A milestone for Volkswagen in motorsport: Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia (F/F) have won the Rally Sweden at the wheel of the Polo R WRC. In doing so, Volkswagen has already far exceeded its own expectations of what is the team’s debut season in the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC). In only its second competitive [...]

We just heard the news or better to say, we read it on a few internet websites and are fully amazed to the final act Mini brought WRC fans to. A pretty sad moment for World Rally Championshio fans if there ever was one. Why? Simply because Mini to us is one of the namesake [...]

I believe that everyone here remembers who Bill Caswell is and what he has done? If not, to refresh your memory, he is the guy that entered the Mexico round of the World Rally Championship with a $500 Craigslist car, that was in competition with cars worth over $400,000 and did some pretty nice racing [...]

Pretty strange ending for Sebastien Loeb on his race at Wales Rally GB in the World Rally Championship, but a sweet one after all. He was out of the race after a collision with a Spanish spectator on a non-competitive stage. The tourist or viewer forgot that he was in Great Britain and continued driving [...]

Looks like Banbury based tuner company Prodrive is working on a road version of the Mini Countryman WRC. We are more than happy to see this happening, as a four-wheel drive, heavily modified version of the Countryman is something most Mini fans would love to see. According to AUSMotive and AutoCar, a prototype of this [...]

Great news for World Rally Championship fans! WRC will offer free live web streaming from the this week’s Rallye de France Alsace. Stages from this rally will be streamed on the official website of the World Rally Championship. We are more than happy to see this good news, even though this is only a test [...]

Offering the most diverse challenge for both engineers and drivers, World Rally Championship has always been a proving ground for cars, new technologies and companies that wanted to promote their vehicles. After quite a bit of rumors, talks and discussions over internet discussion boards, we finally have confirmation! Volkswagen will be entering WRC from 2013 [...]

Helmut Deimel has been covering rallying since the seventies, where he’s been a witness to many great drivers, cars and performances through that period of time. Through his involment in the rallying world, he had the chance to create an extensive video footage archive, containing some amazing shots and scenes. From that archival footage, he [...]

Here is some interesting footage from this year’s Rallye Monte Carlo in High definition. Video featured here is made by SudRallye and has some interesting rallying footage. There are several teams and cars featured here, like Peugeot, Renault, Citroen, Mitsubishi, Škoda, Suzuki and others. As few of us here already noticed, there’s a funny bit [...]

Surely, we talked about the Rally Group B end some time ago, but now it’s time for something different. A true homage to the brave man and women, who as drivers risked their lives, to compete in monstrously powerful cars, while bringing joy to millions of fans around the world. As someone portrayed it well, [...]

Ever wondered how does it look when a couple of amateurs try to race a rally in Finland and then crash in a tight corners there? Here is a pretty good idea how it looks like. This clip is from Finnish F-cup rallyseries, where there are no pace notes and studying the stages beforehand is [...]