Matthew Hirst/Declan Dear are poised to become Motorsport UK Pirelli Welsh Rally champions for a record third time as they take an unassailable lead into the final round of the all-gravel series, the Wyedean Stages Rally on Saturday. The defending champions have led the series since the beginning of the season, winning the opening four rounds in their Delta Salvage/Witham Group Ford Fiesta … [Read more...]
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Toyota team eye-up home victory to crown season
Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team will seek to wrap up another successful FIA World Rally Championship season with a home win at Rally Japan this week 16-19 November. Just as in 2022 when the event made a welcome return to the WRC calendar, TGR-WRT will arrive for the final round on Japanese roads having already secured a hat-trick of championship titles. The team clinched the manufacturers’ … [Read more...]
London to Brighton Veterans prepare
From before sunrise on Sunday, 5 November, London’s Hyde Park will be full of the sights, sounds and smells of the dawn of motoring, as 400 intrepid drivers ready themselves and their pioneering machines for the annual RM Sotheby’s London to Brighton Veteran Car Run. Then, following the symbolic tearing up of the red flag, as the sun rises at 7:00am all the participants will set off on the … [Read more...]
Rovanperä clinches second WRC crown
Kalle Rovanperä has become a two-time WRC champion, clinching the title on Sunday after finishing second overall at Central European Rally with Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team. By finishing runner-up to Thierry Neuville at this penultimate round, the 23-year-old ensured he can no longer be caught in the 2023 season. Just one year ago, Rovanperä made history when he became the youngest ever … [Read more...]
Dramatic climax looms on final Welsh event
Russ Thompson and Stephen Link have kept alive the fight for the 2023 Motorsport UK Pirelli Welsh Rally Championship drivers’ and co-drivers’ titles well after scoring maximum points on the Visit Conwy Cambrian Rally last Saturday. Their first Pirelli Welsh win since the 2019 Woodpecker Rally – the year in which they finished runner-up in the championship – ensures that the titles won’t be … [Read more...]
Pirelli Welsh Rally Championship edges closer to honours
Matthew Hirst and Declan Dear will have another chance to clinch the Motorsport UK Pirelli Welsh Rally Championship title for a third time on this weekend’s penultimate round of the series, the Visit Conwy Cambrian Rally on Saturday 28 October. In a carbon copy of last year, the Delta Salvage/Witham Group Ford Fiesta R5 crew scored maximum points on the first four rounds of their 2023 campaign, … [Read more...]
Three-in-one event may decide WRC for drivers
Fresh from its latest manufacturers’ championship success, Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team will face an all-new challenge at the penultimate round of the 2023 season: the Central European Rally, 26 – 29 October in Germany, the Czech Republic and Austria. After TGR-WRT secured its third consecutive manufacturers’ title on the previous rally in Chile, attention now turns to whether Kalle … [Read more...]
Pirelli Welsh Rally Championship 2024 unveiled
Many of the UK’s most famous, challenging and popular forestry stages will once again come together to form the 2024 Motorsport UK Pirelli Welsh Rally Championship. Next year will be the 13 consecutive year of title sponsorship from Pirelli, which has supported the series every year since 2012. The Welsh Association of Motor Clubs organised series will contain seven rounds, with five … [Read more...]
Irish adventure awaits
The third annual Cannonball Overland Adventure sets off on 10 November to explore the stunning scenery of the kingdom of Kerry taking in Tralee, Dingle and Killarney, Ireland. Very few places cast a spell quite like the Dingle Peninsula. Located along the fabled Wild Atlantic Way, this 30-mile outcrop at the westernmost top of Ireland is home to craggy sea cliffs, rolling hills, and remote … [Read more...]
BRC gets new calendar and headline sponsor
The Motorsport UK British Rally Championship has unveiled a revamped calendar of events for 2024 along with an exciting new headline partnership with performance braking manufacturer, Probite. As one of the fastest emerging performance brake manufacturers in the UK, the British brand blasted into the market in 2023 and became an Official Partner of the BRC in March. Now, the exciting Probite … [Read more...]