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Welcome to issue 208 of HANDBRAKES & HAIRPINS, your favourite free source of rally entertainment! To download this week’s issue, please click here: http://handbrakeshairpins.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/hh-2081.pdf As always, please enjoy this week’s…
Andreas Mikkelsen has become the youngest driver to win the Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC) after claiming victory on the season-closing Cyprus Rally. Amid emotional scenes captured live on Eurosport, Mikkeslen…
The countdown is well and truly under way… there are now just five weeks to go (Saturday 3 December) before the Croft Circuit in North Yorkshire hosts a stage of…
On the first test day Dr Ulrich Hackenberg and Carlos Sainz, both with co-driver Timo Gottschalk (Rheinsberg, Germany) at their side, drove about 100 kilometres on the 2.8-kilometre tarmac circuit.…
Volkswagen has successfully started the tests with the new Polo R WRC. Dr Ulrich Hackenberg, Member of the Volkswagen Board of Management for Technology, and the two-time World Rally Champion…
Here is an EXCLUSIVE photo gallery of the new Volkswagen Polo R WRC in testing. The man behind the wheel in most of these action photos is none other than…
The breathtaking dunes on the skeleton coast south of Walvis Bay in Namibia was home to the Imperial Toyota Off Road Racing team yesterday, during their preparations for the 2012…
The draft calendar of the 2012 FIA WRC Academy Cup has been released today and will feature six European rounds of the 2012 WRC Calendar. The events the WRC Academy…
For the final round of the 2011 Tanzanian National Rally Championship, Handbrakes& Hairpins travelled to East Africa to cover the Guru Nanak Rally. Plezse click the below image to view…
The biggest prize in motor rallying will be won in the UK in less than two weeks time when France’s Sebastien Loeb and Finland’s Mikko Hirvonen go head-to-head for the…