David Coulthard travels to wintry Moscow to meet some other legends of motorsport

Temperatures may have dropped to 25-below, but that didn't stop thousands of Swedish fans heading outdoors to cheer on their rally heroes.

Mikko Hirvonen kept out of trouble on the final day of Rally Sweden to claim his 12th victory at world championship level.

Mikko Hirvonen continues to lead Rally Sweden following what his Ford team boss Malcolm Wilson described as a career-best performance as the Finn stretched his lead over arch-rival Sebastien Loeb by more than 10 seconds.

As 2007 Formula One world champion Kimi Raikkonen prepares to make his WRC debut for the Citroen Junior Team, we stop him in the Service Park for a quick chat.

Mikko Hirvonen will start leg two of Rally Sweden with a 6.2-second lead over reigning world champion Sebastien Loeb.

With Rally Sweden launching proceedings in this year's World Rally Championship today, we look at six of the favourites to shine on Scandinavian snow and beyond

Back in the day when motocross world champion, KTM sporting director and trained baker Heinz Kinigadner (49) rode in the Dakar Rally, drivers pinned compasses to their sleeves. These days, he says, the drivers have a much easier ride.

Watch as Travis Pastrana brings in the new decade by setting a new world record by jumping his Subaru 269 feet off California's Long Beach Pier onto a barge.

The gloves are off for the 2010 Dakar Rally as all 361 competitors and their crews left the haven of La Rural to put on a show of force for the fanatical Argentine crowd.