LAUNCHED: The MINI WRC Team
The MINI WRC Team is officially launched in Oxford today, marking the start of the most intense period of preparation for the 2011 season. The return of MINI to one…
Blue Monday for WRC
The Jordan Rally, scheduled for this Thursday to Saturday, is facing a time crisis at present. Crews are not able to run the two prescribed recces to write their pace…
Corner speed analyzed: Ford vs Toyota vs Volkswagen
The South African Rally Championship last season was upset by the arrival of an all-new rally machine, rocking the established Toyota and Volkswagen teams. World Rally Championship drivers and a…
MINI scores first win
The name Andrea Navarra is surely spoken in reverent tones at MINI and Prodrive after this weekend. The Italian rally ace, driving his brand-new MINI John Cooper Works rally machine,…
Kimi moves to Nascar
With this headline breaking on 01 April, I wasn’t sure if this news was just another April Fools’ gag or not. Yet, pictures, press releases and videos have emerged since…
Handbrakes & Hairpins – Issue 177
Welcome to issue 177 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/2011/04/hh-177.pdf As always, please enjoy this week’s…
Mikko Hirovnen tells it like it is
Mikko Hirvonen was interviewed by www.wrc.com after the WRC Rally de Portugal. In THIS interview, he made some interesting remarks. This is HANDBRAKES & HAIRPINS’ favourite: Question from WRC.COM: What’s…
WATCH: WRC Portugal 2011 – Petter Solberg (VIDEO)
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Sebastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia pay tribute to “Handbrakes & Hairpins” at WRC Rally de Portugal (VIDEO)
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Ogier masters mayhem in Portugal to win
A sense of humour should be a prerequisite for all drivers and co-drivers in the World Rally Championship. In fact, it should be a requirement for all involved in this…