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
WRC Features The drivers with the most consecutive WRC podiums Esapekka Lappi set a new personal record for himself on the recent Rally Italy Sardinia by scoring his third consecutive World Rally Championship podium. In… Read more by Luke Barry June 15, 2023 5 min
WRC Features When the reigning World Rally champion switched teams Driver moves are already exciting, no matter the timing of them or even the discipline of motorsport in which they happen. The World Rally Championship… Read more by Mark Paulson June 11, 2023 5 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 The nine WRC crews that won together on debut It took just two events for Sébastien Ogier and Vincent Landais to become World Rally Championship event winners together, dominating last weekend’s Monte Carlo Rally…. Read more by Luke Barry January 29, 2023 3 min
WRC Features Your Top 50 WRC drivers: 10-6 The votes are in, and the verdict is to be delivered. We asked you to vote for who you felt was the greatest World Rally… Read more by Luke Barry December 23, 2022 3 min
WRC Features Kankkunen: Rally1 is like the Group B era Four-time World Rally Champion Juha Kankkunen is no stranger to big statements. He’s very good at them. Talking to him in Japan last month, it’s… Read more by David Evans December 15, 2022 3 min
WRC Features Big WRC driver moves that didn’t work out Ott Tänak and M-Sport’s reunion has all the hallmarks of a successful World Rally Championship partnership. Tänak’s roots are with M-Sport. Although he left it… Read more by Luke Barry December 10, 2022 10 min +
WRC News Kankkunen keen for Toyota testing role Juha Kankkunen was embarrassed. This wasn’t part of the plan. He had shown himself up at what was a big moment for Toyota – the… Read more by David Evans December 1, 2022 3 min
WRC News Toyota’s Rally2 Yaris to break cover at Rally Japan Four-time World Rally champion Juha Kankkunen will give Toyota’s GR Yaris Rally2 its first public appearance at next week’s Rally Japan. This will be Kankkunen’s… Read more by David Evans November 1, 2022 2 min
WRC Features How history tells us Rovanpera will perform now he’s champion Now that Kalle Rovanperä has sewn up his first World Rally Championship title, and Toyota is on the brink of a third manufacturers’ crown in five years,… Read more by Mark Paulson October 16, 2022 5 min
