It’s all about the weather in New Zealand, and judging from the starting positions selected by nominated drivers, either Jari-Matti Latvala knows more than the others, or vice versa. Based on the results of the qualifying stage, leading crews are allowed to select starting positions for day 1 of the rally and depending on the...
After similar call for expressions of interest for future global promoter of World Rally Championship, FIA has now issued another such “call”, this time dealing with the timing and tracking services. More precisely, FIA is looking for technical partner, or supplier of timekeeping, results and tracking services – and this would ideally be a company...
Next year, Rally Australia will return to the World Rally Championship instead of Rally New Zealand in a concept presumably aimed at cutting the costs of these looong haul events. However, both events are very successful and regularly earn praise from drivers, media and fans, despite the occasional drama and/or turmoils with local officials. Currently...
Is Jari-Matti Latvala getting tired of modern day World Rally Cars and their sophisticated features and clever technology? Is he looking for new challenges in old school rear wheel drive cars? I highly doubt either is the case – I’d say he is just so deeply in love with the sport and he is just...
Rally New Zealand is undoubtedly one of the most iconic events of the World Rally Championship and it’s really too bad it has to jump in and out of calendar to make way for another famous classic, Rally Australia. Perhaps the most important fact about New Zealand is the praise this event gets from the...
Sebastien Loeb accepted the invitation to take part in upcoming X Games and third round of the Global RallyCross Championship with a grin of selfconfidence. I would assume it is fairly easy to be selfconfident with eight World Rally Championship titles under your belt. To further boost Seb’s confidence and chances against winner of both...
The Prodrive WRC Team returns to the World Rally Championship next week at the Brother Rally New Zealand two months following its last outing at Rally Portugal. After proving his pace by taking six fastest stage times in the newly upgrade MINI John Cooper Works WRC in Portugal the team believes that Dani Sordo can...
If you are at least a bit of a tech geek or just like to understand how things work, you’ll find today’s article on WRC’s website quite interesting. Titled “Behind the scenes: WRC tracking” it reveals the technology and procedures behind state of the art tracking and timing used by the World Rally Championship and...
