22 Dec 12

Images of 2012:
Algarve agony

WRC.com is looking back on the FIA World Rally Championship season just gone by picking out some of the epic images captured by the McKlein photographic agency that made 2012 one to remember.

March: Jari-Matti Latvala (left) and co-driver Miikka Anttila survey their stricken Ford Fiesta RS WRC after they crash out of the lead of Vodafone Rally de Portugal on day two of the rain-hit event. And it would get worse for the factory Ford team when Petter Solberg left the road on the following stage having inherited the lead from his team-mate. “Disappointed doesn’t come close to how we’re all feeling,” said Ford Racing motorsport manager Gerard Quinn at the time. “It’s actually quite hard to believe what’s happened: it’s still sinking in. To go from the position we were in last night, first and second, to this...it’s unbelievable, particularly with them going out one after another.”

Photo: McKlein