Dakar News Dacia delivers dream Dakar dress rehearsal Dacia’s preparations for a first assault on the Dakar got off to a perfect start on Rally Morocco, with Nasser Al-Attiyah and Sébastien Loeb sealing… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay October 11, 2024 2 min
WRC News How Katsuta plans to bounce back from being benched Speaking for the first time since sitting out last month’s Rally Chile, Takamoto Katsuta has told DirtFish how he plans to return to Toyota’s factory… Read more by David Evans October 10, 2024
WRC Features Toyota’s top WRC winners Few automakers can boast as rich a World Rally Championship history as Toyota. To date, the Japanese brand has won four constructors titles and helped… Read more by Luke Barry October 5, 2024 5 min
WRC Features WRC is heating up just as its main fight cools off Three weeks earlier, over 12,500km north-west, Jari-Matti Latvala stood shrivelled before the media. The world titles, he thought, had gone. He even went as far… Read more by Luke Barry September 30, 2024 5 min
WRC News Thick fog triggers Chile leaderboard shakeup Kalle Rovanperä has moved ahead of Elfyn Evans and into the lead of Rally Chile after an extremely foggy SS11. Evans had looked to be… Read more by Luke Barry September 28, 2024 2 min
WRC News Ogier: We’ve been told by the top of FIA to shut our mouths Sébastien Ogier has explained his lack of comment at stage-end interviews on Friday at Rally Chile – a response aimed squarely at the FIA. Ogier… Read more by Luke Barry September 27, 2024 3 min
WRC News Ogier hits a bank and punctures, Evans leads Sébastien Ogier lost the lead of Rally Chile after stopping to change a puncture following a collision with a bank, but Toyota holds a 1-2-3… Read more by Luke Barry September 27, 2024 3 min
WRC News Drivers wary of “tire killer” Rally Chile World Rally Championship drivers are apprehensive about tire wear ahead of round 11 in Chile, with roads they say are even more abrasive than last… Read more by Luke Barry September 27, 2024 3 min
WRC News Ogier expects ‘punch in the face’ to help Katsuta With eight world championship titles to his name, there are few better people in this world to deliver sage rallying advice than Sébastien Ogier. Three… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay September 26, 2024 3 min
WRC Features Why Toyota doesn’t deem 2024 a failure so far Nobody could really take it in. Because it wasn’t really happening. Was it? Jari-Matti Latvala looked at the big screen. Looked away. Looked back. There was… Read more by David Evans September 26, 2024 5 min
WRC News How Katsuta and Pajari fit into Toyota’s 2025 plan With Sami Pajari’s return to Toyota’s factory team now just a week away, the biggest question in Chile is likely to be about the math…. Read more by David Evans September 18, 2024 2 min
WRC News Toyota ‘needs’ three full-time drivers in 2025 Jari-Matti Latvala was always the most upfront of drivers. When he made a mistake, he called it. He hid behind nobody and told it the… Read more by David Evans September 14, 2024 2 min
WRC News Why Latvala knows benching is best for Katsuta Not many people truly knew what Takamoto Katsuta was going through on Wednesday. Benched and told he wasn’t wanted for Toyota’s next World Rally Championship… Read more by David Evans September 13, 2024 2 min
WRC News How Pajari feels ahead of his two fresh Rally1 chances An unexpected byproduct of Sami Pajari’s elevation to Toyota’s GR Yaris Rally1 for this month’s Rally Chile will be a next generation head-to-head between him… Read more by David Evans September 12, 2024 3 min
WRC News Ogier to honor his commitment to Toyota Despite falling 38 points behind World Rally Championship leader Thierry Neuville at Acropolis Rally Greece, Sébastien Ogier will honor his commitment to Toyota and contest all… Read more by Luke Barry September 12, 2024 3 min
WRC Podcast Is Toyota’s decision a surprise? It’s been some week for Sami Pajari. First he wins WRC2 at Acropolis Rally Greece by 0.0s, now he has been given two more shots… Read more by DirtFish Media September 11, 2024 10 min +
WRC Features What next for Katsuta and Pajari? As the World Rally Championship heads west across the Atlantic for Rally Chile, Toyota has made the bold decision to replace Takamoto Katsuta with Sami… Read more by David Evans September 11, 2024 5 min
WRC News Katsuta dropped for Pajari at Rally Chile Toyota has benched Takamoto Katsuta for the next round of the World Rally Championship in Chile – with rising star Sami Pajari taking his place… Read more by David Evans September 11, 2024 3 min