You have to go out of your way these days to find race footage and highlights from the WRC. Hopefully all that will change with the might of Red Bull behind the category. Until then here’s a brief package from Rally Deutschland with thanks to MINI Motorsport, featuring, of course, Australia’s Chris Atkinson.
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Chris Atkinson makes his debut with the factory-backed WRC Team MINI Portugal at this weekend’s Rallye Deustchland. Via his instagram account he’s shared a photo of his car, which is now proudly displaying his ‘Atko’ logo. From AUSmotive and all Australian motorsport fans we wish Chris all the best for this weekend and beyond. Go […]
We normally get our Citroën World Rally Team news fed to us from a couple of sources, but since Sebastien Loeb racked up his ninth win at Rallye Deutschland on the weekend we’ve not heard a peep. So we apologise for the lateness of this update. Of course, it’s no surprise to see Loeb out […]
The Prodrive twitter account brings us this video of Dani Sordo testing his MINI John Cooper Works WRC at Prodrive’s makeshift test track in Banbury. It’s a bit like a low-rent Ken Block video without the tyre smoke. The roof mounted camera gives you a great sense of speed as well. Sordo is in preparation […]
Thierry Neuville has outlasted his competitors at Rally Germany to register his first WRC win and, of course, the first rally victory for Hyundai Motorsport as well. The 26-year-old Belgian was the fourth driver to take the lead on the tarmac roads of the Moselle wine region and the only one not to crash out […]
Citroën pairing Dani Sordo and Carlos del Barrio have shown great personal character to claim their maiden WRC victory. The Spanish duo have been dropped for next month’s Rally Australia, but fought out a gripping battle with Ford’s Thierry Neuville to win Rally Germany. In truth the win came about because both Volkswagen’s crashed out […]
Another WRC event, another one-two result for Citroën. This time it was Rally Finland and for the fourth race in succession we saw Sebastien Loeb finish first, with teammate Mikko Hirvonen close behind in second place. After the rally Loeb said he was very happy to secure his third Rally Finland trophy. “I am really […]
Sebastien Ogier won Rally Germany on the weekend. It was a sweet victory for the young Frenchman, too, who was not pleased when ordered by team bosses on Saturday morning to stay behind Loeb and not challenge for the race win. Later in the day Loeb suffered a puncture and Ogier inherited the lead, prompting […]
Sebastien Loeb won his second Rally Finland event on the weekend, the first time a non-Finnish driver has won the rally more than once. Loeb finished 8.1 seconds ahead of Ford driver Jari-Matti Latvala. Loeb’s Citroën teammate Sebastien Ogier was third. Success in Finland gives Loeb his 66th career win and a healthy 27 point […]
Hyundai Motorsport had a busy October spending 15 days testing the i20 WRC on tarmac and gravel roads in Spain and Germany. Included in the itinerary were stages used in both Rally de Espana and Rally Deutschland. With two prototype cars now in action Hyundai is able to speed up its development process.”This month was […]
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VIDEO: 16 minutes of fury!
Here is what can only be described as an extraordinary ride through the vineyards of Rally Deutschland. Your car is a Porsche 911 GT3 and your crew is Ruben Zeltner (driver) and Helmar Hinneberg (navigator). Strap yourself in and get ready for 16 minutes of pure adrenalin. It takes enough concentration just to watch the […]
A quick shout out to Australia’s Chris Atkinson and his Belgian co-driver Stephane Prévot who have finished fifth at the 2012 Rally Deutschland. It’s their first event with the WRC Team MINI Portugal and it’s also Atkinson’s best result on the German tarmac. Rounding out a weekend of bests, fifth place is the best ever […]