Rally Features Why Mexico wants Mads Østberg for president It’s not a line you hear every day. But on Friday morning just south of León the line was sung long and loud by Mexicans… Read more by David Evans April 1, 2022 3 min
Rally Features What to expect from this weekend’s Rally of Nations Forget Benito Guerra ves Matthew Wilson battling Harri Rovanperä against Adrien Fourmaux taking on Mads Østberg. This week’s Rally of Nations Guanajuato is about México… Read more by David Evans April 1, 2022 3 min
WRC Features When the WRC trumped James Bond México and México City in particular is understandably proud of its main square. London has Trafalgar. New Yorkers call it Time. And for Venetians it’s… Read more by David Evans March 26, 2022 3 min
WRC Features The Mexican city that provides one of rallying’s greatest stages The Lucha Libre. Few embraced it quite so fully as eight-time World Rally Champion co-driver Julien Ingrassia. Next week’s Guanajuato ceremonial start won’t be quite… Read more by David Evans March 25, 2022 2 min
WRC Podcast Revised penalties aren’t the answer to WRC’s hybrid issue The FIA’s recent decision to cut the penalty for hybrid failure from 10 to two minutes is a disincentive for Compact Dynamics to fix the… Read more by David Evans March 25, 2022 3 min
WRC News WRC teams getting “all we want” from Pirelli Paul Hembery got it. There was no marketing flannel, no nonsense. Pirelli’s former motorsport director delivered his lines straigt and true. Victory on a control… Read more by David Evans March 24, 2022 2 min
WRC Features How Galmiche’s fairytale WRC dream came true Two months ago today Isabelle Galmiche’s dream came true. She won the Monte Carlo Rally alongside Sébastien Loeb in an M-Sport Ford Puma Rally1 Hybrid…. Read more by David Evans March 23, 2022
WRC Features How being less Finnish helped Latvala conquer Mexico If there was a Rally México to win, 2016 – the one with the 50-miler on the final – would be most people’s choice. Jari-Matti… Read more by David Evans March 22, 2022 3 min
WRC Opinion How León grew as a city while Rally México grew as a rally I used to think it was my mind playing tricks on me. It’s not. The journey time from Guanajuato International Airport to downtown León has… Read more by David Evans March 21, 2022 2 min
WRC Features Why the Rally México winner always wears cowboy boots Sébastien Loeb looked slightly bemused. What was wrong with his own shoes? He quite liked his Citroën-liveried Sabelt race boots. They’d certainly served him well… Read more by David Evans March 18, 2022 2 min
WRC News Obituary: Safari Rally star Vic Preston Jr. The Nissan 200SX coasted to a halt, gearbox broken. With hopes of a Safari Rally win dashed for another year, Vic Preston Junior and co-driver… Read more by David Evans March 17, 2022 3 min
WRC Features Where has Rally New Zealand been? When the World Rally Championship departed the viaduct basin and Auckland in 2012, the series’ future down there was definitely debatable. The Rally New Zealand… Read more by David Evans March 16, 2022 3 min
WRC Features What made Vic Elford so special Passing on somebody else’s good wishes to a driver fighting for a win on the Monte Carlo Rally can be a little bit tricky. But… Read more by David Evans March 14, 2022 3 min
WRC Features When Block caused a flock in León It was a pretty regular Friday afternoon on the Bulevar Paseo de los Niños, just off the main drag in and out of León. Pretty… Read more by David Evans March 13, 2022 3 min
Women in motorsport Opinion What DirtFish Women’s Summit meant to those who were there For the last three days I’ve watched Josie’s coffee go cold. Don’t get me wrong, the coffee’s good here – we’re talking Seattle, home of… Read more by David Evans March 11, 2022 3 min
WRC Features Why Wheatley is the right choice for rallying At the end of October last year, Andrew Wheatley climbed out of a rally car, straightened his back and smiled at the memory of what… Read more by David Evans March 10, 2022 3 min
Rally News FIA reveals Matton’s replacement as rally director Andrew Wheatley has been named as the new FIA rally director, replacing Yves Matton who left the role in December. Wheatley, a former business development… Read more by David Evans March 10, 2022 2 min
WRC Features The first real sign of spice between Loeb and Ogier We were still a few months short of the infamous Rally Germany meltdown, but Sébastiens Loeb and Ogier had locked horns a few times before… Read more by David Evans March 7, 2022 3 min
