Goodwood Festival of Speed will now form part of the Events Research Programme (ERP) as a pilot event and will take place as planned from Thursday 8 - Sunday 11 July. The event is sold out across Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The capacities agreed with the ERP will mean that all 2021 Festival of Speed ticket, hospitality and grandstand pass holders will be able to attend as planned, … [Read more...]
Motorsport
WRC goes on Safari this week, with changes
The mythical Safari Rally Kenya June 24-27, one of the most famous rallies in the world, returns to the FIA World Rally Championship this week for the first time since 2002. The 6000km open-road blasts of yesteryear around East Africa have evolved to fit the modern WRC, but the Safari's epic character remains with punishing dirt roads, picture-postcard scenery and exotic wildlife to the … [Read more...]
Record entries for Pirelli Welsh National Rally Championship
This year’s Motorsport UK Pirelli Welsh National Rally Championship has received a record-breaking number of pre-season registrations – with 155 competitors already lined up to contest the six gravel round series in 2021. There is a strong entry in all 14 classes, including the Juniors (with a top prize of a test in a PCRS Rallysport-prepared Hyundai i20 R5, courtesy of OnThePaceNote) and … [Read more...]
Green for go with Nicky Grist Stages
Rallying has the green light to return to the Welsh forests, but without spectators. This year’s Nicky Grist Stages has been given the green light to host the first major forest rally in Wales for 17 months on Saturday 10 July – although one of the compromises in these unprecedented times will be that spectators will unfortunately not be permitted to attend, with an online streaming service … [Read more...]
Italian water-splash frustrates Welshman
Reigning champion Sébastien Ogier headed a Toyota Yaris 1-2 finish on the Sardinia’s punishing rock-strewn gravel roads to claim his third win of the season last weekend. He finished 46.0sec clear of Elfyn Evans (right), extending his lead to 11 points after five of the 12 events. As championship leader, Ogier started first on Friday’s opening leg, ploughing a line through loose gravel which … [Read more...]
Looking back at historic Welsh racer
Unlike best-selling blockbuster novels, specialized books on niche subjects tend to trickle off bookshop shelves over a far longer period of time, so it was perhaps not unusual to receive a fresh new copy of Cyril Kieft’s definitive racing biography some sixteen years after it was first launched in 2005. Despite the delay, this authorized biography, proved a thoroughly absorbing read which … [Read more...]
Thrilling opener to BRC encourages Osian
Osian Pryce is looking forward to the remaining rounds of the British Rally Championship after opening his 2021 series account with a tight and strong third place finish at the Neil Howard Stages in his Rocked-!T-backed Volkswagen Polo GTI R5. The event was Osian’s first rally for eight months, his first at the Oulton Park motor racing circuit and his second outing in the Melvyn … [Read more...]
Osian begins 2021 BRC title bid on monday
Osian Pryce returns to the British Rally Championship this year in a Rocked-!T-backed Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 with his title challenge beginning at the opening round of the 2021 series, the Neil Howard Stages at Oulton Park Circuit in Cheshire on Monday. This year’s BRC campaign marks Osian’s return to full time top-level competition for the first time since 2017, when he scored maximum BRC points … [Read more...]
Evans moves closer to WRC lead
Welshman Elfyn Evans is lying second in this year’s WRC after winning the Vodafone Rally de Portugal on Sunday afternoon to claim his fourth career victory in the FIA World Rally Championship. He put behind him the disappointment of defeat by fractions of a second at the previous round in Croatia to climb to second in the drivers' standings. He sits two points behind Toyota Gazoo Racing … [Read more...]
Widening threat to historic vehicles
Classic cars are under threat from towns and cities imposing varying "clean air" zones. FIVA, the Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens or international federation of historic vehicles, is lobbying the European Parliament to recognise the threat to our cultural heritage. “While FIVA fully supports the move to a greener and more sustainable future,” states FIVA president Tiddo Bresters, … [Read more...]