Ever since Sebastien Loeb announced his retirement from the World Rally Championship people are talking about possible successors to the crown. There is no shortage of candidates, no doubt about that, but one thing in particular really grinds my gears. When discussing 2013, some folks like to point out that Loeb is out of contention...
Random Thoughts / World of Rally / WRC News
by Tom Stajduhar · Published December 28, 2012 · Last modified December 30, 2012
Similar to how McKlein Photography work speaks with authority of decades spent documenting our fascinating sport, the calendars and books published by same team speak about the genuine passion and in-depth understanding of rally and motorsports in general. And just like McKlein photographs are not mere snapshots of rally cars racing by, the calendars they...
Picking one driver and/or team for upcoming year was always sort of a special ritual for me. Once upon a time we had plenty of teams and more than a few potential champions – it was fun selecting one driver and team to root for and have as favourites. Personally, I was always more of...
2012 was a difficult year for Prodrive – they lost Mini backing at the start of the season and had to rely on their own funds and do limited number of rallies throughout the year. Despite all that, results and pace of Mini’s WRC car were promising. Ultimately, car got it’s papers sorted thanks to...
First of all, I sincerely hope all the companies, operations, subsidiaries and branches involved in WRC TV project never end up in court – this mess alone would be enough to make an army of lawyers rich. As you know, Red Bull Media House is new global promoter of World Rally Championship. At least that’s...
For now, it looks like goodbye, but we hope it’s just a “see you later” – Ford decided to pull the plug on their WRC programme and from 2013 blue oval will no longer be a registered manufacturer team in World Rally Championship. It is not all gloom and doom because Ford’s cars will still...
Helicopter footage is great to say the least – it takes some serious skill and balls to try and emulate what guys below are doing in their cars while flying dangerously low and fast. We also like standard WRC onboard videos with cameras fixed to rollcage or bodywork – this puts us in passenger seat...
Ford’s withdrawal from the World Rally Championship was and still is a bad news in general, but it’s good to see that M-Sport is still working hard to remain very important part of the line-up for 2013. With previously confirmed names of Mads Ostberg and Nasser Al-Attiyah we were left with two empty spots, and...
