Stories about: WRC

Robert Kubica to Use Rallying as Recovery for F1

8 Nov 2012, 14:28 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Former (and quite possibly future) Formula One driver, Robert Kubica will take part in two European rally stages, in order to get his strength, reflexes and tempo going, as he plans to return to the...

Citroen Launches DS3 RRC Rally Car

30 Oct 2012, 16:38 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Citroen has already won two world championships with the DS3 WRC, thus making it a highly-successful car, yet it’s far too expensive to be feasible for private teams and drivers. Well, now the...

Jari Matti Latvala to Drive Volkswagen Polo WRC in 2013

18 Oct 2012, 10:00 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / After VW announced their intention to enter the world of rallying, with a WRC version of their Polo, we were wondering who they would choose to drive it. Well, now we know one driver, Jari Matti Lat...

Ford Announces WRC Withdrawal

16 Oct 2012, 09:53 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Ford has officially confirmed that it will be pulling out of the World Rally Championship, at the end of the current season in progress. Again, it is the poor economic climate which is dominating Eu...

Peter Solberg Carves His Own Road Through Vineyard - Crashes into Pole

8 Oct 2012, 15:47 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Rally drivers are very determined and very concentrated on the task at hand, when they drive their four-wheel drive cars as fast as they can. Northern European countries have given us so many excell...

Hyundai i20 Takes WRC Steroids

3 Oct 2012, 14:17 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Hyundai is getting ready to rejoin the World Rally Championship with its very own little rally star based on the i20. The Korean automaker left the competition in 2003 and now it want a chance to sh...

Hyundai Announces WRC Return With Radical i20

27 Sep 2012, 13:56 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / It’s a little-known fact, but hyundai used to have a rally team in 2000 to 2003, one which used an Accent. Recently, a Veloster rally car has recently been unveiled, but to keep the fans happy...

Poor Sales May Force Citroen to Reduce WRC Budget or Withdraw Altogether

20 Sep 2012, 12:50 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Citroen is a force to be reckoned with, in the world of WRC, which they have all-but dominated in the last decade. However, in order to reach these heights of success and glory, the company has had ...

Peugeot Teases 208 Type R5 Rally Car

13 Sep 2012, 12:06 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / It seems the new 208 supermini is looking at a career as a four-wheel drive rally car soon. The car you see in the picture above is the 208 Type R5, a rally car that will be shown at the upcoming Pa...

Robert Kubica Wins Rally Debut

10 Sep 2012, 08:52 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Polish driver Robert Kubica’s rally accident in Andora was one of the scariest crashes we had seen in rallying in recent years. It took him one and a half years to recover, and despite wi...

Toyota Returnign to WRC with Yaris R1A

14 Aug 2012, 16:29 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Toyota recently announced that it is returning to the WRC scene, with the carmaker introducing a budget race car in the form of the Yaris R1A. The Toyota Yaris R1A is set to make its racing debut on...

Volkswagen Polo R WRC Street to Become Production Car in 2013

17 May 2012, 14:27 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / VW used its dedicated Worthersee festival in Austria to showcase the new Polo R WRC Street concept car, with the vehicle set to become a production reality next year. The vehicle, which draws (vi...

Citroen One-Two at Rally Argentina

30 Apr 2012, 15:45 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Sebastien Loeb, the defending world champion, triumphed in the Argentinean Rally on Sunday, and secured his 70th career victory in WRC. Second place went to Finnish driver Mikko Hirvonen - the only ...

Volkswagen Polo R WRC Starts Testing

3 Nov 2011, 16:41 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volkswagen wants to enter the big league, the WRC, with the Polo R soon, but before they can do that, a maiden tour has to take place with the 300 horsepower rally rocket. Only recently, two time wo...

Rally-Ready MINI Countryman Coming from Prodrive

20 Oct 2011, 09:09 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Prodrive is a British motorsport and engineering group that usually churns out the most awesome Subarus you’ve ever seen. They also took the time to chop one up and turn it into their own conc...

Ken Block's Fiesta HFHV Adds Ford SYNC

26 Aug 2011, 06:18 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Having completed filming and launched the fourth installment of the Gymkhana series, Ken Block is now turning his attention to the World Rally Championship where he will drive the same H.F.H.V. (Hyb...

WRC Champ Sebastien Loeb Tests the 2011 KTM 1190 RC8 R

8 Jul 2011, 14:22 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / French rally driver and seven-time WRC Champion Sebastien Loeb has recently had spent some intimate moment with the new KTM RC8 R on the track, as he is known to be a huge sportsbike enthusiast. Own...

Left Foot Braking - Rules Are Made to Be Broken

7 Jul 2011, 14:43 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Hello and welcome to driving school. This is your first day in the car and we shall start by familiarizing you with its controls. [...] The pedals: you will only use your left foot to operate the cl...

MINI John Cooper Works WRC Is Safest Rally Car Ever, Prodrive Claims

1 Jul 2011, 14:06 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The Prodrive-developed John Cooper Works WRC, unveiled in early April 2011, comes as an important step forward in the safety of world rally cars, the Germans at BMW claim. They recently released det...

Volkswagen Confirm WRC Entry in 2013, Reveal Polo R WRC [Gallery]

6 May 2011, 05:56 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / It was rumored for quite some time but it has now become official. Volkswagen will make its debut in the World Rally Championship as a works team in 2013, as confirmed during a press conference in S...