ARA News How a three-minute lead became a six-second win at Olympus Don’t be fooled. On the face of it, last week’s Olympus Rally presented by DirtFish was one of the closest American rallies in history. It… Read more by David Evans April 14, 2025 5 min
WRC News Bruno Thiry handed Subaru in search of Ypres redemption Subaru owner Jim Harrison has turned dream-maker for one of rallying’s biggest names from the ’90s. When Briton Harrison purchased an ex-Bruno Thiry Subaru Impreza… Read more by David Evans April 12, 2025 2 min
ARA News Pastrana’s impression of his new ‘McRae-esque’ Subaru West of Tacoma, east of Aberdeen, in the lower reaches of the Olympic National Forest, there’s a flash of yellow and blue between the trees…. Read more by David Evans April 11, 2025 3 min
ARA Features The Olympus WRC history beyond the controversial obvious Think of the World Rally Championship in Washington and your mind will almost inevitably wander to that epic era-ender in the winter of 1986. It’s… Read more by David Evans April 10, 2025 3 min
WRC News Reid resigns as FIA deputy president FIA deputy president for sport Robert Reid resigned from his position with the governing body of world motorsport on Thursday. The 2001 World Rally champion… Read more by David Evans April 10, 2025 2 min
WRC News Latvala won’t be back in WRC service park until Sardinia It was, if we’re honest, one of the least surprising answers in the history of the World Rally Championship. Turns out Jari-Matti Latvala is not… Read more by David Evans April 7, 2025 2 min
Rally Features Mike Nicholson obituary: Co-driver turned Vauxhall supremo Mike Nicholson, who sadly passed yesterday, was one of Britain’s very best co-drivers, but he was a man who had his eye and his heart… Read more by David Evans April 2, 2025 3 min
WRC News Toyota taking responsibility for Katsuta’s latest crash Toyota team principal Jari-Matti Latvala has absolved Takamoto Katsuta of blame for the final-stage Safari Rally Kenya crash which cost the Japanese driver fourth place…. Read more by David Evans April 1, 2025 2 min
WRC Features When Kankkunen defied all logic to take his first WRC win At 47 years old, Rauno Aaltonen must have wondered what more he had to do. He’d done this event 22 times, finished second on four… Read more by David Evans March 30, 2025 3 min
WRC Opinion Why roughness should never be a question on Safari There was a lot of talk about Juha Kankkunen’s 1985 Safari Rally win last week. But the famous Finn’s return to the top step of… Read more by David Evans March 28, 2025 3 min
WRC News Toyota’s Fowler impressed by Hyundai Safari improvement For Toyota technical director Tom Fowler, there was far too much blue on Sunday’s Safari Rally Kenya podium. After four years of Yairises dominating at… Read more by David Evans March 27, 2025 2 min
WRC Features Following in the footsteps of Burns and McRae There was once a time when Safari Rally success demanded a Brit. As the nineties neared the noughties, Colin McRae and Richard Burns had the… Read more by David Evans March 25, 2025 3 min
WRC News All-women panel stewards latest WRC event in Kenya Last week’s Safari Rally Kenya was a landmark event for the FIA, with an all-women panel of stewards for the third round of the 2025… Read more by David Evans March 25, 2025 2 min
ARA News Pastrana returns to ARA in all-new, second-tier Subaru Six-time American champion Travis Pastrana will give Subaru’s all-new WRX its debut when he returns to the ARA National Championship presented by Kubota at next… Read more by David Evans March 25, 2025 2 min
WRC News Evans trying to ‘ignore’ championship table This time last year, it was six. Year before it was three. This time? Try 36. Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin, welcome to the history… Read more by David Evans March 23, 2025 2 min
ARA News The driver who decimated a usually tight fight Let’s be honest, there’s nothing new about a dominant performance in American rallying. Back in the beginning it was all about Buffum and, down the… Read more by David Evans March 22, 2025 2 min
WRC News WRC gets new fuel supplier after P1 collapse TotalEnergies will take over as the World Rally Championship’s official fuel supplier for the remainder of this season. P1 Performance Fuels went into administration last… Read more by David Evans March 21, 2025 2 min
WRC Features The reality of rallying a Kei car on the Safari Did Colin McRae want to do the Safari Rally? Yes please. Did he want to do it in a Subaru Vivio Sedan 4WD? According to… Read more by David Evans March 21, 2025 3 min
