Dakar Features What is the 48-hour chrono stage? Two days and a smidge over 600 miles later, the Dakar Rally caravan will have finally conquered the 48-hour chrono, the second stage of the… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 4, 2025 3 min
Rally Features How Italy’s next rally prodigy is going against convention I have written these words before. I might write them again. Italian rallying has been stuck in a bit of a rut when it comes… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay January 4, 2025 3 min
Dakar Features Dakar 2025 Data + Form Guide Dakar 2025 Data + Form Guide The 2025 Dakar will be the sixth time the event has been held in Saudi Arabia, and promises to… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 2, 2025 10 min +
WRC Features The “paradox” in Ogier’s unusual season What must the mood be like today at chez Ogier? With rallying far from his mind during precious time with family, likely very good. But… Read more by Luke Barry December 31, 2024
Dakar Features Does two-wheel success guarantee wins on four? When two-time Dakar Rally winner Toby Price got the news that KTM would not be renewing his contract for the 2025 event, it seemed only… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon December 30, 2024 5 min
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 WRC drivers rate their own seasons Usually, it’s DirtFish that rates the drivers out of 10 for their performance on each round of the World Rally Championship. But, at the end… Read more by DirtFish Media December 26, 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 Overcoming an “impossible” challenge to enter WRC2 What will Santa Claus bring Rachele Somaschini? Everybody knows, rule number one for the big fella in red is about being good for a year…. Read more by DirtFish Media December 23, 2024
Dakar Features Getting to know Ford’s non-superstar Dakar driver When Mitch Guthrie Jr drives his Ford Raptor off the start podium in Saudi Arabia next month for his maiden assault on the Dakar Rally… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon December 22, 2024 5 min
Learn Features The magic of driving on ice Counter-intuitive doesn’t quite cover this one. A frozen lake is, correct me if I’m wrong, the slipperiest place on planet earth to walk, let alone… Read more by David Evans December 21, 2024 2 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 Evans’ unknown role in saving Neuville’s title hopes When Thierry Neuville had dragged his car out of a drainage ditch on Central European Rally, it seemed a knife-edge moment that could have sent… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay December 20, 2024 2 min
Dakar Features The driver whose first rally was the Dakar Picture the scene: you are at the wheel of a Porsche 911 for your first-ever rally, about to embark on a whirlwind rollercoaster of emotion… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon December 19, 2024 5 min
