Petter Solberg, World Rally Champion
The two-time World Rally champ now spends most of his time in the passenger seat, but when the mood takes him he still takes the occasion detour to the forest tracks around his Swedish home.
First-timers and old-timers team up for the Generations Rally
A family-friendly classic car rally in England’s Lake District brought young and old together on the region’s most challenging and scenic roads.
Meet the Yorkshire couple who rally the globe by vintage Bentley
Marina and Graham Goodwin have driven more than 100,000 miles all over the world in their trio of vintage Bentleys and their wanderlust is still unsated.
Detour #100: Retracing the RAC Rally, UK
The Toyota GR Yaris on the epic route of the 1993 Network Q RAC rally along the finest roads England, Wales and Scotland have to offer – strap in!
Watch two brothers take on the Carrera Panamericana in their old Volvo Amazon
Brothers Chris and Jeff Mason fulfilled a lifelong ambition to compete in La Carrera Panamericana rally, and lucky for us, a film crew was along for the ride.
Chris Ingram, European Rally Champion
Chris Ingram recalls his first time attempting Rally Mont Blanc, travelling to the event with his Dad and being blown away by the Alps during the summer.
Gavin Green, Journalist
Gavin Green, former editor of Car, tells us about competing in the London to Sydney Marathon with his late father.
Racing the first hybrid rally car in the world
I would enter a first-generation Toyota Prius in the Midnight Sun to Red Sea Marathon Rally. Starting from northern Sweden, we would have 5,000 miles and ten countries to cover, arriving in Jordan in just 20 days.
Nik Berg, Detour Founder
Detour co-founder Nik Berg reckons that the best driving road in Europe isn’t in Italy, but Austria.
The first Gumball 3000
A party that would roll across Europe for five days, taking in race circuits, nightclubs and five star hotels. A party where the super unleaded and the champagne would flow in equal measure.
Detour #22: Tour de Corse, France
In Corsica the post is never late. To cross from one side of the 3,350-square-mile island, which is one vast mountain range, you have to conquer the wildest roads in Europe.