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
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 July 2, 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
Nitro RX 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
WRC Video Watch the Wilsons explain the new M-Sport Ford Puma Rally1 The Ford Puma Rally1 is all the rallying world can talk about right now. The new, hybrid 2022 World Rally Championship cars have always been… Read more by DirtFish Media July 9, 2021 10 min +
WRC Features The last time Ford took a big cat rallying With plenty of chatter about the potential for M-Sport returning Ford’s Puma to the stages, it’s worth remembering there’s nothing new about rallying Pumas. Based… Read more by David Evans July 8, 2021 3 min
WRC News Matton praises benchmark M-Sport sets with Puma launch FIA rally director Yves Matton has described M-Sport Ford’s launch of its Puma Rally1 as a ‘major stepping stone’ for the World Rally Championship’s next… Read more by David Evans July 8, 2021 2 min
Rally News M-Sport Stages event will return for 2021 The M-Sport Ford World Rally Team will co-organize a national-level rally for the second year in succession with the return of the M-Sport Stages in… Read more by Luke Barry May 4, 2021
WRC News M-Sport reiterates it won’t compete if hybrid postponed M-Sport has repeated its position that it will not compete in next year’s World Rally Championship if hybrid is postponed, as the new regulations are… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay April 22, 2021 3 min
WRC News Evans’s tribute to “the man who made things happen” To many, he was one of the most inspirational and eminent engineers in the global car industry. To some, for a while at least, he… Read more by David Evans April 19, 2021 2 min
