Castle Combe is the home to the UK’s Rallyday festival, an extravaganza based around everything that is great about rallying – and as everyone who attended saw, there’s an awful lot to celebrate. The absolute star of the show was special guest Petter Solberg, current Ford Fiesta RS World Rally Championship driver and 2003 WRC [...]
As I write this here in California it’s Monday morning. Yes, the dreaded Monday morning where the fun and excitement of the weekend is left behind in the start of a new work week. Never fear though, as we have some images here that may be able to help pull you out of the early week blues.
There’s no question that X Games does a phenomenal job promoting its athletes, oftentimes elevating them to household name celebrity status. Over the years countless individuals have been morphed into charismatic icons, all under watch of the public eye. Since adding Rallycross to its calender in 2006, X Games has undoubtedly pumped some much-needed interest [...]
Set right in the heart of Los Angeles, the X-Games was a rather surreal event. Just the other day I rode my bike down this very street which is typically full of pedestrians and traffic, but here it’s been transformed into one of the world’s most unique rallycross courses. It must take an unimaginable amount of planning to properly [...]
After an event plagued with dangerous accidents one after the other, including Toomas Heikkinen and Marcus Gronholm’s crashes, one driver was crowned with X Games Gold. Multiple WRC Champion Sébastien Loeb piloted his Citroën to the top with ease at the finals in Los Angeles. He was quoted as saying that his main rival was Marcus Gronholm [...]
For guys like Ken Block the internet has become a bit of a double edged sword. On one hand it’s the place where a string of well-executed video clips have helped make him the global sensation he is, and opened the doors to new adventures. On the other hand – and for reasons that escape [...]
If there’s one event on the New Zealand motorsport calendar that I’ll never miss, it’s the local round of the World Rally Championship. I’ve followed the rally since the early ’90s when the Special Stages were dominated by Toyota Celica GT4s and Lancia Delta Integrales, and while the cars may have come a long way [...]
There aren’t many major international motorsport events that find their way down to New Zealand, but since 1977 us Kiwis have been lucky to have a regular round of the World Rally Championship on our doorstep. Although it’s a bi-annual affair now (Australia hosts the ‘Down Under’ round every other year), this weekend the world’s [...]
What is it like to follow around a high profile rally car driver? Well, I decided to find out at Round 2 of the Global Rally Cross Championship at Texas Motor Speedway. Travis Pastrana is as high profile as it gets when it comes to the racing world, having come from a motocross background and [...]
Is America ready for Global Rallycross? Well, certainly the world’s car manufacturers and extreme sports stars are – and they’re queuing up to enter factory teams into the 2012 series. Subaru are the latest team to throw its hat in the gravel ‘n’ asphalt ring, and in this teaser video the three 2012 WRX STIs that the Subaru Puma Rallycross Team will be running are revealed – along with their drivers.
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Here are video highlights from last weekend’s Rally Argentina, courtesy of the Ford World Rally Team. As usual, the huge and hugely enthusiastic Argentinian crowds meant the stages were rammed with spectators hanging from every nook and cranny overlooking the narrow tracks.
70 wins? 70? Like Rossi in MotoGP and the previous-life Schumacher in Formula 1, Sébastien Loeb has evolved to another level of success that other drivers can only dream of. Victory in Argentina made it seven South American rally wins in a row for Loeb. It’s becoming like the trained and sentient Neo at the [...]
In 1970 man had only just set foot on the moon, the summer of love in 1969 was the last summer anybody could remember and the electronic device that you’re reading this on existed in the dreams of the sci-fi writer, or maybe a mad scientist in a country that we didn’t like. Yet in [...]
To finish up our coverage from the Monster Energy Rallycross festival. We bring you some hi-res desktop images from the rain and mud of Lydden Hill. First up is Liam Doran on his way to an epic win during his first heat. Tanner foust kicking up the shale on his way to the overall win. [...]
The second leg of this year’s Circuit of Ireland consisted of ten stages (four stages ran on the first leg) kicking off at 9:07am on the Saturday morning. I say 9:07am precisely as should you arrive a minute later than you were meant to, a penalty would have been incurred. Rallying is obviously against the [...]
