WRC News M-Sport’s ultimate Fiesta Rally2 set for CER M-Sport’s ultimate-specification Ford Fiesta Rally2 is on course for a Central Europe Rally debut at the end of the month. Team principal Richard Millener talked… Read more by David Evans October 9, 2023 2 min
WRC Features When Sainz almost ignored team orders favoring McRae Colin McRae, Carlos Sainz and team orders. Immediately you’re thinking of the title run-in of 1995, right? When Colin refused to slow and let Carlos… Read more by Luke Barry September 1, 2023 5 min
WRC Photos The cunning nature of M-Sport’s first WRC win Coming in from the recce for the 1997 Acropolis Rally, Ford drivers Carlos Sainz and Juha Kankkunen were concerned. The Greek roads might have been… Read more by David Evans August 30, 2023 2 min
WRC Features M-Sport saved its incredible WRC streak And so it goes on. The most incredible of World Rally Championship runs looked like it had run its course. With Ott Tänak out for… Read more by Luke Barry August 13, 2023 3 min
WRC News Malcolm Wilson ready to race a Puma up Goodwood’s hill Malcolm Wilson’s time is very much spent driving the desk which drives M-Sport’s varied global motorsporting interests these days. Not this weekend. When Saturday comes,… Read more by David Evans July 12, 2023 2 min
eWRC Features The WRC manufacturers with the most 1-2-3 finishes Toyota achieved the extraordinary last weekend when all four of its GR Yaris Rally1s finished in a perfect formation on Safari Rally Kenya. A 1-2-3-4… Read more by Luke Barry June 25, 2023 5 min
Dakar News Ford to run factory Dakar effort with M-Sport Ford Performance has announced it will run a full factory program in the Dakar Rally, collaborating with M-Sport and Neil Woolridge Motorsport from 2024 onwards…. Read more by Stephen Brunsdon June 14, 2023 3 min
WRC News M-Sport assured Ford’s F1 deal won’t affect WRC program M-Sport managing director Malcolm Wilson is confident Ford’s return to Formula 1 alongside Red Bull will strengthen its World Rally Championship presence and performance. Wilson… Read more by David Evans February 3, 2023 2 min
WRC Features The WRC season where only world champions won At face value, the 1996 World Rally Championship season was hardly a barnstormer. Just three teams – Subaru, Mitsubishi and Ford – competed. There were… Read more by Luke Barry December 18, 2022 5 min
Rally Features Top 10 Finns in Fords in Finland If there’s one nationality that’s best associated with Ford in the World Rally Championship, particularly in the 21st century, it’s Finland. Aside from current megastar… Read more by Luke Barry August 3, 2022 5 min
WRC Features The closest asphalt WRC finishes of all time Croatia Rally has already gone down in World Rally Championship history after its first two inclusions on the calendar – and not just because of… Read more by Luke Barry April 30, 2022 5 min
WRC Features The small WRC club Loeb now leaves In one guise or another, Ford has been a mainstay of the World Rally Championship, competing across all the various rulesets in the WRC’s 49-year… Read more by Luke Barry December 22, 2021 5 min
WRC Features What cost McRae the 2001 WRC title “At the time the notes just came out and he chose his line, but then when it corkscrewed us through the air we had this… Read more by Luke Barry November 28, 2021 10 min +
WRC Features Why rallying mourned MotoGP’s tragic lost star too The loss of Marco Simoncelli 10 years ago was felt in the World Rally Championship community as well as MotoGP. This is why: Matthew Wilson’s… Read more by DirtFish Media October 23, 2021 3 min
Features The best and worst WRC homecomings After leaving the team for Citroën ahead of the 2019 World Rally Championship season, Esapekka Lappi will be a Toyota driver once more in 2022… Read more by Luke Barry October 7, 2021 5 min
WRC Opinion Breen column: Why M-Sport deal is so special for me Ford has always been special for me – and that’s not just me saying it. I can tell you the precise day when it became… Read more by DirtFish Media October 6, 2021 3 min
Nitrocross Features What we learned from day one of Nitro Rallycross Regular readers of DirtFish will have seen our predictions, previews, and other build-up content over the last year and a bit as the rallycross side… Read more by Dominik Wilde September 25, 2021 3 min
WRC Features How it Started: Jimmy McRae Would you know much about – or even have heard of – Lanark had the McRae clan not taken the world of rallying by storm?… Read more by Luke Barry August 2, 2021 5 min
