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.
Mikko Hirvonen will start leg two of Rally Sweden with a 6.2-second lead over reigning world champion Sebastien Loeb.
He’s won the World Rally Championship an amazing six consecutive times and driven on some of the toughest roads know to man, but how will he deal with the bumps and ditches presented by The Red Bulletin’s Interrogator...
Pole-axed doesn’t actually even come close to describing the look on Ford boss Malcolm Wilson’s face when his driver Jari-Matti Latvala crashed on the very last corner of the Rally Poland.
The WRC, we are told, is all about new frontiers. Boldly going where no man has gone before and all that – which is certainly not a description you could apply to the local working girl who was looking for customers in the hotel bar last night.
A particularly sad friend of mine learnt to recognise a rally car just from the sound of its engine. It was a party trick with limited appeal, but the bad news for him is that he is going to have to climb a steep learning curve all over again.
Jeremy Clarkson once said that one of the most embarrassing experiences of his life originated in Poland, where the World Rally Championship has just rolled into town for round eight.
Dust. It’s something that keeps cleaners in business (apart from mine, who seems has a curiously selective blindness to the stuff) and it’s what we will all be reduced to once we meet our Maker.
Just how do you go about winning a championship? Let’s ask Sébastien Loeb, who is well on the way to his sixth. “If you ask me, I can’t really tell you,” he says. Well, thanks, Seb.
Motorsport is serious business in Argentina. So much so that one of the country’s top drivers is probably about to be voted President.
For Conrad Rautenbach, who drives a Citroen Sport Technologies C4 WRC on the World Rally Championship – broadly speaking the same car as Sebastien Loeb – the pampas of Argentina hold no fear.
In a magnificent two-fingered salute to lily-livered tofu-eating sportsmen worldwide, five-time World Rally Champion Sébastien Loeb lists his favourite food and drink as 'steak and red wine'...
Normal rules of self-preservation don’t apply in Argentina, the WRC’s next stop this weekend.
Former WRC champion Marcus Grönholm swaps security duties in his own shopping mall for the insecurity of a return drive at Rally Portugal.
… oh go on, have a guess. For the 50th time in less than seven years, Sebastien Loeb shown why he is arguably the best driver in the World. Meanwhile the World Rally Championship itself is wondering just what exactly it will become.
Winston Churchill paid tribute to those working behind the scenes during the Battle of Britain, saying: "They also serve, who only stand and wait." Clearly he would have felt quite at home in a rally Service Area.
One thing that must be said for contemporary rallies is that they are extremely sociable occasions...
The seaside town of Limassol plays host to the WRC on an increasingly irregular basis: it's fully three years since the big boys were last in town...
