Rally Scotland looks to return to IRC in 2013
In just three years the RACMSA Rally of Scotland, which takes place in Perth & Kinross and Stirling, has established itself as one of the world’s most respected motor rallies.…
Richard Burns’ Paint it Orange: VIDEO
A short seven minute film, featuring the highlights of Richard Burns’ competition career as well as the intimate details of his courageous fight against an aggressive form of brain cancer…
Richard Parks joins the World Rally Championhip in Wales
Former Welsh International and Barbarian flanker, Richard Parks, will be present during the ‘shakedown’ test in the final build up to this week’s eagerly awaited Wales Rally GB (10-13 November).…
Toyota’s desert tests and trials
The Imperial Toyota South Africa Team to contest the 2012 Dakar Rally in South America in January returned to Johannesburg on Sunday after three and a half days of sand…
Molly ready to rock Wales
Posting some top times in a recent event has Australian rally driver Molly Taylor quietly confident of a strong result in the final round of the WRC Academy. Wales Rally…
R.I.P.: Spotti Woodhead
Passionate, enthusiastic and wonderfully insightful: Spotti Woodhead was a rallying encyclopaedia and an institution in this sport. On Saturday, Woodhead passed away, leaving his wife Giselle and many friends. Woodhead…
Read all the week’s top news here: H&H 208!
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…
Mikkelsen wins in Cyprus to claim IRC title
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…
Croft Circuit revved up for spectacular R.A.C. rally action
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…
Volkswagen’s WRC video star
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.…