WRC Features The season that unlocked Meeke’s WRC career Drivers weren’t exactly spoilt for career opportunities in the World Rally Championship come 2009. The global financial crisis of 2008 forced Subaru’s hand as it… Read more by Luke Barry December 28, 2024 5 min
WRC Features The culture that created the WRC’s most dominant force Candidly, he points out: “I was only a small cog in the gearbox!” But no gearbox can function without all of its cogs working in… Read more by Luke Barry December 27, 2024 5 min
WRC Features Where Volkswagen was 10 years ahead of the game The primary focus in all forms of motorsport is performance. It’s the ultimate parameter of success. Sébastien Ogier grilling steaks from the engine bay of… Read more by Luke Barry December 27, 2024 5 min
WRC Features WRC drivers rate their own seasons Usually, it’s DirtFish that rates the drivers out of 10 for their performance on each round of the World Rally Championship. But, at the end… Read more by DirtFish Media December 26, 2024 5 min
WRC Podcast The DirtFish 2024 Rally Quiz However you are choosing to celebrate the festive season (or indeed if you are at all), one thing that always goes down well is a… Read more by DirtFish Media December 25, 2024 10 min +
WRC Video A ‘dirty’ Martini delivered by a Ford Focus WRC The Girardo & Co. Christmas film has become as much a part of the holiday season as turkey and all the trimmings. And this year’s… Read more by David Evans December 24, 2024 2 min
WRC Features How close did Loeb come to racing in F1? Somewhere, over there, in a parallel universe, Sébastien Loeb isn’t just a nine-time World Rally champion. Because had his 2009 WRC season not turned upside down, or… Read more by Luke Barry December 24, 2024
Rally Features Why Paddon’s dad ended a 22-year retirement Context is everything. Twenty two years is deemed absolutely nothing in terms of the amount of time elapsed between Kalle Rovanperä’s birth and his first… Read more by Luke Barry December 23, 2024 5 min
Rally News Rovanperä to start 2025 with 24-hour race debut Dubai. It’s a long way from the frozen twists and turns of a Thursday night run over the Bréziers stage, but it’s where Kalle Rovanperä… Read more by David Evans December 23, 2024 3 min
WRC Features Overcoming an “impossible” challenge to enter WRC2 What will Santa Claus bring Rachele Somaschini? Everybody knows, rule number one for the big fella in red is about being good for a year…. Read more by DirtFish Media December 23, 2024
WRC News The season that cost Latvala his passion First stage after lunch on Friday afternoon in Sardinia five years ago – that’s where Jari-Matti Latvala’s career ended. Remember that one? Tula, second time… Read more by David Evans December 22, 2024
WRC Features Getting to know WRC’s 60-year-old outlier Nineteen years the senior of his next 2024 Rally1 rival, and with fewer career points than Thierry Neuville managed to score in Sardinia alone –… Read more by Luke Barry December 21, 2024
WRC News Will no hybrid remove a Rovanperä advantage? He might be a two-time world champion who’s already taken half a year out, but Kalle Rovanperä is still only 24. And still very much… Read more by David Evans December 20, 2024 2 min
WRC Features Evans’ unknown role in saving Neuville’s title hopes When Thierry Neuville had dragged his car out of a drainage ditch on Central European Rally, it seemed a knife-edge moment that could have sent… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay December 20, 2024 2 min
WRC Opinion Loriaux’s exit feels ominous for Hyundai’s WRC future Two weeks ago, Christian Loriaux was hard at work. Gravitating towards the Hyundai tent and the draw of a hot coffee from Pirelli hospitality, he… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay December 20, 2024 3 min
WRC News Hyundai WRC program manager Loriaux departs team Christian Loriaux is leaving Hyundai just weeks after making history by helping deliver the Korean manufacturer its maiden Drivers’ World Rally Championship title. Loriaux has… Read more by David Evans December 20, 2024 1 min
WRC News Loriaux warns 2027 WRC regulations are already too late Hyundai’s World Rally Championship program manager Christian Loriaux has warned that the proposed timeline for a new set of technical regulations is unrealistic. A new… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay December 20, 2024 2 min
WRC News WRC drivers deliver early verdict on Hankook’s 2025 tires Drivers have given Hankook’s range of Monte Carlo tires a cautious thumbs-up following last weekend’s Rallye National Hivernal du Dévoluy and testing through this week…. Read more by David Evans December 19, 2024 2 min
