Second event in World Rally Championship season takes us to far north to Sweden and is currently the only snow rally. That is if winter remains true to it’s reputation and fresh shipments of snow are regularly delivered to stages around Karlstadt. As well as being the only snow rally in calendar, Rally Sweden is...
Unlike it’s counterpart in Formula 1, Codemasters’ F1 series, World Rally Championship’s representation in gaming world is blatantly poor, even though there are two official WRC games available on market, covering 2010 and 2011 seasons. In this case, sticking “Official video game” tag did very little favors to World Rally Championship and it’s image. In...
Petter Solberg’s performance in Monte Carlo was one of the highlights of 80th edition of this unique rally. Norwegian returned to Ford and full factory drive after several seasons as privateer, and although he is expected to play second violin to Jari-Matti Latvala, he took full control of his position and claimed some strong victories...
Upcoming Rally Sweden will see a change in Mini World Rally Team’s hotly contested second Mini John Cooper Works WRC car. Experienced Swedish driver and former JWRC champions Patrik Sandell will replace Frenchman Pierre Campana, who competed in last week’s Rallye Monte Carlo, largely thanks to financial support from French motorsports federation FFSA.
Photographs from 80th Rallye Monte Carlo by Citroën Racing, Ford WRT and Mini WRT.
Ford’s star Jari-Matti Latvala admits he had hard time watching other drivers race after retiring early in the Rallye Monte Carlo. In his colum in finnish newspaper Ilta Sanomat Latvala said he will try to put Monte failure behind him and focus on upcoming rally in Sweden.
Rallye Monte Carlo winners Citroën Racing worked really hard not only in service parks and behind the wheel but also in media production. Each day of the rally we got fresh set of photos and excellent video report. We collected all five videos and pasted them here chronologically, starting with first day and ending with...
Volkswagen finished first rally of the new season by claiming victory in S2000 class thanks to well paced drive by young Dutchman Kevin Abbring and co-driver Lara Vanneste in one of the two Škoda Fabias, entered by German manufacturer. Other car, driven by Sebastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia, crashed during 2nd leg of the rally....
