This is exactly why every major WRC team must have plenty of drivers on board – you simply never know what is going to happen to any of them. If I say that drivers are like tyres, does that sound wrong? No? Splendid. So, drivers are like tyres, if one goes out of order, you...
In 2004 Markko Märtin and Michael Park scored two WRC wins in Corsica and Catalunya together with numerous top 10 finishes in that same year and in 2005. Their car, Ford Focus WRC sporting a Castrol livery. At the end of 2005 car was sold to Vodka Kick founder Steve Perez, who then took it...
Whatever you wish for, Toyota will make it happen. We wished for more information about Toyota’s WRC programme and preparations for 2017 and they have delivered. At this point, we are almost two full years away from their first WRC event, so sooner or later we will reach the point of “I wish the wait...
Hyundai Motorsport started their 2015 WRC campaign with new partners and new drivers. At some points during this season we should also see them debut a new car, hopefully with more raw pace on board. Today Hyundai revealed more information about their second team, featuring Hayden Paddon and John Kennard in third i20 WRC. Paddon...
Oh those people, how I wish I could understand them. “Never liked Ogier”, they’ll say, setting up new wallpaper showing Sebastien Loeb taking his billionth WRC win on their desktop. “He is just too dominant it’s boring and he’s not even that fast. Put anyone in that Volkswagen of his and they would be champions...
To be more skilled than your boss always helps, because then you can make up plenty of excuses to said boss, cover it all in big words and expert sounding phrases and he’ll just tell you to shut the hell up and then he’ll leave you alone. If your boss is only marginally good at...
You simply cannot really know what this event feels like until you’ve actually been to one Rallye Monte Carlo in person. The atmosphere, locations, people, ambitions of all the teams and drivers, it’s very difficult to put to words and have it feel the same or adequate. Even if all you came for are drivers...
Two years, it will take two years before we can finally see what Toyota can do in their return to WRC, but perhaps it won’t be a very long and boring wait after all. I mean, if Toyota and other WRC teams decide to throw fun and interesting things at us, and by things I...
