WRC Features When a future world champion scored an unlikely home win An emerging Finnish talent rolling the dice on the main stage. Sound familiar? Sound like the story Sami Pajari wants to tell this week? It’s… Read more by David Evans July 30, 2024 2 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 Opinion Why 2003 was the best WRC season ever “Less than a minute covers the top seven, it’s still anyone’s rally.” When was the last time you heard those words uttered at the end… Read more by Hamir Thapar November 11, 2023
WRC Features WRC drivers to win on all surfaces There are several factors that make the World Rally Championship unique, but one of the most obvious is the mixed composition of the rallies. While… Read more by Luke Barry April 23, 2023 5 min
WRC Features When Rovanperä secretly tested a Toyota at 15 When was it? When was the moment? It’s easy to point to the YouTube film of an eight-year-old Kalle Rovanperä and predict his future as… Read more by David Evans December 28, 2022 5 min
WRC Features The WRC’s most dominant campaigns When Kalle Rovanperä clinched his fifth victory in the first seven rallies of 2022, it became clear that he was running away with the World… Read more by Mark Paulson December 27, 2022 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 The WRC season where only world champions won At face value, the 1996 World Rally Championship season was hardly a barnstormer. Just three teams – Subaru, Mitsubishi and Ford – competed. There were… Read more by Luke Barry December 18, 2022 5 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 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
ERC Features The championships won in unconventional ways This weekend’s Barum Rally Zlín was always likely to be one to remember for Efrén Llarena. His championship lead was sizable enough that he was… Read more by Luke Barry August 26, 2022 5 min
Rally Features Top 10 Finns in Fords in Finland If there’s one nationality that’s best associated with Ford in the World Rally Championship, particularly in the 21st century, it’s Finland. Aside from current megastar… Read more by Luke Barry August 3, 2022 5 min
WRC Features The closest asphalt WRC finishes of all time Croatia Rally has already gone down in World Rally Championship history after its first two inclusions on the calendar – and not just because of… Read more by Luke Barry April 30, 2022 5 min
WRC Features 10 of the best final stage comebacks Efrén Llarena and MRF’s Vivek Ponnusamy’s celebrations at the end of the Rally Azores powerstage were almost as famous as the victory. But it was… Read more by DirtFish Staff March 28, 2022 5 min
WRC Features WRC drivers to win on debut with their new team As David Evans wrote in his 2022 Monte Carlo Rally review, it’s the story that keeps on giving. Sébastien Loeb’s victory for M-Sport Ford –… Read more by Luke Barry January 25, 2022 5 min
WRC Features When Mäkinen was beaten but still won the Monte Every year the carpet seemed to get thicker. More sumptuous. And more red. There was only one thing a deeper shade of red than the… Read more by David Evans January 16, 2022 3 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 DirtFish Debates: The best World Rally Car season This month’s season-closing Monza Rally marks the end of the World Rally Championship’s World Rally Car era. Beginning in 1997, it has produced some of… Read more by DirtFish Staff November 17, 2021 5 min
