During the 1970s and 80s, one-make racing series were a popular component of motor manufacturer’s marketing strategy, used to promote chosen models, writes Ken Davies. Among these were Ford Escort Mexico, Renault 5, Honda CRX, Ford Fiesta, VW Polo and even Porsche 924 and BWW M1 supercar championships that became popular among competitors and spectators alike, but perhaps one of the most … [Read more...]
Motorsport
Anglesey Circuit pushes off with motorcycle season
Anglesey Circuit gets the 2020 motorcycle racing season pushing off this weekend with a two-day Wirral 100 Motor Club meeting, writes Andrew Hughes. In recent years this first race weekend of the year has comprised a day of testing on the Saturday and a race-day on Sunday. This year, however, both days are race days in line with the club’s ‘Racing for Sport’ format. Each of the bike-category … [Read more...]
Elfyn slips off top spot in shortened WRC Mexico
Elfyn Evans has maintained his impressive start to the 2020 World Rally Championship with a strong fourth place on last weekend’s Rally Mexico. After a podium on his debut for the Toyota Gazoo World Rally Team in Monte Carlo and then an historic win in Sweden, the on-form Welshman and his co-driver Scott Martin led the title race after the opening two rounds. However, as championship … [Read more...]
Elfyn looks for a win down Mexico way
Welshman Elfyn Evans heads the FIA World Rally Championship for the first time going into the opening gravel road fixture of the season in Mexico this week. Toyota's table-topping star, who grabbed the points lead with victory in Sweden last month, knows his achievement will come at a cost at Rally Guanajuato Mexico (12 - 15 March), the year's first fixture outside Europe. He must pay up in the … [Read more...]
Osian takes Polo to Ireland
Osian Pryce will bring the Volkswagen brand name back to the British Rally Championship when he drives a Polo GTI R5 on the West Cork Rally 14 & 15 March. It will be the first time that the talented 27-year old Machynlleth-born pilot has driven a Volkswagen in competition and the first time that he has ever rallied in Southern Ireland. Whilst his co-driver Noel O’Sullivan comes from … [Read more...]
Road To Wales drive gears up for WRGB
The winners of the UK’s premier national rally championships will all receive free entries into this year’s Wales Rally GB 29 October-1 November via the on-going and highly-acclaimed ‘Road to Wales’ initiative. Now entering its eighth year, the innovative and far-reaching scheme rewards the winners of the country’s premier national championships with free entries into the UK’s … [Read more...]
Sad loss of Welsh ambassador for motor sport
Welsh & UK motorsport lost a great ambassador on Saturday 29 February when Alun Morgan passed away after a long illness, writes Ken Davies. Widely known within the Welsh motorsport community, Alun had spent a remarkable lifetime in the sport. In 1942, David Alun Thomas Morgan was born in Gorslas, Carmarthenshire and after LLandybie Secondary Modern School, went to Ammanford Technical College … [Read more...]
Racing season flags away this weekend in Wales
The first competitive motorsport of the year at Anglesey Circuit takes place this coming Sunday, 1 March, when The Pendle & District and Garstang & Preston Motor Clubs make their annual visit, writes Andrew Hughes. The event consists of several Association of North Western Car Clubs championships including the Stage Rally Championship, North Wales Stage Rally Challenge, Ladies Rally, … [Read more...]
Newslines 25 February
Welsh AMs will this summer publish a report on tackling pavement parking by drivers. It follows a year long study into the issue which is causing concern to pedestrians and road safety bodies and is likely to make it a civil offence with a fixed penalty parking fine being considered. The owners of a private track in Mid Wales have been fined £30,000 for safety offences after a car club member … [Read more...]
Cracking start to entries for Rallynuts
Entries have started coming in for Port Talbot MC’s Rallynuts Tour of Epynt 2020 on saturday 11 April, writes Roger Gale. It's the second round of the Protyre Motorsport UK Asphalt Championship, a round of the JD Tyres Welsh National Tarmacadam Championship, Promotive Engineering Group King of Epynt Challenge, Independent Paint Supplies Rally Challenge and the ANWCC Stage Rally … [Read more...]
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