WRC News Paddon attracted by WRC’s future – but not as a driver Hayden Paddon is attracted by the World Rally Championship’s next set of regulations in 2027, but not as a driver. The reigning European Rally champion… Read more by Luke Barry January 9, 2025 3 min
WRC Features The driver entering three WRC championships in one year Rally drivers will often be called single-minded. Obsessed by their sole goal of winning the stage, rally or championship. Normally, that means just one title… Read more by Luke Barry January 8, 2025 3 min
WRC News Neuville pushes team-mates to play ‘team game’ Hyundai let its first World Rally Championship clean sweep slip in 2024, and new World Rally champion Thierry Neuville has made it very clear that… Read more by Luke Barry January 7, 2025 2 min
WRC Features What’s new for WRC 2025? On the face of it, not much is changing in the World Rally Championship for 2025. Yes, there’ll be a new reigning world champion (and… Read more by Luke Barry January 6, 2025 5 min
WRC News Entries for WRC 2025 season opener revealed The very first entry of the 2025 World Rally Championship has been published, with 70 crews taking on the season-opening Monte Carlo Rally. Headlined by… Read more by Luke Barry January 3, 2025 2 min
WRC Features The “paradox” in Ogier’s unusual season What must the mood be like today at chez Ogier? With rallying far from his mind during precious time with family, likely very good. But… Read more by Luke Barry December 31, 2024
Rally Features How good is Verstappen the rally driver? Love him or loathe him, that Max Verstappen is the best Formula 1 driver in the world right now isn’t really up for debate. Nine… Read more by Luke Barry December 29, 2024
WRC Features The season that unlocked Meeke’s WRC career Drivers weren’t exactly spoilt for career opportunities in the World Rally Championship come 2009. The global financial crisis of 2008 forced Subaru’s hand as it… Read more by Luke Barry December 28, 2024 5 min
WRC Features The culture that created the WRC’s most dominant force Candidly, he points out: “I was only a small cog in the gearbox!” But no gearbox can function without all of its cogs working in… Read more by Luke Barry December 27, 2024 5 min
WRC Features Where Volkswagen was 10 years ahead of the game The primary focus in all forms of motorsport is performance. It’s the ultimate parameter of success. Sébastien Ogier grilling steaks from the engine bay of… Read more by Luke Barry December 27, 2024 5 min
WRC Features How close did Loeb come to racing in F1? Somewhere, over there, in a parallel universe, Sébastien Loeb isn’t just a nine-time World Rally champion. Because had his 2009 WRC season not turned upside down, or… Read more by Luke Barry December 24, 2024
Rally Features Why Paddon’s dad ended a 22-year retirement Context is everything. Twenty two years is deemed absolutely nothing in terms of the amount of time elapsed between Kalle Rovanperä’s birth and his first… Read more by Luke Barry December 23, 2024 5 min
WRC Features Getting to know WRC’s 60-year-old outlier Nineteen years the senior of his next 2024 Rally1 rival, and with fewer career points than Thierry Neuville managed to score in Sardinia alone –… Read more by Luke Barry December 21, 2024
WRC Features Who is Josh McErlean? I’ve had a long-standing joke with M-Sport’s new 2025 World Rally Championship driver, Josh McErlean, for years. The so-called ‘Josh McErlean Talent Factory’, as we’ve… Read more by Luke Barry December 19, 2024 3 min
WRC News McErlean completes M-Sport’s 2025 WRC lineup Josh McErlean will drive an M-Sport Ford Puma Rally1 for the full 2025 World Rally Championship season, as team-mate to Grégoire Munster. McErlean, 25, steps… Read more by Luke Barry December 19, 2024 2 min
WRC News Munster to lead M-Sport in 2025 WRC season As expected, Grégoire Munster has retained his M-Sport Ford drive for the 2025 World Rally Championship season. Munster, who turns 26 next week on Christmas… Read more by Luke Barry December 18, 2024 2 min
WRC News Rovanperä return doesn’t change stakes for Evans Elfyn Evans doesn’t see 2024 as a missed opportunity to grab a World Rally Championship title in the absence of Toyota team-mate Kalle Rovanperä, but… Read more by Luke Barry December 16, 2024 3 min
Rally Features The rare clubman chance to sample Rally1 life Gone are the days of the Ford you saw Colin McRae drive now being pedalled by a national hero in their local championship. Or said… Read more by Luke Barry December 14, 2024
