WRC Features What’s to come in the biggest year of unknowns yet Five years ago today, the mythical 2017 cars arrived. These were the cars that delivered the dream. There was more power than drivers had known… Read more by David Evans January 1, 2022 3 min
WRC News M-Sport names Chris Williams as technical director He’s the man responsible for almost 1000 rally wins around the world with the Ford Fiesta R5. He’s the man who made Sébastien Ogier’s car… Read more by David Evans January 1, 2022 3 min
WRC Features How Latvala’s taken Toyota to the next level Suddenly the car park seemed much smaller than Jari-Matti Latvala had remembered. Pulling another gear he was happy as the Toyota Yaris Rally1 around him… Read more by David Evans December 30, 2021 3 min
WRC Features “I actually felt a bit sick” – What 2022 means for Lappi This wasn’t the start to the conversation either of us was expecting. “You tested yesterday.” “No I didn’t.” “Oh. You sure?” “Yes, it was last… Read more by David Evans December 29, 2021 5 min
WRC News Neuville: Nobody can be ‘comfortable’ ahead of Monte Driver comfort, for the time being, is a thing of the past in the World Rally Championship. That’s according to Hyundai Motorsport’s Thierry Neuville as… Read more by David Evans December 29, 2021 2 min
Rally Features My season highlight – David Evans: Magical Mull Traveling the globe with the World Rally Championship, David Evans loves his job. But a trip to Mull in October was one of his highlights… Read more by David Evans December 27, 2021 5 min
WRC Features How a “miracle” saved Hyundai’s Rally1 preparations Rarely has 1970s rock been so popular in the Frankfurt suburbs. One band in particular is popular on the Alzenau streets. Supertramp. Specifically the fourth… Read more by David Evans December 27, 2021 3 min
WRC News How Neuville reckons Hyundai line-up stacks up vs Toyota Thierry Neuville’s not having it. He’s just not. No matter how you try to him, he’s standing by his side. For him, Hyundai’s World Rally… Read more by David Evans December 24, 2021 3 min
WRC News Hyundai insistent it’s on track with 2022 WRC program Hyundai Motorsport’s senior management has spoken exclusively to DirtFish on the challenges it faces heading into 2022, a year it fully expects to be back… Read more by David Evans December 23, 2021 3 min
WRC News M-Sport hopes travel restrictions won’t affect Monte plans For the second season in succession, there is concern among British-based World Rally Championship workers at increased restrictions around entering France for next month’s Monte… Read more by David Evans December 22, 2021 2 min
WRC News FIA rally director Matton leaves position FIA rally director Yves Matton has left his position with the governing body. Matton, who had run the FIA’s rallies department since January 2018, offered… Read more by David Evans December 21, 2021 2 min
WRC News Fourmaux gets full-time Rally1 seat with M-Sport It’s 20 years since there was no full-time French World Rally Championship driver competing at the highest level, and on Tuesday M-Sport allayed the fears… Read more by David Evans December 21, 2021 3 min
Rally News Max McRae graduates to full Subaru program for 2022 Almost two decades on from his father’s last full season with Subaru, Max McRae will drive an Impreza WRX STI through 2022. McRae will utilize… Read more by David Evans December 20, 2021 3 min
WRC News Lappi won’t compete when Ogier does next season Toyota will not run Sébastien Ogier and Esapekka Lappi on the same event this season, despite having the option of a fifth Yaris Rally1 later… Read more by David Evans December 20, 2021 2 min
WRC News Breen moves on from historic rallying to focus on WRC As usual, DirtFish delivers the latest news from an M-Sport Monday and today’s news is that lead driver Craig Breen has retired. Retired, that is,… Read more by David Evans December 20, 2021 3 min
WRC News Fowler rules himself out of Hyundai boss contention Toyota technical director Tom Fowler has ruled himself out of the running for the role of Hyundai Motorsport World Rally Championship team principal. Fowler was… Read more by David Evans December 18, 2021 2 min
WRC News Toyota’s Tom Fowler emerges as Hyundai team boss candidate Toyota Gazoo Racing technical director Tom Fowler has emerged as the latest name to be linked to Hyundai Motorsport’s list of potential new World Rally… Read more by David Evans December 17, 2021 2 min
WRC News Door still open for Loeb as M-Sport holds Monte entries The door remains open for Sebastien Loeb to make a sensational World Rally Championship return following M-Sport’s decision to hold its entries open for next… Read more by David Evans December 17, 2021 2 min
