What do you do when you want to show your technicians how certain changes to car’s setup work? Well, you can either talk a lot and wave your arms around trying to explain the car behavior. Or you can simply strap your technican to co-driver’s seat, stick a helmet on him and take your car...
Former Citroën’s title challenger Sebastien Ogier enjoyed a very exciting and colorful season last year, with fair amount of both on and off track clashes with his former team mate Sebastien Loeb and Citroën. This year Ogier is focusing on his new role as test and development driver for Volkswagen while at the same time...
When Dani Sordo and Patrik Sandell return to World Rally Championship scene on Rally Portugal they will be part of “Prodrive WRC Team”. New name will finally put an end to that clumsy “Prodrive-run” appendix. What would be even better is to have a major sponsor name added to Prodrive WRC Team, but that’s another...
Modern rally machines are just barely related to their historic predecessors in both handling and pure speed – although certain racing monsters of the past would surely be quite competitive even today. One of the best things about the rally in general is that drivers and machines usually don’t take their retirement seriously. As a...
There’s one interesting bit in fresh WRC Team MINI Portugal’s release, praising Armindo Araujo and the challenges that await him. As if things were not well within their own backyard, MINI Motorsport says that “as things stand at present” Araujo and Paulo Nobre will be only Mini crews contesting in all WRC rallies this year....
With Prodrive sadly skipping good portion of this year’s WRC calendar, Dani Sordo is busy testing and developing Mini’s WRC machine. Testing sessions are also quite good if you want to keep your racing fitness, so it’s not all bad for Spaniard. Prodrive recently announced upgrades to Mini John Cooper Works WRC racer and it...
Spanish veteran Carlos Sainz revealed some of the background developments going on in Volkswagen and the World Rally Championship. He also confirmed he is looking into various options available in order to do one more attempt at Dakar Rally which he won with Volkswagen. Former world champion is very busy these days, preparing for historic...
It’s quite odd that rally, or rather World Rally Championship, still lingers in the 80s or 90s when it comes to TV coverage and taking advantage of modern communication infrastructure. And the infamous daily 30 minute reports with nothing else in between. So, full day of rallying and all the drama and excitement and flair...
