The WRC flies to Africa for the third round of the 2024 season, for the famous Safari Rally in Kenya. This time next week, we will be waiting to see who will come out of Hell's Gate victorious, and what effect that will have on the championship's standings. 

The silly season in the WRC is something many look forward to. This year’s silly season has been fairly quiet so far, with not many, if any, rumours about drivers changing teams for 2024. Some driver changes turn out to be fairytales, like Sebastien Ogier’s move to Volkswagen for 2013, a partnership that won 4 drivers and 4 constructors’ championships. But many can be the stuff of nightmares. So here are 7 of the worst driver changes in the WRC. 

At the end of each WRC season, we tend to focus on the positives. Who won the most rallies, how good was the championship, who was the fastest, etc. What we tend to talk about for a bit and then forget pretty fast, is drivers who had absolute stinkers. But today we focus on the bad, and not the good. This is the WRC hall of shame, here are 7 of the worst seasons by WRC drivers. 

The first edition of Rally Croatia saw the rare occurrence of a rally car colliding with a civilian car in a road section when coming up to a stage. Sebastien Ogier crashed with another car on the way to Stage 17 on the final day badly damaging the side of his car. Despite this the Frenchman won the rally after an incredible performance on the power stage, beating teammate Elfyn Evans by .6 of a second. 

So we decided to give you 7 more instances of when a rally car had an accident on a road section, either with another car or a fellow competitor. 

We all have embarrassing moments. Whether that is entering a room and then immediately forget what we wanted to do, or saying goodbye to someone on a night out only to then walk in the same direction, we all have them. But none are worse than crashing out of a rally on a Super Special Stage. SSS’s are what rally fans call “Mickey Mouse” stages. Stages that serve no purpose other to get casual fans to see rally cars up close. It’s a spectator stage. So, it is incredibly awkward for when one of the best drivers in the world stacks it in one of those. So here are 10 examples of just that: 10 times WRC drivers crashed in an SSS.