Stories By Peter Whitten
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Global
/ 1 month agoKris Meeke back in a factory seat
Former factory WRC driver, Kris Meeke, was back behind the wheel this week, but it wasn’t for one of his former...
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Global
/ 1 month agoTragedy halts Hungarian rally after co-driver death
Tragedy occurred in Hungary last weekend when a co-driver was killed on the second stage of the Miskolc Rally. Zsolt Toth...
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APRC
/ 1 month agoAt 70, ‘Monster’ Tajima has plenty left in the tank
During the 1990s and 2000s, Japan’s ‘gentle giant’, Nobuhiro Tajima, was a regular and popular visitor to rallies in Australia. Nicknamed...
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Global
/ 1 month agoWilson in a Fiesta WRC for M-Sport Stages
M-Sport’s chief test driver and Race Team Manager, Matthew Wilson, heads the entry list for the M-Sport Return to Rally Stages....
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NZ
/ 1 month agoShortened Silver Fern still to run in November 2020
New Zealand’s famed Silver Fern Rally has been dramatically reduced and has been renamed the ‘Silver Frond’ ahead of its November...
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Global
/ 1 month agoNew Fiesta rally car to debut in 2021
A brand new Ford rally car has been testing in Sardinia this week, with a 1-litre turbocharged engine and four-wheel drive....
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WRC
/ 1 month agoIs Rally Australia’s silence a worrying sign?
It’s been two months since Rally Australia was named as one of the proposed events on the 2021 World Rally Championship...
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WRC
/ 1 month agoShorter Rally Turkey still a test of man and machine
The WRC’s second rally since the COVID-19 break will see a reduced Rally of Turkey route, with just 25km of stages...
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WRC
/ 1 month agoSpectators to put Rally Estonia under the pump
Next month’s WRC return in Estonia will be limited to 16,000 spectators, but if the fans don’t comply with the rules...
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SA
/ 1 month agoStrong field gathers for SARC season opener
The MRF South Australian Rally Championship finally gets underway this weekend with the running of the PMD Race Products Forest Sprint....
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Global
/ 2 months agoMRF robbed of first Euro rally win
Emil Lindholm was desperately close to giving MRF Tyres their first European rally win in Italy last weekend. The Finnish driver...