WRC Features What makes Rally Italy such a challenge? Talk about a confidence rally and you would immediately pick out the scary-fast ones: Finland, Sweden and the like. Those are the events where you… Read more by David Evans June 1, 2020 3 min
WRC Opinion Dirtfish launches Rally Italy week Alghero harbor will be considerably quieter on Sunday afternoon. With no World Rally Championship in town, the will be no winner of Rally Italia Sardegna… Read more by David Evans June 1, 2020 3 min
WRC News Toyota won’t test 2021 WRC car yet despite rule change Toyota will not test its 2021-specification GR Yaris WRC this month, despite the relaxing of the World Rally Championship’s testing ban. From today all three… Read more by David Evans June 1, 2020 2 min
Rally News Breen creates ‘ultimate’ Escort Mk2 for sim racing World Rally Championship star Craig Breen is about to take simulated rallying to the next level with Tuesday night’s Suirway Group Mk2 Escort Challenge. It’s… Read more by David Evans May 29, 2020 3 min
WRC News WRC testing ban to be lifted next week World Rally Championship drivers and co-drivers will be back in their cars for the first time since March when testing returns in Finland next month…. Read more by David Evans May 29, 2020 2 min
WRC News Ogier may consider delaying WRC retirement by a year Six-time World Rally champion Sébastien Ogier will consider remaining in the series for one more year due to the 2020 season being truncated by the… Read more by David Evans May 28, 2020 3 min
WRC News New WRC rules direction for 2022 could help rookie drivers Bringing the World Rally Championship’s top class cars to a level equivalent to Rally2 with the 2022 regulations could help bridge the gap between the… Read more by David Evans May 27, 2020 2 min
WRC News Tänak almost quit driving after tricky 2012 Reigning World Rally champion Ott Tänak came close to leaving the driver’s seat after he was dropped by M-Sport at the end of the 2012… Read more by David Evans May 26, 2020 2 min
Tech News Prodrive’s ventilator project ready for use Success in Africa is nothing new for Prodrive – the team guided Subaru Impreza WRCs to vicory twice on the Safari Rally in 1997 and… Read more by David Evans May 26, 2020 2 min
WRC Features The untold theory about Toyota’s 1998 WRC heartbreak DirtFish’s Spin, The Rally Pod has offered fresh insight into the conclusion of one of the most hotly fought battles in the World Rally Championship’s… Read more by David Evans May 26, 2020 5 min
WRC News Ogier: I shouldn’t be champion after three rallies Toyota star Sébastien Ogier has told DirtFish the World Rally Championship needs more action on the stages in 2020 before any titles can be won…. Read more by David Evans May 26, 2020 2 min
WRC News Breen to compete at Rally Finland for Hyundai Craig Breen has been confirmed to drive Hyundai Motorsport’s third car at August’s Rally Finland. The Irishman, who finished on the podium in Jyväskylä with… Read more by David Evans May 25, 2020 2 min
WRC News DirtFish Portugal Week: And the winner is… Toyota Gazoo Racing driver Sébastien Ogier scored his second win of the season at last week’s Rally Portugal. The Frenchman was comfortably ahead at the… Read more by David Evans May 24, 2020 1 min
WRC Features The disaster of Rally Portugal 1986 Markku Alén has never been one for chasing the limelight. So when he – voluntarily – appeared in the Portuguese media in the days before… Read more by David Evans May 24, 2020 5 min
Rally Features The best Portuguese drivers from six decades of rallying Portugal is undoubedly a rally-mad nation. Finding old photos and videos of the long-time World Rally Championship staple without walls of fans either side of… Read more by David Evans May 23, 2020 5 min
WRC News Tänak drives rally car for first time since Mexico in R5 test Ott Tänak has returned to the wheel of a rally car for the first time since Rally México, driving a Hyundai i20 R5 at a… Read more by David Evans May 23, 2020 2 min
Rally Features How a new Subaru burned the Portugal opposition Girona. About as far from Portugal as Spain can get. But it was in the hills high above the north-eastern Catalan city that Richard Burns… Read more by David Evans May 22, 2020 3 min
WRC Features Rally Portugal’s memorable 1990s moments Two stories, both Scottish, bookend the Nineties on Rally Portugal. Both are incredibly dramatic and both well worthy of their place in #DirtFishPortugalweek, but which… Read more by David Evans May 22, 2020 5 min
