This year’s Rallye Monte Carlo really put endurance before speed and brought back memories of the past and rallies with very long road sections. And while many will praise 80th Monte and it’s spectacular return to World Rally Championship scene, voices are being raised against week-long rallies. With Monte’s unique character, tradition, reputation and popularity...
The 80th Rallye Monte-Carlo drew to a close today with victory going to Sébastien Loeb and Daniel Elena, their sixth win in the Principality. The eight-time World Champions enjoyed a clean sweep as they also picked up the three bonus points awarded to the winner of the Power Stage. Fourth overall in the rally,...
The MINI WRC Team concluded the fifth and final day of the Monte Carlo Rally by bringing Dani Sordo (ES) and Carlos del Barrio (ES) and Pierre Campana (FR) and Sabrina de Castelli (FR) to the finish on the principality’s harbourside second and seventh respectively. This was only the team’s seventh FIA World Rally Championship...
Petter Solberg really excelled in Rallye Monte carlo, grabbing third place and boosting his own confidence after joining Ford as second priority driver. But Norwegian was not applying his flat-out approach only on special stages after news broke out he got caught exceeding speed limit within Monte Carlo city limits.
Second part of Best of Rally Live’s excellent video coverage of day 4 emerged on Youtube and it’s all we expected and more. Spectacular Col de Turini at night is… Well, it’s quite difficult to describe and put to words. If you can imagine thousands of fans, clear sky, fires, fireworks, torches, flags, music, singing,...
Rallye Monte Carlo provided thrilling start to the new World Rally Championship season and with five days of running and no superally restarts available it reminded us how rallies used to be. Sebastien Loeb and Daniel Elena in Citroën DS3 WRC took victories both in rally and on last power stage, collecting maximum points and...
As expected, Sebastien Loeb and co-driver Daniel Elena in Citroën DS3 WRC finished day 4 at the top of the standings and only need to complete today’s short powerstage to claim victory in this season’s first rally. Mikko Hirvonen in second DS3 WRC enjoyed mixed fortunes on 4th leg and with finish in sight will...
The sunshine came out and the temperatures rose for day four of the Monte Carlo Rally. With not such difficult tyre choices the teams were able to concentrate on other aspects of this classic event, and it was another good day for the MINI WRC Team as Dani Sordo (ES) and Carlos del Barrio (ES)...
