by Tom Stajduhar · Published April 2, 2013 · Last modified April 15, 2013
Robert Kubica’s ERC debut in Gran Canaria was truly spectacular, from the sheer speed and immense talent to the bitter disappointment of losing it all due to the smallest of mistakes. For a rally debut of any kind, it doesn’t get any better than that. Well, okay, it does if you win it, of course,...
Compared to rally, circuit racing is often mocked as being too easy or repetitive, but I would assume that is only before you actually sit behind the wheel and head out to face few dozen fiercely merciless opponents. It includes a whole other set of challenges and requirements compared to rally, and in all honesty...
Twitter is a great place. Some drivers, teams and other WRC and motorsport celebrities use it themselves, others hire PR teams to take care of this kind of “personal” communication. Usually, it’s not that hard to distinguish between the two – it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that driver posting tweets and pictures...
Yesterday I “reviewed” two WRC cars by two official manufacturer teams – Volkswagen Polo R WRC and Citroën DS3 WRC. Discussing performance and results is not my aim in this mini-series – quite the opposite. Performance and even potential (that’s the thing some cars have, but then they end up rolling into a ditch or...
Group B cars are still quite popular subject, even though their roar is missing from the stages of the World Rally Championship for nearly three decades. They were unique, outrageous, in your face and had little to do with common sense – in essence, they were the perfect rally cars, made to be driven by...
by Tom Stajduhar · Published March 10, 2013 · Last modified March 16, 2013
Whether he likes it or not, Sebastien Ogier IS shaping to become another Sebastien Loeb, not by name, character or sheer amount of skill, but purely due to the dominant performance he displays on rally stages. Listening to Ogier last year, as he was frustratinlgy not able to challenge WRC cars in S2000 Škoda Fabia,...
Sebastien Ogier plans to have more fun tomorrow, enjoy the rally and basically just drive safely to the finish. With almost 3 minutes separating him and second placed Mikko Hirvonen, Ogier can easily stop mid stage and have a sip of coffee, but what everyone expects from him is even more determined and focused drive...
The magic of these two letters – GT. It’s not the whining S1600 or S2000 cars, nor the popping WRCs, it’s the roaring, screaming, tarmac devouring beasts that, at first, look like the worst possible idea for a rally car. That is until you actually see and hear them live, and then pay attention to...
