WRC News WRC’s hybrid future secured with new deal DirtFish understands the World Rally Championship’s immediate hybrid future has been confirmed following last-minute meetings between series stakeholders. The World Rally Championship’s current agreement with… Read more by David Evans September 18, 2023 3 min
WRC News Solberg ‘dreaming’ of Rally1 return For Oliver Solberg, nothing’s changed. The dream is still very much alive and as real as it’s ever been. The 21-year-old’s focus remains firmly fixed… Read more by David Evans September 17, 2023 2 min
WRC Features Does Italy’s new Delta make the grade? Thirty-four years on from Didier Auriol tumbling a brand-new Lancia Delta HF Integrale 16v across Tuscany on 1989’s Rallye Sanremo, I didn’t expect to be… Read more by David Evans September 16, 2023 3 min
WRC News Pirelli to depart WRC next season Pirelli’s time in the World Rally Championship will end at the conclusion of next season following its decision not to tender for the 2025 supply… Read more by David Evans September 16, 2023 2 min
WRC News Michelin linked to WRC return The tire war has returned to the World Rally Championship. But only for a month. Midnight Friday (European time) is the deadline for tire manufacturers… Read more by David Evans September 15, 2023 2 min
Rally Opinion Suninen’s CER entry is telling for his WRC future Dani Sordo paused. He thought about the question. Then he momentarily pretended he might not have heard it. Then he answered. Sort of. “I don’t… Read more by David Evans September 15, 2023 2 min
WRC Opinion What we learned from Ben Sulayem’s Acropolis visit Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s sixth visit to Acropolis Rally Greece might have been his most successful yet. Five times he started in Athens and five times… Read more by David Evans September 14, 2023 3 min
WRC Features Is this the rally that rebuilt Mikkelsen’s career? Twelve months ago, Andreas Mikkelsen’s career started to unfold. A rookie error cost him the WRC2 title as he clattered his Škoda into the wall… Read more by David Evans September 13, 2023 3 min
WRC News Where is the WRC going in 2025 and beyond? The world has been missing from the World Rally Championship for too long. Not anymore. Not according to Simon Larkin. Larkin is the WRC Promoter’s… Read more by David Evans September 12, 2023 3 min
Rally News What Latvala learned by winning in Toyota’s Rally2 car Jari-Matti Latvala’s journey east for last weekend’s Rally Hokkaido was about evolution and the Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 Concept. For the Finn, retribution came for… Read more by David Evans September 11, 2023 3 min
WRC News WRC Promoter doesn’t see EV as a future option The World Rally Championship has taken a significant step towards retaining hybrid and sustainable fuel from 2027 onwards. Peter Thul, who is the senior director… Read more by David Evans September 11, 2023 2 min
WRC Features David Evans: How the Acropolis was won When the wildfires gave way to some of the worst storms to hit Greece in years, the Acropolis Rally organizers must have wondered if they’d… Read more by David Evans September 11, 2023 10 min +
WRC News WRC event format change to be discussed A raft of format changes will be proposed by WRC Promoter to the World Rally Championship Commission meeting on September 22. The Munich-based promoter has… Read more by David Evans September 9, 2023 3 min
WRC News Solberg rules himself out of WRC2 title race Lying underneath a Škoda Fabia RS Rally2 on an increasingly scorching Friday, the instant chill of Jyväskylä lake felt like a lifetime ago. It was… Read more by David Evans September 9, 2023 2 min
WRC News Where is Latvala this weekend? For the second World Rally Championship week on the bounce, Jari-Matti Latvala will be competing in a factory-built Toyota. This time it’s a different class… Read more by David Evans September 7, 2023 3 min
WRC News The driver struggling for pre-Acropolis confidence Talking to Takamoto Katsuta about last year’s Acropolis Rally isn’t the easiest. It’s hard to find the positives. He was five minutes off the lead… Read more by David Evans September 6, 2023 2 min
WRC Features Will Abiteboul’s Acropolis dream come true? Nightmares weren’t exactly uncommon at Hyundai early last year. Sleeping’s become a considerably less troublesome prospect since then. And now team principal Cyril Abiteboul has… Read more by David Evans September 6, 2023
WRC News Fowler not expecting any caution from Rovanperä Toyota technical director Tom Fowler is confident Kalle Rovanperä’s Rally Finland crash won’t impact on his determination to win the four remaining World Rally Championship… Read more by David Evans September 5, 2023 2 min
