Once again it was a battle till the very end and I’m not talking about the actual event and the actual crews. Instead, I’m talking about photographs featuring the 2014 Rally d’Italia Sardegna, supplied be each of the four “manufacturer” WRC teams in their press archives. Perhaps Volkswagen Motorsport is once again superior to other...
In the first offcial press conference of auto24 Rally Estonia, held on Thursday 12th of June, was announced that Estonian top driver Ott Tänak will start with Ford Fiesta R5 in auto24 Rally Estonia held on 17-19th of July. For Tänak this is also the first start in FIA ERC series. „We are very glad...
The inevitable questions started popping up not long after Volkswagen Motorsport announced their plans to remain in the World Rally Championship for the next five years. Questions like “does that mean that the shootout powerstage concept is now a reality”. Seeing how eager Volkswagen’s team principal Jost Capito is about this idea, which is essentially...
Last time there was a collective “Phew!” of similar proportions, Citroën Racing denied rumours saying they were about to leave the World Rally Championship. Despite the fact that we’re still in a bit of a limbo when it comes to Citroën and their plans, this is not about French squad. Instead, let’s be happy and...
Rally d’Italia Sardegna is over, Sebastien Ogier won ahead of Mads Ostberg and Jari-Matti Latvala. Today’s stages were simply too short and gaps were too big for any major changes in top positions, but there was enough excitement on the final stage of the event. Ogier came in third, Latvala grabbed second position with Andreas...
Today we got to hear what two other team principals think of Volkswagen Motorsport boss’ idea concerning the new, more TV friendly final stage, also known as the shootout stage. Well, essentially we did not learn much from either Malcolm Wilson (M-Sport) or Michel Nandan (Hyundai), but it was possible to read between the lines...
Two times 59 kilometers equals plenty of room for things to go wrong, and they did for Jari-Matti Latvala. Nobody is immune to this sort of thing, least of all those who are fighting for the top positions overall, but today we got to see just how painful and expensive a single mistake can be....
This is what rally is all about, right here, the day one of Rally d’Italia with all those retirements, crashes, broken cars on one hand and splendid drives, brave recoveries, superb repairs and promising fights on the other. I have no problem hating the sport through and through when things like Mikko Hirvonen’s fire happen,...
