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
WRC News Mouton receives FIA lifetime achievement award Michèle Mouton has been awarded an Lifetime Achievement Award by the FIA at its 2024 prize giving ceremony in Kigali. Mouton, who served as FIA… Read more by Luke Barry December 13, 2024 2 min
Off-Road Podcast America’s addictively gruelling off-road competition If you could design the world’s toughest off-road challenge, it would look something like this. It’s an endurance test. It borrows elements of time, speed,… Read more by Luke Barry December 13, 2024 5 min
WRC News Latvala keen for more Monza-style events in WRC Toyota team principal Jari-Matti Latvala would like to see events like Monza included in future World Rally Championship calendars. Rally Monza was drafted into the… Read more by Luke Barry December 12, 2024
Cars News Escort Mk1 reimagined by Boreham Boreham. You don’t need me to tell you, do you? To us it’s not a small village in the south of England. It’s Ford. Today,… Read more by Luke Barry December 12, 2024
WRC News WRC points system revamped for 2025 As expected, the World Rally Championship points scoring system will change for 2025, scrapping the ‘Saturday points’ that were introduced in 2024. Veering away from… Read more by Luke Barry December 11, 2024
WRC News Hyundai fined for Rally Japan homologation discrepancy Hyundai has been fined €25,000 for a homologation paperwork issue discovered at the 2024 World Rally Championship finale, Rally Japan. On Sunday after the conclusion… Read more by Luke Barry December 11, 2024
