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The 2023 World Rally Championship starts tomorrow evening with a run over the Col de Turini - a perfect opening stage for the 91st Rallye Monte-Carlo.

The official WRC+ platform remains the only way to watch all the action from every WRC stage across the 13 rallies this year. There are also previews, highlights, magazine programmes and a vast archive of rally action and documentaries. In the UK, that costs £10.99 per month - or £99 for a full 12-months. The subscription also includes live coverage of both European Rally Championship and World Rally Cross events. More details here: https://www.wrc.com/en/identity-management/info/

BT Sport is the main UK TV partner of the WRC, carrying live coverage of 4 or 5 stages per rally - including tomorrow's Col de Turini - plus 30 minutes of highlights each evening and magazine programmes throughout the year. If you already have a BT Sport subscription, the WRC coverage is an added bonus - otherwise it is £25 a month.

ITV4 and the ITVX streaming service are free-to-air and have a 60-minute highlights programme a couple of days after each rally ends - usually on the Tuesday evening. This programme remains available on ITVX for a few weeks.

Red Bull TV carries the nightly 30-minute highlights package for free via the Red Bull app.

YouTube has the official WRC channel with plenty of short previews, highlights and interviews - most of which also appear for free on the WRC website and app. There's also loads of footage uploaded to YouTube by fans on the stages - sometimes they capture the very best of the action. And then there are a few independent rally channels, such as DirtFish.

Here's a more in-depth preview of Rallye-Monte Carlo and the new season...



The full schedule for the season is...

• Monte Carlo - Tarmac - 19-22 January
  
• Sweden - Snow - 9-12 February
  
• Mexico - Gravel - 16-19 March
  
• Croatia - Tarmac - 20-23 April
  
• Portugal - Gravel - 11-14 May
  
• Italy - Gravel - 1-4 June
  
• Safari (Kenya) - Gravel - 22-25 June
  
• Estonia - Gravel - 20-23 July
  
• Finland - Gravel - 3-6 August
  
• Greece - Gravel - 7-10 September
  
• Chile - Gravel - 28 September - 1 October
  
• Central Europe (AUT, CZE, GER) - Tarmac - 26-29 October
  
• Japan - Tarmac - 16-19 November
  

There are a few double-headers in there, where a 4-week £10.99 WRC+ subscription will get you coverage of two rallies.