ERC News Mikkelsen magnificent for ERC Azores win Andreas Mikkelsen has won a thrilling Azores Rally in the European Rally Championship, coming out on top of a close fight with fellow World Rally… Read more by Luke Barry September 18, 2021 5 min
ERC News Final stage crash hands Kopecký victory on ERC’s Barum Rally Zlín Erik Cais threw away Barum Rally Zlín victory on the final stage as he rolled out of the contest, handing Jan Kopecký an historic 10th… Read more by Luke Barry August 29, 2021 3 min
WRC News Ypres restored to ERC calendar in WRC return plan DirtFish understands Ypres Rally will appear in the World Rally Championship again, but not until 2024 at the earliest as it returns to the European… Read more by Luke Barry August 15, 2021 3 min
WRC Opinion Should the WRC qualifying stage be reintroduced? Qualifying and the World Rally Championship aren’t two phrases that usually collide; but for two years the circuit-racing concept was married to rallying’s world championship…. Read more by Luke Barry August 11, 2021 3 min
ERC News Promoter’s plan to bring ERC rallies into WRC calendar WRC Promoter’s event director Simon Larkin has provided DirtFish with an insight into his firm’s thinking in taking on the ERC for next season. As… Read more by David Evans August 9, 2021 2 min
WRC Features Inside the mind of the WRC’s newest star The last time DirtFish called Adrien Fourmaux at the beginning of August, things looked a little bit desperate. He’d recently crashed his Ford Fiesta Rally2… Read more by Luke Barry August 7, 2021 3 min
ERC News Basso wins dramatic Rome ERC round Giandomenico Basso and co-driver Lorenzo Granai took victory in a dramatic third round of the 2021 European Rally Championship, the Rally di Roma Capitale. Škoda… Read more by DirtFish Media July 25, 2021 3 min
WRC Features How it Started: Gilles Panizzi The open mouth, the bulging eyes and the frighteningly electric speed on the sealed surfaces of the World Rally Championship can only really be attributed… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon July 23, 2021 5 min
Rally Opinion What should WRC Promoter do with the ERC? The cat is now out of the bag so to speak. DirtFish first broke the story back in May, but last week we got official… Read more by Luke Barry July 13, 2021 3 min
ERC News WRC Promoter announced as new ERC promoter As first reported by DirtFish in May, WRC Promoter will take over as promoter of the European Rally Championship from 2022. Eurosport Events has run… Read more by Luke Barry July 8, 2021 2 min
ERC Features The ARA driver fostering WRC talent If we told you a 71-year-old was boarding a flight to Estonia today and then Rome the following week, you’d probably casually assume they were… Read more by Luke Barry July 7, 2021 5 min
ERC News FIA’s Matton seeks closer ERC and WRC relationship FIA rally director Yves Matton has talked of the potential for a more collaborative approach to the World and European Rally Championships in the future,… Read more by David Evans July 4, 2021 2 min
ERC News Gryazin triumphs on Rally Liepāja ahead of Breen Nikolay Gryazin has secured a convincing victory on the second round of the 2021 European Rally Championship, Rally Liepãja, ahead of Craig Breen and reigning… Read more by Luke Barry July 3, 2021 3 min
ERC News Oliver Solberg gives cousin Oscar prize ERC drive Your cousin’s a decent person, right? You like them, get on with them. Enjoy a Christmas catch-up. Happy to hand over the equivalent of €100,000… Read more by David Evans June 22, 2021 2 min
ERC News Breen, Mikkelsen, Gryazin all enter ERC opener World Rally Championship drivers Craig Breen, Andreas Mikkelsen and Nikolay Gryazin will all start the opening round of the European Rally Championship in Poland. The… Read more by Luke Barry June 8, 2021 2 min
ERC Opinion Will ERC be a destination or feeder series in its new era? With WRC Promoter expected to take over the running of the European Championship from 2022, as revealed by DirtFish last week, David Evans considers the… Read more by David Evans May 18, 2021 3 min
ERC News ERC’s Azores Rally postponed at health authority’s request The Azores Rallye has been postponed, meaning the European Rally Championship will now – hopefully – kick off with Rally Poland, in June. A statement… Read more by David Evans April 14, 2021 2 min
WRC Features Competing with Mikkola: What it was like Swapping co-drivers and the loss of Finnish rally legend Hannu Mikkola are two of the early storylines from the first two rounds of this year’s… Read more by DirtFish Media March 8, 2021 5 min
