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The new World Rally Championship (WRC) season will take off in Monte Carlo at 3.08 p.m. Estonian time on Thursday. Estonian driver Ott Tänak (Hyundai) said his goal is to capture the season title and that last year's complications have only made his team better.

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How the 1,000-HP Hyundai Kona EV Rally Car Was Built 19 Jan 2021, 9:21 UTC · by 8 photos While motorsport already benefits from electric power in various forms, rallying presents by far the biggest challenge, and making this ever-evolving technology work in the most demanding environments is no easy task. Built by Paddon Rallysport Group (PRG), this insane race car started to take shape in 2017. A year later, a group of bright young engineers and technicians ...

Date finalised for Belgium WRC debut After being announced in the 2021 FIA World Rally Championship for the first time earlier this month, Renties Ypres Rally Belgium organisers today (Monday) confirmed the event’s date as 13 - 15 August. After being announced in the 2021 FIA World Rally Championship for the first time earlier this month, Renties Ypres Rally Belgium organisers today (Monday) confirmed the event’s date as 13 - 15 August. The asphalt rally replaces the proposed fixture in Nor...

Frozen Finland offers Monte-Carlo warm-up FIA World Rally Championship stars head north to Finland’s Arctic Lapland Rally (15 - 17 January) this weekend in search of pre-season preparation. As its name suggests, the event runs in the Arctic Circle. It will provide perfect winter conditions and an early introduction to the snow and ice which could well form part of next week’s season-opening WRC round at Rallye Monte-Carlo (21 - 24 January). It is, however, a pair of locals who are likely to...

Rally Estonia will remain a part of the World Rally Championship (WRC) calendar in 2021, set to take place in Tartu and southern Estonia on July 15-18. At a press conference on Wednesday, the rally organizers announced that Rally Estonia will also be a WRC event in 2022. Prime Minister Jüri Ratas (Center) anoounced: "The 2020 rally was a fantastic experience, it was a great success, it was something truly special. In the last two years, we have shown innovative solutions to be offered to the e...

Arctic Rally Finland joins 2021 FIA World Rally Championship The FIA World Rally Championship will venture into the Arctic Circle for the first time next month after WRC Promoter today added Arctic Rally Finland Powered by CapitalBox to the 2021 calendar. The all-new snow and ice event will be based in Rovaniemi on 26 - 28 February and replaces the cancelled Rally Sweden as the WRC’s only pure winter encounter. It forms round two of the 12-event fixture list. The announcement means the Nordi...

Kojo Nnamdi, long-running D.C. radio host, is retiring from daily show after 23 years Paul Farhi, The Washington Post Jan. 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Kojo Nnamdi hosting his WAMU-FM radio show in 2011.Washington Post photo by Sarah L. Voisin WASHINGTON - Kojo Nnamdi, a fixture on Washingtons radio airwaves and an influential factor in the regions politics, will retire from his daily program on WAMU-FM, the public station announced Wednesday. Nnamdi, 76, will continue to host his Friday prog...

From wrc. we look back at history. why is it so important for us to look back at this. is it opening a wound or -- >> its not distant history. on my mothers side, my family can trace its origins all the way back to a man named pittman who was freed when sherman came through mississippi. scarlett oharas tears are my familys liberation. thats my great great great grandfather. thats not that long ago. i bring that up to emphasize the point that the history of american slavery is so different in k...

This >> reporter: joshua morton is a former navy s.e.a.l., a canine handler with five tours overseas. at home in iowa, hes now training dogunmen and take >> i did not expect seeing what im seeing overseas, to see it in schools and to see it here but un happening. >> reporter: he demonstrated the dogs wrc, our nbc station in washington mortons friend acts as the gunman, firing blank rounds other friends posed as students running away from the gunfire the muzzled dog ignores the distraction and us...