WRC News DirtFish Portugal Week: And the winner is…Toyota Gazoo Racing driver Sébastien Ogier scored his second win of the season at last week’s Rally Portugal. The Frenchman was comfortably ahead at the… Read more by David Evans May 24, 2020 1 min
Opinion Podcast: Radical ideas, fuzzy statements – and PortugalMoves towards resuming real-world rallying are starting to accelerate, but there are still a lot of unknowns and concerns. In our latest podcast, Colin Clark,… Read more by DirtFish Media May 24, 2020 10 min +
WRC Features The disaster of Rally Portugal 1986Markku Alén has never been one for chasing the limelight. So when he – voluntarily – appeared in the Portuguese media in the days before… Read more by David Evans May 24, 2020 5 min
WRC Video The best photography of Rally PortugalAs DirtFish celebrates everything that’s great about Rally Portugal in the week we should’ve been enjoying the 2020 edition, Colin Clark talks to McKlein Photography’s… Read more by DirtFish Media May 23, 2020 1 min
Rally Features The best Portuguese drivers from six decades of rallyingPortugal is undoubedly a rally-mad nation. Finding old photos and videos of the long-time World Rally Championship staple without walls of fans either side of… Read more by David Evans May 23, 2020 5 min
Rally Features How a new Subaru burned the Portugal oppositionGirona. About as far from Portugal as Spain can get. But it was in the hills high above the north-eastern Catalan city that Richard Burns… Read more by David Evans May 22, 2020 5 min
WRC Features Rally Portugal’s memorable 1990s momentsTwo 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
Rally Features What Portugal offers when the rally’s not in townPortugal. Without the rally? No problem. There’s plenty to keep you occupied, especially up in the north of the country. Down south, it’s mostly about… Read more by David Evans May 22, 2020
WRC Features Four minutes gained in 26 miles – Röhrl’s epic Portugal driveThe recollection of the conversation still gives me goosebumps. Talking to Walter Röhrl does that to you. Especially when you wind the clock back to… Read more by David Evans May 21, 2020 2 min
WRC Features Alén beats Mikkola in epic finish: The 1978 Rally PortugalEvery now and then everything clicks for a driver with a rally. That was Markku Alén and the Rally of Portugal. He took his maiden… Read more by David Evans May 20, 2020 3 min
WRC Features The highs and lows of Rally PortugalRallies with heritage, heart and history have names. Last time it was El Cóndor and Ascochinga. Now we’ve moved on to Arganil, Sintra and Fafe…. Read more by David Evans May 19, 2020 10 min +
WRC Photos McKlein gallery: The top 10 views from Fafe’s famed jumpRally Portugal’s first forays into the Fafe region were in 1974, but without the big jump. This all changed in 1984, when the crest at… Read more by McKlein May 19, 2020
WRC Features What makes Portugal such a challengePortugal has never been one of the more straightforward European rounds of the World Rally Championship. Whether it was the wet March weather blowing in… Read more by David Evans May 18, 2020 3 min
WRC Features DirtFish launches Rally Portugal weekPortugal week. Right about now the World Rally Championship was scheduled to arrive back in Europe for the first time since February. Unfortunately, but for… Read more by David Evans May 18, 2020 2 min
WRC Opinion The harsh realities of the WRC’s calendar quandaryRarely have I stared at a wall for so long with so little return. Literally, for just over an hour now, I’ve been looking deep… Read more by David Evans May 2, 2020 5 min
WRC News WRC’s Rally Portugal round canceledRally Portugal – originally scheduled for next month – has been canceled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The organizer of the Matosinhos-based event made… Read more by David Evans April 30, 2020 3 min
