WRC News Why Toyota expects Evans to be faster this year Pressure is for tires… apparently, according to impassioned commentary comments from former England soccer star Alan Shearer. Technically, he’s not wrong. Elfyn Evans was, like… Read more by Luke Barry January 14, 2025 2 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
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
WRC Features What happened to WRC’s obvious Rally1 candidate? There’s an unwritten rule in motorsport that the winner of a championship’s chief support category should, by rights, earn their place in the top tier… Read more by Luke Barry January 12, 2025 5 min
WRC Features How Rovanperä’s bettered himself ahead of 2025 title push The gap year’s done. He’s back. As Kalle Rovanperä prepares to return the #69 Toyota GR Yaris Rally1 to full-time deployment, he takes a moment… Read more by David Evans January 11, 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
WRC Features The driver entering three WRC championships in one year Rally drivers will often be called single-minded. Obsessed by their sole goal of winning the stage, rally or championship. Normally, that means just one title… Read more by Luke Barry January 8, 2025 3 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
WRC Features What’s new for WRC 2025? On the face of it, not much is changing in the World Rally Championship for 2025. Yes, there’ll be a new reigning world champion (and… Read more by Luke Barry January 6, 2025 5 min
Rally Features Fourmaux eyes title fight with Hyundai In the end, nobody was surprised. The world saw this one coming. But still, seeing Adrien Fourmaux in Hyundai overalls looked odd. Less so for… Read more by David Evans January 5, 2025 5 min
Rally Features How Italy’s next rally prodigy is going against convention I have written these words before. I might write them again. Italian rallying has been stuck in a bit of a rut when it comes… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay January 4, 2025 3 min
WRC News Entries for WRC 2025 season opener revealed The very first entry of the 2025 World Rally Championship has been published, with 70 crews taking on the season-opening Monte Carlo Rally. Headlined by… Read more by Luke Barry January 3, 2025 2 min
WRC Podcast Will Rovanperä dominate WRC and who’s going to win Dakar? Who’s going to win the Dakar? What about WRC2? Will there be any new winners in the World Rally Championship? And which direction will the… Read more by David Evans January 1, 2025 2 min
WRC Features The “paradox” in Ogier’s unusual season What must the mood be like today at chez Ogier? With rallying far from his mind during precious time with family, likely very good. But… Read more by Luke Barry December 31, 2024
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
