This wait seems so long, doesn’t it? Even though only few weeks have passed since Monte Carlo, it feels like much longer, but that’s quite normal – once the season gets underway you just cannot help craving for just another special stage. In that regard, WRC fans are like Labrador Retrievers – you cannot feed...
No, dear friends and followers, guest authors are not taking away this blog from my still warm and not dead yet hands – it really is just a coincidence that two guest posts arrived to WRB’s mailbox so close together. Now, since this is supposed to be some kind of a disclaimer, I am going...
This little blog cannot give young, talented drivers a chance to prove themselves, because we’re fresh out of rally cars. But what World Rally Blog can do is give young people, old people, any people a chance to share their thoughts and ideas on the sport we all love. David van den Boom asked if...
In a short statement, Eurosport Events commented on the news concerning Tour de Corse, which was supposed to be a final event in this year’s Europan Rally Championship calendar. The Corsica based event will serve as a French round of the WRC this year, so ERC had to come up with an alternative, which they...
First of all, this doesn’t even look, or should I say feel, like snow driving. At all. No matter how effective winter tyres you put on your car before going out for some fun in the snow, the grip will never be THIS good. If anything, driving on the snow should be slower than driving...
Next year, Rallye de France will move to the border region between England and Wales, just so it remains within a touching distance of Wales Rally GB. Then in 2017 we will see it move once again to another part of the world, but you can be sure it will be right next to another...
This is exactly why every major WRC team must have plenty of drivers on board – you simply never know what is going to happen to any of them. If I say that drivers are like tyres, does that sound wrong? No? Splendid. So, drivers are like tyres, if one goes out of order, you...
In 2004 Markko Märtin and Michael Park scored two WRC wins in Corsica and Catalunya together with numerous top 10 finishes in that same year and in 2005. Their car, Ford Focus WRC sporting a Castrol livery. At the end of 2005 car was sold to Vodka Kick founder Steve Perez, who then took it...
