The answer is straight – no. Of course not. Even though it was a massive crash and a roll, it obviously wasn’t massive enough to damage the key safety component of every rally car, the roll cage. In Thierry’s case, this cage sustained no damage and FIA allowed him to switch from racing to mechanic...
Being a World Rally Championship driver may as well be the best job in the world, but I suppose there could be some drawbacks and bad sides to this here profession as well. However, at the moment I cannot think of any. If they’re not competing, doing what they do best, they’re testing, which again...
Put simply, this is definitely one insanely big addition to Volkswagen Motorsport’s WRC project. Not just because Marcus Grönholm is one insanely tall guy, but because of his experience, knowledge, talent and competitive spirit. Even though he claims to be all done in terms of active WRC competition, Marcus is always around, in the background,...
They now want to switch from pairs of two crews fighting for positions on the final stage of the new format WRC events to three crews, from 1-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12. Not much has changed with this, in fact, it’s equally if not more horrible than pairs of two. Eventually someone is going to...
Akio Toyoda, CEO of Toyota Motor Corporation is in Finland this weekend, learning about the World Rally Championship, talking to the fans, drivers and media but also enjoying some of the action first hand. Together with Tommi Makinen he had a little project of building a rally spec Toyota GT86, equipped with four wheel drive....
Testing of Yaris WRC mule is in progress on various surfaces. In charge of this is Toyota Motorsport GmbH, stationed in Cologne, Germany. Next up, Toyota GT86 CS-R3; status, almost done, zero-car debut soon, looking good and drawing considerable attention from privateers. Again, Cologne-based TMG is behind R3 car project as well. At the same...
Codemasters did something dirty, something very dirty. Which usually means that they did something good for all the WRC and rally fans out there. No, it’s not DiRT 4 yet, but it’ll grab everyone’s attention, I’m sure. Especially if you consider yourself to be a classic example of a rally fan, emphasis on classic bit....
Live stages, live onboards (what happened to the immensely huge technical challenges regarding this?), live maps (hey, we’ve only been asking for this for couple of years now), truckload of video highlights and reports… it’s no longer a dream; for only €4.99 per month you can enjoy all this and more thanks to WRC+ set...
