rally1 cars…. Read more by David Evans February 9, 2021 2 min
WRC News Video Inside Oliver Solberg’s first World Rally Car test So this is how a perfect day starts. It’s turned nine before the sun really shows its face this close to the top of the… Read more by David Evans February 8, 2021 3 min
WRC News M-Sport’s 2022 Rally1 car could run this month When Toyota technical director Tom Fowler tipped M-Sport Ford to be fastest out of the blocks with its all-new 2022-specification Rally1 car, there was always… Read more by David Evans February 5, 2021 2 min
WRC Features What Adamo expects from Solberg’s top-class debut Hyundai Motorsport team principal Andrea Adamo is, as you know well by now, rarely wrong. On this one, he’s absolutely right. Oliver Solberg absolutely and… Read more by David Evans February 5, 2021 5 min
WRC News Solberg to make World Rally Car debut on Arctic Oliver Solberg will make his debut in a factory-built World Rally Car aged just 19 when he steps up to a Hyundai i20 Coupé WRC… Read more by David Evans February 5, 2021 5 min
WRC News Hyundai enters Tänak/Neuville in Estonian winter rally Hyundai Motorsport will field a pair of i20 Coupé WRCs for Ott Tänak and Thierry Neuville on next week’s Otepää Winter Rally in Estonia. The… Read more by David Evans February 4, 2021 2 min
WRC News Hyundai hybrid work waiting on board green light – Adamo While M-Sport Ford and Toyota engage in the race to run their 2022 Rally1 cars, Hyundai Motorsport has yet to start work on its all-new… Read more by David Evans February 4, 2021 2 min
WRC News The WRC’s balance between 2021 speed and 2022 preparation In days gone by the test team would have taken care of it. Those days are done. Now it’s about development one week, competition the… Read more by David Evans February 3, 2021 2 min
World RX News Why WRC and World RX may have a shared future Last November something great was supposed to happen. It came close. But, ultimately, it didn’t quite make it. That thing was the combination of the… Read more by David Evans February 3, 2021 3 min
WRC News Major Rally Italy route change as Sardinia base relocated Rally Italy will return to its World Rally Championship roots in Olbia this year, with the town of Alghero featuring only as the ceremonial start… Read more by David Evans February 2, 2021 2 min
WRC News Arctic Rally Finland route revealed A winter survival kit and a stage running across the top of a deep-frozen swamp, those are the headlines from Tuesday’s communication for Arctic Rally… Read more by David Evans February 2, 2021 3 min
