Route Preview: Croatia Rally 2022

Croatia was a new all-tarmac round for 2021. Its fast-flowing but often narrow roads with worn surfaces and jumps provided a unique challenge for the WRC season. This year it’s back with two new stages, new shakedown and some stages shuffled between Friday and Saturday.

Fantasy Routes: 1000 Lakes Rally 1987 without chicanes

The route of the 1987 1000 Lakes Rally was exceptional with small roads, farmyard detours and chicanes. But could it have been done better with a little help from data and calculations? Can we find stages from the past editions that would have been naturally slow enough for the rally instead of the stuff they came up with?

Rally Finland Top 30 stages 1-10

We have reached the final part of the Top 30. We could say all these ten stages are classics as the grades go from 3 towards 5. The number one will not be a surprise, but the reasons behind it are hopefully interesting.

Rally Finland Top 30 Stages 11-19

Because the first third of the Rally Finland Top 30 Stages included already eleven stages, only nine can be revealed here before the top ten. There are many classics of the 80’s but also the most modern stage of the whole listing. The grades range from 2.5 to 2.95.

Rally Finland Top 30 stages 20–30

The Rally Finland Top 30 Stages begins! In the first section the grades go from 2.25 to 2.5. This contains the longest stages ever driven in the rally, as well as some of the shortest!

Rally Finland Top 30 stages – Introduction

favourites, I have gathered data to make up the ranking. Before I start listing, this introductory post sheds some light on my rating system.

Rally Finland 2022 Route revealed

Rally Finland returns to its familiar summer slot and is again back in its full four-day format, both for the first time since 2019. The route has a new things like always, including three more or less surprising nice returns.

What should be done for the Tyre Saving Sundays?

We’ve seen lately quite often crews cruising through the early Sunday stages, saving their tyres to get maximum result on the power stage. This is not nice for the spectators, neither on the stages nor watching the footage at home. What could we do about it? Here’s some ideas that I have seen proposed, and the challenges they result in.

WRC Calendar History XI: 2011-2013

The years 2011 – 2013 were saw the calendar becoming more persistent after two years of rotation. However, new experimental rules were again introduced and the event schedules were more free than before.

Route Preview: Rally Sweden 2022

After a few low-snow rallies in Värmland, Sweden decided to relocate their event higher North, to Umeå, where snow should be guaranteed in February. Thus, it’s a new rally for everyone. The character of the roads is now slightly different – the straights are longer, narrow houseyards more frequent, forest paths smaller and spectator-designated sections fewer. The whole rally could have a very high average speed depending on the conditions. There’s little footage available but this preview still says something about each stage.