There’s nothing better than the sound of a Metro 6R4 flat out through a stage…at least in this writer’s opinion! So when we came across this clip of Harri Toivonen from this year’s Bosch Super Stage at the Eifel Rallye Festival, where he was reunited with the Unipart Metro 6R4 that he drove on the 1986 RAC Rally, we couldn’t [...]

The Tunnock’s World Rally Team has been officially launched at the famous teacake company’s bakery in Uddingston, Scotland, where it was announced that Robert Barrable will contest five of the remaining six rounds of the 2013 FIA World Rally Championship in a new Ford Fiesta R5. Stuart Loudon, the great, great grandson of the company’s founder, Mr. Thomas Tunnock, will [...]

World Rally Championship driver Kris Meeke will make his RallycrossRX debut with Albatec Racing in the seventh round of the FIA European Rallycross Championship at Lohéac next month (August 31 & September 1). The Dungannon driver will partner Albatec Racing Team Principal Andy Scott at the wheel of a two litre, 16v Peugeot 208 on what looks set to be [...]

(Photo: Stephen Kerr) The RallyForums.com backed Evo 1 belonging to Jonathan MacDonald and Bill Walker scored victory in class 9 and 14th overall at last weekend’s Vanilla Black Catering Summer Stages Rally. Based at Bishopscourt Race Circuit, near Downpatrick, the crew powered their way into second in class from the start of the event, with the Group A Impreza belonging [...]

There’s just over a month to go until the fourth annual Motorsport at the Palace sprint competition, in association with the Ancaster Group. This year, the popular two-day time trial will be held on Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday, 26 & 27 May. This year’s event maintains the quality and quantity of entries, which have quickly helped establish it as [...]

Carryduff’s Barry Greer grew up with a family immersed in the world of motorsport. His father, Davy Greer, is still a regular face on the rally scene and runs DGM Sport, a successful rally hire and preparation business. Being surrounded by rallying from such a young age, it was no surprise that both Barry and his brother Jonny also picked [...]

Volunteer marshals and officials working on next month’s Cartell.ie Killarney Rally of the Lakes will have the chance to win a trip to Sol Rally Barbados 2013 (June 1/2), courtesy of the Barbados Rally Club (BRC), organisers of the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport International. The prize-winner whose name is ‘pulled from the hat’ will enjoy an all-expenses-paid return trip [...]

Marty McCormack reckons he will have a big fight on his hands in the second round of the West Wales Rally Spares R.A.C. Rally Championship, the SG Petch Tour of Hamsterley (Sunday 28 April). McCormack will go up against Steve Bannister and Nick Elliott and a gaggle of other very quick drivers at the head of the historic field. With [...]

One of the most distinctive cars in historic rallying will return to action for the first time this year when the Mintex MSA British Historic Rally Championship visits Carlisle for its second round, the Pirelli Historic Rally, on May 4th and 5th. The bright-yellow and green Saab 96 crewed by Hugh and Debby Myers is set to take on the [...]

Heading into the first of four Global X Games this year, Hoonigan Racing Division’s Ken Block hit X Games Brazil in his brand-new Ford Fiesta ST RX43 RallyCross with one goal: add to the collection of X Games medals on his wall at home. Unfortunately, that dream came to an abrupt end 100 feet into the RallyCross final when Block [...]