Pastrana returns to rallying in 2014
The defending five-time Rally America Champion David Higgins will have a new team-mate for the 2014 Rally America Championship: Travis Pastrana. “Subaru is very excited to bring back both of…
South Africa: 2014 season gears up
The 2014 South African National Rally Championship calendar has been revealed, as well as some of the shock driver musical chair movements in recent weeks… The series remains an eight-event…
ERC boss talks EXCLUSIVELY to us about the year ahead
The boss of the FIA European Rally Championship, Jean-Pierre Nicolas, spoke to Liga Stirna this week in an EXCLUSIVE interview for Handbrakes & Hairpins. The ERC is ready to become…
Huge Junior interest in ERC
Fifteen of the best young rally drivers in Europe have signed up to contest the opening round of the inaugural FIA ERC Junior Championship in Latvia this weekend. A new…
Higgins drifts to victory in Rally America’s first 2014 counter
Subaru Rally Team USA’s David Higgins and Craig Drew won a frigid Sno*Drift Rally this weekend to take the first victory of the 2014 Rally America National Championship season. It…
Click, Click: RALLY FEVER!
Welcome to issue 305 of HANDBRAKES & HAIRPINS, your favourite free source of rally entertainment! This week’s edition is a 20-page bumper issue with news from the WRC, the ERC…
Porsches in East Africa… There’s something very special about that!
Tuthill Porsche has shared a preview of its upcoming documentary on their 2013 Kenyan Airways East African Safari Classic Rally, building and prepping a squad of 911s for he largest-ever…
Meeke tells us how it really was on the Monte
We came across the most descriptive quote possible from the WRC’s Rallye Monte-Carlo this past weekend. Kris Meeke is no stranger to going fast – and sideways – so this…
“That was close…”
Applause and high-fives to all who finished the 82nd edition of the Rallye Monte-Carlo, by all accounts one of the most trying in its illustrious history. The sheer determination and…
Robert Kubica tiptoes over the Monte snow and ice
The conditions faced by the WRC Rallye Monte-Carlo competitors are challenging to say the least. Here Robert Kubica illustrates just how the snow, ice and rain have made the twisting…