Italy’s ACI Rally Monza will host the final round of the FIA World Rally Championship after being added to the heavily disrupted calendar this year. The asphalt event on 4 - 6 December is based at the famous Monza race circuit near Milan and known as The Temple of Speed, in the north of the country. The itinerary will adopt the FIA WRC’s short format schedule, featuring about 220km of … [Read more...]
Wet welcome back for clubmen
After being one of the first of the UK’s seventeen motor racing circuits to restart motor racing following the enforced COVID-19 lockdown, Castle Combe Racing Club successfully organised five meetings since permit restrictions ended on 30 June, in what has been a weird and truncated 2020 season. The club’s own popular championships – GT, Formula Ford and Saloon Car – together with the successful … [Read more...]
Evans inches closer to WRC crown
Elfyn Evans is on the threshold of making sporting history this weekend. The pace-setting Welshman arrived in Sardinia for the next round of this year’s fiercely-fought FIA World Rally Championship with a sizeable points advantage over his closest rivals. He knows that another strong result could see him move one step closer to being crowned as Wales’ first-ever World Champion rally … [Read more...]
Welshman sets sights on Belgian comeback
Welshman Meirion Evans hasn’t contested a rally since the beginning of February due to the Covid-19 pandemic putting the brakes on motorsport events around the world. But his unplanned enforced break ends Sunday when he contests the Aarova Rally, Belgium. The 25-year old driver was all set to challenge for the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship title this year – but the series was cancelled after … [Read more...]
Wales’ forests rallying agreement signed
Motorsport UK and Natural Resources Wales have signed a new access agreement to allow competitive four-wheeled rallying for the next three years until 2023. For decades, NRW’s forests have played host to a range of motorsport, working effectively with Motorsport UK to stage events at every level of the sport, from grassroots to the iconic Wales Rally GB – Britain’s round of the FIA World Rally … [Read more...]
Northern Ireland awaits decisions on holding WRC round
Northern Ireland will get UK Government funding if it replaces Wales Rally GB in the WRC calendar, according to media reports this week. The rally following in Ireland is huge and the region has been trying to get the event for a number of years after it has been run in Wales for two decades, moving from South to North Wales in that time. It is cancelled next month because of the Coronavirus … [Read more...]
Seb faces ‘Ring challenge weekend
British Racing Drivers’ Club Superstar Seb Morris gets his 2020 season back underway this coming weekend, 5th/6th September, when the Nurburgring in Germany hosts round two of the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup. Bentley factory driver Morris, from Marford near Wrexham, has been placed with French squad CMR to assist the outfit with its development in its maiden year as a Bentley customer … [Read more...]
Williams F1 team sold to US business
The struggling Williams F1 team has been sold. Dorilton Capital is a New York-based private investment firm in sectors such as healthcare, engineering and manufacturing and will finance the team which continues with its current racing plans and it also has a separate engineering business. … [Read more...]
Wales’s £10M loss as RallyGB was cancelled
The immense and far-reaching benefits delivered by Wales Rally GB have been highlighted in a new infographic depicting many of the widespread rewards generated by last year’s staging of the UK’s annual round of the FIA World Rally Championship, writes Peter Hughes. Now that 2019’s final figures have been verified, it is possible to judge the full extent of the losses experienced in Wales … [Read more...]
Breaking news: F1 teams agreement
The top ten teams in F1 have committed to the sport for the next five years. The agreement with rights holder Liberty Media will change governance and prize money allocation and ensure a better spread of revenue down the grid. … [Read more...]