2018 WRC Season Wrap-up

It’s a good time to reflect on the past season and look a bit into the statistics of the 2018 WRC stages. What were the longest or fastest rallies or stages and how did they differ between each other? What were the most memorable or creative solutions? Cover image by Kyn Chung By the numbers […]

First year of It Gets Faster Now!

It’s now exactly 12 months since I got the idea of putting up a blog about special stages. What has happened during that time?

Route Preview: Rally Australia 2018

Rally Australia – the second fastest gravel rally of the season – has performed a major route update for this year. There are many new stage titles but none of the stages are completely new. Most of it is recycled from the past years, often reversed from last year. Let’s take a closer look. Thursday […]

Virtual chicane dilemma

For the 2019 season, the Finnish ASN allows “virtual chicanes” to be used instead of traditional obstacles placed onto the routes. What kind of an idea is this?

Rally Finland: from 2018 to 2019

The route of Rally Finland went through a lot of changes for 2018. How did the route succeed, what should be kept and what could change for 2019? Let’s take a closer look

Route Preview: Rally Catalunya 2018

The only mixed surface rally of the season has shifted weight from tarmac onto gravel, and brought back the opening super special. What else has changed and what has not?

Route Preview: Wales Rally GB 2018

Wales Rally GB is another 2018 WRC event with a majorly updated route. New regulations allowing rallying on public roads have resulted in interesting new road combinations, thus making the route contain a considerable amount of tarmac, to be driven on gravel tyres and suspension. The stages have been shuffled around the itinerary, putting more weight on […]

Route Preview: Rally Turkey 2018

Rally Turkey is a new rally, even different from the previous WRC editions. What can we expect from the stages? For this preview, the routes and onboards of the two previous editions of the Marmaris-based rally were evaluated. It seems we’re in for the slowest rally of the season, but maybe not as rough as […]

Route Preview: Rally Deutschland 2018

Rally Deutschland is one of the all-tarmac rallies of the year but still driven in very varying circumstances, sometimes making it appear more like a gravel rally with mud flying. This year’s route has a mix of stages from the previous years, with a couple of new sections as well. Thursday Last year the rally […]

#ReliveRallyFinland2003 – The Route for Head-to-Head Battles

As a part of RALLIRINKI‘s #ReliveRallyFinland2003 project, It Gets Faster Now looks back on the route of the Rally Finland 2003 with special previously unreleased route team meeting notes and drafts. The 2003 route represented the noughties style but had some ideas and solutions that reflected on the future, all the way up to the […]