WRC Features How heavy rain would affect Safari Rally Kenya The clouds are gathering. The rain’s coming. The big questions are: how much and for how long? George Donaldson is a man who knows all… Read more by David Evans March 28, 2024 3 min
Rally Features Our favorite Safari Rally memories Ever since DirtFish began covering the World Rally Championship comprehensively at the beginning of 2020, the team has always enjoyed rally week. That anticipation of… Read more by DirtFish Staff March 24, 2024 5 min
WRC Opinion Should Toyota use team orders to help Evans? Hyundai team principal Cyril Abiteboul made his intentions crystal clear at last year’s Rally Sweden. His team had a primary target: win the drivers’ title… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay February 12, 2024 5 min
WRC Features The logic behind WRC driver ratings Colin Clark’s driver ratings after every World Rally Championship round are always the subject of debate – which is brilliant, because that’s what they’re designed… Read more by DirtFish Media January 31, 2023 10 min +
WRC Features When WRC team orders work for driver and team No important decision is ever made with ease, whether you’re working a part-time job or spearheading a manufacturer’s assault in the World Rally Championship. But if… Read more by Luke Barry January 8, 2023 3 min
WRC News Colin Clark and George Donaldson’s memories of Japan The World Rally Championship makes its first visit to Japan for more than a decade this week. After a couple of false starts in recent… Read more by DirtFish Media November 6, 2022
WRC Opinion A technical examination of Ypres Rally Belgium George ‘The Anorak’ Donaldson made such a good impression on our post Rally Finland edition of SPIN, The Rally Pod that, this week, we’ve decided… Read more by DirtFish Media August 30, 2022 10 min +
WRC Opinion Was Croatia Tänak’s greatest ever WRC drive? Hyundai’s car is no match for its rivals on asphalt. It needs work. It’s a car designed for gravel rallies. That was the message from… Read more by DirtFish Media April 30, 2022 3 min
WRC Features The Mini that took on Group B monsters in Sweden The 1983 World Rally Championship was as much about the savage Group B Rally cars themselves as it was Audi vs Lancia – two titans… Read more by Rob Hansford February 19, 2022 5 min
WRC Features What the WRC teams are looking for in Rally Sweden testing There’s been a fairly hefty gap between the Monte Carlo Rally and Rally Sweden. A whole month for the World Rally Championship teams to put… Read more by DirtFish Media February 9, 2022 5 min
WRC Features Why Rally1 cars crash differently to WRC cars We’d heard about Rally1 cars taking heavy hits before the season began. Neuville dropping his Hyundai i20 N Rally1 down a ravine in testing was… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay January 26, 2022 3 min
WRC Opinion What we should expect from Loeb vs Ogier on the Monte We aren’t short of storylines this week as the first round of the 2022 World Rally Championship season, the Monte Carlo Rally, ushers in a… Read more by DirtFish Media January 16, 2022 3 min
WRC Features When Mäkinen was beaten but still won the Monte Every year the carpet seemed to get thicker. More sumptuous. And more red. There was only one thing a deeper shade of red than the… Read more by David Evans January 16, 2022 3 min
WRC Features Inside Toyota’s banned 1996 season Twenty-five years ago, life as part of Toyota’s World Rally Championship program was very different to how it is today. Contrast the double title-winning success… Read more by Luke Barry December 27, 2021 5 min
WRC Features The secrets to Ypres success This week, Belgium will become the 35th country to host a round of the World Rally Championship. A nice headline stat, but really the attention-grabber… Read more by Luke Barry August 9, 2021 5 min
WRC Opinion Podcast: Is Hyundai/Tänak now the WRC’s fastest package? There’s plenty to talk about in the World Rally Championship right now. Last week’s Rally Portugal was a tale of two halves, and we only… Read more by DirtFish Media May 26, 2021 10 min +
Extreme E Opinion Podcast: What we can expect from Extreme E For the first time ever, DirtFish’s in-house podcast SPIN, The Rally Pod has drifted away from the world of rallying as we preview the very… Read more by DirtFish Media April 1, 2021 10 min +
WRC Features Mudbaths and chaos: The story of Portugal 2001 When it comes to pure rally fever, few nations match Portugal. For decades it consistently drew enormous crowds, come rain or shine. In 2001, there… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay March 27, 2021 3 min
