WRC Features A co-driver’s guide to the 2024 Monte route With the base for this year’s Monte Carlo Rally moving to Gap (France), the route for the World Rally Championship’s season opener is almost entirely… Read more by James Bowen January 25, 2024 3 min
WRC Features Monte Carlo Rally 2024 form guide The rallying world descends on Monte Carlo this week for the opening round of the 2024 World Rally Championship. With just eight Rally1 cars entered,… Read more by James Bowen January 24, 2024 3 min
WRC Features An F1 winner’s Monte Carlo cameo Give it a shake. It’s the 1984 Monte Carlo Rally snow globe. Yes, you’re right, we probably could have gone with an Audi from the… Read more by David Evans January 24, 2024 2 min
WRC Features Examining the practical effects of the new WRC points system It was a rotten job, but someone had to do it. After several days of slaving over a spreadsheet, I found the answer to a… Read more by Andrew Mair January 23, 2024 5 min
WRC Features The worst WRC team debut ever The phone rang. Two-time World Rally champion Carlos Sainz was calling. “Are you going crazy or what?” queried Sainz. “What on earth are you doing… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay January 22, 2024 5 min
Rallycross Features Braving DirtFish’s deep freeze Rhys Haydon climbed out of his Porsche 944 and grimaced. Trying to get his coat on, he fumbled the zip and instead pulled it around… Read more by David Evans January 21, 2024 2 min
Features What stopped the start of the WRC? The World Rally Championship wasn’t even a year old when it became clear the 1974 season wouldn’t be starting when it was supposed to. Fifty… Read more by David Evans January 21, 2024 3 min
WRC Features Opinion Wilson: Fourmaux’s a clever boy There’s a distinct sense of déjà vu about Adrien Fourmaux’s return to the top class of the World Rally Championship for this season. Having secured… Read more by James Bowen January 21, 2024 5 min
WRC Features The “love-hate” Monte Carlo relationship in its fifth decade Few events generate captivating stories quite like the Monte Carlo Rally. And there are plenty of Monte stories: rallying history can be traced back to… Read more by James Bowen January 20, 2024 5 min
Features When Audi took revenge on Lancia The war was done. Lancia won. Famously. But what followed? Did the Turinese roll into Monte Carlo for a sixth win in 10 years in… Read more by David Evans January 18, 2024 5 min
WRC Features What can M-Sport expect from 2024? We’ve been here before. Sort of. M-Sport and young drivers, it’s nothing new. The team itself was keen to point this out when announcing Adrien… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay January 18, 2024 5 min
WRC Features Ford’s Monte dilemma at the dawn of Group A And then it was 1987. A month and three days after saying farewell to Ford’s rocketship RS200, Stig Blomqvist had a decision to make. The… Read more by David Evans January 17, 2024 2 min
WRC Features How M-Sport’s WRC rookie plans to capitalize on its “outsider” status “I started in 2017 and now we are here. We just want to make it work!” A lifetime of work has led up to this…. Read more by Alasdair Lindsay January 16, 2024 3 min
WRC Features Opinion How likely is Rally2 to take over the WRC? Is Rally2 really coming? Is the end nigh for the fastest rally cars in the sport’s history? Two questions which are beginning to dominate debate… Read more by David Evans January 15, 2024 5 min
Dakar Features Was Dakar’s radical new stage format a success? The 2023 edition of the Dakar Rally was gruelling by anyone’s standards. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any tougher, race director David Castera… Read more by James Bowen January 14, 2024 3 min
Dakar Features Why the next week will shape modern history for Audi Audi has a habit of revolutionizing motorsport. Quattro permanently changed rallying; the days of two-wheel drive at the top level were banished to the history… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay January 13, 2024 3 min
WRC Features Top 5 M-Sport WRC liveries The covers are off M-Sport’s 2024 World Rally Championship challenger. A fresh lick of paint has been draped over a Ford from Dovenby Hall for… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay January 12, 2024 3 min
Rally Features The unknown rallying talent that’s stunned Europe It’s understandable for rally fans to be focused on the World Rally Championship. It’s what every driver wants to win; it’s where fans can watch… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay January 11, 2024 3 min
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