Powerslide Podcast

#43 - The Story of the 2017 WRC Season

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 13:50:56 GMT

In this special episode of the Powerslide Podcast, we are joined by Antti Loponen from It Gets Faster Now to talk about the story of the 2017 WRC Season, and the many interesting stories behind it.

You can read more about the season here: https://www.powerslideblog.com/powerslide-stats-centre/2017-wrc

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42. What do the Rally Gods have in store for us? - Acropolis Rally Preview

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 19:18:59 GMT

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#41 - Why Rally2 is NOT the Future

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:34:22 GMT

On this episode of the Powerslide Podcast, Dimitris weighs in on the Rally1 vs Rally2 debate, and points out that a downgrade to the slower class wouldn't solve many if any of the WRC's problems.

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40. We're dreaming of a white Monte-Carlo ❄️ - Rallye Monte-Carlo 2025 Preview

Sun, 19 Jan 2025 20:59:30 GMT

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39. Neuville Breaks the Curse! - WRC 2024 Review 🚗

Sun, 08 Dec 2024 15:00:00 GMT

In our WRC season review Dimitris, Zenor, Manos, Russell and Silver discuss Neuville's maiden title win, Toyota's upset to win the constructors championship in Japan, Fourmaux's move to Hyundai and go through their favourite moments of the 2024 season as well as discuss the 2027 WRC technical regulations.

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38. Is this the Championship Decider? - Central European Rally Preview 🇪🇺

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 10:57:34 GMT

In our Central European Rally Preview, Dimitris, Maksy, Silver and Zenor discuss how each driver will fare in the penultimate round of the World Rally Championship, as well as speculate on if Thierry Neuville can clinch his first World's Driver's title in a rally he won last year.

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37. A Pivotal Rally for the Championship - 2024 EKO Acropolis Rally Preview

Tue, 03 Sep 2024 13:26:14 GMT

The WRC returns after the summer break for the 10th round of the championship in Greece! The Acropolis Rally is a rough gravel rally, where reliability and consistency will be more important than outright pace.

We are happy to be joined by Manos, who works with the Acropolis Rally organisers! In this episode, Dimitris and Manos talk about everything Acropolis related, including a very detailed itinerary rundown, a look at the entry list, and also talk about how the locals will fare.

The Estonians are also there, sometimes.

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36. Ouninpohja is back! - 2024 Secto Rally Finland Preview

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 08:32:54 GMT

After the inaugural Rally Latvia, the WRC travels to Finland for one of the most prestigious rounds of the championship.

Join us as we discuss the good and the bad about the itinerary, the return of Ouninpohja, the 5 Yaris Rally1s and whether Ogier's going for a 9th Drivers championship.

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35. Fast Gravel Overdose and Tales from Rally Estonia! - July Rally Review 2024

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 06:17:51 GMT

In this month's podcast, Silver, Zenor, Maksy and Dimitris discuss what happened in Rally Poland, critiquing the Polish spectators and praising Martins Sesks and Andreas Mikkelsen.

We also talk about out experience on Rally Estonia, and what was our favourite petrol station food!

Lastly, we parley about the inaugural Rally Latvia, aka the chicane grand prix!

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34. State of Play in the WRC - June Rally Review 2024

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 10:46:38 GMT

In this slightly different episode we cover a variety of topics, including but not limited to Rally Sardegna, previewing Rally Poland, the introduction of Rally Saudi Arabia and Pajari and Sesks getting Rally1 drives. Don't mind us getting wrong what rally Pajari is getting his drive at, we realize half-way through the pod.

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33. Is this the turning point of the championship? - 2024 Vodafone Rally de Portugal Review

Mon, 20 May 2024 10:30:48 GMT

Like Sordo was back in action this rally, Dimitris is back in action in the Review! We discuss whether this rally could be the turning point in the championship with Tänak's slight comeback and Evans' seeming further downfall and whether Marco Bulacia used to be decent or Silver is just severely delusional.

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32. Sordo is back! - 2024 Vodafone Rally de Portugal Preview

Thu, 09 May 2024 11:22:46 GMT

This episode has a distinct lack of Dimitris, but he does make a cameo to talk about the itinerary. In the meantime, the three of us try to have a coherent conversation about Rally Portugal, what to expect from each driver, historical results etc!

