WRC Opinion How Olympus came into the WRC, and stayed in the memory It’s Monday morning. December 8, 1986. In a Tumwater hotel car park, a man in a headband is washing a car. The early Washington winter… Read more by David Evans November 13, 2020 5 min
WRC Opinion Colin Clark: Worry follows my excitement for WRC 2022 When the World Rally Championship’s new-for-2022 technical regulations for Rally1 cars were announced late last year, I was genuinely excited. It was abundantly obvious, particularly… Read more by Colin Clark November 9, 2020 5 min
WRC Opinion Why the loss of Ypres hurts more and more The more you think about it, the more it hurts. In a fortnight, we should have been getting ready for the first ever World Rally… Read more by David Evans November 7, 2020 3 min
WRC Opinion Colin Clark: Stage-end interviews need a shake-up Is it just me or are drivers becoming less and less communicative at stage ends these days? In fact, I might go a little further… Read more by Colin Clark October 31, 2020 5 min
Rally Opinion How Evans and Martin would’ve prepared for GB There’s no greater thrill than competing on home soil, even more so when you’re the championship leaders. But, alas, for Elfyn Evans and co-driver Scott… Read more by DirtFish Media October 30, 2020 3 min
WRC Opinion What we’re missing from Rally GB This week was always – and will always be – sacrosanct in my household. It’s the week of the RAC. Rally GB. Britain’s round of… Read more by David Evans October 29, 2020 3 min
WRC Opinion Why less often means more with Tänak It is, indeed, nice to be nice. But, as Ott Tänak would point out, it’s not in his contract. The reigning World Rally Champion has… Read more by David Evans October 25, 2020 5 min
WRC Opinion The guest drivers (potentially) going to the WRC’s last rounds Come on then, who’s your money on for the last two rounds of this year’s ever so slightly odd World Rally Championship. Freddy Loix? Francois… Read more by David Evans October 23, 2020 2 min
Rally Features Opinion How it feels to drive one of Burns’ title winners Three decades ago, a Peugeot 205 GTi played a big part in the start of Richard Burns’ rise to the top of world rallying. At… Read more by DirtFish Media October 22, 2020
World RX Opinion Did World RX’s Barcelona final shunt deserve a penalty? Johan Kristoffersson and Andreas Bakkerud’s coming together in the World Rallycross Championship’s Barcelona final last Sunday (link) reignited an age-old ideological debate; to penalize or… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay October 20, 2020 5 min
WRC Features Opinion Colin Clark’s Rally Italy driver ratings Another World Rally Championship round is done and dusted, and we now have five weeks to wait until we’re back out rallying again in Belgium…. Read more by Colin Clark October 13, 2020 5 min
WRC News Opinion Delay on WRC hybrid deliveries as entry deadline moves World Rally Championship teams are facing a delay in the delivery of hybrid components following what’s been described as an ‘administration’ issue in the supply… Read more by David Evans October 2, 2020 3 min
WRC Opinion Why Loeb’s WRC departure may not be a final farewell That’s it then. Or is it? Maybe. Maybe not. Either way, talking to Sébastien Loeb at the end of Rally Turkey felt odd. We know… Read more by David Evans September 29, 2020 2 min
WRC Opinion Why Ypres in the WRC will be unrecognizable from its past So, after decades of serving maybe the longest apprenticeship in the history of the World Rally Championship, Ypres Rally has at long last earned its… Read more by Colin Clark September 27, 2020 5 min
WRC Opinion Why the WRC will be poorer without Mäkinen’s presence I like Tommi Mäkinen. Always have. I loved his direct driving style and the even more direct explanation that followed. It’s the same since he… Read more by David Evans September 22, 2020 5 min
WRC Opinion Could Rally Turkey be Loeb’s WRC farewell? We’ve been here before. A couple of times. But this time it really does like the end could be upon us. Could this week’s Rally… Read more by David Evans September 17, 2020 2 min
WRC Opinion The WRC debate leaving teams going round in circles It is, it seems, the devil. Or the deep blue sea. Frying pan. Fire. The list of idioms to describe the situation faced by the… Read more by David Evans September 14, 2020 5 min
WRC News Opinion Rovanperä says 2020 win chances over – is he right? Flying Finnish teenager Kalle Rovanperä fears his best chance of breaking his World Rally Championship duck and scoring a rookie season win has gone. The… Read more by David Evans September 11, 2020
