Absolute Rally Podcast

The pod of R's! Join Ryan Champion, Rhys Yates and Rich Millener with Tony Simpson (no R!). Rhys and Ryan talk Sardinia and the opening round of the British Rally Championship at Oulton Park. Rich and Tony talk M-Sport, 2022 regulations and how to fix rallying in the UK! 

Jack, Jon, Ryan and Tony talk Rally Italia Sardegna this coming weekend. And the boys grill Tony on his R5 Skoda debut and the "joys" of circuit based rallies! And we also talk more on the Kielder WT quiz !!! 

Scott Martin fresh from winning Rally Portugal alongside Elfyn Evans joins Tony, to discuss their win and the season so far. Seb Marshall joins Jack, Ryan and Tony fresh from stage end duties on Rally Portugal!

Rally Portugal is here and Jon Desborough, Ryan Champion and Tony Simpson discuss the WRC returning! Memories of the event, Pirelli Tyres and much more! Plus we discuss Tony's R5 debut next week! 

Richard Tuthill joins Ryan and Tony to talk Singer 911 Baja style protect, East African Safari Historic Rally in 2021 and new Tuthill signing Ken Block! 

Ryan and Tony talk Hyundai news and how their crystal ball was clearly off last week! And We talk the return of the British Rally Championship in a few weeks and racing driver / rally driver (you decide!) Seb Perez talks his very first codriver and the jump into the BRC with M-Sport in a new Fiesta R5. (yes we know its now called Rally 2) 

We are back ! Ryan, Jack, Trevor and Tony look back on Rally Croatia last weekend. Keaton Williams talks his podium alongside Josh McErlean on the Olympus Rally over in the USA. And JWRC winner on Rally Croatia our own Jon Armstrong talks his performance!   

Ryan, Trevor and Tony this week talk the young guns going into battle in WRC3 and in the JWRC! We have Jon Armstrong talking his return to the series. And Chris Ingram finally makes the move into full time WRC3 program and joins Tony to talk the new team and partners for this two year project!  We also talk Rally NI survey, which you can get involved with until April 14th here https://www.rallynorthernireland.com/ 

One of the most famous faces around the WRC service park over the last 30 years, John "Milly" Millington join Ryan and Tony to talk his early career, joining RED the move to Boreham and then the move to M-Sport! There is definitely a part 2 that needs to happen. We only scratched the surface !  

Ryan and Tony are joined this week by Juho Hanninen to talk IRC, being a test driver, Skoda Motorsport, Hyundai Motorsport, Toyota Gazoo Racing and co driving for Jari-Matti Latvala!   

Jack, Ryan, Tony and Trevor discuss their involvement with the new BTRDA R2 1600 Junior Championship this year. Road position on WRC events, more on hybrid technology and much more. Dave Welford the man who runs the "Richard Burns Fan Page" on Facebook joins the boys to talk about plans for the 20 year anniversary of Richards WRC title. And Paul Glass from the Highland Car club joins Trevor and Tony on the Snowman Rallython! 

Jack, Trevor and Tony look back on Artic Rally Finland, debate "the end" of front wheel drive in WRC!  Josh McErlean talks about being selected for the Hyundai Custom Racing team as part of their junior program. and Matt Edwards talks his quest for a third British title and a change of equipment for the up coming season! 

Fresh from Artic Rally Finland alongside Oliver Solberg, Seb Marshall joins Ryan and Tony to talk his call up, the new event and lots more! *Next week all the boys will be back to talk all our memories of the late great Hannu Mikkola * 

Double length feature podcast you want to preview Artic Rally Finland you say! ? We have Trevor Agnew, Jack Benyon, Ryan Champion and John Desborough at the top to preview this coming weekend. Martin Brady joins us to talk this season opener in the ARA Championship over in the USA Sno* Drift and how to put a rally on in 3 weeks! And finally M-Sport and Gus Greensmiths codriver Elliott Edmondson talks earlier career, this coming weekend and the rest of the WRC season. 

This week Tony home alone and is joined by WRC2 American crew Sean Johnston and Alex Kihurani to talk their coming season in the WRC. Luke Barry talks the news about Forestry England allowing motorsport to continue in the English forests.  

Ryan and Tony are joined by "The Guru" Julian Porter this week. We talk the end of the 2020 season. Ogier mindset for the season, 2022 regulations, Hyundai and the season season ahead! Plus much much more! 

Jack, Ryan, Trevor and Tony return to talk Rally Monte Carlo, the return of WRC and drivers bringing budget!  Tom Williams fresh from starting his WRC3 season joins Tony to talk his battle to get to the start of the event in the current world and just how tough those stages where. Craig Parry fresh from doing ice notes on Rally Monte Carlo for Takamoto Katsuta talks the challenges of the stages and having Jari Matti as their new boos at Toyota. 

Yes we did it again! Ebenezer Champion, Father Trevor (Jack) and Mr Ben (yon) join Tony for the end of season quiz! Who will it go !? you decided! I am off to get drunk after this!   Wishing you all a happy and peaceful Christmas, look after one another and lets hope for a better 2021. 

Jack, Ryan, Trevor and Tony all talk the WRC season finish in Monza, who is the GOAT, driver line up's for 2021 and train sets (again!) 

This week we have rally legend Marc Duez talking with Ryan and Tony about his rallying and racing career and his involvement  in working with young talent now in Belgium. Blair Bartels who a man with his finger on the pulse of all things Rally in New Zealand. We look back on the double event a few weeks ago now that would have made up Rally Zealand this year.  Tom Williams joins Tony straight from the reece on Monza to tell us about exactly what the stages are like. And the excitement of starting is first WRC event in a 4 wheel drive car.