ERC News ERC reveals revamped calendar for 2025 A revamped European Rally Championship calendar has been revealed for 2025, including a new season-opener in Spain and the return of Rally Poland, but no Rally… Read more by Luke Barry November 18, 2024 2 min
WRC News Croatia to return to WRC calendar in 2026 Croatia’s World Rally Championship story does not end here – that was the message from Daniel Šaškin to DirtFish in the summer. The president of… Read more by David Evans November 14, 2024 2 min
ERC Features How Paddon’s point about the ERC has been proven Hayden Paddon recently doubled up on his European Rally Championship title count. He’d won it with a round to spare in 2023, even though he… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay October 30, 2024 3 min
ERC Podcast Does Lancia’s rally return come with a negative? Hype is the word. When a manufacturer that’s won more World Rally Championship titles than any other returns to rallying, nobody could have expected anything… Read more by DirtFish Media October 30, 2024
WRC Features A Lancia WRC comeback is in the FIA’s hands There was a flurry of excitement when rumors began circulating the autosphere of Lancia coming back to rallying. It is unavoidable to hark back to… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay October 25, 2024 5 min
Rally News Lancia reveals initial plans for new rally program Lancia has founded a new motorsport division, Lancia HF Corse, to manage its rally activities and will have a factory driver in the European Rally… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay October 25, 2024 3 min
ERC News Mabellini’s first, Paddon’s second in ERC finale As his rivals tightened their belts to start pre-event testing, Hayden Paddon was tightening his belt in preparation for 11,011 miles and a day aboard… Read more by David Evans October 13, 2024 5 min
ERC News How Paddon can win the ERC title Hayden Paddon stands on the brink of winning a second successive European Rally Championship title – but this one is going down to the wire…. Read more by DirtFish Media October 11, 2024
ERC Opinion How far has Max McRae come this year? Hello everyone! I hope you’re enjoying this weekend’s World Rally Championship event in Chile as much as I am? If I can’t be out there… Read more by DirtFish Media September 28, 2024 5 min
WRC News Hyundai focusing on making its Rally2 a Tarmac car Hyundai is taking a novel approach to making its i20 N Rally2 a front-running car again: it’s planning to turn it into a primarily asphalt-oriented… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay September 19, 2024 3 min
WRC Podcast Paddon’s take on how rallying should improve You’d be hard pressed to find anybody more passionate about rallying than Hayden Paddon. Ever since he was born, rallying has been the New Zealander’s… Read more by DirtFish Media September 18, 2024 10 min +
ERC News Paddon secures funds to make final ERC round in Poland There’s not a rally in the world that Hayden Paddon wouldn’t watch, but next month’s Rally Silesia might have been a toughie. But instead of… Read more by David Evans September 16, 2024 2 min
Rally Features Max McRae’s coming of age drive Three decades and two months ago it was his uncle Colin who was the talk of this part of the world. Mid-Wales has always held… Read more by David Evans September 2, 2024 2 min
ERC News Paddon wins his first ERC event of the season in Wales Hayden Paddon took his first European Rally Championship victory since becoming champion, winning Rali Ceredigion by over a minute in his Hyundai i20 N Rally2. All… Read more by Luke Barry September 1, 2024 3 min
ERC News Paddon in a league of his own at Rali Ceredigion Hayden Paddon left his European Rally Championship rivals for dead on the first full day of Rali Ceredigion, leading the event by a whopping 1m18.7s… Read more by Luke Barry August 31, 2024 3 min
ERC Opinion A Tarmac dawn with echoes of its muddy past There’s a slight, but noticeable chill as the car door’s opened just after daybreak. Down the road, the first colors of fall are starting to… Read more by David Evans August 30, 2024 3 min
ERC News Rali Ceredigion could be Paddon’s last rally in Europe Seventeen years ago Hayden Paddon arrived in Wales for the first time. Wide-eyed and excited, he couldn’t wait to get started on the road to… Read more by David Evans August 29, 2024 2 min
ERC Features Who is Paddon’s big rival for the ERC title? The scores are currently 96 – 82. The defending champion and former World Rally Championship ace vs a driver who hadn’t ever started a rally… Read more by Luke Barry August 28, 2024 3 min
