WRC News WRC2 contenders ask for revision to points system WRC2 title contenders Oliver Solberg and Yohan Rossel have both expressed their distaste for the championship’s current rules allowing drivers to choose the events they… Read more by Luke Barry August 20, 2024 3 min
WRC Features The champion co-driver with a rollercoaster WRC relationship “It’s been pretty good” is a typical athlete response to their current run of success. Keaton Williams must have a copy of the script on… Read more by Luke Barry August 19, 2024 5 min
ERC News Advantage Paddon in ERC title race as Franceschi retires from Zlín Hayden Paddon has emerged as the European Rally Championship favorite after a dramatic Barum Rally Zlín in which title rival Mathieu Franceschi retired and Dominik Stříteský won. Victory for… Read more by Luke Barry August 18, 2024 3 min
WRC News M-Sport’s Sesks experiment pays off with non-hybrid Rally1 sale The experiment has worked. The whole purpose of Mārtiņš Sesks’ drive at Rally Poland back in June was to promote the performance of a non-hybrid… Read more by Luke Barry August 16, 2024 2 min
Rally News History is ready to be written in Ireland Matt Edwards is used to making history at the Ulster Rally. Just three years ago, in a tense scrap with fellow Welshman Osian Pryce, he… Read more by Luke Barry August 15, 2024 3 min
WRC News What’s the future for Hyundai’s Rally2 car? With Hyundai Motorsport’s World Rally Championship future a topic of considerable uncertainty, what does that mean for its Rally2 car? The i20 N Rally2 is… Read more by Luke Barry August 15, 2024 3 min
ERC Features Why an ERC champion has finally refound his form No wins, no podiums, not even any stage wins – it’s been a rough 12 months for a driver that, just under two years ago,… Read more by Luke Barry August 14, 2024 5 min
ERC News Østberg won’t return to rallying until co-driver is ready Mads Østberg’s European Rally Championship season is on-hold until co-driver Patrik Barth fully recovers from their accident on Rally di Roma Capitale last month. The… Read more by Luke Barry August 13, 2024 3 min
WRC News Latvala: Katsuta needs to be less like me Given he is his boss, Takamoto Katsuta is well-accustomed to listening to what Jari-Matti Latvala has to say. But Latvala, still the most experienced driver… Read more by Luke Barry August 12, 2024
WRC Features What we know about WRC’s command center It first emerged in April, was then expanded on a touch further in June, but what actually is it? What is the ‘command center’ the World… Read more by Luke Barry August 10, 2024
WRC News Hyundai needs to improve its “peaky” car They were smiles very much born from long faces. Secto Rally Finland may later be reflected upon as a decisive swing in Hyundai’s favor in… Read more by Luke Barry August 9, 2024
WRC Features When Rally Finland scared its biggest hero There was only one term I was reaching for in Girardo & Co.’s photo archive this week. I make no apologies for it: Rally Finland… Read more by Luke Barry August 7, 2024 2 min
WRC News Was Latvala’s WRC2 speed a surprise? The last time a Solberg and a Latvala battled at Rally Finland was an awful long time ago: 12 years, in fact. Back in 2012,… Read more by Luke Barry August 7, 2024 3 min
WRC Features The world champion club Rovanperä almost escaped Kalle Rovanperä was so close to the World Rally Championship win he’s always wanted. Released from the shackles of juggling world title aspirations to chase individual rally… Read more by Luke Barry August 6, 2024 3 min
WRC Features How Hyundai sucker-punched Toyota in Finland Despite winning Secto Rally Finland for the sixth time in seven years, there were long faces in Toyota’s corner of the Jyväskylä service park. Even… Read more by Luke Barry August 6, 2024 5 min
WRC Features What we learned from Rally Finland 2024 Secto Rally Finland has a way of delivering. It always has, and always will. But few could have predicted this year’s event would be quite… Read more by Luke Barry August 5, 2024
WRC News Ogier claims unlikely Rally Finland victory Sébastien Ogier claimed an unlikely Secto Rally Finland win as both of his Toyota team-mates Kalle Rovanperä and Elfyn Evans crashed on the penultimate stage…. Read more by Luke Barry August 4, 2024 5 min
WRC News Rovanperä reacts to “unbelievable” Finland crash Kalle Rovanperä feels he was powerless to avoid what he’s described as an “unbelievable” crash from the lead of Secto Rally Finland. Rovanperä was in control… Read more by Luke Barry August 4, 2024 2 min