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.
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...
You often hear only the positives about the Ypres Rally, round of Intercontinental Rally Challenge and without a doubt one of the most popular rallies in the world. Event is equally popular with drivers and teams as well as media and most of all fans. Thousands of people come to watch shakedown runs, so you...
Fast and tight stages of Ypres Rally were made even more challenging after rain brought in huge amount of dirt and mud from the surrounding fields. To get to the finish in one piece and without problems should be considered an achievement, yet crews need to step it up and actually fight for positions in...
Perfect weekend for rally fans, especially if you don’t really care about sleeping – WRC’s Rally New Zealand and IRC’s Geko Ypres Rally – two of the best events in their respective championships are upon us this week. We know how day 1 ended in New Zealand, and now it’s time to focus on Geko...
Gareth Roberts, co-driver to FIA WRC Academy champion Craig Breen, lost his life in a tragic accident today, when crew’s Peugeot 207 S2000 crashed into a guard rail on stage eight. Despite the best efforts of the doctors and emergency teams, Gareth Roberts lost this battle due to unknown but obviously severe injuries sustained in...
What do you do when you are eight-times World Rally Champion and in pursuit of fresh new challenges? You accept them as soon as they pop up! This is what the Red Bull and Citroën had us believe happened after Travis Pastrana, American driving artist formally invited Sebastien Loeb to take part in X Games...
With a bit of a delay here’s the official piece on the recently concluded 2012 edition of “The best rally in the world”, also known as Sol Barbados Rally. This year former UK National Rally Champion Paul Bird and co-driver Kirsty Riddick finally nicked that elusive victory after some superb performance behind the wheel of...
