Rallye Monte Carlo was a sound success for Volkswagen Motorsport – Sebastien Ogier finished second while also managing to claim top stage times, while Jari-Matti Latvala endured a bit of a mixed start, crashing on Turini. Nonetheless, Polo R WRC has potential, if we can judge from the outcome of Monte Carlo, but how will...
This is the kind of news World Rally Championship teams, crews and fans want to hear from the FIA, although this piece of information did not actually originate from the FIA, but was squeezed out of them by Autosport. Regardless, we now know that debacle that was Sistemas Integrales de Telecomunicacion (SIT) timing in Monte...
Croatia Rally is without a doubt one of the highlights of Croatian motorsports season, together with FIA European Hillclimb championship round in Buzet. As such, we were very happy when Eurosport Events took over the ERC, and the promise of top European rally crews and teams, coupled with superb TV coverage, finally meant that decades...
Will this topic ever retire? In short, no. For the moment, World Rally Championship is still repairing the damages of 2012, and for now UK viewers cannot even enjoy the daily late night reports from WRC events. And as you can imagine, complete absence of WRC did not go down well for UK rally fans,...
As soon as first information about the new format for Acropolis Rally hit the stage, WRC community went into red alert mode, with several different opinion groups lobbying for their ideas of what the ideal format for this classic event should be. Official info says that Acropolis will have only about 300 kilometers of special...
After an initial shakedown test in December, development work on the 208 Type R5 continued this week with a four-day programme attended by Irish driver Craig Breen. The 208 Type R5 returned to a gravel test stage near Riboux, in the south of France, for a four-day workout beginning on Tuesday, January 22. The official...
Rally Sweden’s new teaser video is just pure drama, suspense and a thrill, barely contained in mere 30 seconds of it. It is about passion, and you can see many forms of it in this short feature. Great editing and production, and if this doesn’t make you scream “Bring it on”, nothing ever will. This...
Volkswagen promised us an article on aero working of their brand new WRC machine, and with a bit of delay, they delivered. I am sure the delay was caused by numerous checks article had to go through in order to tell a story, but not reveal too much. That, or they simply had other things...
