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At only 22, Andreas Mikkelsen is doing pretty well for himself: he’s the youngest ever Intercontinental Rally Challenge champion, and he’s also the reigning victor of the Italian Gravel Championship (Trofeo Rally Terra).
Two out of three, Meat Loaf reckoned, wasn’t bad. I disagree. I’m sure Malcolm Wilson and Jari-Matti Latvala disagree.
It was a cold, crispy day in Andalusia: not a sentence that you read too frequently about a region that is nicknamed 'the frying pan of Spain'. And suddenly, it got a lot colder: icy cold in fact.
Mexico is one of the last bastions of superannuated cars, which still cheerfully roll – brand new – off production lines that should have been dismantled years ago.
European Broadcast Union deal looks set to get the World Rally Championship back on our screens.
Wherever they went in the world, two men could comfortably cast title racers Sebastien Loeb and Mikko Hirvonen into the shade. Now one's gone and the other one only pops by occasionally...
If you're a rally fan sitting in Starbucks, downtown Auckland, these are worrying times. In fairness, wherever you are in the world right now, your lot as a rally fan isn't exactly better than ever. But, it seems, if you're outside Europe or South America, Word Rally Cars might be about to become something of a rarity.
The terms of the divorce between Mini Motorsport – owned by BMW – and its factory team Prodrive, which runs the two works cars on the World Rally Championship, were finalised today, with the announcement that Prodrive would become just a 'works supported customer team'.
