Luke Barry

United States

Motorsport Journalist at Freelance

Co-Founder at Minoia

Rally journalist | DirtFish

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Articles

How driver pacenotes are compromised for WRC Canarias – DirtFish

14 hours ago | dirtfish.com | Luke Barry

The recce at Rally Islas Canarias, a brand-new event on the World Rally Championship calendar, was always going to be a challenge with drivers creating fresh pacenotes. But that challenge has been exaggerated by the roads being open to the public in both directions for recce – a situation Ott Tänak has questioned the safety of.
Timeframe revealed for WRC 2027 regs finalization – DirtFish

16 hours ago | dirtfish.com | Luke Barry

The FIA has revealed that the next set of World Rally Championship technical regulations, primed to begin in 2027, will not be fully finalized until August. The new regulations, which were announced back in December, will feature cars less expensive than the current Rally1s (with a cost cap of €345,000) that will rely on Rally2-based engines, but are expected to deliver similar performance to the current top-class machines.
Why Ogier enjoys new rallies so much – DirtFish

1 day ago | dirtfish.com | Luke Barry

Sébastien Ogier competes in the World Rally Championship because it’s fun. Of course, there is the objective of helping Toyota to another manufacturers’ title, but fun for a fierce competitor with eight world titles and 62 rally victories means just one thing: winning. Invariably, Ogier starts every single rally he enters as a clear contender to do just that – but there are some rallies he looks forward to more than most.
Loubet makes surprise return to M-Sport – DirtFish

1 day ago | dirtfish.com | Luke Barry

Pierre-Louis Loubet has rejoined M-Sport, undertaking a WRC2 program beginning with next month’s Rally Portugal. Loubet, the 2019 WRC2 champion, drove a Ford Puma Rally1 for a full campaign in 2023 as team-mate to Ott Tänak after an impressive part-time season the previous year, but dropped back to WRC2 in a Toksport Škoda last season.
M-Sport boss Wilson nominated to become FIA deputy president – DirtFish

2 days ago | dirtfish.com | Luke Barry

M-Sport managing director Malcolm Wilson has been nominated by FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem to succeed Robert Reid as candidate for deputy president for sport. Reid resigned from the role two weeks ago, citing a “fundamental breakdown in governance standards” that he felt he could no longer represent.
Rally Islas Canarias 2025 data: Entry list + itinerary – DirtFish

3 days ago | dirtfish.com | Luke Barry

Gran Canaria beckons for the World Rally Championship, as the globe’s best rally drivers embark on a new adventure for world rallying. Rally Islas Canarias’ history dates back to 1977, but 2025 is the first time the island event has featured on the WRC calendar – making this week a journey into the unknown for most.
What to expect from Rally Islas Canarias – DirtFish

4 days ago | dirtfish.com | Luke Barry

In rallying, nothing is ever truly certain. But the trepidation increases when the World Rally Championship journeys to territory previously untravelled. Welcome to Rally Islas Canarias – round four of the 2025 season, and the first of three brand-new rallies to the WRC this year. Unlike future stops in Paraguay and Saudi Arabia though, Islas Canarias is not a totally alien concept to all.
8 of the best Rally Spains – DirtFish

4 days ago | dirtfish.com | Luke Barry

¡España ha vuelto!After a short absence of three years, the World Rally Championship is back in Spain – a nation it first visited in 1991 and pretty much never stopped going to until it fell off the calendar in 2022. OK, the upcoming challenge is new – we’re headed for the Canary Islands, specifically Gran Canaria, instead of the southern coast of the mainland. But Spain is Spain, and with that in mind we thought we’d look back at eight of the best editions of this rally in years gone by.
The team-mate swap in an echoed WRC tale – DirtFish

6 days ago | dirtfish.com | Luke Barry

It’s a season he started as world championship favorite, but so far has yet to deliver. The expected flashes of speed have been there, but not achieved consistently enough to grab the results to match. A change in regulations is perhaps a factor, but further rubbed in by the fact his team-mate has simply aced it up until now. The world title the watching world had expected is not lost, but the fightback required needs to start now.
Details revealed about 'revolutionary' ARC2 car – DirtFish

1 week ago | dirtfish.com | Luke Barry

It’s been labelled the car to “revolutionize the American Rally Association RC2 class”. But how much do we really know about JRD Motorsport’s ARC2 project? First announced in February with double World Rally champion Marcus Grönholm named as a development driver, the team has now unveiled more details about the spec machine that’ll be based on the Chevrolet Sonic platform.