Dakar News Dakar lead changes hands with just three days to go Overdrive Racing’s Yazeed Al Rajhi has moved into the lead of the 2025 Dakar Rally with three stages remaining after overhauling Toyota Hilux stablemate Henk… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 14, 2025 3 min
WRC News Sesks gets six-round WRC program with M-Sport Mārtiņš Sesks will compete on six rounds of the 2025 World Rally Championship with M-Sport, starting with next month’s Rally Sweden. The 25-year-old Latvian shot… Read more by Luke Barry January 14, 2025 3 min
WRC News Neuville reveals Hyundai 2025 car debut timeline The highly-anticipated evolution of Hyundai’s i20 N Rally1 will make its competitive debut at the second round of the World Rally Championship in Sweden. Hyundai… Read more by Luke Barry January 13, 2025 2 min
Dakar News Al-Attiyah closes on Ekström for Dakar podium The battle for third place in the 2025 Dakar Rally intensified on stage eight as Dacia’s Nasser Al-Attiyah reduced the gap to the M-Sport Ford… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 13, 2025 3 min
WRC News Rovanperä’s support for his only “real friend” in WRC Kalle Rovanperä had to stand on the sidelines and watch it happen. It wasn’t his business, he couldn’t get involved. But it still hurt –… Read more by David Evans January 13, 2025 1 min
Dakar News Dakar leader fumes at organizers’ road book decision It was a decision that was always going to divide opinion. On one side, the rally leader has seen an over-seven-minute lead almost completely evaporate;… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 12, 2025 5 min
Dakar News Road book error blows Dakar wide open As the storm clouds gathered over the Al Duwadimi bivouac, it became clear that stage seven of the 2025 Dakar Rally was going to be… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 12, 2025 3 min
News Toyota reveals all-new GR Corolla Rally Concept Toyota Gazoo Racing revealed its GR Corolla Rally Concept at the Tokyo Auto Salon on Sunday. The all-new car is the first official Corolla since… Read more by David Evans January 12, 2025
Dakar News Al-Rajhi closes in on Dakar lead, Chicherit hospitalized after crash Even when things got a little choppy, it still seemed as if the wind was in Yazeed Al Rajhi’s sails on the Dakar’s sixth stage…. Read more by Alasdair Lindsay January 11, 2025 2 min
Dakar News What you missed from Dakar’s first week The 2025 Dakar Rally has had perhaps as much drama and twists in one week than there have been in the last few years combined…. Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 10, 2025 5 min
WRC News FIA president apologizes for lack of WRC fixes FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has apologized to DirtFish for the time it’s taking him to fix the World Rally Championship. Two years ago, Ben… Read more by David Evans January 10, 2025 3 min
WRC News Paddon attracted by WRC’s future – but not as a driver Hayden Paddon is attracted by the World Rally Championship’s next set of regulations in 2027, but not as a driver. The reigning European Rally champion… Read more by Luke Barry January 9, 2025 3 min
Dakar News Al-Attiyah gives Dacia its first Dakar stage win, then loses it Dacia Sandriders has claimed its first ever Dakar Rally stage win, as Nasser Al-Attiyah blitzed the field by 10 minutes to move back into podium… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 9, 2025 3 min
Dakar News FIA explains why Loeb had to be excluded from Dakar The FIA says it was left with no alternative but to disqualify Dacia Sandriders’ Sébastien Loeb from the 2025 Dakar Rally following his high-speed crash… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 9, 2025 3 min
Dakar News Loeb says his Dakar exclusion “not based on solid arguments” Sébastien Loeb says the FIA’s decision to disqualify him from the 2025 Dakar Rally is ‘hard to swallow’ and ‘not based on solid arguments’ following… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 8, 2025 2 min
Dakar News Al-Attiyah the latest Dakar favorite in trouble Dacia Sandriders has suffered yet more disappointment on the Dakar Rally as Nasser Al-Attiyah lost over half an hour on stage four, which was won… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 8, 2025 2 min
Dakar News Loeb excluded from Dakar after rollover Sébastien Loeb’s Dakar Rally is over after his Dacia Sandrider failed an FIA Technical Delegate safety inspection following his high-speed accident on stage three. Loeb… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 7, 2025 2 min
WRC News Neuville pushes team-mates to play ‘team game’ Hyundai let its first World Rally Championship clean sweep slip in 2024, and new World Rally champion Thierry Neuville has made it very clear that… Read more by Luke Barry January 7, 2025 2 min
