A tight battle for the win at the Rally van Haspengouw
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Category: Driver Columns
3 champs, 3 new cars for the 2020 Belgian Rally Championship
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The start of a new Belgian Rally Championship season sees new cars for the past three Champions with two switching brands and another upgrading. In a way, it is absolute proof of the strength of the Championship, something further underlined by the fact there are 17 R5 cars taking the start of the Rally van […]
Preview: 2020 Jobfixers Belgian Rally Championship
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The 4H Sepang delivered and sets up the Asian Le Mans for a thrilling conclusion
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As the Asian Le Mans Series prepares for its final race of the 2019-2020 season, we look back to last weekend’s race, the 4 Hours of Sepang. The first night race for the Series was not without its challenges. Teams withdrawing due to staff quarantined because of the Corona Virus was one thing, losing a […]
The 2020s for the WRC: Part 2 the challenges of the calendar
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The 2020s for the WRC: Part 1 the challenges of the car
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The World Rally Championship is at a crossroads. As is pretty much every major motorsport category in the world. There are three major issues to get to grips with 1) the cars (i.e. decreasing the ecological footprint of the sport; matching the marketing and tech demands of manufacturers; and fending off environmental activists); 2) reaching […]
That Ott Tänak crash – we take a look at how it happened
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First thing is first. We cannot underestimate the strength of the modern WRC cars. Ott Tänak’s crash in his Hyundai was nothing short of frightening. He left the road at some 180km/h. The car rolled and rolled but as Hyundai team boss, Andrea Adamo said in the Meet the Crews session, “The job has been […]
The Bend, the Asian Le Mans Series and the tales of two drivers
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It has been just over a week since the Asian Le Mans Series visited Australia for the first time and since The Bend hosted their first international event. It was roughly 20 years since the Race of 1000 Years, the last time international prototypes visited Australia. Some things have changed in that time. The A […]
Formula 1 says it’s going carbon neutral but fans must demand greater detail on how
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Michelle O’Shea, Western Sydney University; Neil Perry, Western Sydney University, and Sarah Duffy, Western Sydney University When Formula 1 announced late last year that the sport would be carbon neutral by 2030, the organisation’s chief technical officer spoke of the transition to a lower carbon world: F1 could play a huge role in this transition. […]
Vale Philip Cracco – 1963-2020
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It is with great sadness that we learnt of the passing of Philip Cracco, due to illness. He was the man behind JobFIXers, the title sponsor of the Belgian Rally Championship and competitor in the BRC. Our thoughts are with his family and friends. He competed in the BRC since 2004, starting out in Peugeots […]