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Finally! The offseason is over for the World Rally Championship. Rallye Monte Carlo starts today, with its classic alpine tarmac stages that are often covered in snow and ice. It’s the oldest and one of the most beautiful rallies there is. Photo credit: Abu Dhabi Total WRT
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[This is a Porsche, therefore, it must be raced. Here is a Porsche Cayenne S Transsyberia practicing sweet dirt slides for the 2007 Transsyberia Rally. Photo credit: Porsche]
Sebastien Loeb will return to the World Rally Championship as an owner next year as Autosport reports, running a team in the Junior WRC for 2016. He may have been dumped by Citroën, but that doesn’t he can’t run his own chevron-badged car if he wants to. Read more
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[When Citroën got Lotus to turn their Visa hatchback into a top-level rally car, did Lotus move the Visa’s front engine to the rear, as was standard for the WRC monsters of the day? No! They just stuck a Visa body on a Lotus Esprit chassis. Read more about this cancelled program at Weird Cars. Photo: Citroën, or maybe… Read more
[Brace yourselves: Dakar is coming. Everything from Antonio Meo’s KTM here to enormous trucks will race across the South American desert starting on January 2. Photo credit: Red Bull Content Pool]