Photo: Roy Dempster (www.roydempster.com) 
RPM Motorsport coverage of round 4 from the Hankook NI Rally Championship, the Tour of the Sperrins Rally 2009.
The event took place on the unique Davagh Forest tarmac roads and proved to be a fascinating contest as the World Rally Cars struggled in the narrow lanes with the Group N Evos and 2WD [...]

The new generation World Rally Cars won’t run with turbochargers until 2013, when 1600cc engines could power them, according to Motorsport News.
Plans to base the new look machines on existing Super 2000 models with a bolt-on kit of performance parts – including a turbo – have been dampened down until the worldwide economy shows signs [...]

In a recent interview with Eurosport France Sebastien Loeb admitted to being a fan of the Audi Sport quattro S1 but he prefers the WRC cars of today, and also states he isn’t nostalgic for rallying in the 70s and 80s.
Loeb commented about rallying in the 70s and 80s during the interview with Eurosport France:
I was not a fan of rallying in [...]