WRC News What has Toyota’s Arctic analysis uncovered? Toyota team principal Jari-Matti Latvala has adopted the opposite approach to his Hyundai counterpart Andrea Adamo did after a disappointing Monte Carlo Rally, insisting Toyota’s… Read more by David Evans March 14, 2021 2 min
WRC Features The dual motivation behind Østberg’s WRC2 defense The winter of 2018 was one of distinct discontent for Mads Østberg. I’d felt similarly before myself. Granted, I hadn’t been dropped by Citroën’s World… Read more by David Evans March 13, 2021 5 min
WRC News Ogier’s verdict on how Oliver compared to Petter Solberg Sébastien Ogier was joking. But, at the same time, he was serious. Seriously joking. How good was Oliver Solberg at last month’s Arctic Rally Finland?… Read more by David Evans March 12, 2021 3 min
WRC News WRC teams frustrated by early hybrid issues First it was week five. Then it was week eight. Finally, it was last Friday. The end of week nine. But DirtFish can now confirm… Read more by David Evans March 11, 2021 3 min
WRC Features Remembering Argentina’s WRC best – Jorge Recalde Much as we love 2021 here at DirtFish, we’re quite partial to be looking back to what happened in our world two decades ago. You… Read more by David Evans March 10, 2021 3 min
WRC News Happiest in years – so what’s next for Lappi? Hopeful of further World Rally Championship outings this season, Arctic Rally Finland star Esapekka Lappi is ready to sacrifice faster events in favor of demonstrating… Read more by David Evans March 10, 2021 2 min
WRC News How Adamo turned “tiger” for the Arctic Thierry Neuville was careful with his words. Understandably. Two cars in the top five and one on the podium on the Monte Carlo Rally didn’t… Read more by David Evans March 10, 2021 3 min
WRC News M-Sport begins running its 2022 Rally1 car M-Sport’s 2022 Rally1 car turned a wheel for the first time on Friday and will undergo initial shakedown running this week. In a groundbreaking week… Read more by David Evans March 9, 2021 2 min
WRC News Gryazin won’t make step from WRC2 until he’s “unbeatable” Russian driver Nikolay Gryazin says he will not look to step up to the World Rally Championship’s top flight until he’s proved himself in WRC2…. Read more by David Evans March 9, 2021 2 min
WRC News Organizer wants Arctic return – but not at all costs Arctic Rally Finland organizers are ready to return their Rovaniemi-based round to the World Rally Championship calendar in the future – but not at the… Read more by David Evans March 9, 2021 2 min
Rally News Fiesta Rally3 debut a ‘mission accomplished’ Eleventh place on a Finnish championship round – three minutes down on the winner – might not sound like the start of a revolution. Trust… Read more by David Evans March 8, 2021 2 min
WRC Features The first time Audi commissioned a rally car An Audi rally program at a class level? Sounds familiar… Mattias Ekström’s EKS JC A1 Quattro is not the first time Ingolstadt’s put its name… Read more by David Evans March 7, 2021 3 min
WRC News Adamo: Solberg will be in World Rally Car again in 2021 Hyundai Motorsport team principal Andrea Adamo has confirmed to DirtFish that Oliver Solberg will be back behind the wheel of an i20 Coupe WRC this… Read more by David Evans March 6, 2021 2 min
WRC Features What’s the future of the WRC’s winter rallies? Twelve months ago, there wasn’t a snowflake to be had. But the cars were there. Ready. Last month, you couldn’t move for snow; wall-to-wall whiteout…. Read more by David Evans March 6, 2021 3 min
WRC News M-Sport’s Fiesta Rally3 to make debut this weekend In a world first, M-Sport Poland’s Ford Fiesta Rally3 will make its competitive debut on this weekend’s SM O.K. Auto-Ralli in Finland. This Krakow-built car… Read more by David Evans March 4, 2021 2 min
WRC Features What Solberg thought of his World Rally Car debut Oliver Solberg rocked the World Rally Championship with an incredible World Rally Car debut aboard a Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC at Arctic Rally Finland. DirtFish… Read more by David Evans March 3, 2021 5 min
Rally News Neuville and Breen to Italian asphalt rally before Croatia Hyundai drivers Thierry Neuville and Craig Breen will tackle next week’s Rally Il Ciocco in a pair of i20 R5 cars. Based in Castelnuovo di… Read more by David Evans March 3, 2021 1 min
WRC Features The lasting memories Mikkola will leave behind Opinion between the team principals was split. For Malcolm Wilson, he was the classiest driver ever to sit in a Ford Escort. For Andrea Adamo,… Read more by David Evans March 2, 2021 5 min
