WRC 2009 Full Season Highlights Dave

The World Rally Championship is no ordinary race - and the turbocharged monsters that compete are no ordinary rally cars. Regardless of road surface, these machines can accelerate from 0-100kph in around three seconds and achieve top speeds of 220kph. Add to the mix a series of unforgiving terrains and they face one of the toughest challenges on the planet. We just had to get them on Dave. Obviously.

The WRC is hosted in 12 countries and divided up into a series of three-day events. This means the drivers run the gauntlet of Scandinavia's ice and snow and the sun-scorched landscapes of Jordan and everything in between, as well as having to adapt to a range of different surfaces, from smooth tarmac to rough and rocky tracks.

And it's more than the drivers' mettle that's put to the test. In this pressured environment, the WRC technicians have to be among the best in the world - the cars they work with have engine, transmission and suspension coaxed to finely-tuned perfection. While the drivers win points for taming the course, the manufacturers and manufacturer teams are also competing for the top spot, which means that the WRC is about more than sheer guts behind the wheel, but also unerring teamwork and a hefty wedge of super-slick engineering into the bargain.