Rally Features Hollie McRae: Rovanperä the best person to break dad’s record It had to happen. It was always going to happen. When it did, the McRae family was ready. Colin McRae was the youngest ever World… Read more by David Evans October 17, 2022 2 min
WRC News How loyalty has given Paddon another crack at the WRC At times, Hayden Paddon’s belligerence has been deeply frustrating. Why wouldn’t he just listen? Why wouldn’t he just pick up the phone? Couldn’t he understand… Read more by David Evans October 17, 2022 2 min
WRC News M-Sport in talks with Solberg for 2023 M-Sport managing director Malcolm Wilson has opened negotiations with Oliver Solberg with a view to putting the 21-year-old in a Ford Puma Rally1 Hybrid for… Read more by David Evans October 17, 2022 1 min
WRC News Rovanperä receives Colin’s boots from McRae family They’ve always been the biggest shoes a young World Rally Championship pretender could look to fill. And for 27 years, they’d remained unfilled. Until Auckland,… Read more by David Evans October 14, 2022 2 min
WRC News Solberg to contest Cambrian Rally Out of darkness cometh Llandudno, Wales and some of the world’s best stages. That’s the story for Oliver Solberg right now. Having been dropped by… Read more by David Evans October 13, 2022 3 min
Rally Features Winding back the years with the McRaes Sleeping for pretty much the duration of his flight from one west coast to another – Australia to America – might have put a monster… Read more by David Evans October 13, 2022 5 min
WRC News Breen selects Fulton as his new WRC co-driver James Fulton has been selected to be Paul Nagle’s long-term replacement as Craig Breen’s navigator in the World Rally Championship. Nagle announced he would vacate… Read more by David Evans October 11, 2022 3 min
WRC Photos Gallery: A local look through Rally New Zealand history New Zealand has to be one of the most picturesque places on planet Earth. It’s got everything. It’s the place that brought Tolkein’s ring thing… Read more by David Evans October 10, 2022 3 min
WRC Opinion What does Nagle retiring mean for Breen? Just over a decade ago, a piece of Craig Breen died. When his co-driver Gareth ‘Jaffa’ Roberts was killed on the Targa Florio Rally there… Read more by David Evans October 8, 2022 3 min
WRC News Neuville has three drivers in mind who could join Hyundai Thierry Neuville says a return to the Hyundai Motorsport team for Andreas Mikkelsen could be a way forward for the beleaguered Korean manufacturer in 2023…. Read more by David Evans October 6, 2022 3 min
WRC Features Making sense of Hyundai’s Solberg split – and what comes next Dear Hyundai. Chicken meet egg. Egg meet chicken. The decision to drop Oliver Solberg for a more experienced driver shines a light on one of… Read more by David Evans October 6, 2022 3 min
WRC News Solberg and Hyundai to part ways at end of 2022 Oliver Solberg and Hyundai Motorsport have parted company after two years, with the Korean manufacturer citing a change of direction for their World Rally Championship… Read more by David Evans October 6, 2022 3 min
WRC Opinion What Rally New Zealand got right…and wrong This is one of those heading north from NZ, eight-day weeks. A times-two Tuesday. Landing in Seattle before I’d left Auckland offered the opportunity for… Read more by David Evans October 5, 2022 5 min
WRC Features David Evans: Watching Rovanperä grow to greatness Kalle Rovanperä opened the door and motioned me in. We were a couple of days out from Rally Finland, and this was his downtime. Opportunities… Read more by David Evans October 4, 2022 5 min
WRC Features Did Rally New Zealand deliver on the hype? Sébastien Ogier thought about it. It was a difficult decision. Conditions were shocking and he had completely the wrong rubber beneath him. What to do?… Read more by David Evans October 3, 2022 5 min
WRC Features The symbolism in what Rovanperä has achieved Good as he was at driving rally cars, Marcus Grönholm was – and probably is – rubbish at lighting cigars. Two decades ago I sat… Read more by David Evans October 2, 2022 3 min
WRC Features How the purpose-built Jack’s Ridge powerstage was made This story comes to you live from a tent at the side of the Rally New Zealand powerstage. Welcome to Jack’s Ridge. This, my friends,… Read more by David Evans October 1, 2022 3 min
WRC Features Unexpectedly meeting a hero at Rally New Zealand Simon Larkin, I’m very sorry. It’s thanks to Simon that I’m standing in Helensville, New Zealand on a Thursday morning, readying myself for some of… Read more by David Evans September 30, 2022 3 min
