It wasn’t an obvious way to dial the Satria Neo S2000 into the precise requirements of Queensland’s tricky gravel stages – but racing a helicopter up a runway and back was undoubtedly a cool way into Australia’s Asia-Pacific Rally Championship round.
From time to time, you see something on eBay that genuinely surprises you. It’s best for these moments to happen when you’re completely sober, in order to prevent waking up the following morning with a banging headache and the realisation that you are now the proud owner of a life-size singing statue of Elvis Presley, not to mention a colossal overdraft.
If you’re heading across to the Tour de Corse this weekend – or even if you’re not – these are MAXRALLY’s top 10 things that are an absolutely must-do on the ‘island of beauty’.
With the Spanish Grand Prix taking place today, MAXRALLY looks back at the time when another Spanish racing driver – later to become his country’s biggest rally hero – was hitting the headlines.
It’s Tour de Corse time next week and MAXRALLY is getting very excited. Here are five reasons why.
As part of a regular feature on MAXRALLY, we speak to various drivers and co-drivers to find out what they would do on their perfect Saturday. This week we spoke to 22-year-old Esapekka Lappi (the driver famously billed as being faster than God in his native Finland) ahead of his debut in the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship in New Zealand next weekend.
Really? Seriously? You’re kidding, right? I don’t believe that you can’t fathom the argument against this thing on your own…
One of the true legends of world rallying is Francois Delecour: a man full of wisdom, wit and pure fever. This Friday – and in fact for most of the weekend – he’s on his bike.
It’s Jordan Rally time later this week and MAXRALLY is looking back to 2008 –and the country’s first appearance in the WRC – when Conrad Rautenbach made the headlines for all the wrong reasons.
Welcome, World Rally Championship, to the 20th Century. Yes, I know we’re already in the 21st, but this beautiful sport of ours has always lagged a little way behind.