The news means international rallying will return to Britain for first time since the 2019 Wales Rally GB – the last time the World Rally Championship visited these shores.Rali Ceredigion will host the penultimate round of the ERC season from 30 August-1 September.The asphalt rally located around the seaside town of Aberystwyth has been growing in stature since its inaugural edition in 2019. This …Keep reading

Thirty years have now passed but the 1993 World Rally Championship season will always be remembered as a year of firsts. It witnessed the rise of the WRC’s most popular figure amid the crowning of a bona fide record-breaking rally legend.It was Toyota’s Juha Kankkunen who ultimately emerged with the spoils, becoming the first four-time world champion and record rally winner to boot after …Keep reading

Misted-up windscreens were a hot topic last Friday as extreme wet weather hit the stages. The issue afflicted the prototype spaceframe-built Rally1 cars much more severely than Rally2 machines derived from production-based models.   Ogier was among a number of Rally1 drivers affected, having to peer through a two-centimetre clear section of windscreen to navigate through Friday morning …Keep reading

Kalle Rovanpera’s decision to step away from a full-time programme next year has not only blown the 2024 World Rally Championship wide open but also serves as a wake-up call.Speculation that Rovanpera could be set to step down from full-time competition emerged at last month’s Central European Rally, the very round where the 23-year-old became only the sixth driver in WRC history to defend the …Keep reading

The 46th edition of the Dakar Rally will start on 5 January, with a route entirely in Saudi Arabia.This will be the fifth time that the event will be held in the Arab country, and it is shaping up to be the most demanding to date with a total of 12 special stages plus the Prologue that will open the action.This year’s novelty is the 48-hour challenge in what will be a 584-kilometre timed …Keep reading