WRC Features When Röhrl used Lancia’s tricks against the Italians At some point, the question’s coming. Given the potential for dry and dusty conditions, it’s as inevitable as the consumption of Pastéis de Nata in… Read more by David Evans May 9, 2024 5 min
Features When Audi took revenge on Lancia The war was done. Lancia won. Famously. But what followed? Did the Turinese roll into Monte Carlo for a sixth win in 10 years in… Read more by David Evans January 18, 2024 5 min
WRC Features When the reigning World Rally champion switched teams Driver moves are already exciting, no matter the timing of them or even the discipline of motorsport in which they happen. The World Rally Championship… Read more by Mark Paulson June 11, 2023 5 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 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
Rally Features Inside Hannu Mikkola’s sons’ emotional voyage Fifty years ago, Hannu Mikkola tackled the original Olympia Rallye in a Boreham-run Ford Escort RS1600. The Flying Finn retired early from an event eventually… Read more by DirtFish Media August 21, 2022 3 min
Rally News Röhrl and Mikkola’s sons recreate 50-year-old rally The 25-year-old German slowed his Ford Capri to a stop alongside the marshal who had waved him down. He might have to wait a while…. Read more by David Evans August 8, 2022 3 min
WRC Features Röhrl’s apology to Mouton after four decades Walter Röhrl’s 1982 season really didn’t go to plan. By the end of January, it was mission accomplished. What followed was not in a script… Read more by David Evans May 29, 2022 3 min
WRC Features Inside the WRC’s 50th anniversary celebration Walking into Wednesday night’s celebration of 50 years of the World Rally Championship, Sébastien Ogier shook his head and offered a rueful smile. The Frenchman… Read more by David Evans May 19, 2022 3 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 The small WRC club Loeb now leaves In one guise or another, Ford has been a mainstay of the World Rally Championship, competing across all the various rulesets in the WRC’s 49-year… Read more by Luke Barry December 22, 2021 5 min
WRC Features Lancia’s top WRC winners Before the French rule of the World Rally Championship came through the 21st century, Lancia long stood as the benchmark in terms of domineering statistics…. Read more by Luke Barry August 8, 2021 10 min +
WRC Features Mikkola’s hardest-fought success – in his own words Twenty-one years ago, the governing body of Finnish motorsport celebrated 50 years of the Finnish Grand Prix – the 1000 Lakes Rally. Marko Mäkinen and… Read more by DirtFish Media March 31, 2021 5 min
WRC Podcast Podcast: WRC return nearing, Lancia liveries and Röhrl In the latest edition of SPIN, The Rally Pod, our panel of DirtFish Senior Staff Writer David Evans, our voice of rally Colin Clark, and… Read more by DirtFish Media August 11, 2020 10 min +
WRC Video When Rally Sanremo made Röhrl a movie star Before we leave DirtFish Italy Week, there’s one more story which has to be told. Have you watched Riding Balls of Fire or The Evolution… Read more by David Evans June 6, 2020 5 min
WRC Features Adamo’s Rally Italy reflections part one – 1985 It’s early Monday September 30 and Andrea Adamo’s gone missing. He’s nowhere to be seen and the good folk of Cuneo’s Instituto Tecnico Industrial are… Read more by David Evans June 4, 2020 5 min
WRC Features The disaster of Rally Portugal 1986 Markku 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 Features Four minutes gained in 26 miles – Röhrl’s epic Portugal drive The 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
