WRC News Next phase of Pirelli WRC tire testing revealed Pirelli will be back in Sardinia for its second World Rally Championship tire test later this month – the Italian firm will then commit to… Read more by David Evans August 8, 2020 3 min
Rally News Schwarz Jr targets R5 Fiesta after Lithuanian Junior win Like a lot of fathers, former factory World Rally Championship driver Armin Schwarz enjoys taking his 15-year-old son fishing. But teenager Fabio is not chasing… Read more by David Evans August 7, 2020 2 min
WRC News Lappi’s Fiesta WRC return ends after 300 meters M-Sport Ford World Rally Team leader Esapekka Lappi had waited almost five months to get back in a Fiesta WRC. On Thursday he did just… Read more by David Evans August 7, 2020 2 min
WRC News Neuville: Tänak partnership can lead to “several” titles Thierry Neuville says his collaboration with Ott Tänak could be enough to keep the two Hyundai drivers at the very top of the World Rally… Read more by David Evans August 7, 2020 2 min
WRC News Toyota: Ypres logistics will only work in best-case scenario Toyota’s technical director Tom Fowler has questioned the sense in adding the Ypres Rally into the second half of the season. WRC Promoter announced last… Read more by David Evans August 6, 2020 2 min
Off-Road News M-Sport forced to make redundancies Multiple World Rally Championship title-winning team M-Sport has been forced to make significant redundancies due to the coronavirus-hit motorsport season. M-Sport managing director Malcolm Wilson… Read more by David Evans August 5, 2020 1 min
ERC Opinion DirtFish’s Italy diary: Rounding off a week of rally action It feels like I should be typing this listening to Verdi. Or the big man, Luciano. The one thing I won’t be listening to is… Read more by David Evans August 4, 2020 3 min
Rally News The “volcano of ideas” that put Italian champion in an i20 WRC Luca Pedersoli paused briefly, searching for the right way to describe the telephone call when Andrea Adamo asked if he would be interested to drive… Read more by David Evans August 4, 2020 2 min
WRC Features ‘One for the brave’ – What makes Rally Finland so special A couple of hours after leaving Helsinki, there’s a break in the trees. There’s a lake. And a city. When the train slows to a… Read more by David Evans August 3, 2020 2 min
WRC Features How to enjoy rallying’s return (from the co-driver seat) The bridge is coming. The bridge is really coming. Still nothing. Nothing but the noise of a Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC with the taps wide… Read more by David Evans August 3, 2020 5 min
Rally News Adamo: Important Alba gave back to the community Locked down in his flat close to Hyundai Motorsport in the Frankfurt suburbs, Andrea Adamo watched the television in absolute horror as the coronavirus pandemic… Read more by David Evans August 3, 2020 2 min
Rally News Obituary: Brian Patterson 1944-2020 Getting my first byline in Motoring News was a very big deal for me. Arguably, getting my first mention at the bottom of Rally News…… Read more by David Evans August 3, 2020 3 min
WRC News Katsuta’s eyes ‘weren’t used to’ Yaris’ speed on winning return Takamoto Katsuta maintained his 100% win record on Finnish national rallies with victory on Saturday’s Kokkola Juhlaralli – once his eyes had got back up… Read more by David Evans August 3, 2020 2 min
Rally News Tänak learned from “wrong decisions” in Alba Ott Tänak’s asphalt debut aboard a Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC was about two steps backwards before one good step forwards. By the end of Rally… Read more by David Evans August 2, 2020 3 min
WRC News Tänak urges FIA/WRC to step up coronavirus management World Rally Champion Ott Tänak has called on the FIA and WRC Promoter to step up their management in relation to the coronavirus pandemic, echoing… Read more by David Evans August 2, 2020 2 min
Rally News Neuville leads on his rallying return Thierry Neuville made the perfect return to his Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC at Rally di Alba on Sunday morning. The Belgian leads the RA Plus… Read more by David Evans August 2, 2020 3 min
Rally Opinion DirtFish’s Italy diary: Alén and the famous rooftop Turns out I’m boring. I know. That’s what I thought. Boring. Boring is, apparently, a banked test track on the roof of a building in… Read more by David Evans August 1, 2020 3 min
Rally Features Tanak vs Neuville: Hyundai WRC battle resumes in Italy Some thought Hyundai Motorsport team principal Andrea Adamo was joking when he talked about using the opening round of the European Rally Championship as a… Read more by David Evans August 1, 2020 3 min
