Twelve months in the making, the first episode of a new six-part Discovery Channel television series Engineering the World Rally will be shown in the UK at 2200hrs on Monday 12 March.

The Discovery Channel was granted unprecedented levels of access to the team and drivers during the 2006 World Rally Championship season, and the new series features a rollercoaster mix of action both behind-the-scenes and on the rally stage.

Each of the hour-long episodes reveals more about how the team engineers and prepares the cars for each rally, test and shakedown, as well as recording the highs and lows from six rounds of the series.

Richard Taylor, Subaru World Rally Team managing director said of the series: "It's fair to say last season wasn't the most successful in Subaru's distinguished WRC history, but it certainly made for compelling viewing. The Discovery team followed us throughout the season and managed to capture the action and the drama of the championship and the Subaru team extremely well. Many teams have shied away from allowing this sort of access in the past, but we wanted to bring the excitement of the WRC to a wider audience and I think that?s just what the series has achieved."

The schedule for the airing of the 6 programmes is as follows;

UK
March 12th, 22:00 Monte Carlo
March 19th, 22:00 Sweden
March 26th, 22:00 Argentina
April 2nd, 22:00 Finland
April 9th, 22:00 Japan
April 16th, 22:00 GB

France
Two back to back episodes shown weekly
April 11th, 20:45 Monte Carlo
April 11th, 21:40 Sweden
April 18th, 20:45 Argentina
April 18th, 21:40 Finland
April 25th, 20:45 Japan
April 25th, 21:40 GB

Benelux
April 20th, 21:00 Monte Carlo
April 27tt, 21:00 Sweden
May 4th, 21:00 Argentina
May 11th, 21:00 Finland
May 18th, 21:00 Japan
May 25th, 21:00 GB

Denmark
May 8th, 22:00 Monte Carlo
May 15th, 22:00 Sweden
May 22nd, 22:00 Argentina
May 29th, 22:00 Finland
June 5th, 22:00 Japan
June 12th, 22:00 GB

Central Europe (including Slovenia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Kazakhstan, Russia, Slovakia, Serbia, Ukraine, Estonia, Cyprus, Bosnia, Latvia and Macedonia)
June 9th, 22:00 Monte Carlo
June 16th, 22:00 Sweden
June 23rd, 22:00 Argentina
June 30th, 22:00 Finland
July 7th, 22:00 Japan
July 14th, 22:00 GB