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Adopted as the Official Yearbook of the WRC in joint effort between ISC and publisher Crash Media Group. This has resulted a number of changes in the book like ditching non-WRC content like regional and British national championship coverage, freeing more pages for articles.
Editor is David Evans, contributors include Marcus Gronholm (choice of top ten drivers), Anthony Peacock, Richard Rodgers, Clive Hughes, Rob Wilkins, Russell Atkins and John Davenport. Photography is from various sources, including the teams themselves.
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High five for Loeb
Editor David Evans reviews the year.
The Top Ten Drivers of 2008
This time ranked by Marcus Gronholm, alongside short comments as well though most of the commentary is by editor.
Catch him if you can
Profile of the 2008 World Champion Sebastien Loeb by Anthony Peacock.
There's no question he will be world champion
Richard Rodgers speaks with Ford team principal Malcolm Wilson, chief designer Christian Loriaux, Ford Europe Motorsport Director Mark Deans and even Timo Jouhki, Jari-Matti Latvala's manager about Latvala - but very little with Jari-Matti himself. The central question revolves around the wisdom of promoting him to full works team, did it came too soon?
All that's left is the legacy
David Evans' article about Subaru's departure from WRC. The "why" is soon sidelined and focus moves to crash course on team's history and then back to reasons behind lack of performance. These are searched from David Richards taking interest on matters outside WRC, certain technical decisions and even the drivers of the SWRT. No final verdict is reached.
Working from the ground up
Technical review - of a sorts - by Clive Hughes. This time the spotlight is on tyres due to introduction of control tyre. Technical changes of the season are not many, so text is mainly quite lame. Special sidebar about Subaru and their problems is included in the article. Another sidebar talks about green rally cars and introduce one in form of Citroen C4 WRC HYmotion4, a hybrid.
Ready for take-off
David Evans writes about the future of the WRC. In this case, the future means just the changes coming for 2009 season and none about the in-depth analysis of the profound changes to be expected for 2010-2011.
Shades of genius
Q&A -style interview with Junior World Champion Sebastien Ogier by Rob Wilkins.
The stuff of legends
Richard Burns is remembered by a visit to the Richard Burns Memorial Rally and Colin McRae is remembered by a visit to the Colin McRae Forest Stages Rally. Trip is made by David Evans.
Pirelli takes control
Russell Atkins writes about one of the big changes for 2008 season - Pirelli's task of supplying the control tyres to all four-wheel cars. The new Pirelli Star Driver programme and selected five drivers are also introduced. Special sidebars are interviews with Paul Hembery, Pirelli's motorsport director and George Black, Ford's tyre engineer.
Obituaries
John Davenport remembers Ove Andersson, Rob Arthur and Pat Moss-Carlsson.
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Foreword by Sebastien Loeb...................5
Editor's introduction........................6
Review of the Year..........................12
The top ten drivers of 2008.................18
World Champion profile......................30
Champion in the Making......................34
Sayonara Subaru.............................42
Technical Review............................50
WRC: The Future.............................56
Q&A with Sebastien Ogier....................58
McRae and Burns Remembered..................60
Pirelli's Success Story.....................64
Obituaries..................................70
World Championship Rallies..................74
World Championship Rally Results...........180
Car Specifications.........................182
Production Car Championship Review.........186
Junior World Championship Review...........190
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Facts
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Published in England (2008)
by Crash Media Group Ltd
192 pages
ISBN: 978-1905334-33-9
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