Everything about WRC special stages
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 […]
Read More Route Preview: Rally Australia 2018For 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?
Read More Virtual chicane dilemmaThe 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
Read More Rally Finland: from 2018 to 2019The 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?
Read More Route Preview: Rally Catalunya 2018Wales 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 […]
Read More Route Preview: Wales Rally GB 2018Rally 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 […]
Read More Route Preview: Rally Turkey 2018Rally 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 […]
Read More Route Preview: Rally Deutschland 2018As 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 […]
Read More #ReliveRallyFinland2003 – The Route for Head-to-Head BattlesLike 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.
Read More Rally Finland 2018 onboard analysisThe legendary Safari Rally is on a mission to return to WRC for 2020. But it won’t be Safari as we know it
Read More The return of the Safari