BREAKING NEWS: 2014 WRC calendar revealed
The FIA World Motor Sport Council today released the 2014 World Rally Championship (WRC) calendar. 2014 WRC Calendar: 19 January – Rallye Monte-Carlo 09 February – Rally Sweden 09 March…
Paddon steals New Zealand Championship lead
Sensational in WRC2 thus far in 2013, Kiwi Hayden Paddon flew to take the New Zealand Rally Championship points lead on the weekend after the Possum Bourne Memorial Rally after…
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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…
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…
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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…
Loeb speaks about his love of motorsport and rallying with CNN
Sebastien Loeb is the the most successful FIA motorsport competitor in its illustrious history. Here the nine-times World Rally Champion chats to CNN about motorsport and rallying in general. Click…
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…
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…