As you know, I am not attending the Bela Bela rally and this was the first chance in more than 9 years that I had to sit waiting for news on the action to get to me. I suppose it you have family or friends competing you will be able to find out more […]
After two of today’s four stages have been run, a distance of some 27km, Leeroy Poulter in the Team Castrol Toyota Auris is in the lead.His time of 19:24.8 is 4.2s better than that of second placed Hans Weijs in the Sasolracing Volkswagen Polo. Poulter won the first stage and Mark Cronje in the Team […]
Ott Tanak has been named as Mikko Hirvonen’s replacement in the M-Sport team for the 2015 World Rally Championship, joining Elfyn Evans in a Ford Fiesta RS WRC. The 27 year-old already has an existing relationship with the M-Sport outfit having completed a full season with the team in 2012, notching up a career-best third […]
The recently appointed Mayor of Bela-Bela, who is also the Vice President of the South African Football Association, Councillor Lucas Nhlapo, flagged away the first car at the ceremonial start of the augural Bela-Bela Rally in the Waterberg town formerly known as Warmbaths at 13h00 this afternoon. First car to leave the starting ramp before […]
2011 Dakar Rally winner Nasser Al-Attiyah (QT) will start the 2015 Dakar Rally (3-17 January) in a MINI ALL4 Racing, built by the German-based X-raid GmbH. It will be the eleventh Dakar start for the 43-year-old Olympic bronze medallist in skeet shooting. The addition of Al-Attiyah makes it a total of nine MINI ALL4 […]
Ferrari have confirmed that Fernando Alonso will leave the team at the end of the 2014 Formula One campaign.In a statement, the team said that the relationship ended “by common consent”. The announcement means this weekend’s race in Abu Dhabi will also formally bring to a close Alonso’s five-year spell with the Scuderia, which has […]
According to a report by Autosport Robert Kubica is on Citroen’s shortlist to join Kris Meeke in its 2015 World Rally Championship line-up, says team boss Yves Matton.Kubica has just completed his first full year in the WRC’s top class, during which he showed tremendous promise in an M-Sport-run Ford Fiesta RS WRC, but also […]
OH LORD ITS HARD TO BE ……. We have once again reached the end of another rally season. When talking to the public in general – something that happens almost daily at Rallystar it becomes clear that they have no idea about the progress or situation in the sport. Sadly – when […]