Route preview: Rally Argentina 2018

Rally Argentina – rough dirt roads ranging from extremely fast to extremely slow, with plenty of water splashes on the way. The 2018 edition has a lot of changes to the previous year, but most of the roads are familiar from the past and so is the main structure. Let’s have a closer look.

April fools: FIA requests faster roads for Rally Finland 2018

After Rally Finland introduced its 2018 route in early March there has been rumors of FIA being concerned with the route being too slow, thus not being challenging enough for the drivers or interesting for the spectators. And indeed, a demand for changes was made to the organizers and now a revised version of the […]

Route Preview: Tour de Corse 2018

Tour de Corse, the rally of 10 000 corners. It’s known for its long stages over narrow and rough tarmac roads between rock walls and ravines with little forgiveness if the grip is lost, sometimes with dramatic or even tragic consequences. This year’s route has a lot of new material, although the amount of new […]

Rally Finland 2018 route revealed

The route of Rally Finland 2018 was revealed today, and it looks awesome. I will write later about it in greater detail but here’s a short run through the route, and presentation of the many new parts of it. EDIT: I have now written a proper review, read it here

Route preview: Rally Mexico 2018

Rally Mexico, the home of long gravel stages in high altitudes putting strain to the engines, and numerous Mickey Mouse stages doing the same for the drivers. For this year it’s mostly the same format with familiar roads cut up and pasted in new sequences.

Lankamaa – Kankkunen’s backyard

Lankamaa is one of the best known stages in Rally Finland. In this blog post we take a closer look at its incident-filled history as well as its roads and their unique characters making the stage so challenging.

Route Preview: Rally Sweden 2018

Rally Sweden, the only full snow event of the season is only two weeks away. In the past years a number of stage cancellations have occured. Let’s check out how this year’s route differs from the previous editions.

Rally Monte Carlo 2018 Weather update

The 2018 season is about to start with only a few hours until shakedown. Monte Carlo is known or even notorious for its changing and surprising conditions, making often tyre choice very crucial when the drivers have to make compromises between best grip on snow, ice, wet and dry tarmac. Let’s look at the forecasts […]

Classic 1000 Lakes Rally: 1988 – The Watershed

While waiting for the 2018 Rally Finland route to be revealed, let’s look at the route 30 years ago, from 1000 Lakes Rally 1988. It was like a watershed, making blueprints for years to come and leaving weight from the past behind. Some stages were run for the first time, some for the last time, […]

Short or Long WRC rallies? Why not have both?

The discussion about the lengths of WRC rallies have remained fiery for weeks. The bosses want to cut rallies shorter and the fans want to make them longer. Maybe we could have both?