Ken Block recently visited New Zealand and rejoined World Rally Championship briefly to finish among point scorers. Excited, or rather, stoked Ken then said Kiwi stages are the best in world, and despite problems he had during three days of running, he did quite well for someone only occasionally involved in WRC rallying.
Volkswagen is still silent about the possibility to enter one of the events of this year’s World Rally Championship with their new machine, Polo R WRC. But at the same time company is hard at work, testing and preparing for 2013 and full assault on the WRC crowns with Sebastien Ogier behind the wheel of...
After the call came from Citroën, instructing their duo to bring cars home safely, rally in New Zealand lost a bit of it’s appeal, but not for long and not entirely. In fact, it was a perfect allround display of rallying – that is, getting to the finish thanks to brains and cool head, as...
After Argentina and Greece, the Citroën Total World Rally Team secured its third one-two finish in a row at Rally New Zealand with the Sébastien Loeb/Daniel Elena and Mikko Hirvonen/Jarmo Lehtinen crews. The result means the team ends the first part of the season leading the Manufacturers’ World Championship and holding first and second places...
‘Hey everyone, ‘It’s Tomo again this will be my last column here at Rally New Zealand. It was a great weekend for WRC Team MINI Portugal with both drovers successfully completing every stage! Armindo finished the rally in the Top 10 in 8th earning himself four WRC points and Paulo brought his MINI home safely...
Dani Sordo won the two runs through the super special stage today in his MINI John Cooper Works WRC and combined this with some more impressive times on the final day’s five other stages to finish Rally New Zealand in sixth overall. Sordo was one of the few leading drivers who still had a full...
Ford World Rally Team drivers Petter Solberg and Chris Patterson claimed their fourth podium of the season when they finished third in Brother Rally New Zealand today. Driving a Ford Fiesta RS World Rally Car, they battled up the leaderboard after losing time early in the three-day rally and climbed to third in the FIA...
Dramatic second day of IRC Ypres Rally in Belgium saw Juho Hanninen take well deserved victory in front of thousands of enthusiastic fans. First major retirement out of many dramatic events and crashes occured on special stage 7 – current championship leader Andreas Mikkelsen was trying hard to make up time lost in Friday and...
