The Monte Carlo Rally last week was the festival of beautiful, tortuous oversteer that we all expect it to be. Now it just looks a thousand times better with drones.
On the left is the famous Mini "Monte" of Monte Carlo Rally fame. On the right is the Mini WRC, or what happens when Monte decides to fornicate with a Clubman at the Holiday Inn & Suites Chernobyl. They got together for a photo op, though it just leaves us wanting the original that much more.
Paddy Hopkirk and Rauno Aaltonen—winners, respectively, of the 1964 and 1967 Monte Carlo Rallies in Mini Cooper S’s—revisit the rally course 40+ years later in a convertible John Cooper Works Mini.
WRC rallyest, Petter Solberg may have placed no higher than sixth in this past weekend's Monte Carlo Rally, but we hear his trademark hoonage made him quite the crowd favorite during the final superspecial on the streets of Monaco. In lieu of proper Monte Carlo clips from that round, we present footage from a…
"We played it safe and we content ourselves to manage our leadership," said Sebastien Loeb, who — with navigator Daniel Elena — dominated the third leg of the Monte Carlo Rally today. Ford-BP's Marcus Gr nholm and navigator Timo Rautiainen remained in third — 1:23 behind Loeb, whose Citroen teammate, Spain's Daniel…
Marcus Gr nholm never really had a chance. As the Citroen C4s piloted by Sebastien Loeb and Daniel Sordo swapped places several times through the first legs of the Monte Carlo Rally, the BP-Ford World Rally Team driver (and last year's Monte Carlo winner) languished between 36 seconds and just over 1:15 behind the…