WRC News The Hyundai tactic Toyota would have copied Propaganda or performance? That was a key question which ran through Hyundai Motorsport’s assault on Rally Finland last week. The common thinking is that the… Read more by David Evans August 11, 2022 2 min
WRC News What’s in store for Rally New Zealand’s return Kaukapakapa. Give it a go. Don’t think about it, have one quick look and give it a go. Not as easy as it looks. Especially… Read more by David Evans August 9, 2022 3 min
WRC Features Inside the making of Toyota Carpool Rallyoke Takamoto Katsuta was hooked. Seriously hooked. He dipped in for another go and grinned. There’s always a touch of the anomalous about Finland, but the… Read more by David Evans August 9, 2022 3 min
Rally News Röhrl and Mikkola’s sons recreate 50-year-old rally The 25-year-old German slowed his Ford Capri to a stop alongside the marshal who had waved him down. He might have to wait a while…. Read more by David Evans August 8, 2022 3 min
WRC Features How Tänak beat the odds and exacted his revenge Markko Märtin is the most practical of people. And I know I try his patience. I think I might have been doing just that on… Read more by David Evans August 7, 2022 5 min
WRC Opinion David Evans: Solberg is far better than this looks The blond hair. The blue and orange overalls. They sat in stark contrast to the surrounding Finnish evergreenery. They sat broken. They sat inconsolable. Twenty-four… Read more by David Evans August 5, 2022 3 min
WRC Features An inside look at Latvala and Toyota’s gleaming WRC history It’s the start of the stage and the Finn is talking to his engineer. There’s some degree of urgency, the conversation is focused on the… Read more by David Evans August 3, 2022 3 min
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
