WRC News Toyota’s 2022 testing program underwayDirtFish understands that Toyota’s 2022-specification Yaris WRC has begun its test program with the car now running in France. No pictures of the car have… Read more by David Evans April 16, 2021 2 min
WRC News Ogier: No point leading the championship right nowWho’s holding the poisoned chalice right now? Sébastien Ogier’s pretty sure it’s not him. By extension then, it must be his Toyota Gazoo Racing team-mate… Read more by David Evans April 15, 2021 3 min
WRC Features The changes in Latvala since becoming team principalI’d softened Jari-Matti Latvala up with a couple of looseners, nothing too stressful. He’d swatted them away with complete comfort. So I pitched one in… Read more by David Evans April 11, 2021 3 min
Dakar Features Dakar’s most successful driversOften labelled as the last great challenge of motorsport, the Dakar Rally has attracted some of the most impressive competitors from across the world to… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon March 21, 2021 10 min +
WRC Features Why Katsuta’s “50:50” start is far better than he thinksTakamoto Katsuta won’t have it. He just won’t. DirtFish is trying to convince Toyota’s Japanese star that his start to the season has been strong…. Read more by David Evans March 16, 2021 3 min
WRC News Can Evans bounce back from his unhappy start?This time last year, Elfyn Evans was leading the World Rally Championship. This time two years ago, he was 34 points behind the series leader… Read more by David Evans March 15, 2021 2 min
WRC News How Saturday morning is now “critical” to Toyota hopesJari-Matti Latvala believes Saturday morning’s stages on Arctic Rally Finland will be “very critical” for Toyota’s fortunes after the opening day was dominated by Hyundai…. Read more by Luke Barry February 26, 2021 3 min
WRC Features Opinion Solberg, Rovanperä, and the race to be a generation’s bestThey’re separated by the Gulf of Bothnia. And by one year and one week. They both have world rally-winning fathers. And a weight of expectation… Read more by David Evans February 25, 2021 5 min
WRC News Could Evans wipe away the best on WRC’s winter rally again?A year ago, Elfyn Evans dominated the World Rally Championship’s winter rally. He won five from nine stages, led from start to finish. Can he… Read more by David Evans February 20, 2021 2 min
WRC Opinion Is it fair to call Rovanperä Arctic favorite?We’ve only had one rally in 2021 to build a formbook from, and only eight World Rally Championship events in total to measure Kalle Rovanperä’s… Read more by DirtFish Media February 19, 2021 3 min
WRC Features What would a perfect stand-in winter rally mean for Sweden?As mottos go, it’s not entirely accurate. Not this year, anyway. Right now, Rally Sweden can’t really claim to be ‘Closer to Rally’. Event CEO… Read more by David Evans February 18, 2021 3 min
WRC News The hidden speed challenge of WRC 2022In performance terms, the World Rally Championship is bracing itself for a single step forward leading to a couple in the opposite direction next season…. Read more by David Evans February 10, 2021 2 min
WRC Video Video: Ogier – King of the Monte Carlo RallyThe Monte Carlo Rally throws everything it can at drivers in pursuit of victory, and on this rally more than any other it takes a… Read more by DirtFish Media February 6, 2021 3 min
WRC News The WRC’s balance between 2021 speed and 2022 preparationIn days gone by the test team would have taken care of it. Those days are done. Now it’s about development one week, competition the… Read more by David Evans February 3, 2021 2 min
WRC News The plans for the “pure Toyota” engine in the next Yaris WRCSince it returned to the World Rally Championship in 2017, Toyota has been working towards producing its own engine for the Yaris WRC and this… Read more by David Evans January 30, 2021 2 min
WRC News What’s one of Latvala’s WRC team talks like?More motivation than menace. That, according to Jari-Matti Latvala, is the key to a winning team talk. And the man with the 100% World Rally… Read more by David Evans January 27, 2021 2 min
WRC News Ogier test crash meant only six miles on new slicks pre-MonteMonte Carlo Rally winner Sébastien Ogier admits he went into the World Rally Championship season opener with some trepidation after a pre-event testing crash reduced… Read more by David Evans January 26, 2021 2 min
WRC Features Ogier’s Monte Carlo Rally wins rankedAfter winning the opening round of the 2021 World Rally Championship season, Sébastien Ogier’s name now stands alone at the top of the Monte Carlo… Read more by DirtFish Media January 26, 2021 5 min
