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 […]

Rally Finland 2018 onboard analysis

Like promised, I will take a better look at the recce videos published by the organizers. I’m focusing on the roads which haven’t been driven before or are driven to the opposite direction, since the familiar roads are better checked through old onboards at rally speed.

The return of the Safari

The legendary Safari Rally is on a mission to return to WRC for 2020. But it won’t be Safari as we know it

Route Preview: Rally Finland 2018

The route of Rally Finland has a lot of new for this year. Most of it was made in order to get rid of last year’s chicanes but the resulting route is also very interesting and challenging in many ways. Let’s take a closer look.

Ruuhimäki – The bouncy sandcastle

Ruuhimäki will serve as the power stage for Rally Finland this year. It is one of the longest-lived and most used special stages of the Finnish WRC Rally. Let’s look at the infamous jumps and everything else that has happened there

Route Preview: Rally d’Italia Sardegna 2018

Rally Italia Sardegna is known for dusty and rough roads, beautiful scenery, tight bends and massive jumps. There’s some changes from last year, but also many stages are left unchanged.