WRC Opinion 1995 Rewind: The final words on the RAC Rally’s greatest hit Having spent the last week in 1995, I can confirm the Network Q RAC Rally was as good second time around as it was 25… Read more by David Evans November 22, 2020 3 min
WRC Features 1995 Rewind: Magnificent McRae takes WRC crown It’s probably not an unfair assumption that a pub would play some part in Colin McRae’s Wednesday. But his pre-dawn presence in the Braich Goch… Read more by David Evans November 22, 2020 3 min
WRC Features 1995 Rewind: McRae back in lead before title showdown For all the heroics of day two; the time lost with a puncture, the manhandling of his Subaru’s suspension, today’s Trawscoed stage was arguably the… Read more by David Evans November 21, 2020 5 min
WRC Features 1995 Rewind: Sainz leads RAC as McRae punctures Dawn. The start of the working week. And Colin McRae went to work harder and faster than anybody. North of Yorkshire and into County Durham,… Read more by David Evans November 20, 2020 5 min
WRC Features 1995 Rewind: Mäkinen leads RAC, McRae ahead of Sainz Mitsubishi’s hopes of landing a maiden World Rally Championship are on track tonight, with Tommi Mäkinen and Kenneth Eriksson running one-two at the end of… Read more by David Evans November 19, 2020 3 min
WRC News WRC Promoter insists Monza will go ahead WRC Promoter has moved to quell speculation surrounding the running of ACI Rally Monza, the final round of this year’s World Rally Championship. The promoter… Read more by David Evans November 19, 2020 1 min
WRC News Australia and New Zealand could both get WRC 2022 slots In a week when Rally New Zealand’s World Rally Championship warm-up event runs out of Auckland, FIA rally director Yves Matton raised the potential for… Read more by David Evans November 19, 2020 3 min
WRC Features 1995 Rewind: How the RAC Rally itinerary was built Throughout 2020 we’ve been reliving the extraordinary 1995 WRC season as it happened. This week the title decider is upon us, so David Evans’ 1995… Read more by David Evans November 18, 2020 5 min
WRC News Driving Toivonen’s first WRC winner Four decades ago, history was made. Right here. Right where I’m sitting. Or at least in the seat next to the one I’m sitting in…. Read more by David Evans November 18, 2020 10 min +
WRC News All three WRC manufacturers will remain for 2022 All three current manufacturers have signed up for the 2022 World Rally Championship, DirtFish understands. While no official confirmation has come from either Toyota, M-Sport… Read more by David Evans November 18, 2020
WRC News Revealed – McRae’s secret early Ford Escort test Twenty-three years on from when it happened, DirtFish can reveal Colin McRae tested a Ford Escort with a view to leaving Subaru to move to… Read more by David Evans November 18, 2020 3 min
WRC News How Safari Rally 2021 preparations are shaping up The Safari Rally organizers have completed their first route survey of the year ahead of the Kenya’s June return to the World Rally Championship. Clerk… Read more by David Evans November 17, 2020 2 min
WRC News How Evans is preparing for the rally of his life Life is continuing very much as normal for World Rally Championship leader Elfyn Evans, with the Welshman working hard on his preparations for the final… Read more by David Evans November 17, 2020 2 min
WRC News Will Mikkelsen get a seat for Monza? Andreas Mikkelsen recently returned to action with a dominant win in the European Rally Championship in Hungary. Now will we see him back in the… Read more by David Evans November 16, 2020 3 min
WRC News M-Sport drivers will have to wait for 2021 deals M-Sport Ford managing director Malcolm Wilson has told DirtFish he’s in no hurry to firm-up his 2021 World Rally Championship driver line-up. Current drivers Esapekka… Read more by David Evans November 16, 2020 2 min
WRC News 1995 Rewind: What Sainz and McRae have to do at the RAC Colin McRae and Carlos Sainz. Chalk and cheese. One is a brooding, deep-thinking Spaniard, the other a swashbuckling Scot. Sainz has two world titles, McRae’s… Read more by David Evans November 15, 2020 3 min
Rally News Paddon rolls, wins and demos Hyundais on NZ rally weekend So, Shane van Gisbergen then. Excuse me? It really was one of those. Tuning in to an Auckland evening on a European Sunday morning, the… Read more by David Evans November 15, 2020 3 min
WRC Features How Monza Rally is making itself WRC worthy The cones, to be clear, will be gone. No cones. And, by extension, no penalties for hitting the cones. Monza Rally is a round of… Read more by David Evans November 15, 2020 5 min