Britain has been dropped from this year’s WRC calendar after uncertainty over funding and the Coronavirus pandemic. Belgium will stage a round of the FIA World Rally Championship for the first time after Renties Ypres Rally Belgium was last week added to the 2021 calendar in August on a date to be confirmed. It will replace the UK’s proposed fixture in … [Read more...]
Newslines 9 November
Vauxhall has released prices and specifications for the new Crossland with order banks now open. The new Crossland will start from £19,060 on-the-road in SE trim, with first customer deliveries of the compact SUV starting in early 2021 with a range of petrol and diesel engines, including automatics. Valmet Automotive is extending the battery plant in … [Read more...]
Seb Morris all go for Greenlight
British Racing Drivers’ Club Superstar Seb Morris has welcomed an exciting development for his professional motor racing career after this week signing with Greenlight Sports Management, the new company established by successful endurance racers Andy Meyrick and Guy Smith. Welshman Morris, a works driver for Bentley Motors, is one of the first to join the … [Read more...]
Hyundai i20 N Rally2 unveiled
Hyundai Motorsport Customer Racing has unveiled the i20 N Rally2, an all-new rally car intended for privateer teams and drivers. It follows on from the Hyundai i20 R5 with which Hyundai Motorsport entered the Customer Racing arena at the end of 2015. The i20 N Rally2 builds on the experience gained by the department over the last five years to deliver an … [Read more...]
Vanwall is back for £1.65M
The Vanwall F1 car of the late 1950s is being recreated with six models costing £1.65M excluding VAT. They are likely to form the vanguard of more racing and road cars from the newly established Vanwall Group, whose MD Iain Sanderson pioneered the high performance Lightining GT electric supercar in 2008. … [Read more...]
Monza finale to WRC as UK round remains unclear
Italy’s ACI Rally Monza will host the final round of the FIA World Rally Championship after being added to the heavily disrupted calendar this year. The asphalt event on 4 - 6 December is based at the famous Monza race circuit near Milan and known as The Temple of Speed, in the north of the country. The itinerary will adopt the FIA WRC’s short format … [Read more...]
Wales’ forests rallying agreement signed
Motorsport UK and Natural Resources Wales have signed a new access agreement to allow competitive four-wheeled rallying for the next three years until 2023. For decades, NRW’s forests have played host to a range of motorsport, working effectively with Motorsport UK to stage events at every level of the sport, from grassroots to the iconic Wales Rally GB – … [Read more...]
Northern Ireland awaits decisions on holding WRC round
Northern Ireland will get UK Government funding if it replaces Wales Rally GB in the WRC calendar, according to media reports this week. The rally following in Ireland is huge and the region has been trying to get the event for a number of years after it has been run in Wales for two decades, moving from South to North Wales in that time. It is cancelled … [Read more...]
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