WRC News Tänak drives rally car for first time since Mexico in R5 test Ott Tänak has returned to the wheel of a rally car for the first time since Rally México, driving a Hyundai i20 R5 at a… Read more by David Evans May 23, 2020 2 min
Rally Features How a new Subaru burned the Portugal opposition Girona. About as far from Portugal as Spain can get. But it was in the hills high above the north-eastern Catalan city that Richard Burns… Read more by David Evans May 22, 2020 3 min
WRC Features Rally Portugal’s memorable 1990s moments Two stories, both Scottish, bookend the Nineties on Rally Portugal. Both are incredibly dramatic and both well worthy of their place in #DirtFishPortugalweek, but which… Read more by David Evans May 22, 2020 5 min
WRC Features Life in lockdown with Martin Järveoja Reigning World Rally Champion co-driver Martin Järveoja is, quite literally, smashing his coronavirus lockdown period at home in Estonia. The man who Ott Tänak spends… Read more by David Evans May 21, 2020 2 min
WRC Features Four minutes gained in 26 miles – Röhrl’s epic Portugal drive The recollection of the conversation still gives me goosebumps. Talking to Walter Röhrl does that to you. Especially when you wind the clock back to… Read more by David Evans May 21, 2020 2 min
WRC News How proposed 2022 WRC rules may change driving styles The World Rally Championship’s plans to switch to a more rudimentary suspension set-up for its new 2022 regulation machinery will require a change in driving… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay May 21, 2020 2 min
WRC Features Alén beats Mikkola in epic finish: The 1978 Rally Portugal Every now and then everything clicks for a driver with a rally. That was Markku Alén and the Rally of Portugal. He took his maiden… Read more by David Evans May 20, 2020 3 min
WRC News Simplified 2022 WRC cars can still be fast – Tänak Reigning World Rally champion Ott Tänak believes the speeds of the current generation of World Rally Cars can be maintained in the future with simpler… Read more by Ida Wood May 20, 2020 2 min
WRC News Ogier regrets missing out on “completely new” Safari experience Six-time World Rally Champion Sébastien Ogier has expressed disappointment in not being able to compete on the Safari Rally this year, an event “completely new… Read more by Luke Barry May 20, 2020 2 min
WRC Features The highs and lows of Rally Portugal Rallies with heritage, heart and history have names. Last time it was El Cóndor and Ascochinga. Now we’ve moved on to Arganil, Sintra and Fafe…. Read more by David Evans May 19, 2020 10 min +
WRC News Rally GB 2020 still go despite new UK restrictions Wales Rally GB clerk of the course Iain Campbell has confirmed planning will continue for Britain’s WRC round despite new UK guidance to avoid having… Read more by Luke Barry May 19, 2020 3 min
WRC Photos McKlein gallery: The top 10 views from Fafe’s famed jump Rally Portugal’s first forays into the Fafe region were in 1974, but without the big jump. This all changed in 1984, when the crest at… Read more by McKlein May 19, 2020 5 min
WRC News Ogier backs calls for shorter rallies Toyota World Rally Championship driver Sébastien Ogier supports the idea to alter the format of rallies in order to shoehorn as many rounds into the… Read more by Luke Barry May 18, 2020 2 min
WRC Features What makes Portugal such a challenge Portugal has never been one of the more straightforward European rounds of the World Rally Championship. Whether it was the wet March weather blowing in… Read more by David Evans May 18, 2020 3 min
WRC Features DirtFish launches Rally Portugal week Portugal week. Right about now the World Rally Championship was scheduled to arrive back in Europe for the first time since February. Unfortunately, but for… Read more by David Evans May 18, 2020 2 min
WRC Podcast Podcast: Inside Mitsubishi’s most dramatic title win Remember the story of Rally of Great Britain 1998? Tommi Mäkinen and Mitsubishi arrived with a two-point lead over Toyota’s Carlos Sainz in the World… Read more by DirtFish Media May 18, 2020 2 min
WRC News Sainz on the WRC GOAT debate Carlos Sainz is officially the greatest rally driver of all time. The World Rally Championship’s own website said so. The question nobody has asked, until… Read more by David Evans May 17, 2020 2 min
WRC Features Opinion McKlein’s Top 10 WRC drivers McKlein photographers Reinhard Klein and Colin McMaster have seen the World Rally Championship’s biggest stars up close and personal, in-car and out, making them perfectly… Read more by McKlein May 17, 2020 5 min
