Championship winning Welsh co-driver turned successful WRC team manager Ken Rees recalls working with Prodrive, Colin McRae, Petter Solberg and … shaved heads! Success achieved in motorsport is the sum of many parts, not least of which is effective team management and slick organization and for these two key aspects of success the focus is firmly on the ‘backroom boys’ who perform these crucial … [Read more...]
Rallying included in motorsport ‘Olympics’
World-class rallying will join the FIA Motorsport Games for the first time from 26 to 30 October. Rally2, Rally4 and Historic are confirmed among the 17 competition categories to be contested across tarmac stages around the Circuit Paul Ricard region, between Marseille and Toulon, France. First held in 2019, the FIA Motorsport Games is a unique global competition which places nations at the … [Read more...]
Triple bid by Hirst this weekend in Wales
Matthew Hirst will be targeting an unblemished hat-trick of wins in the 2022 Motorsport UK Pirelli Ravenol Welsh Rally Championship when he contests the Plains Rally on Saturday. Hirst and co-driver Declan Dear have made the perfect Pirelli Ravenol Welsh Championship start by winning both the WKD Trained Dogs Rally North Wales and Rallynuts Stages in their Pirelli-shod Delta Salvage Ford Fiesta … [Read more...]
50 years of WRC festival in Portugal
The biggest ever gathering of FIA World Rally champions will celebrate the series’ half-century at a star-studded festival in Portugal next week. Title-winning drivers, co-drivers and team managers will honour the WRC’s 50th season in Matosinhos during five days of celebrations at Vodafone Rally de Portugal 19 - 22 May, this year’s fourth round. A host of historic cars will be displayed in the … [Read more...]
Jaffa Stages put the squeeze on Fowden
The final event of the 2019 rallying year for the Bob Fowden Motorsport Team was Sunday's Carmarthen MC WWRS Jaffa Stages at Pembrey Mototorsport Centre, writes Roger Gale. It began well for the Comline Auto Spares & NGK backed Subaru Impreza WRC taking a seven-second lead on the opening stage of five, the Llanelli driver again having his grandson Mathias co-driving, the pair winning a … [Read more...]
Champions return for WRGB next month
Next month’s Wales Rally GB 3-6 October has attracted a star-studded line-up. Entries for round 12 of this year’s 14-round WRC closed late last week, with an outstanding field of 59 International crews representing no fewer 25 nations revving up to compete against-the-clock on an exciting new-look route starting in Liverpool and featuring 22 gruelling special stages with the majority in the … [Read more...]
Coming and going on Wales Rally GB
Fan favourite Petter Solberg, one of the FIA World Rally Championship’s most charismatic drivers, will end his professional career at this year’s Wales Rally GB 3-6 October driving Volkswagen Motorsport’s Polo GTI R5. The 2003 World Rally Champion is no stranger to Britain’s WRC encounter; he’s started it 15-times and won four times. Between 2002 and 2005, he and Welsh co-driver … [Read more...]