WRC News Rovanperä finding fast rallies easier than he expected On the eve of what will be the fastest rally of his short career so far, Kalle Rovanperä has told DirtFish that mastering the high-speed… Read more by David Evans September 3, 2020 3 min
WRC News WRC engine specs to be frozen for five years from 2021 The World Rally Championship’s Rally1 engine specifications will be frozen for the next five years from April 1 next season as part of the drive… Read more by David Evans September 3, 2020 2 min
WRC Features When Grönholm beat Loeb in New Zealand by 0.3 seconds Marcus Grönholm’s not really a stand-on-the-roof kind of chap. Nor is he a fist-pumper. One Sunday in Hamilton 13 years ago, he was both. And… Read more by David Evans September 2, 2020 3 min
WRC News Why running first on the road might not hurt in Estonia One much-talked about topic in the World Rally Championship service park this week is the potential for winners and losers when it comes to the… Read more by David Evans September 2, 2020 2 min
WRC Features Q&A with Ott Tänak DirtFish’s David Evans caught up with Hyundai’s Ott Tänak before the start of his home rally in Estonia, which could mark a changing of the… Read more by David Evans September 2, 2020 2 min
WRC Features When Vatanen lost an hour and still nearly won When Turin committed three factory Fiat 131 Abarths to New Zealand’s inaugural World Rally Championship qualifier, an Italian sledgehammer had been deployed to smash a… Read more by David Evans September 1, 2020 5 min
WRC Video DirtFish Estonia diary: Trying not to crash a CrossKart Our first day back at World Rally Championship work simply couldn’t have gone better. Estonia has delivered in spades – and we’re still four days… Read more by David Evans September 1, 2020 3 min
WRC Opinion Rally Estonia Form Guide The waiting is over. Or it will be come Saturday morning. Friday night’s Tartu loosener doesn’t really count. All eyes will be on the first… Read more by David Evans September 1, 2020 5 min
WRC News How Evans plans to flip his Rally Estonia fortunes One section of Rally Estonia’s Arula stage will hold Elfyn Evans’ focus longer than most when the Welshman returns to a corner that ruled him… Read more by David Evans September 1, 2020 3 min
WRC Opinion Why New Zealand is WRC’s perfect host With the greatest of respect to Estonia and Estonians, we shouldn’t be here this week. Lovely as Tartu is, this wasn’t the plan for the… Read more by David Evans August 31, 2020 5 min
WRC News Acropolis Rally seeking return to WRC by 2022 The Acropolis Rally – one of the World Rally Championship’s most iconic events – is working towards a potential return to the series as soon… Read more by David Evans August 31, 2020 3 min
WRC News Toyota expands Ypres line-up with Katsuta Toyota Gazoo Racing has confirmed Takamoto Katsuta will tackle the final round of this year’s World Rally Championship, November’s Ypres Rally Belgium. The Japanese is… Read more by David Evans August 31, 2020 2 min
WRC News Why Tänak has “no stress” going into Estonia’s WRC debut Talk to a Finn the week before Rally Finland and you can hear it in their voice. It’s their time of the year. The weight… Read more by David Evans August 31, 2020 3 min
WRC Video Video: What it takes to bring your WRC2 car to McDonald’s Chesterfield is a place more usually associated with crooked spires than the World Rally Championship – or at least that was the case until Rhys… Read more by David Evans August 28, 2020 3 min
WRC News Ogier excited for “different challenge” of Rally Estonia World Rally Championship leader Sébastien Ogier restarts his season on Rally Estonia next week with a good feeling in his Yaris WRC and an eight-point… Read more by David Evans August 28, 2020 3 min
Rally News Return to Rally Stages can be “springboard” for UK rallying British Rally Championship manager Iain Campbell has praised the forward-thinking approach of the organizers of last week’s M-Sport Return to Rally Stages and urged rallying… Read more by David Evans August 28, 2020 1 min
Rally Opinion Current WRC cars to be banished for 2022 – Our verdict Unless there’s a radical, last-minute change in the specification of 2022 Rally1 machinery, the thinking is that the next generation will be slower than the… Read more by David Evans August 28, 2020 3 min
Rally News M-Sport eyeing further events after ‘Return’ success M-Sport managing director Malcolm Wilson is investigating the potential for running further rallies in the Greystoke forest following the success of Saturday’s M-Sport Back to… Read more by David Evans August 27, 2020 2 min
