Rally New Zealand will be sorely missed in 2014, PLUS video
Rally New Zealand organisers are embarking on an ambitious plan to retain this country as a host for the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC). They have withdrawn their bid to…
Slipping and sliding, Sordo is the one to smile!
The WRC ADAC Rallye Deutschland was all that WRC means to its loyal and passionate competitors and fans. Starting with a 0.8sec deficit between the two protagonists at for Day…
Tumult, Torrential Rain, and Three Offs
Day Three of the WRC ADAC Rallye Deutschland started off with sunny skies and smiles with SS9 at 08h03. Rolling over the valleys and hills, came a thunderstorm to wreak…
Latvala tops the timesheets in Germany
It would have been a very different leader board this evening, had a certain Frenchman still been in competition. The early demise of Sebastien Ogier and his Volkswagen Polo R…
Surprise, surprise: Ogier leads Volkswagen’s home event!
Surprise, surprise! Volkswagen Motorsport’s Sebastien Ogier/Julien Igrassia are leading the WRC ADAC Rallye Deutschland after the opening day’s two stages. In near-perfect rally conditions, the WRC event started with slippery…
How WRC cars transformed from gravel to asphalt
This weekend’s WRC ADAC Rallye Deutschland sees the first true asphalt event, and it promises to be a gripping event. Here’s a great video on how these gravel monsters are…
And in other news, Ogier visited the DTM this weekend
Volkswagen rally driver Sébastien Ogier and Audi DTM competitor Mattias Ekström swapped racing cars at the Nürburgring. The French rally star, who drives a Volkswagen Polo R WRC and holds…
Germany: Home of Volkswagen, Bratwurst and Hinkelsteins
This Youtube video will get you into the mood for next weekend’s WRC ADAC Rallye Deutschland… Are you excited yet? Handbrakes & Hairpins is a FREE weekly eMagazine. Follow us…
BREAKING NEWS: Kris Meeke is to enter WRC Rally Australia for Citroën!
After strong performances in their first outing in the DS3 WRC in Finland, Kris Meeke and Chris Patterson have been chosen to team up with Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen…
Hyundai’s i20 WRC machine readies for 2014
Hyundai Motorsport continued to make strong progress on its development programme by conducting the first gravel tests with a new 2014-specification of the i20 WRC in July. All three of…