WRC News Why Hyundai is struggling so much on Islas Canarias Thierry Neuville, like every Rally1 driver in the World Rally Championship, is required to talk to media when coming back to service. Not much was… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay April 25, 2025 3 min
WRC News How driver pacenotes are compromised for WRC Canarias The recce at Rally Islas Canarias, a brand-new event on the World Rally Championship calendar, was always going to be a challenge with drivers creating… Read more by Luke Barry April 24, 2025 5 min
WRC News Tänak: The system must change, not us Appendix 12.2.1 of the FIA International Sporting Code has dominated the shakedown day of Safari Rally Kenya. The recently implemented rules around driver speech, which… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay March 19, 2025 3 min
WRC News WRC drivers protest Fourmaux fine with stage-end silence World Rally Championship drivers appear set to boycott stage-end interviews in English at this week’s Safari Rally Kenya. Following Adrien Fourmaux’s €10,000 fine for using… Read more by Luke Barry March 19, 2025 2 min
WRC News Has Tänak changed approach this year? The media zone isn’t traditionally where you get the best of Ott Tänak. But something changed in Gap. Far smilier, engaged and thoughtful in his… Read more by Luke Barry February 10, 2025 3 min
WRC News Hyundai’s secrecy over its updated Rally1 car I already knew the response I’d get before I asked the question, but it would be remiss not to try. Details of Hyundai’s revised i20… Read more by Luke Barry February 3, 2025 2 min
WRC News Fourth car unlikely for Hyundai in 2025 Hyundai Motorsport is unlikely to run extra cars during the 2025 World Rally Championship season, with president and team principal Cyril Abiteboul keen to “really… Read more by Luke Barry January 30, 2025 2 min
WRC Features Ogier’s 10 Monte Carlo Rally wins ranked After winning the opening round of the 2025 World Rally Championship season, Sébastien Ogier’s name is now proudly printed on the Monte Carlo Rally’s roll… Read more by Luke Barry January 26, 2025 5 min
WRC News Where has Tänak’s dominant speed come from? Ever since the World Rally Championship season was launched in Monaco last Sunday, Ott Tänak has seemed a changed character. Happier; more relaxed; more talkative…. Read more by Luke Barry January 25, 2025 3 min
WRC News Massive Tänak push triggers three-way podium fight Ott Tänak has turned the fight for second place into a three-way battle, putting the hammer down on Saturday afternoon of the Monte Carlo Rally… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay January 25, 2025 2 min
WRC News Neuville pushes team-mates to play ‘team game’ Hyundai let its first World Rally Championship clean sweep slip in 2024, and new World Rally champion Thierry Neuville has made it very clear that… Read more by Luke Barry January 7, 2025 2 min
Rally Features Fourmaux eyes title fight with Hyundai In the end, nobody was surprised. The world saw this one coming. But still, seeing Adrien Fourmaux in Hyundai overalls looked odd. Less so for… Read more by David Evans January 5, 2025 5 min
WRC Podcast Will Rovanperä dominate WRC and who’s going to win Dakar? Who’s going to win the Dakar? What about WRC2? Will there be any new winners in the World Rally Championship? And which direction will the… Read more by David Evans January 1, 2025 2 min
WRC News Abiteboul wants to ‘solve the riddle’ with Tänak There’s perhaps never been a bigger fall from ‘hero to zero’ than Ott Tänak experienced on the final morning of Rally Japan. His performance had… Read more by Luke Barry November 28, 2024 3 min
WRC News Tänak laments “complete f*** up” after Japan crash Ott Tänak has explained his rally-ending Rally Japan crash which potentially cost Hyundai the World Rally Championship’s manufacturers’ title, branding his mistake a “complete f***… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay November 24, 2024 2 min
WRC News How the WRC title races have shifted amid Friday drama Needing at least 25 points to stand any chance of a World Rally Championship title steal, Ott Tänak faced the longest of long odds. Even… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay November 22, 2024 3 min
WRC News Abiteboul: No team orders at Rally Japan Hyundai drivers Thierry Neuville and Ott Tänak will be free to fight each other for the drivers’ title at next week’s Rally Japan, despite Hyundai’s… Read more by Luke Barry November 15, 2024
WRC News Tänak laid-back over Hyundai’s third car Adrien Fourmaux knows. Andreas Mikkelsen doesn’t. Esapekka Lappi might. Dani Sordo probably does. Ott Tänak’s not fussed either way. The Estonian’s phlegmatic approach to the… Read more by David Evans November 4, 2024
