If you only judged from the internet’s collective video unconscious, you would assume rally car was nothing but a never ending series of spectacular crashes featuring drivers being pelted in the buttocks by flying rocks, cars soaring off roadside bulwarks and flying 50 feet into trees, and the occasional running over of hapless, slow-witted spectators. If rally car is anything other than that, please don’t wake us from our fantasy: I want rally car to be nothing but all of those things and more…Â DetailsÂ
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Sebastien Loeb won the Portugal Rally on Sunday to extend his championship lead and maintain his perfect start to the season.
Loeb won two of Sunday’s five stages to beat Ford’s Mikko Hirvonen by 24.3 seconds. The Citroen driver earned his 51st career win after taking the 18-stage race with an overall winning time of 3 hours, 53 minutes, 13.1 seconds… Details
BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team drivers Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen lead Rally de Portugal after today’s sun-kissed opening day in the hills above the Algarve. After a strong morning in unfavourable conditions, the Finns moved ahead this afternoon and built a 15.0sec lead in their Ford Focus RS World Rally Car. Team-mates Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila led initially before rolling 150 metres down a hillside, escaping injury thanks to the strength of their Focus RS.
This fourth round of the FIA World Rally Championship began with a spectacular speed test last night… Details