The World Rally Championship has a new young hero – and just in the nick of time. At 24, Oliver Solberg can now boast two wins from his first two starts in a Toyota GR Yaris Rally1, following a histor

ASK ANYBODY, CAR ENTHUSIAST OR NOT, to name two famous rallies and it’s a safe bet the Monte Carlo and Dakar will be on the list. Steeped in history (124 years of it in the Monte’s case), they remain

C hris Tolman fell in love with cars on a rally stage. “I would have been 11 years old when my dad took me to watch the 1986 RAC Rally, one of the very last Group B events,” he says. “That was the ign

Forty years after the rallying rocket ships last appeared in Britain, Matt James looks back on the dramatic landscape ahead of that November’s Rally GB

Dacia has won the Dakar Rally. Now there’s a sentence few would ever have expected to read just a few years ago. But under Renault ownership, the Romanian budget car brand has gained an entirely new a

The sixth Dakar Classic, in Saudi Arabia from 3-17 January, was the longest yet, at 7281km (more than 4500 miles) across the prologue and 13 stages. The rally started and finished in Yanbu, on the Red