It’s easy to forget the World Rally Championship when a Formula 1 season looks set to be as exciting as this year’s does. However, this year rallying doesn’t look like it’ll be taking such a back seat.
Not only have Kimi Räikkönen and American extreme driver Ken Block arrived on… Read more
OK, here we are, the right side of the winter solstice, and just two packets of mince pies away from Christmas.
The last few days have been spent meeting deadlines, standing in queues of other badly organised people and waking up thinking of another thing I’ve forgotten to do.
Now… Read more
It’s taken a little longer than it was supposed to, but finally we present my adventure with Tony Jardine on the McRae Stages Rally, as featured in the December issue of Motor Sport.
This was my second experience of rallying with Tony, but the first for over a year. As… Read more
Some of you may remember that a couple of weeks ago my esteemed colleague Rob Widdows, wrote a blog about his predictions for the 2009 Grand prix season.
Well, I decided that it’s all very well making predictions but what are the odds of any of these happening? I annoyingly… Read more
This is risky business. But I have carried out the necessary risk assessment and, just for a laugh, I’m hitting you with some lists.
First, a confession. I make a lot of lists. I run a lot of my life from these lists. This is not so much because my… Read more
Just back from a few days in Wales. The trip was an eye-opener.
There were two main topics of conversation in the service areas, and around the bars, during the course of what is now known as Wales Rally GB. That’s the RAC Rally of Great Britain to you and… Read more
Winter is here. It is cold in England, minus four this morning, and that’s in a valley just 20 miles from the sea. Well, of course winter has arrived – it is the week of Wales Rally GB, still known to many of us as the RAC Rally.
Mikko Hirvonen,… Read more
I have just surfaced after a bout of enforced inactivity.
First, an operation on my right hand, with subsequent physiotherapy. Then came a rather nasty ‘lurgy’ which rendered me listless and spaced out, not to mention some aches and pains from a chest infection. Ah, the joys of winter in… Read more
The fact that he was only 1.5 seconds off the fastest time in Barcelona on Monday, tends to suggest that the five-time World Rally Champion isn’t half bad in a Formula 1 car…
The Frenchman tested at a damp Silverstone in order to acclimatise himself with the car and then… Read more
For those of you following La Carrera Panamericana – I know we have some Mexican readers in the UK and some fans who know Jo Ramirez from his time in Formula One – the news is not so good with two days to run.
Yesterday was a dreadful day for… Read more
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