WRC Features David Evans: What makes Finland so frightening Three months out of the car hadn’t prepared Sébastien Ogier for what he’d just done. Not nearly. France… welcome to Finland. I’m taking you back… Read more by David Evans August 1, 2022 3 min
WRC Features Remembering a wild Rally Finland moment It had been a while since I’d stood on the corner of Lintulantie and Palsankyläntie. The last time? Friday August 2, 2013. Shortly before 11am… Read more by David Evans July 31, 2022 3 min
WRC News Your chance to own Ott Tänak’s helmet When did you last have the chance to own a genuine piece of 2022 World Rally Championship history? Exactly. Hardly ever. And when did you… Read more by David Evans July 27, 2022 3 min
WRC News Mikkelsen encourages WRC2 rules rethink Strategic approach or running scared? The reality is somewhere in between the two. That reality is a privateer considering the geography of their WRC2 campaign…. Read more by David Evans July 26, 2022 2 min
WRC News M-Sport wants Breen to “throw caution to the wind” There won’t be a lot of reading in the Rally Finland briefing document M-Sport Ford team principal Richard Millener prepares for lead driver Craig Breen…. Read more by David Evans July 25, 2022 5 min
WRC News Why Estonia’s spectator numbers went down in 2022 What do COVID, Russian neighbors and the popularity of WRC’s All Live service have in common? They’re all reasons why spectator numbers were down at… Read more by David Evans July 22, 2022 2 min
WRC News Lappi: “I don’t feel that I’m fast anymore” Esapekka Lappi doesn’t do talk for the sake of talk. Verbose he is not. Cool, calm and coherent he most definitely is. He’s also blessed… Read more by David Evans July 21, 2022 3 min
WRC News Fourmaux wasn’t breathing properly earlier in season Remember Ayrton Senna’s out of this world 1988 lap of Monaco to take pole by almost a second-and-a-half over his McLaren team-mate Alain Prost? Arguably,… Read more by David Evans July 20, 2022 2 min
WRC News The WRC community pays tribute to Pearl Wilson Pearl Wilson fixed me a look that put me very much in my place. We were talking about an upcoming road rally in Cumbria and… Read more by David Evans July 18, 2022 5 min
WRC Features How Estonia rocked despite its home hero’s defeat For the avoidance of doubt, Ott Tänak is not a rock star. Except he is. He definitely is. It would have been easy to jump… Read more by David Evans July 18, 2022 5 min
WRC News How smoother jumps can make the ‘best Rally Estonia ever’ The route for this week’s Rally Estonia was loosely planned thousands of years ago. Seriously. To be more precise, it would have been around 15,000… Read more by David Evans July 13, 2022 3 min
News M-Sport quietly confident for Estonia Not even some mid-summer drizzle could damped the enthusiasm around Dovenby Hall last week. Looking out at grey skies, Malcolm Wilson’s telephone rang again. And… Read more by David Evans July 12, 2022 3 min
WRC News Latvala, Millener and Moncet to race each other in Estonia Forget Sunday, Thursday’s where the real fight for Estonian supremacy will come. Why? That’s when Toyota, Hyundai and M-Sport Ford go head-to-head (to-head) in lorries…. Read more by David Evans July 11, 2022 2 min
WRC News The upgraded Toyota the WRC will see in Tartu Toyota technical director Tom Fowler has talked the talk his rivals didn’t want to hear. After talking DirtFish through the reliability-first plan earlier this season,… Read more by David Evans July 10, 2022 2 min
WRC Features Pressure building on Moncet within Hyundai Clandestine meetings, Machiavellian plotting and planning. It’s been quite a week, what with a leader in the firing line and an organization apparently divided. I… Read more by David Evans July 9, 2022 3 min
WRC News Räikkönen to contest Rally Finland in a Peugeot Jyväskylä has seen its fair share of drama down the years, but the 2009 Rally Finland was probably one occasion when it was more something… Read more by David Evans July 8, 2022 2 min
WRC News Loeb poised for Acropolis as next WRC outing Nine-time World Rally champion Sébastien Loeb is thought likely to return to an M-Sport Ford Puma Rally1 at September’s Acropolis Rally in Greece. Beyond admitting… Read more by David Evans July 4, 2022 2 min
WRC News M-Sport calls for Safari route rethink M-Sport Ford principal Richard Millener has urged Safari Rally Kenya organizers to rethink the route for next year’s African round of the World Rally Championship…. Read more by David Evans July 2, 2022 3 min
