WRC Features How it Started: Andreas Mikkelsen For most drivers, lining up to start their first ever rally at the tender age of 17, they’ll be competing in a modest front-wheel-drive machine… Read more by Luke Barry May 7, 2022 5 min
WRC Features How it Started: Hayden Paddon Forging a career in the World Rally Championship requires a special blend of focus, resilience and opportunism – and nobody has displayed that more than… Read more by Luke Barry April 12, 2022 5 min
WRC Features How it Started: Marcus Grönholm By the time Marcus Grönholm took the start of the Monte Carlo Rally in 2000, Peugeot’s new factory driver was something of an elder statesman… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon April 3, 2022 5 min
WRC Features How it Started: Carlos Sainz Somewhere in a parallel universe, there’s a twenty-something Carlos Sainz jogging out onto a soccer field, possibly alongside the likes of José Antonio Camacho or… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon October 9, 2021 5 min
WRC Features How it Started: Mads Østberg Before the 21st century, when two Frenchmen called Sébastien decided to obliterate the World Rally Championship’s record books, Scandinavians were the recognized drivers to beat… Read more by Luke Barry August 24, 2021 10 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
Dakar Features How it started: Stéphane Peterhansel If there’s one thing that has become obvious over time, it’s that one does not simply become Mr Dakar overnight. Nor does one acquire the… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon June 19, 2021 5 min
WRC Features How it started: Didier Auriol France has more World Rally Championship titles than any other nation thanks to its two Sébastiens, Loeb and Ogier. It has an enviable structure for… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay June 2, 2021 5 min
