Dani Sordo will take temporary leave from his Prodrive MINI team to fill in for Ford at Rally Argentina later this month. Ford found themselves with an opening after Jari-Matti Latvala injured himself while cross-country skiing. Prodrive won’t be racing in Argentina so in some ways it made sense to utlilise Sordo’s talents. Ford hasn’t [...]
Jari-Matti Latvala broke his collar bone in a cross-country skiing fall during the week and will miss Rally Argentina (27–29 April). Ford will hire a temporary stand-in for Latvala in Argentina and here’s where it starts to get interesting. First, Malcolm Wilson’s comments on Latvala’s injury: “My first concern has obviously been Jari and how [...]
Current Ford WRC driver Jari-Matti Latvala could be driving for Volkswagen in 2013. Latvala’s manager, Timo Jouhki, confirmed meeting with Volkswagen saying: “I had a positive meeting with Kris Nissen and Carlos Sainz, who seem to have a good team with the right people and really interesting technical details on the car.” The 27-year-old Finn [...]
A fellow by the name of Sean Kennedy has entered the records books for achieving the highest speed in a standing mile run. It’s not a bad effort either, he drove a Hennessey-tuned twin-turbo 2006 Ford GT to a v-max of 257.7mph (414.7km/h). That’s pretty damn fast, don’t you think. You can see a video [...]
Last weekend Chris Atkinson enjoyed his first WRC start since 2009 when he took part in Rally Mexico as part of Ken Block’s Monster World Rally Team. “Atko”, as he’s become known, showed good pace too, running well inside the top 10 and winning the Super Special 2 stage. That was the first ever WRC [...]
“The car rolled down and cut in two. “I walked away from it and drove home that evening.” They’re the words of Bill Brown in reference to his spectacular and famous accident at Bathurst in 1971. That’s him there in the picture above, you can see his head about to make contact with the wooden [...]
After a couple of days for press previews the doors to the 2012 Geneva Motor Show are about to be opened to the public. Figuring you probably can’t make it we’re bringing you our biggest photo gallery ever. That’s right, there’ll be over 200 images from the floor of Geneva for you to enjoy. We’ve [...]
Geneva looks like being the place to be for hot hatch lovers this year and this new “production-ready” Ford Fiesta ST is another one to add to the list. It’s not due until 2013 so Ford are being a bit coy with concrete information. We can tell you the Fiesta ST is powered by a [...]
Great news for Australia’s Chris Atkinson, with word via Speedcafe confirming he will be joining Ken Block‘s Monster World Rally Team at next month’s Rally Mexico. At this stage it’ll be a one-off drive for Chris and we’re reminded there were hopes of a Block-Atkinson two-car team back in 2009. Atkinson’s car, a Ford Fiesta [...]
It’s often said that you should never meet your heroes. The fear being they can never live up to your massive expectations. We’re not sure if your hero is an inanimate object if the the same can be said or not. What we do know is if we were ever offered the chance to drive [...]
Jari-Matti Latvala has answered Loeb’s opening win of the year by guiding his Ford Fiesta RS WRC to victory at Rally Sweden on the weekend. It’s the sixth time in a row Ford has won the event. The 26-year-old Finn took the lead on the opening day and enjoyed strong competition at times from former [...]
The Monte Carlo Rally, fondly referred to as ‘The Monte’, is resuming its rightful and traditional position as the first WRC event of the year. Yesterday the top WRC teams were out in Valence giving their machines a final shakedown before taking on the full rally. You can read previews from Citroën, Ford, MINI and [...]
Here we have a selection of images from the floor of the Detroit Motor Show, or more correctly, the North American International Auto Show. Unlike Tokyo late last year there’s a noticeable lack of weird and wonderful concept creations, but we certainly applaud the appearance of the Honda NSX Concept. It’s easily the clear star [...]
Ford began the Wales Rally GB with high hopes, Mikko Hirvonen was still a mathematical chance to win the championship. Alas, an accident and the subsequent damage forced Hirvonen out at the end of Day 2. That handed the 2011 WRC drivers’ title to Sebastien Loeb. Ironically a bizarre accident on a liaison stage with [...]
US motoring identity and drift king Tanner Foust was lucky enough to be sent over to the Nürburgring and handed the keys to a Ford Focus RS500 and told to go and enjoy the Nordschleife. In standard form the RS500 sends 350hp to its front wheels, but Foust says this car has been boosted for [...]