WRC News What you missed from Friday in Japan With heavy rain forecast for Friday, we always knew that the first proper day of Rally Japan was going to be eventful given how the… Read more by Luke Barry November 17, 2023 3 min
WRC News Evans heads Toyota 1-2-3 in Japan Elfyn Evans comfortably leads Rally Japan with just the superspecial remaining on Friday, as closest rival Thierry Neuville crashed out on the sixth stage. Friday… Read more by Luke Barry November 16, 2023 2 min
WRC News Neuville crashes on first corner of SS6 Thierry Neuville has crashed just 100 meters into the sixth special stage of Rally Japan. Neuville, who won the event last year, had been running second… Read more by Luke Barry November 16, 2023 1 min
WRC News How Fourmaux and Sordo crashed in the same place It’s not a sight you see every day, two Rally1 cars parked next to each other straddling a stream. But there aren’t many days like… Read more by Luke Barry November 16, 2023 2 min
WRC News Evans opens huge Japan lead, SS4 canceled Elfyn Evans leads Rally Japan from Thierry Neuville after a shortened Friday morning loop held in torrential weather. Nobody really had a clean, or enjoyable,… Read more by Luke Barry November 16, 2023 2 min
WRC News Sordo crashes out of Japan, Evans leads Dani Sordo has crashed out of Rally Japan on Friday morning’s first stage, as Elfyn Evans went fastest to take the lead of the rally…. Read more by Luke Barry November 16, 2023 2 min
WRC News Neuville wins Japan SS1, Toyotas struggle Thierry Neuville leads Rally Japan overnight ahead of Hyundai team-mate Esapekka Lappi after Thursday evening’s superspecial stage. This year’s Rally Japan kicked off with a… Read more by Luke Barry November 16, 2023 2 min
WRC News Lappi wanted part-program for better home life Esapekka Lappi requested to drop to a part-time World Rally Championship program in 2024 so that he could strike a better work/life balance. Lappi joined… Read more by Luke Barry November 16, 2023 2 min
WRC News Japan won’t be Sordo’s last WRC rally Dani Sordo has confirmed to DirtFish that Rally Japan will not be his last event as a World Rally Championship driver. Sordo has been a… Read more by Luke Barry November 15, 2023 2 min
WRC News Neuville heads Evans in Rally Japan shakedown Last year’s winner Thierry Neuville set the pace on the Rally Japan shakedown stage ahead of Toyota drivers Elfyn Evans and Sébastien Ogier. Running for… Read more by Luke Barry November 15, 2023 2 min
WRC News Lappi to contest part-time 2024 WRC season Esapekka Lappi will remain with Hyundai Motorsport for the 2024 World Rally Championship season, but will regress to a part-time program. In a move that… Read more by Luke Barry November 15, 2023 2 min
Rally Features The unique rally reminiscent of how things used to be If I didn’t know any better, I was simply, and innocuously, being driven around by a 58-year-old Italian in an even more humble Fiat Panda… Read more by Luke Barry November 15, 2023 5 min
Rally News Qualifying stage modified for next year’s ERC The qualifying stage will remain part of the European Rally Championship next year, but the road selection element has been removed. On all ERC events,… Read more by Luke Barry November 15, 2023 2 min
WRC News WRC2 powerstage axed for 2024 Powerstage points have been removed from the World Rally Championship’s premier support category, WRC2, for 2024. Since 2021, the fastest three drivers on the powerstage… Read more by Luke Barry November 14, 2023 2 min
WRC Features Five iconic Rally Japan moments For an event that debuted on the World Rally Championship calendar all the way back in 2004, it’s surprising to realize that Rally Japan has… Read more by Luke Barry November 13, 2023 3 min
WRC News The race for second place that both drivers are ignoring The World Rally Championship drivers’ and manufacturers’ titles have been secured. The WRC2 contest has even been wrapped up. There’s therefore not a great deal… Read more by Luke Barry November 13, 2023 2 min
WRC Features The list of WRC greats Toyota is gunning to join Winning is everything to any competitor in any form of motorsport. But winning at home always means that little bit more. The focus here is… Read more by Luke Barry November 12, 2023 2 min
WRC Features Inside Solberg’s RAC Rally test Whispers were already beginning to spread among the photographers – not that you could hear them over the howl of BDA goodness revolving 10,000 times… Read more by Luke Barry November 11, 2023 3 min
