WRC News Kankkunen: This is the best team I’ve been a part of It’s been over 40 years since four-time world champion Juha Kankkunen entered the first phase of his driving career. But 2025 is offering the Finn… Read more by Luke Barry May 3, 2025 2 min
WRC News Kankkunen “not impressed” by Rovanperä’s crushing Canarias win It’s an odd statement on paper. Kalle Rovanperä simply disappeared into the distance on Rally Islas Canarias, not giving anyone so much as a crumb… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay April 27, 2025 3 min
ARA Features The Olympus WRC history beyond the controversial obvious Think of the World Rally Championship in Washington and your mind will almost inevitably wander to that epic era-ender in the winter of 1986. It’s… Read more by David Evans April 10, 2025 3 min
WRC Features When Kankkunen defied all logic to take his first WRC win At 47 years old, Rauno Aaltonen must have wondered what more he had to do. He’d done this event 22 times, finished second on four… Read more by David Evans March 30, 2025 3 min
WRC News Will Kankkunen shift Toyota’s team order policy? Toyota’s policy on team orders – or a lack of them – is a much discussed subject in the World Rally Championship. The Japanese giant,… Read more by Mark Paulson December 17, 2024 3 min
WRC Features What will Kankkunen bring to his new Toyota role? A couple of years ago Sébastien Ogier and I were walking around the Toyota Museum. It was the day after Rally Japan and there was… Read more by David Evans November 27, 2024 3 min
WRC News Toyota appoints Kankkunen as deputy team principal Four-time World Rally champion Juha Kankkunen will return to the service park with Toyota next season when he joins Jari-Matti Latvala as deputy team principal…. Read more by David Evans November 25, 2024 2 min
WRC Features When team-mates tied for a WRC rally win Sami Pajari and Robert Virves’ tie for WRC2 glory at the recent Acropolis Rally Greece was impressive – of that there can be no dispute…. Read more by Luke Barry September 17, 2024 3 min
WRC Features History shows Ogier can still catch Neuville The race is on. Sébastien Ogier looks all set to take on the remaining four rounds of the World Rally Championship season. In the words… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay August 22, 2024 10 min +
WRC Photos The birth of two classic WRC elements If you’d asked me to draw a picture of anything as a child, it would probably have looked something like this. Granted, the Subaru Impreza… Read more by Luke Barry July 31, 2024 2 min
WRC News Kankkunen: Rovanperä will come back even better in 2025 Four-time World Rally Champion Juha Kankkunen has warned that his countryman Kalle Rovanperä will come back from his part-program 2024 season an even better driver. The… Read more by David Evans April 2, 2024 2 min
WRC Features The event Group B’s supercars couldn’t crack Group B comes along and changes everything, right? Kind of. But not quite everything. There was one event which didn’t exactly embrace the revolution. The… Read more by David Evans March 27, 2024
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 Features Tractors on ice… retirement Kankkunen style I’m sitting in a kitchen not far from the Russian border staring at snow. There’s a cassette player in the corner playing Arttu Wiskari’s rally… Read more by David Evans March 10, 2024 10 min +
Women in motorsport Features Peugeot’s 205 T16: selling the game changer That Audi delivered rallying’s revolution is beyond question. The quattro moved the goalposts. But it was this Peugeot that truly changed the game. The French… Read more by David Evans February 26, 2024 5 min
WRC Features Remembering Kankkunen’s final WRC act His is a name that returned to the World Rally Championship news agenda, as Toyota team principal Jari-Matti Latvala compared Kalle Rovanperä’s latest title success… Read more by Hamir Thapar November 1, 2023 2 min
WRC Features Video The legend of Lankamaa Standing at the bottom of a hill looking back up through the trees, it all made sense. This really was the place. The slight crest just before… Read more by David Evans August 3, 2023 5 min
WRC Features The 26-year-old farmer’s boy who tore up the Safari rule book It’s hard to know who was more surprised. Was it the staff in Nairobi’s Serena Hotel or was it Juha Kankkunen? The four-time world champion… Read more by David Evans June 23, 2023 3 min
