Long before Rally Saudi Arabia, long before Rally Jordan and the Qatar and Abu Dhabi World Rally Teams, there was an effort for an Abu Dhabi backed team to join the WRC in 2007, using Mitsubishi Lancer Evo WRC cars.

In 2011, Mini returned to the World Rally Championship after more than four decades away, partnering with Prodrive. However, despite early promise, financial struggles and limited success quickly curtailed the program, ending it prematurely. 

M-Sport is fielding a lineup that has just 15 entries in top class machinery in the WRC. But where do they find themselves in the all-time list?

Rally China has long harboured ambitions to be a staple of the World Rally Championship, yet its track record is anything but perfect. The 1999 rally left many questioning its viability, and the 2016 cancellation only solidified doubts about its organisation. So what’s the future of the event, and what can we draw from it?

Sami Pajari made headlines in Rally Finland, as the young Finn scored his first career stage win in the top class on his debut! The Toyota protege became the 10th youngest WRC stage winner ever. So that got me thinking, what was every WRC driver's first stage win, and how about some other drivers in Rally2 machinery who have won a stage overall? Out of the 28 different drivers to have scored points this year, 17 have scored a stage win in the top class!  

The Rally Poland Power Stage was so bad, that it left us wondering what were some other horrible stage selections for a WRC Power Stage. So here are 5 of the Worst Power Stages in WRC history!

Col De Turini, Ouninpohja, Fafe... These are all stage names we are well familiar with. But what about stages like Mu, Ogre Hill, and even Here Come Da Judge?  

We tend to remember the champions after every year, but what about the teams or drivers who had absolute stinkers? Here's a list of 7 Manufacturers that had seasons to forget! 

WRC has had its fair share of super subs along the years. Whether it was because of more common things such as an injury, an illness or a temporary solution after a sacking, pretty much every team has had to search for a driver for one or two events. So why not check out some of them? Here's 5 great performances from substitute drivers! 

What other circuit racers apart from Jos Verstappen competed in rallies, and how did they fare?

The start of the 2024 season is upon us! Is everyone as excited as I am? I hope so! Rally Monte Carlo is the traditional start of the WRC season, and it’s given us countless moments to remember. So many, that we forget some wink wink. So that’s why I am here, to give you a list of 5 Rally Monte Carlo moments that you’ve probably forgotten about!  

The Powerslide Blog teams up with Antti from It Gets Faster Now! to list the best and worst super specials of WRC.

For each category, each of us have picked four shared favourites and three personal favourites to create top 10 lists. In this post we present the worst ones, and the best ones are on It Gets Faster Now. We also omitted super specials before the year 2000 because not all are digitally archived yet.

Gregoire Munster is making his Rally1 debut this week in Chile. The Luxembourger driver will drive a Ford Puma Rally1, previously used by the now retired Jourdan Serderidis, for the first time and he is also expected to drive the upcoming Central European Rally as well. Munster won Rally Japan in WRC2 last year, and also won Rally Estonia in JWRC this year (why he did that rally in a Rally3, I still don’t know). Expectations are fairly low, as the M-Sport driver isn’t getting his debut based on his pace, but because of his relationship with Serderidis, who owns the car. But how did the last (non-gentlemen or one offs) 5 drivers on their WRC debuts?  

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.

An homage to Xevi Pons