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31. Ogier's Endless Luck - 2024 Croatia Rally Review - ft. Manos!

Sat, 27 Apr 2024 12:33:41 GMT

In this episode we go over what happened in Croatia this year, how Ogier went from firmly third to winning the rally, what happened to Adrien Fourmaux on Sunday and why Tänak scored more points than both Evans and Neuville!

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30. We go back to Tarmac! - 2024 Croatia Rally Preview - featuring Manos!

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 10:38:21 GMT

Join us as we discuss the upcoming Croatia Rally, with a special guest who is going to the rally, Manos! Manos is an author at Total Racing, who also works with the Acropolis Rally organisers! Who will end up on top on the first pure tarmac rally of the championship, and will weather play a part in the rally? Find out by listening to this!

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29. Toyota is Back! - 2024 Safari Rally Kenya Review

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 18:51:12 GMT

We review the bygone Safari Rally, could it be the final rendition for the time being? What do we make of the points system now that we've seen it in action for the third time? What has happened to Hyundai?

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28. Mud and organizational jeopardy - 2024 Safari Rally Kenya Preview

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 10:00:30 GMT

Previewing the Safari Rally we go over all the drama around the organization and future of the event along with the current stage conditions and how we reckon each driver will go on the event!

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Our Reactions to the New WRC Regulations

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:27:21 GMT

In our latest emergency podcast, we talk about the newly announced plans for WRC regulations from 2025 onwards and share our thoughts on them. Going over both the sporting side in terms of rally structure and the technical side of car regulations.

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27. WRC in Winter Wonderland ❄️ - 2024 Rally Sweden Preview

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 12:52:03 GMT

In our Sweden preview we take a look at who we think might do well, consider all the possibilities based on road position, everyone does the exact same predictions and the end goes off the rails.

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Dimitris' Rambles - 1. The Story of the 2003 Season

Sat, 10 Feb 2024 18:21:20 GMT

Dimitris goes on for about 45 minutes about the 2003 season while he slowly goes insane...

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26. Neuville's greatest win? - 2024 Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo Review

Sat, 03 Feb 2024 12:00:37 GMT

In this slightly different episode where for the first time we don't have Dimi on board, we go over what happened at Rallye Monte-Carlo, go through all the drivers' performances and talk about our actually mostly decent predictions!

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25. Everything you need to know about WRC 2024! - 2024 Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo Preview

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 12:00:32 GMT

We are back! In this episode, we discuss what we expect from the 2024 season, we analyse the new points system and give spicy predictions for the upcoming season. We also talk about what we expect from another snow-less Rally Monte Carlo.

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Ranking all the Drivers from 2000 to 2006 Tierlist! - Powerslide Podcast Special

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 13:23:53 GMT

A Christmas present from us to you! In this episode, we are ranking WRC drivers from 2000 to 2006. Zenor didnt know who Gigi Galli was, Dimitris had to be restrained from putting Xevi Pons in the bottom tier, and George threatened to quit the pod if McRae wasn’t put in S (not Alister).

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24. Driver market rumors and the 2023 Powerslide Awards - 2023 WRC Season Review

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 12:00:03 GMT

As the 2023 Season comes to end we go over what we thought of each driver's performance, we give out the first ever Powerslide Awards and we give a mini-preview into what we know about next season as things stand, including the latest driver market rumors.

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23. Possibly the most boring preview of the season? - 2023 FORUM8 Rally Japan Preview

Thu, 16 Nov 2023 16:23:21 GMT

We go over the few and far between talking points of Rally Japan. Fourmaux in a Rally1. A scarce entry list in WRC2. Will there be anything of note at all this rally?

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22. The Central Europe Experience from Maksy - 2023 Central European Rally Review

Sun, 05 Nov 2023 14:13:20 GMT

Maksy tells us his experience from the Central European Rally and we discuss the rally as a whole. Does it get the Powerslide Podcast Seal of Approval?

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21. Will Rovanperä seal the title? - 2023 Central European Rally Preview

Wed, 25 Oct 2023 15:09:11 GMT

This time we discuss the upcoming first ever Central European Rally in the WRC, based on the 3-Städte-Rallye.

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20. 2023 Rally Chile BIOBÍO Review

Sun, 08 Oct 2023 09:00:02 GMT

Tonight, Maksy's internet has been healed, Zenor intermediates, Silver rants about Suninen and Dimitris... gets frustrated.

