Rally Video How Colin McRae sent Donegal viral Trying to pick your favourite moment from more than half a century of Donegal International Rally action is never going to be easy. Until you… Read more by David Evans June 26, 2024 3 min
WRC Features When Grist helped McRae answer a different call Martijn Wydaeghe’s story of steering a rally car from the wrong seat is nothing new. His fellow co-driver Nicky Grist has a very similar story… Read more by David Evans March 29, 2024 3 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 What the UK’s doing for its co-drivers Looking at flights from Tallinn to Porto for Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja wasn’t how I saw my Tuesday evening going, but there I was… Read more by Luke Barry April 5, 2023 5 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 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 What cost McRae the 2001 WRC title “At the time the notes just came out and he chose his line, but then when it corkscrewed us through the air we had this… Read more by Luke Barry November 28, 2021 10 min +
WRC Features When McRae juggled danger to win his first Acropolis with Ford Saturday morning, Acropolis Rally, 2000. Colin McRae has a plan. The Mendenitsa stage, just south of Lamia, has a double jump near the finish. The… Read more by David Evans September 9, 2021 2 min
WRC Features What it’s like to do the Safari for the first time The recce’s done. The roads, the rocks and the ruts are noted. But still, this week’s Safari Rally Kenya is a massive step into the… Read more by David Evans June 23, 2021 3 min
WRC Features How tape cassettes sent Sainz to a dominant Safari win You could have understood the slight confusion on the part of the rally-watching public as they watched Carlos Sainz head out from Nairobi bound for… Read more by David Evans June 22, 2021 2 min
WRC Features Is 2021 a real Safari? – Nicky Grist vs Robert Reid The World Rally Championship steps back into Africa for the first Safari Rally Kenya in 19 years this week. But is it a Safari? Is… Read more by DirtFish Media June 21, 2021 3 min
WRC Opinion Nicky Grist’s expert advice to Neuville’s new navigator Nicky Grist knows co-driving like the back of his hand, and he also know what it’s like to be called up at late notice for… Read more by DirtFish Media January 17, 2021 5 min
WRC Features Recounting our readers’ favorite Safari WRC memories As part of #DirtFishSafariWeek we asked you, our readers, to pick out your favorite moments in Safari Rally history. While there’s no 2020 edition to… Read more by David Evans July 18, 2020 3 min
WRC Features Rally Portugal’s memorable 1990s moments Two stories, both Scottish, bookend the Nineties on Rally Portugal. Both are incredibly dramatic and both well worthy of their place in #DirtFishPortugalweek, but which… Read more by David Evans May 22, 2020 5 min
WRC Features Colin McRae’s incredible Rally Argentina fix Stories of Colin McRae’s sublime skill and bravery abound. We’re well acquainted with them. What’s often overlooked when considering the Scot’s impact on rallying is… Read more by David Evans April 25, 2020 3 min
WRC Features Argentina 1993: Nicky Grist’s late call to co-driver stardom You know how it is – or maybe how it was – when you’re sitting at home, pondering a round of golf when the telephone… Read more by David Evans April 21, 2020