It may have been lost in the lead up to WRC Rally Portugal, but the Australian Rally Championship announced its draft regulations for 2016 in a press release last week. (A link to the release can be found at the bottom of this article) To be honest, I am not very familiar with this championship,...
I wanted to discuss comments made by Sebastien Ogier after he crossed the finish line in Portugal in this post, but maybe that will have to wait a bit and get some space in another post (I will try to share my thoughts on the things which prompted SO’s controversial comments). It is often we...
Road sweeping: After the roughness of Rally Argentina negated some of the road sweeping effects, those issues came right back to the forefront on Leg 1 of Portugal. It was interesting to hear how the different drivers reacted to it. I hate to pick on Sebastien Ogier too much, but lets be honest, he has...
Long breaks are long, too long in fact, but on the other hand, the world of rallying is big and busy enough, so even these long breaks between WRC events are not so difficult to survive. Actually, I am not entirely sure I would like to see rallies stacked too close together, with one or...
Renault Sport Technologies opens its WRC3 World Rally Championship campaign at Rally de Portugal. Andrea Crugnola and Michele Ferrara will compete in a Clio R3T, prepared by ASM H. Motorsport. The ambitious goal of winning the title by the end of the season means the Italian crew will be aiming to score heavily in the...
First of all, this is just a list of events which are set to remain in the calendar next year, subject to WMSC approval, so nothing is set in stone just yet. The list consists of Monte Carlo, Sweden, Argentina, Finland, Australia, Italy, Poland, Mexico and Spain. Some very big names are missing from the...
Citroën DS3 WRC has a new livery! It almost looks like they were waiting for that win in order to get rid of the old clothes and put on some new colours. I must say, I love it. I had a tough time defending the old design, because, in all honesty, it was (getting) old,...
For now, I don’t have a definitive answer to this question. In fact, I don’t have any kind of answer, because I still haven’t had a chance to test this latest product of the team behind so many legendary rally and racing games. Right now, there is a lot going on in my life, mostly...
