The Australian Rally Championship (ARC) has made an interesting announcement regarding the direction that the broadcasting of their events will be heading in 2016. Much like what the British Rally Championship (BRC) is doing this year on Channel 4, the ARC has relied in the past on terrestrial TV to broadcast their championship. In a...
I’ll admit it, I have fallen guilty of being a “rally snob” from time to time. This distasteful habit can manifest itself in a variety of ways. Sometimes it’s the rolling of the eyes when someone asks me, “Rally… you mean that X-games stuff… right?” At other times, it is a snide comment posted when...
Sometimes, car manufacturers’ intentions seem to be confusing or misleading, especially if they decide to ignore the current trends. Or they can appear confusing or misleading to someone like me, because what Fiat seems to be doing makes a lot of sense if you approach it from their (company’s) side. We’ve been silently praying for...
Rally America has a thing or two to learn from their friends up north. Today, the season promo trailer was launched for what might be the be one of the best kept secrets in the world of rallying: the Canadian Rally Championship (CRC). No, the CRC may not have big names such as Ken Block...
Did we expect less than stellar performance by Sebastien Loeb in his Dakar Rally debut? Sure we did. This is not a joke local rally with easy to remember stages and amateur participants driving their hobby machines, so to expect Loeb or any other rookie to start their rally raid careers by winning stages wasn’t...
Embrace the dirt! Love it, respect it but most of all enjoy the hell out of it. For those who were not comfortable financing games’ development during early-access phase, the wait is finally over for one particular mega-game. Codemasters’ Dirt Rally (read what we wrote about it here) dropped the leading zero from its version...
Ok, this piece may be a bit UK-centric, but in all fairness, I’m an American rally enthusiast, and if I’m taking notice, then it must be a big deal. Last night on the Absolute Rally podcast, a massively exciting announcement was made about what is arguably the most important national rally championship in the world....
I don’t think I even remember when was the last time I held a magazine or a newspaper in my hands, but I can’t really say if I miss any of those. I also cannot really remember the last time I browsed through a batch of printed photographs, which is a bit sad. No matter...
