With the WRC “silly season” heating up, there has been a lot of discussion over which drivers will switch teams, and whether any of the younger drivers will get a shot at the top level of rallying. Plenty of names have been bounced around including Esapekka Lappi, Craig Breen, Sepp Wiegand, and Stephan Lefevbre. All...
In all honesty, I have no idea what 2017 cars will look or feel like and whether the changes announced not long ago will live up to everyone’s expectations, but with recent videos, shot during Volkswagen Motorsport 2017 car test, we did get a first taste of new machinery. And that first taste, to me...
Today’s second leg of Rally Germany is just monstrous and I mean it in a good way. Two runs over 45.6 kilometer Panzerplatte Long should be enough for anyone looking for a properly massive challenge on tarmac, surface we see a bit too little of in the WRC. This is not the first or the...
by Tom Stajduhar · Published August 21, 2015 · Last modified August 22, 2015
This should be how your rally can lose its World Rally Championship event status, easily. Rally Germany has some of the most challenging roads and breathtaking vistas, but in terms of competitors, spectators and accredited (my favourite part) media safety, it’s lacking. Day one could have easily ended up in tears or worse. I hear...
We are now well into the countdown towards ADAC Rally Deutschland, quite possibly the best tarmac rally in the world at the moment. As the first true tarmac round in the WRC season, this one throws up a special challenge with the incredible variety that it offers. It almost seems like Rally Detuschland stole portions...
As rally fans, it is easy to get sucked into the serious matters of the sport. We’ll spend hours thinking and talking about issues such as calendar changes, skyrocketing costs, and manufacturer involvement. At times, we’ll worry about the direction the sport may be taking and wonder about the health of rallying moving into the...
This, my friends, is what I’m talking about, this. When a car gets under your skin, it’s hard to get it out and besides who would want to do that. Every single car enthusiast has such a car, maybe it’s not in their garage, but it’s close to their and our hearts. Some people grew...
There are several WRC events in line for an execution – one of them is, more or less, set to go if the WRC is about to introduce a new event to its calendar. According to some sources, and promoters themselves, Wales Rally GB was one of those events – by ditching GB we would...
