Last month, Renault Sport Technologies sealed partnership with Elf and Michelin, ahead of the marque’s official start of European Rally Championship campaign in Rally Islas Canarias. Renault will sport two Megane RS in N4 guise, driven by Germain Bonnefis and Robert Consani. “They are top-class partners and we are hoping to score many successes with...
Female drivers, competing in the 2013 FIA European Rally Championship have another reason to try harder and be the best not only in general classification but among female crews as well. Actually, in order to be eligible for points in newly established Ladies’ Trophy, it is not necessary for crew to be all female, as...
The loud sigh of relief of Juke haters was loud – there will be no Nissan Juke in World Rally Championship. To begin with, chances for that happening were slim to none, with none having a 20 minutes lead over slim, with no stages left to go. But hey, I am allowed to dream, even...
Former world rally champion Petter Solberg is jumping into rallycross battlefield, as we all know. The plan to compete in FIA’s european series was confirmed today, with short story appearing on championship’s official website. Solberg will compete in a Citroën DS3 built by his own team. Norwegian contested 2012 WRC season with Ford as a...
Opel is ready to get their hands, feet and wheels dirty with the introduction of the R2 spec Adam. Supercompact rally car will be homologated sometime this year, and in Geneva Opel will reveal it’s final version, for now still called concept. World Rally Blog already ran Opel’s official press release regarding Adam R2 rally...
If by chance you had no idea what exactly Peugeot 205 T16 is, or rather was, you are bound to find out today. Peugeot decided to change the name of it’s most elaborate current rally car. Boring and unimaginative R5 signature was replaced by the famous T16, making 208 instantly that much more iconic and...
We’ve all been wondering what is Mini up to these days. They had their Dakar fun, running around in the sand and conquering huge challenges, and we know oh too well they are nowhere near WRC, minus Prodrive and Motorsport Italia teams. As it turns out, they are not sitting at home, watching TV and...
Andre Lavadinho and WRC go together very well, and this partnership produced rich collection of impressive photographs from special stages all over the world. Latest addition to Andre’s gallery is the photo set shot on and around the stages of 2013 Rally Sweden. And again, he was able to capture the very essence of rally...
