Motorsport

Rally cars + volcano = spectacular

Rallying is spectacular to watch even in the worst of locations, but put it in a truly stunning location like the Sete Cidades Massif, a dormant volcano located on the Portuguese islands of the Azores and you get something truly special. The Sete Cidades stage is part of the Rally Azores, which is part of the European […]

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Hot rod rallying, Finn-style

We are all aware of the high percentage of Finns who are freakishly good drivers, and this video shows yet another one of them. But it seems they also possess the fine desire to drive wildly inappropriate cars in wildly inappropriate ways, which we just have to admire… The first video is awesome, but we […]

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Easier Said Than Done

Back to a rally theme, here’s the trailer for what looks to be (and is supposed to be, according to reviews so far) a brilliant new documentary about the sport. Easier Said Than Done looks at rallying (largely from an American perspective, which is interesting enough…) but also takes in the wider struggle to attract […]

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Slow motion WRC is magnificent!

Feast your eyes on this thoroughly magnificent video that is pretty much just Seb-2 and his co-driver Julien Ingrassia in slow motion. Who is Seb-2? Sebastien Ogier, of course, with Sebastien Loeb being Seb-1, while Sebastian Vettel is commonly referred to as “That annoying little German twat” and Sebastien Bordais is just “who?”

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Motorsport News

Paddon dominates final day of Rally Oz

Kiwi Hayden Paddon and his equally-Kiwi co-driver John Kennard came back from their poor start to Rally Oz to utterly dominate the WRC2 class of the final day of Rally Australia to win all six stages in the category. And even show a few of the WRC boys how it is done. Their outright speed […]

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Paddon moves through WRC2 field in Oz

With his Skoda Fabia rally car repaired following a rough start to Rally Australia, Hayden Paddon attacked today’s six competitive stages to take four WRC2 category stage victories and set times inside the top ten of the World Rally Championship (WRC) field. After the electrical issues which prevented Paddon and co-driver John Kennard from making […]

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A tree-crushing rally truck…

The GIF is awesome enough, but check out the on-board video of this Soviet-era GAZ truck competing in the Rally of Estonia! Note at about the 1.45 mark he drives off the road, but instead of crashing into the trees, simply drives over them. That is the way to rally…

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Gymkhana 5: More tyre-smoking mentalness from Ken Block!

As a rally driver Ken Block is a bit crap, but I bet your there isn’t a better stunt-driving shoe salesman in the world! As such, Block has just released his latest installment in the tyre-smoking insanity that is the Gymkhana series of promotional videos for DC Shoes/excuse for Block to close off public areas […]

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