WRC News Missing Monza symptomatic of gloomy Tänak season Ott Tänak will not look back on 2021 with any great fondness. Were he the Queen of England, he might even be tempted to label… Read more by David Evans November 2, 2021
WRC News Tänak to miss WRC season finale, Suninen to deputize Hyundai Motorsport’s Ott Tänak will sit out this month’s World Rally Championship season finale, the Monza Rally, for family reasons. The 2019 world champion will… Read more by David Evans November 2, 2021
WRC Features Is this the end of Rally México? It’s almost as if TS Eliot was there with us. Like he was standing in the service park watching the near-blind panic as Europeans went… Read more by David Evans November 1, 2021 3 min
Cars Features Seattle sights and HQ wonderment – our trip to DirtFish There’s that noise again. I haven’t missed it. OK, I’ve maybe missed it a little bit. There is, however, a lot to be said for… Read more by David Evans October 26, 2021 3 min
WRC News The adaptations required to excel in the Rally1 car Next year’s World Rally Champion will be the driver able to find a natural feeling with the next generation Rally1 cars quicker than anybody else,… Read more by David Evans October 26, 2021 1 min
WRC News WRC teams step up push for Rally1 co-driver seat rethink Factory crews in the World Rally Championship have written to the FIA to discuss concerns regarding their seating position in next season’s Rally1 cars. Collectively,… Read more by David Evans October 24, 2021 3 min
Rally News Winning start for Paddon’s electric Hyundai Hayden Paddon scored a debut win for his Hyundai Kona EV at the Waimate 50 Motorsport Festival at the weekend. Running in the unlimited four-wheel… Read more by David Evans October 24, 2021 3 min
WRC Features The underdog WRC triumph that proved Evans’ class Elfyn Evans is spending the current gap between World Rally Championship rounds preparing to take on Sébastien Ogier in a last round title decider for… Read more by David Evans October 23, 2021 3 min
WRC News M-Sport: 2022 Monte could be one of biggest tests for WRC M-Sport Ford World Rally Team principal Richard Millener has backed his squad to take up the challenge of January’s Monte Carlo Rally – an event… Read more by David Evans October 22, 2021 3 min
Rally News Paddon to give electric Hyundai competitive bow in hillclimb Hayden Paddon will give his Hyundai Kona EV its competition debut at this weekend’s Horsepower Hillclimb in New Zealand. The one-time World Rally Championship event… Read more by David Evans October 21, 2021 3 min
WRC News Breen expects 2022 advantage with earlier test focus Craig Breen says not “jumping in and out of the current car” and instead starting his 2022 testing program early will put him at an… Read more by David Evans October 21, 2021 2 min
Rally Features The journey to America’s ‘urban Festival of Speed’ The Chattanooga Motorcar Festival wasn’t something I’d seen coming. Certainly not on the same weekend that Sébastien Ogier could be crowned World Rally Champion on… Read more by David Evans October 20, 2021 3 min
WRC News Experience like Loeb’s “can only benefit” M-Sport – Breen Craig Breen says he would welcome Sébastien Loeb’s experience and input into the development of the Ford Puma Rally1 Hybrid if the nine-time World Rally… Read more by David Evans October 20, 2021 2 min
WRC News Loeb tests M-Sport’s 2022 Puma in Spain Sébastien Loeb tested M-Sport Ford World Rally Team’s Puma Hybrid Rally1 car in Spain on Tuesday. DirtFish understands the nine-time world champion spent the full… Read more by David Evans October 19, 2021 2 min
Rally Features How Breen’s unusual Ford return went The Ford Escort WRC was a car bolted together in record time. It wasn’t the Blue Oval’s most successful rally weapon, but it was a… Read more by David Evans October 18, 2021 2 min
WRC Opinion WRC 2022: The perfect calendar for a perfect season? Rarely is an entire day – like all 24 hours of it – spent sitting down so enormously worthwhile. Imagine it. As you read this,… Read more by David Evans October 16, 2021 3 min
WRC News Monte sticking to service plan called “stupid” by teams Despite Hyundai Motorsport team principal Andrea Adamo calling it “one of the most stupid things I have seen in my life” the organizers of the… Read more by David Evans October 15, 2021 3 min
WRC News FIA widens the net for Rally Star talent search The FIA’s work is done. Rally Star has served its purpose. The next Tommi Mäkinen has been found. Virtually flying Finn Tommi Mäkinen (the second)… Read more by David Evans October 13, 2021
