WRC Features The untold theory about Toyota’s 1998 WRC heartbreak DirtFish’s Spin, The Rally Pod has offered fresh insight into the conclusion of one of the most hotly fought battles in the World Rally Championship’s… Read more by David Evans May 26, 2020 5 min
World RX Features The Solberg win that started rallycross’s world takeover In the 2010s, before ‘electric’ became the word almost exclusively associated with the phrase ‘the future of motorsport’, rallycross was seen as the next big… Read more by Dominik Wilde May 24, 2020
WRC Features The disaster of Rally Portugal 1986 Markku Alén has never been one for chasing the limelight. So when he – voluntarily – appeared in the Portuguese media in the days before… Read more by David Evans May 24, 2020 5 min
Rally Features The best Portuguese drivers from six decades of rallying Portugal is undoubedly a rally-mad nation. Finding old photos and videos of the long-time World Rally Championship staple without walls of fans either side of… Read more by David Evans May 23, 2020 5 min
Rally Features How a new Subaru burned the Portugal opposition Girona. About as far from Portugal as Spain can get. But it was in the hills high above the north-eastern Catalan city that Richard Burns… Read more by David Evans May 22, 2020 3 min
WRC Features Rally Portugal’s memorable 1990s moments Two stories, both Scottish, bookend the Nineties on Rally Portugal. Both are incredibly dramatic and both well worthy of their place in #DirtFishPortugalweek, but which… Read more by David Evans May 22, 2020 5 min
BRC Features Motorsport UK defends rally return advice Motorsport UK CEO Hugh Chambers will clarify the position of British rallying in the coming days following criticism of the governing body’s “Getting back on… Read more by David Evans May 22, 2020 5 min
Rally Features What Portugal offers when the rally’s not in town Portugal. Without the rally? No problem. There’s plenty to keep you occupied, especially up in the north of the country. Down south, it’s mostly about… Read more by David Evans May 22, 2020 5 min
Rallycross Features Inside the Olsbergs RX Quarantine Shoot-Out It wasn’t quite the ‘Magic Weekend’ atmosphere at Höljes this week, but it was racing. The proper stuff, with some of Sweden’s best rallycross drivers… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon May 21, 2020
WRC Features Life in lockdown with Martin Järveoja Reigning World Rally Champion co-driver Martin Järveoja is, quite literally, smashing his coronavirus lockdown period at home in Estonia. The man who Ott Tänak spends… Read more by David Evans May 21, 2020 2 min
WRC Features Four minutes gained in 26 miles – Röhrl’s epic Portugal drive The recollection of the conversation still gives me goosebumps. Talking to Walter Röhrl does that to you. Especially when you wind the clock back to… Read more by David Evans May 21, 2020 2 min
WRC Features Alén beats Mikkola in epic finish: The 1978 Rally Portugal Every now and then everything clicks for a driver with a rally. That was Markku Alén and the Rally of Portugal. He took his maiden… Read more by David Evans May 20, 2020 3 min
Rally Features How the WRC’s American hopefuls are handling lockdown in Europe If there are three words we’ve all become very accustomed to hearing over the last couple of months, it’s ‘coronavirus,’ ‘unprecedented’ and ‘lockdown.’ COVID-19 has… Read more by Luke Barry May 20, 2020 5 min
WRC Features The highs and lows of Rally Portugal Rallies with heritage, heart and history have names. Last time it was El Cóndor and Ascochinga. Now we’ve moved on to Arganil, Sintra and Fafe…. Read more by David Evans May 19, 2020 10 min +
WRC Features What makes Portugal such a challenge Portugal has never been one of the more straightforward European rounds of the World Rally Championship. Whether it was the wet March weather blowing in… Read more by David Evans May 18, 2020 3 min
WRC Features DirtFish launches Rally Portugal week Portugal week. Right about now the World Rally Championship was scheduled to arrive back in Europe for the first time since February. Unfortunately, but for… Read more by David Evans May 18, 2020 2 min
Cars Features Six questions with… Krissy Shelton Here at DirtFish, we’re keen to bring you the thoughts of as many rallying figures as we can during these unprecedented times – including through… Read more by DirtFish Media May 17, 2020 2 min
WRC Features Opinion McKlein’s Top 10 WRC drivers McKlein photographers Reinhard Klein and Colin McMaster have seen the World Rally Championship’s biggest stars up close and personal, in-car and out, making them perfectly… Read more by McKlein May 17, 2020 5 min