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19. 2023 Rally Chile BIOBÍO Preview

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 17:32:21 GMT

This time we have a look at the returning Rally Chile, which we have so far only seen in 2019. A look at the stages, entry list and things to look out for!

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18. 2023 EKO Acropolis Rally Greece Review

Wed, 13 Sep 2023 17:33:52 GMT

In this slightly unhinged episode we go over Rally Acropolis which we find to be one of the best rallies of the season! BTW it took us 7.5min and 4 attempted starts to get this episode going.

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17. 2023 EKO Acropolis Rally Greece Preview

Wed, 06 Sep 2023 15:30:55 GMT

In this episode, Dimitris talks about the itinerary for 20 minutes, Maksy barely speaks and Silver can't stop laughing.

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16. 2023 Barum Czech Rally Zlín Review

Sat, 26 Aug 2023 15:00:35 GMT

In this slightly special episode we go back to our roots and review an ERC round, the fantastic Barum Czech Rally Zlín!

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15. 2023 Secto Rally Finland Review

Thu, 17 Aug 2023 20:56:02 GMT

Sorry again for the big delay - Silver.

In this episode the mere 3 musketeers that showed up discuss the bygone Rally Finland and discover that maybe Neuville isn't a fluke artist?!

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14. 2023 Secto Rally Finland Preview

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 09:00:11 GMT

Welcome to our Rally Finland preview, this time with a local!

Antti joins us for this special episode, go check out his blog over here:

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We go over the itinerary in more detail than usual and of course all the other talking points!

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13. 2023 WRC Rally Estonia Review - Tales from Rally Estonia

Sun, 30 Jul 2023 10:36:02 GMT

We once again have a special guest AND 3/4 of this episode's cast actually went to the rally in question! Listen to the sights and sounds of Rally Estonia here!

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12. 2023 WRC Rally Estonia Preview

Wed, 19 Jul 2023 11:00:42 GMT

This time it's the home rally of 2 of our members, as we go through the Rally Estonia preview!

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Special: Our Perfect Calendars

Sun, 09 Jul 2023 13:00:03 GMT

In this special episode we have a look at what our perfect WRC calendars look like!

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11. 2023 Safari Rally Kenya Review

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 09:00:48 GMT

Nevermind the delay, the Safari review has landed!

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10. 2023 Safari Rally Kenya Preview

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 09:00:27 GMT

This time we have a special guest joining us - our African correspondent, Sen!

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9. 2023 Rally Italia Sardegna Review

Sat, 10 Jun 2023 15:56:06 GMT

Rally Italia Sardegna came and went, but it was a good one! We talk through it and bring you a summary of all the action.

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8. 2023 Rally Italia Sardegna Preview

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 16:24:17 GMT

"Hello and welcome to the Powerslide Podcast, where we will go through all the talking points..." - Zenor, 2023, in the Outtakes.

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7. 2023 Vodafone Rally de Portugal Review

Sat, 20 May 2023 11:00:55 GMT

We review Rally Portugal, from the dizzying heights of the Fafe jump to the lows of the Evans crash no one saw!

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6. 2023 Vodafone Rally de Portugal Preview

Tue, 09 May 2023 11:00:26 GMT

In this episode, we take a look at the upcoming WRC Rally Portugal!

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5. 2023 Croatia Rally Review

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 18:30:00 GMT

In this episode we talk about the bygone Rally Croatia and go through the talking points that made the rally.

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4. 2023 Rally Guanajuato México Review

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 20:00:24 GMT

This episode is about the WRC Rally Mexico, we will be reviewing it, going over the results, comparing to our predictions and bringing up the key talking points.

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3. 2023 Rally Serras de Fafe Review

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:00:02 GMT

In the third episode of the podcast, we take a look back at the ERC Rally Fafe, going over the results, our predictions and more!

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2. 2023 Rally Guanajuato México Preview

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 21:30:18 GMT

This is our second podcast, where we discuss 2023 Rally México, going through the drivers, itinerary and other main talking points!

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1. 2023 Rally Serras de Fafe/ERC Season Preview

Sun, 05 Mar 2023 17:00:09 GMT

In our first episode, we have a look into the ERC opener of Rally Serras de Fafe, looking into the itinerary, entries, what to look for and more!

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