WRC News FIA selects its Rally Star candidates for 2025 Junior WRC champion Romet Jürgenson and title contender Taylor Gill will be joined by Max Smart next year in the FIA Rally Star program, as… Read more by Luke Barry October 31, 2024 2 min
WRC Features What’s next for FIA Rally Star? Romet Jürgenson wasn’t meant to win this year’s Junior World Rally Championship. As one of four drivers on the FIA’s Rally Star program, the target… Read more by Mark Paulson September 10, 2024 5 min
WRC News Jürgenson wins Junior WRC title in high-attrition finale FIA Rally Star graduate Romet Jürgenson clinched the Junior WRC title on Acropolis Rally Greece after a season finale where several drivers with a shot… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay September 8, 2024 2 min
WRC Features The thrilling title showdown WRC Acropolis will decide Acropolis Rally Greece will be a key moment in the World Rally Championship title race. If someone wants to catch Thierry Neuville for the biggest… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay September 3, 2024 5 min
WRC Features Zero to a JWRC podium in under a year, the Max Smart story A year ago, Max Smart had never sat in a rally car. A week ago, he stood on the Junior WRC podium for the first… Read more by Jon Scoltock June 10, 2024 5 min
Rally Features FIA’s rally talent search enters a crucial phase It would potentially have been a stretch to consider Romet Jürgenson as favorite to win the Junior WRC title in 2024. Yet this is the… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay May 30, 2024 5 min
WRC Opinion 10 things to look forward to in WRC 2024 It’s finally here. Silly season has been and gone; 2023 belongs to the history books. The calendar has ticked over into 2024: a new season… Read more by DirtFish Staff January 1, 2024 5 min
WRC News Rally Star Junior WRC prize winners revealed The FIA has announced the four Rally Star drivers who will contest next year’s Junior World Rally Championship as the next stage of the program…. Read more by Mark Paulson November 23, 2023 2 min
Rally News Junior WRC prize looming for FIA Rally Star crews It all comes down to this. Six drivers, just four places up for grabs, and one final opportunity left to earn it. The FIA Rally… Read more by Luke Barry November 9, 2023 5 min
Rally News Jürgenson and Smart impress on latest Rally Star training event Four years ago, Romet Jürgenson was one of many Estonians with a smile on his face as Rally Spain, the penultimate-scheduled round of the 2019… Read more by Luke Barry October 24, 2023 3 min
Rally Features How to nurture a struggling talent the Smart way “Put it this way, if I said to you ‘Luke, you’re going to do some weight lifting. And I’ll tell you what Luke, we’re going… Read more by Luke Barry October 20, 2023 5 min
Rally News Need for speed has arrived for FIA Rally Star crews The need for speed has arrived. It’s time for Estonia. More accurately, it’s time for Saaremaa, an event labelled as legendary by the island’s most… Read more by David Evans October 6, 2023 2 min
Rally News Räikkönen set for 4WD debut on Saaremaa Justus Räikkönen will make his four-wheel-drive and international debut at this week’s Saaremaa Rally. The 18-year-old nephew of Kimi Räikkönen graduates from the Peugeot 208… Read more by David Evans October 5, 2023 2 min
Rally News FIA Rally Star finalist grabs overall podium The FIA’s Rally Star program was designed to find rallying’s next big thing. Three rounds into its training season, it may have already found him…. Read more by Luke Barry September 26, 2023 2 min
WRC News Estonian youngster wins second Rally Star training event Estonia isn’t a country known for its Tarmac rallies. Indeed, the national championship currently features just one event with any Tarmac at all, and even… Read more by Luke Barry July 17, 2023 2 min
Rally News One rocked, one rolled, three finished – chapter one of FIA Rally Star In an Ashes summer Australian sport invariably finds itself under the microscope. While his nation’s cricketing heroes did battle with England, Taylor Gill went in… Read more by David Evans June 19, 2023 2 min
Rally News The search for Asia–Pacific’s next rally star Max Smart took the spoils during FIA Rally Star’s visit to Africa at the end of May, but now all eyes are set on who… Read more by Adam Proud October 7, 2022 2 min
WRC News Win a WRC scholarship from your living room The road to the World Rally Championship starts here. If you’re an American or Canadian national, what are you waiting for? Apart from DirtFish (obviously),… Read more by David Evans August 26, 2022 2 min
