With the final day still looming on Rally Chile, Oliver Solberg was pondering a reversal of his usual 2026 fortune. “We’ve found a really good balance between risk and reward…
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From Lancia's Group A revival to Tommi Mäkinen's fourth straight crown, we relive 10 defining moments from the World Rally Championship's most dramatic decade
As ever the recent June magazine was full of interesting articles and I may be able to enlighten you regarding one or two. Andrew Frankel remarked on Stirling’s signature [If…
Max Verstappen must have thought his dreams of winning the Nürburgring 24 Hours were dashed. On the Monday of race week it was confirmed: for the first time, I would…
Back in the 1960s, Austin found itself on such a roll with the Alec Issigonis-designed Mini that it set-out to capitalise on the basic format with the larger Austin/Morris/Riley/Wolseley/Vanden Plas…
If you were expecting fanfares, ceremonials or a parade of marching elephants – like Verdi’s epic Aida chorus – to celebrate Lancia’s return to rallying, you would have been disappointed.…
5. 1976 Tour de Corse Munari’s 24-valve factory Stratos pushed out 280bhp to the 255 of the 12-valve version of French privateer Bernard Darniche, but torrential rain evened things out.…
He wasn’t the fastest driver in Kenya – he failed to win a single stage – but traditionalists will tell you that speed is not the most important thing on…
Four decades have passed since the demise of Group B, one of the most formidable rallying eras ever seen
A US driver has never won Dakar overall – Ford's Mitch Guthrie could be the first to make history
While Ford launches its Red Bull F1 partnership in Detroit later this week, its rally raid squad is aiming to conquer Dakar – will CEO Jim Farley's masterplan pay off?
Ford's Raptor took victory and six of the top seven places in Stage 5 of the 2026 Dakar. The squadron of V8 brutes is a reminder of the brand's 1960s assault on Le Mans, writes James Elson
The 1986 Paris-Dakar Rally was amongst the most treacherous there's ever been – James Elson revisits Gerald Donaldson's incredible diary account of the infamous event
Mathieu Baumel and Guillaume de Mévius clinched a sensational Stage 1 victory at the 2026 Dakar Rally, on what's been an incident-filled event already
Anthony Peacock - Anthony has 25 years of experience as a journalist and author. In his spare time, he enjoys wearing bobble hats The World Rally Championship in 2025 stood…
