WRC Features Why no WRC is suiting Østberg There aren’t many variables that remain constant for over 15 years in the World Rally Championship. But Mads Østberg had been one of them. For… Read more by Luke Barry December 18, 2022 5 min
WRC Features The WRC season where only world champions won At face value, the 1996 World Rally Championship season was hardly a barnstormer. Just three teams – Subaru, Mitsubishi and Ford – competed. There were… Read more by Luke Barry December 18, 2022 5 min
WRC News Delecour to drive new Škoda on 2023 Monte Carlo Rally François Delecour will contest next month’s Monte Carlo Rally behind the wheel of a Toksport Škoda Fabia RS Rally2. It will be the 60-year-old’s 23rd… Read more by Luke Barry December 17, 2022 2 min
Features Top 5 Rally2 revivals Oliver Solberg’s regression to WRC2 in 2023 doesn’t place him on a unique path of redemption. Plenty others before him – and likely plenty others… Read more by Luke Barry December 17, 2022 5 min
WRC Features Why 2022 was one of the most important seasons ever The 2022 rallying season will, undoubtedly, go down in the history books as one of the most influential there’s ever been. The World Rally Championship… Read more by Luke Barry December 16, 2022 3 min
WRC News Fourmaux demoted to M-Sport’s WRC2 program Adrien Fourmaux has been demoted to the WRC2 category for next year’s World Rally Championship, where he’ll be joined at M-Sport by former Hyundai junior… Read more by Luke Barry December 16, 2022 3 min
WRC Opinion Have Hyundai’s decisions actually helped Solberg? I won’t forget the sudden feeling of sadness I experienced when I got the text from David Evans telling the DirtFish newsdesk what was coming…. Read more by Luke Barry December 16, 2022 3 min
WRC News Hyundai believes Toyota is still ahead Julien Moncet, the man who led Hyundai through the 2022 World Rally Championship season, believes Toyota is still the favorite for next year’s WRC despite… Read more by Luke Barry December 15, 2022 3 min
WRC News Loubet gets full-time WRC program with M-Sport Pierre-Louis Loubet will compete with the M-Sport Ford World Rally Team full next season as a manufacturer-registered points scorer. Loubet joined M-Sport on a part-time… Read more by Luke Barry December 15, 2022 3 min
ARA News New ARA regulations have not gone far enough – Higgins Ten-time US rally champion David Higgins fears the American Rally Association presented by DirtFish’s new technical regulations haven’t gone far enough to encourage more teams… Read more by Luke Barry December 14, 2022 3 min
ERC News Østberg planning ERC program in 2023 Mads Østberg is the latest ex-factory World Rally Championship driver to signal his interest in the European Rally Championship next season. Hayden Paddon told DirtFish… Read more by Luke Barry December 14, 2022 3 min
Rally News Kovalainen and Räikkönen take on Finland with all-new team Heikki Kovalainen and the nephew of his former Formula 1 rival Kimi Räikkönen, Justus Räikkönen, are teaming up to take on next year’s Finnish Rally Championship. Competing… Read more by Luke Barry December 14, 2022 3 min
ERC Features The driver that broke a record no WRC driver ever has It’s an achievement so ridiculous that it’s scarcely believable. Domination so absolute it’s beyond incredible. A record that, definitively, can never be bettered. But for… Read more by Luke Barry December 14, 2022 3 min
WRC News Gilsoul to partner Loubet in WRC next year Pierre-Louis Loubet and Nicolas Gilsoul will partner up for next year’s World Rally Championship season in an M-Sport Ford Puma Rally1. Ever since Vincent Landais’… Read more by Luke Barry December 12, 2022 3 min
Rally News Toyota caught out by Hyundai’s rate of development Toyota technical director Tom Fowler has admitted he was “caught out a little bit” by how quickly Hyundai recovered its deficit throughout the World Rally… Read more by Luke Barry December 12, 2022 3 min
Rally News Loubet fails to finish as new Škoda Rally2 run continues Pierre-Louis Loubet retired from his first competitive start alongside potential World Rally Championship co-driver Nicolas Gilsoul. Contesting Rallye National Hivernal du Dévoluy in France, Ford… Read more by Luke Barry December 11, 2022 2 min
WRC Features Big WRC driver moves that didn’t work out Ott Tänak and M-Sport’s reunion has all the hallmarks of a successful World Rally Championship partnership. Tänak’s roots are with M-Sport. Although he left it… Read more by Luke Barry December 10, 2022 10 min +
WRC Features How Renault plans to give Ford a run for its money M-Sport Poland managing director Maciej Woda wants this. He wants his company’s Ford Fiesta Rally3 to be challenged in the fledgling category. But will he… Read more by Luke Barry December 9, 2022 3 min
