The FIA World Rally Championship heads to the Far East for the fourteenth round of the 2007 calendar, and the last long haul event of the season. Rally Japan, Subaru’s home event, is based in the city of Obihiro on Hokkaido, the most northerly of Japan’s islands, and takes place from 26-28 October. As the only round of the WRC to take place in Asia, Rally Japan usually attracts...

At the start of the day Solberg took advantage of his Impreza’s pace on rough asphalt to close the gap to fourth-placed Jari-Matti Latvala, and the pair remained locked in a close battle for the rest of the day. On fast-changing stages that incorporated narrow twisty sections and long and winding corners...

Once the Impreza WRC2007s have been rebuilt before an event, the Subaru World Rally Team mechanics move to the next stage of on-event preparation. The corner weights, camber, tracking and ride height of each car are all carefully measured...

Fresh in from Spain, the team get straight to work on the Imprezas. One of the problems of having two rallies in two weekends is the logistics of transporting and preparing the cars in time. The Subaru World Rally Team trucks departed Salou, Catalunya Sunday night to arrive in Corsica early Monday morning, with the...

After a quick trip east from last weekend’s event in Catalunya, the Subaru World Rally Team has arrived on the Mediterranean island of Corsica for the French round of the World Rally Championship. Corsica, situated off the south-eastern coastline of France, is well known for its picturesque, unspoiled countryside, which is dominated by...

71 crews of the original 102 starters left the service park for leg three this morning. Today’s route was the shortest of the rally, totalling just 85.66 competitive kilometres over four stages. As with the previous two legs, two stages were each run twice, meaning that competitors were faced with gravel and dirt dragged onto the routes...

By Susan Bradley (RallyWorld Magazine) - Official crowd estimates indicate that over 20,000 rally enthusiasts attended the outdoor Service of Celebration in Lanark, Scotland yesterday (Sunday, September 30th) for the lives of Colin McRae, his son Johnny and their two friends who died in the recent helicopter crash...

Its smooth asphalt roads mean Rally Catalunya is the closest the WRC gets to circuit racing. After a month-long break following the trip down under for Rally New Zealand, the Subaru World Rally Team is heading to Europe for the first installment of an asphalt double header...

How has this year been for you, according to your expectations?
Okay, we had fairly high expectations at the start and were hoping to be on the podium quite regularly. Unfortunately things haven’t gone quite as smoothly...

The former rally driving champion Colin McRae was killed and his five year-old son feared dead in a helicopter crash yesterday afternoon. The aircraft came down in Jerviswood, Lanarkshire, half a mile from the family’s home and burst into flames just after 4pm...