This year’s edition of the Rally Monte Carlo Historique (RMCH) is rather different from previous years, the main changes being  Closed roads. Until this year, we have been driving primarily on roads open to the public offering a lot of surprises and challenges. The safety of participants as well as the public has sometimes been at risk, but as from 2026 all stages will be on closed roads.  Shorter stages. We have normally been given stages of 15-40 kilometers, but these hav

Way before ending the 2025 season at home, we started planning a full run-through of the car as well as any equipment revision. To me, this is actually the fun part, taking some time to think through what’s important and what’s not! As we are approaching end January, we have been through the following revisions:  replaced rear brakes discs and installed new trip sensors  replaced brake fluid  normal engine service  revision of the electrical system  new headlights and fo

Next step is preparing for transportation and transfer of car & equipment to France. We’ll take the rally car on a trailer down to Provence and our tow car will be our service car boarding the Oslo-Kiel ferry on Thursday 22 nd January. The plan is as follows:  22.01: Oslo-Kiel  23.01: Kiel-Kronberg (575 km)  25.01: Kronberg-Valence (800 km)  26/27.01: test drive   28.01: Valence-Nice (370 km)  29/30.01: test drive  31.01: scrutineering & documentation Monte Car