A bumper package of events will take to Pembrey Circuit this season. Coming off the back of a hugely successful 2018 campaign for the South Wales-based venue which saw a glittering array of events take place and spectators line the bankings each weekend, the British Automobile Racing Club is track is gearing up for more of the same. The new season will kick off in early April with the Drift … [Read more...]
Motorsport
Rallynuts National Tour of Epynt plans
Port Talbot Motor Club has reached agreement with a new sponsor for it’s long established and successful Tour of Epynt, writes Roger Gale. The special stage rally that last year opened the revitalised Protyre MSA British Asphalt Rally Championship, and will do so again in 2019, and on 10 March it will run as the Rallynuts National Tour of Epynt. The business has evolved into a … [Read more...]
Welsh Forest Rally Championship gets additional sponsor
The organisers of the Pirelli MotorsportUK Welsh Forest Rally Championship have announced that North Wales based motorsport retailer Lightninghouse.net has teamed up with the series for 2019 to support their two-wheel-drive challenge. Throughout the season drivers and co-drivers participating in the challenge will get the chance to win pairs of HRX racing gloves, unique to lightninghouse.net … [Read more...]
MG3 low-cost race series testing
The MG Car Club, MG Motor UK and SAIC Motor UK Technical Centre are jointly developing a new low-cost race car based around the MG3. SAIC Motor UK Technical Centre Interns have been building the concept car as their Internship Project and will be unveiling the car in the early part of 2019. The concept behind the car is aimed at providing a low-cost entry route into saloon racing with the … [Read more...]
Sara signs off French season on a high
Welsh rally star Sara Williams – a literal title as the double winner of the British Women Racing Drivers Club Gold Star Elite award – rounded off her attack on the Renault Clio R3T France Trophy Cup rally series, again teamed with Patrick Walsh as co-driver. Their ASM Motorsport Clio gave them a mixed event, on the rally that ran through tortuous asphalt overlooking the Gulf of St. Tropez in … [Read more...]
West Wales rally driver dies after IoM crash
A Welsh rally driver has died more than three weeks after being injured in a crash on the Isle of Man. Ammanford MC member Mark James was flown to Liverpool's Aintree Hospital with head injuries in the crash during the Pokerstars Rally on 10 November. Mr James' co-driver, Hefin Jenkins, was not injured in the crash, which happened near Andreas church. Friend Ian Taylor said on Ammanford … [Read more...]
ET James back 2019 Welsh Enduro Championship
Rhayader-based ET James will sponsor the 2019 Welsh Enduro Championship. A competitor must be of proven Welsh birth, either or both parents of proven Welsh birth or have been a continuous resident in Wales for a period of not less than three years prior to the 1 January 2019 to enter the ET James series. This year the WMF Enduro Committee has agreed to allow riders in the Expert class … [Read more...]
Monster Jam to hit Cardiff in May
Monster Jam is returning to Principality Stadium, Cardiff on 18 May. The world famous trucks will be back to deliver an unexpected, unscripted and unforgettable experience for the whole family that promises to keep you on the edge of your seats. Tickets are go on general sale from www.monsterjam.co.uk tomorrow. The audience will be amazed as they watch trucks compete in both freestyle and … [Read more...]
Championship of note in 2019
For the 2019 the Pirelli MSA Welsh Forest Rally championship has joined forces with “onthepacenoteUk”, a new partnership set up by 2016 BRC Champion co driver Craig Parry and Irish co-driver and established route note producer Killian Duffy. The partnership will be the preferred note suppliers for each round of the Championship, offering registered contenders notes for each round in a variety … [Read more...]
Dyfed dirt riders thrill of youthes
The latest competion organised by the Dyfed Dirt Bike Club was a youth trial incorporating the final round of the Trials Training Wales Youth Championships, writes Gary Jones. A healthy entry of 23 riders left the start line at the fantastic Brynllewelyn Farm venue near Llanllwni to negotiate a lap comprising of 8 sections and with 4 laps on offer the riders were in their glory demonstrating … [Read more...]