West Country racer Dan Cooper dominated the racing at a hot and sunny Aberdare Park, winning all six of the races that he started,writes Peter Hughes. The former British 125cc champion, from Stroud, claimed the prestigious Welsh Open title in the process. Merthyr rider Jay Bellers-Smith upheld local honours, the KTM rider having a fantastic battle with Northern Ireland’s John Simpson, … [Read more...]
Motorsport
Welsh driver’s Spa race ends with team-mate crashing
Welsh racer Seb Morris’ dream of battling for a Pro-Am podium on his debut in the Total 24 Hours of Spa last weekend was rightly replaced by heartfelt concern for team-mate Andy Meyrick after a major accident involving the Bentley Continental driver midway through the race. At 3.00am on Sunday morning, Meyrick and the No.666 Lamborghini of Jurgen Krebs were involved in a monumental accident – … [Read more...]
Racing lines 2 August
Recently-formed charity, Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust, was set up to help recognise the invaluable importance airfields have played in the past by erecting memorial marker stones at various key sites around the country. And it’s the turn of Castle Combe Circuit to receive one of these prestigious markers in 2018, which is set to be unveiled at the venue’s Autumn Classic race meeting … [Read more...]
Is it a bird, is it a plane? No it’s a car
A spectacular flying car sequence has been created to promote Wales Rally GB this autumn. Organisers of the event teamed up with Zip World and Slate Mountain to put a car on Europe’s longest zip wire and send it down the mountain overlooking Bethesda for the #Skydriver sequence. The internationally known venue provided the perfect backdrop for one of the world’s best known rallies taking … [Read more...]
Seb squares up for Spa super-challenge
Blancpain Endurance Cup Pro-Am championship contender Seb Morris is days away from his maiden appearance in the world’s biggest GT3 race, the Total 24 Hours of Spa in Belgium, where the Wrexham-born star believes the No.31 Team Parker Racing squad will be a ‘force to be reckoned with’. Getting underway on Saturday, 28 July, at the unmistakable Spa-Francorchamps, the huge twice-round-the-clock … [Read more...]
Welsh couple’s 3,000 mile road trip for services’ heroes
A Welsh couple are giving up their summer holidays to help ex-services personnel. Karen and Wayne Jones will be taking part in this year's Rally For Heroes 2018 event across Europe in their modified Audi TTRS. Rally For Heroes has been raising money for service charities that provide vital support to our armed service men, women and their families for 8 years and is staged biennially. In … [Read more...]
Tarmac debut for Pryce in rear-wheel-drive Escort
Osian Pryce will contest his first ever asphalt rally in a rear-wheel drive car when he contests the SGC Printing Harry Flatters Rally on Sunday 29 July in an Ford Escort Mk2. The 25-year old Machynlleth-born driver has recently contested two gravel rallies in an Escort Mk2 – leading the 2WD Rally North Wales before a puncture dropped him to fourth, and setting fastest time on all five stages … [Read more...]
French return for Welsh speed queen Sara
Welsh speed-queen Sara Williams has made a return to competitive motorsport and the Renault Clio R3T France 2018 Trophy Cup Series,writes Roger Gale. Brecon-based Sara, the 2018 British Women Racing Drivers Club Gold Star Elite Award winner for 2018 and 2016, resumed her competition partnership with the vastly experienced co-driver Patrick Walsh. The duo took in a relatively small event as … [Read more...]
Very close finish to NG Stages thrills spectators
Matt Edwards and co-driver Darren Garrod won a very closely fought Nicky Grist Stages in their Swift Group Ford Fiesta R5 last weekend. They turned a two-second deficit at halfway into a 58 second winning margin (right) at the finish and victory on the Quinton MC event sees them take the lead of the Jordan Road Surfacing BTRDA Rally Series. The Mayor of Builth Wells, Cllr. Paul McNiffe, … [Read more...]
Sporting lines 19 July
After winning last year’s Formula Student competition, the Cardiff University team this year could only manage 13thplace. The international challenge competition to design, cost and compete with a single seater racing car attracted nearly 30 university entrants from all over the world and the top team came from Monash University of Australia, who took the title in 2016. … [Read more...]