Competitors at this year’s Aberdare Park Road Races will be the first to experience an improved track after Aberaman Motorcycle Club secured funding to resurface the circuit before this year’s meeting on 21 & 22 July, writes Peter Hughes. The park, located just ½ mile from the centre of the South Wales town, first hosted motorcycle racing in 1950 and has since welcomed … [Read more...]
Motorsport
Williams and Whittock get Hyundai R5 test drive
Welshman James Williams and English co-driver Ross Whittock are the first recipients of a test with Hyundai Motorsport Customer Racing. Their prize is a test in the latest specification Hyundai i20 R5 for leading the Prestone MSA Motorsport News Junior British Rally Championship after the opening two rounds. The prizes, which are supported by Hyundai Motorsport Customer Racing, will offer … [Read more...]
Nicky Grist Stages returns with a new test
Jordan Road Surfacing BTRDA Rally Series leader Paul Bird is aiming to make it three wins this season – and a hat-trick of victories on the Nicky Grist Stages on Saturday 14 July in his Dom Buckley Motorsport/IRS-prepared Ford Focus WRC08. The Cumbrian driver has won the Nicky Grist Stages twice before, in 2014 and 2015 with Aled Davies co-driving, and in the same Frank Bird Poultry, Be Wiser … [Read more...]
Kankkunen & Grist honoured with Rally Legends accolade
It is now 25 years since ‘Flying Finn’ Juha Kankkunen and his Welsh co-driver Nicky Grist won what is still remembered as one of the toughest and most challenging Rally GBs in the famous event’s long-running history. To mark the silver anniversary of that snowy and icy victory, a quarter of a century on Kankkunen and Grist will be honoured as the official ‘Rally Legends’ of this autumn’s Wales … [Read more...]
Selwyn goes off road to help Macmillan Cancer Support
A volunteer from Mid-Wales has received a regional volunteer award from Macmillan Cancer Support in recognition of his unusual support to people living with cancer in the local area. This year, Selwyn Kendrick won the Regional Macmillan Sir Hugh Dundas Award in recognition of a volunteer who goes above and beyond all other criteria to make an outstanding contribution to Macmillan, makes a … [Read more...]
Irish luck continues
Irish driver Ollie O’Donovan claimed victory in rounds four and five of the Toyo Tires MSA British Rallycross Championship at Pembrey Circuit in South Wales last weekend to take the points lead. O’Donovan took the maximum points available from the Pembrey double-header, run on the new rallycross layout at the Welsh venue running in one direction on the first day and reverse the … [Read more...]
Edwards does the BRC double in Belgium
Welshmen Matt Edwards and Darren Garrod stretched their championship lead after an enthralling Prestone MSA British Rally Championship contest on the Renties Ypres Rally which finished on saturday. They claimed a last-gasp victory to seal their first BRC win on Tarmac – backing up their victory on the opening round of the series on gravel. What’s more, the M-Sport crew lifted the … [Read more...]
Welsh forest championship flies with Red Kite
Sunday sees the 2018 Pirelli MSA Welsh Forest Rally Championship move into the second half of the season with the Red Kite Stages, writes Peter Hughes. The series this year has generated a record number of entries and a tight battle not only for the overall title but also many of the class honours. The first four rounds of the Championship produced three different winners. Aberangell’s Osian … [Read more...]
Welsh duo hope to sweep up in Ypres
The action-packed Prestone MSA British Rally Championship heads overseas to Belgium for the legendary Renties Ypres Rally, the latest round of the pulsating series 22-23 June. Leading the championship after the first round in England are Matt Edwards and Darren Garrod in their M-Sport prepared Ford Fiesta R5. The Welsh pairing claimed the opening BRC event on the gravel of the Pirelli … [Read more...]
Slick speedy Seb slips into seat with seconds to spare
Ultra-quick endurance racer Seb Morris made a dramatic, and very unexpected, eleventh hour return to the British GT Championship at Silverstone Grand Prix Circuit on Sunday where the reigning champion reunited with Rick Parfitt Jnr in the category’s biggest race of the year. With Parfitt Jnr’s regular 2018 team-mate Ryan Ratcliffe sidelined by food poisoning and being prevented from racing by … [Read more...]