Rally Features When Audi deployed Mikkola to help a US title bid Just when Hannu Mikkola might have felt he’d seen enough of the inside of an Audi for one year in 1984, he was asked to… Read more by David Evans December 12, 2024 2 min
WRC Features The call that changed Hannu Mikkola’s life Today would have been Hannu Mikkola’s 82nd birthday. What better way to remember and celebrate the two-time world champion than to go back in time… Read more by Jon Scoltock May 24, 2024 5 min
WRC News Why Hannu Mikkola turned Lancia down When Audi’s senior management invited Hannu Mikkola into the office, he had an idea what was coming. This was 1986, the World Rally Championship was… Read more by David Evans May 24, 2024 3 min
WRC Features When Röhrl used Lancia’s tricks against the Italians At some point, the question’s coming. Given the potential for dry and dusty conditions, it’s as inevitable as the consumption of Pastéis de Nata in… Read more by David Evans May 9, 2024 5 min
Video The legend of Hannu Mikkola: told through his sons When Vesa and Juha Mikkola came to Goodwood’s Festival of Speed last year, it was for one reason: to drive Audi’s original rally-redefining, all-conquering quattro… Read more by DirtFish Media April 10, 2024
BRC Features Opinion Can former glories shape Britain’s future? Kalle Rovanperä will contest the opening round of this year’s British Rally Championship. Actually, he won’t. Be nice though, wouldn’t it? And it would be… Read more by David Evans March 22, 2024 5 min
Features When Audi took revenge on Lancia The war was done. Lancia won. Famously. But what followed? Did the Turinese roll into Monte Carlo for a sixth win in 10 years in… Read more by David Evans January 18, 2024 5 min
WRC Features Mikkola’s sons to drive the very first Audi Quattro at Goodwood Rallying history is littered with watershed moments. The 1973 Monte Carlo Rally springs to mind – the very first World Rally Championship event. Or Juha… Read more by Luke Barry July 13, 2023 3 min
WRC Features Ogier’s foot slip has happened to another WRC champion After 178 World Rally Championship starts and eight world titles, there’s not a whole lot new for Sébastien Ogier to experience behind the wheel of a… Read more by Luke Barry June 11, 2023 2 min
WRC Features Diving into the details of 1000 Lakes Rally Here’s one for you, Craig Breen. Tell me the second most popular car to be used on the 1991 1000 Lakes Rally. Andrea Adamo, you… Read more by David Evans January 30, 2023 3 min
WRC Features Your Top 50 WRC drivers: 20-11 The votes are in, and the verdict is to be delivered. We asked you to vote for who you thought was the greatest World Rally… Read more by Luke Barry December 22, 2022 3 min
Rally Features Inside Hannu Mikkola’s sons’ emotional voyage Fifty years ago, Hannu Mikkola tackled the original Olympia Rallye in a Boreham-run Ford Escort RS1600. The Flying Finn retired early from an event eventually… Read more by DirtFish Media August 21, 2022 3 min
Rally News Röhrl and Mikkola’s sons recreate 50-year-old rally The 25-year-old German slowed his Ford Capri to a stop alongside the marshal who had waved him down. He might have to wait a while…. Read more by David Evans August 8, 2022 3 min
eWRC Features The drivers who’ve repeatedly had WRC title near-misses After just losing out to Sébastien Ogier in each of the past two seasons, this was supposed to be Elfyn Evans’ year. But with his… Read more by Mark Paulson June 18, 2022 5 min
WRC Features WRC drivers to win on debut with their new team As David Evans wrote in his 2022 Monte Carlo Rally review, it’s the story that keeps on giving. Sébastien Loeb’s victory for M-Sport Ford –… Read more by Luke Barry January 25, 2022 5 min
WRC Features The top 10 Finns on Rally Finland It’s like asking Imelda Marcos to pick out her favorite shoes. Or telling Jay Leno to select just a handful of the 1600 cars he… Read more by David Evans September 28, 2021 10 min +
WRC Features The top 10 most prolific stage winners in the WRC This year’s maiden World Rally Championship event in Croatia was a special moment for Sébastien Ogier, and not just because of his dramatic final-stage triumph… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon May 4, 2021 5 min
WRC Features “End of an era” – Vatanen’s tribute to Sutton and Mikkola When it comes to remembering Hannu Mikkola and David Sutton, few people are better placed to pay tribute than Finnish rally legend Ari Vatanen. The… Read more by David Evans April 7, 2021 3 min
