Cars News Get sideways at Velocity 2024 DirtFish is heading for California! Thrillseekers wanting to know what it feels like to be strapped into a rally car driven at full tilt can… Read more by DirtFish Media April 6, 2024
Rally News Kovalainen provides positive update on heart surgery Formula 1 race winner and regular rally competitor Heikki Kovalainen has provided a positive update on recent open heart surgery, confirming that he has the… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay April 6, 2024 3 min
ERC News ERC awaiting Lancia rally return with open arms European Rally Championship manager Iain Campbell has confirmed a warm welcome awaits in the series, should Lancia greenlight a Ypsilon Rally2 in the future. Let’s… Read more by David Evans April 6, 2024 2 min
WRC News WRC teams unify in call to retain Rally1 regulations Toyota, Hyundai and M-Sport Ford have collectively written to the FIA requesting current Rally1 regulations remain in place until the end of the 2026 World… Read more by David Evans April 5, 2024 2 min
WRC News Toyota tests 2025-spec WRC prototypes in Croatia Toyota has tested potential 2025 specification Rally1 and Rally2 cars in the last week. The cars both ran in Croatia as part of Toyota’s wider… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay April 5, 2024 3 min
WRC News Why Solberg was racing Kenya’s deputy president When the deputy president of Kenya comes to take on WRC2 pacesetter Oliver Solberg at his own game, you know the country’s government is taking… Read more by Mark Paulson April 5, 2024 3 min
Dakar News Sainz getting closer to Ford W2RC deal Carlos Sainz has told DirtFish he’s closing on an agreement with Ford to join the Blue Oval’s Dakar program later this season. The Spaniard, who… Read more by David Evans April 4, 2024 2 min
WRC News Hankook set to test asphalt Rally1 rubber Hankook will real-time test its asphalt-specification tires in Croatia for the first time this week. The Seoul-based firm ran its i*pike snow tire during the… Read more by David Evans April 4, 2024 2 min
Rally News Lancia confirms it is working on a return to rallying It’s the news our world has wanted to report for more than 30 years. And now Lancia has confirmed to DirtFish that it is actively… Read more by David Evans April 3, 2024 2 min
Off-Road News How the World Rally-Raid season is shaping up post-Audi Cross-country rallying and the World Rally-Raid Championship has effectively been turned on its head since the end of the Dakar Rally in January. For a… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon April 3, 2024 5 min
WRC News Latvala: TV graphics update needed to avoid WRC points confusion For the second consecutive event, the World Rally Championship’s new-for-2024 points system had a significant impact on the outcome of Safari Rally Kenya. In Sweden,… Read more by Mark Paulson April 3, 2024 3 min
WRC News Hyundai abandoned fix for Lappi’s Safari fault in 2023 DirtFish can reveal Esapekka Lappi’s retirement from last week’s Safari Rally Kenya was likely caused by a homologation problem last year. The teams are permitted… Read more by David Evans April 2, 2024 3 min
WRC News Mikkelsen to contest Piemonte rally in Hyundai Rally1 Hyundai driver Andreas Mikkelsen will contest next week’s Rally Regione Piemonte as part of his preparation for his next World Rally Championship outing in Croatia…. Read more by David Evans April 2, 2024 2 min
WRC News Kankkunen: Rovanperä will come back even better in 2025 Four-time World Rally Champion Juha Kankkunen has warned that his countryman Kalle Rovanperä will come back from his part-program 2024 season an even better driver. The… Read more by David Evans April 2, 2024 2 min
WRC News What we learned from Safari Rally Kenya 2024 Unless your name was Kalle Rovanperä, if you were a World Rally Championship driver competing on Safari Rally Kenya, you ran into trouble at least… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay April 1, 2024 5 min
WRC News Tänak: ‘WRC not under control’ Ott Tänak has been tricky at times in the last couple of years. There’s been a truculence born out of frustration with his working environment…. Read more by David Evans April 1, 2024 3 min
Women in motorsport News Job done. But the work doesn’t stop here As the world moves out of March and into April, DirtFish owner Steve Rimmer has reinforced his commitment to driving the Women in Motorsport program… Read more by DirtFish Staff March 31, 2024 2 min
WRC News Why Lappi didn’t want to drive a Safari Saturday Esapekka Lappi was put through the wringer by Safari Rally Kenya. Anything that could go wrong, did go wrong. On Friday, his gearbox literally exploded,… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay March 31, 2024 2 min
