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
WRC Features 1995 Rewind: The best of the rest heading to the RAC Rally Prior to the first Friday of this month, this section would have been all about Juha Kankkunen chances of landing a fifth world championship. The… Read more by David Evans November 14, 2020 3 min
WRC Opinion How Olympus came into the WRC, and stayed in the memory It’s Monday morning. December 8, 1986. In a Tumwater hotel car park, a man in a headband is washing a car. The early Washington winter… Read more by David Evans November 13, 2020 5 min
Rally News Why Tänak’s back in a grassroot rally this weekend It does beg the question, doesn’t it? Why is reigning World Rally Champion Ott Tänak driving a factory Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC on a 35-mile… Read more by David Evans November 13, 2020 2 min
Rally News Paddon’s electric rally car gets first outing on NZ rally Hayden Paddon’s Hyundai Kona EV rally car will break cover at Sunday’s Repco Battle of Jacks Ridge in Auckland. Paddon revealed the Kona at Hyundai… Read more by David Evans November 12, 2020 3 min
Rally Video Video: Under the hood of M-Sport’s Fiesta Rally3 You have, no doubt, read all about M-Sport’s Ford Fiesta Rally3 and the pivotal role it – and the category – play in the sport’s… Read more by David Evans November 11, 2020 5 min
WRC Features Why the Fiesta Rally3 is vitally important to rallying’s future Sometime in the summer, somewhere in Poland, something very important happened. Very important. For rally fans and, in fact, the sport as a whole, all… Read more by David Evans November 11, 2020 5 min
ERC Features How Mikkelsen achieved asphalt “redemption” It’s two days since Andreas Mikkelsen’s Rally Hungary victory when DirtFish calls to congratulate the Norwegian on his return to the winners’ circle. He’s busy…. Read more by David Evans November 11, 2020
WRC Features Q&A: Yves Matton on the 2021 WRC calendar As the World Rally Championship waits on the fate of its proposed Rally Monza finale, the FIA issued a 12-round calendar for next season. Starting,… Read more by David Evans November 10, 2020
