Citroën enters British Manufacturers Rally Championship
Citroën UK has registered for this year’s MSA British Manufacturers Rally Championship, joining Renault as the second UK importer to support this premier rally series.
Turbocharged S2000 cars set for IRC
Perhaps controversially, most recent RRC turbocharged cars are making their way into the Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC), placing current top S2000 class against their RRC specced counterparts. RRC (Regional Rally Car) machines are a bit tamer versions of latest World Rally Car specced cars, with different restrictor and less effective aero package. IRC previously allowed...
Ireland joins the junior rally drivers grooming trend
Similar to programs already running in England, Scotland and Wales, Ireland launched it’s own Junior 1000 Rally Challenge programme. Main stars of this programme are young drivers of 14, 15 and 16 years of age and cars powered by 1-litre engines are built for safety and not performance, reports Rally.ie.
More info on Accreditation procedure for websites
With FIA still sticking to North One Sport for handling of accreditation requests made by electronic media, we had to look elsewhere for answers. Logically, next step would be to visit official websites of World Rally Championship events. And that did it.
Patrik Sandell confirmed for Rally Portugal
Prodrive-run Mini team will not take part in all rallies of this year’s World Championship and their next outing will be Rally Portugal, where Dani Sordo will again team up with Swedish driver Patrik Sandell.
The quest for the Holy Accreditation Grail
Teams change, drivers change, rallies change and cars change, but some things, like the speed of light or the FIA’s “Principles & Procedures” for media accreditation are not subject to alterations of any kind. Ever. This is even more evident if you get so incredibly brave and ask for media accreditation for a website. After...
Photo: Rally Sweden by Ondřej Zeman of Rallyphotos.cz
Earlier today I promised two high quality photo reports from second round of the World Rally Championship in Sweden. First one was done by Istvan Salgovari, and this one is signed by Ondřej Zeman. Superb collection of images from Sweden, available in pretty high resolution and signed only by a small signature watermark reveals a...
Photo & Video: Rally Sweden by Istvan Salgovari
You can never have too much of good stuff, right? Right! With that in mind I will present two excellent photographers and videographers today, and how they both captured hot rally action in cold North during Rally Sweden. First up is Istvan Salgovari, rally enthusiast and very skilled behind the camera. Istvan was in Sweden...
