Osian Pryce will contest his first ever asphalt rally in a rear-wheel drive car when he contests the SGC Printing Harry Flatters Rally on Sunday 29 July in an Ford Escort Mk2. The 25-year old Machynlleth-born driver has recently contested two gravel rallies in an Escort Mk2 – leading the 2WD Rally North Wales before a puncture dropped him to fourth, and … [Read more...]
Motorsport
French return for Welsh speed queen Sara
Welsh speed-queen Sara Williams has made a return to competitive motorsport and the Renault Clio R3T France 2018 Trophy Cup Series,writes Roger Gale. Brecon-based Sara, the 2018 British Women Racing Drivers Club Gold Star Elite Award winner for 2018 and 2016, resumed her competition partnership with the vastly experienced co-driver Patrick Walsh. The … [Read more...]
Very close finish to NG Stages thrills spectators
Matt Edwards and co-driver Darren Garrod won a very closely fought Nicky Grist Stages in their Swift Group Ford Fiesta R5 last weekend. They turned a two-second deficit at halfway into a 58 second winning margin (right) at the finish and victory on the Quinton MC event sees them take the lead of the Jordan Road Surfacing BTRDA Rally Series. The Mayor … [Read more...]
Sporting lines 19 July
After winning last year’s Formula Student competition, the Cardiff University team this year could only manage 13thplace. The international challenge competition to design, cost and compete with a single seater racing car attracted nearly 30 university entrants from all over the world and the top team came from Monash University of Australia, who took the … [Read more...]
120 contest Nicky Grist Stages
Over 120 crews will contest this Saturday’s Nicky Grist Stages on Saturday 14 July. The very best competitors from the Jordan Road Surfacing BTRDA Rally Series, Pirelli MSA Welsh Forest Rally Championship, MAXXIS MSA English Rally Championship, MRF Fiesta ST Trophy, FMP Rally Challenge and the Swift Shining Stars Rally Series battling it out over 45 … [Read more...]
Pikes Peak VW record, from above
A helicopter view of the new electric car record on Pikes Peak in America is now available on YouTube. Driver Romain Dumas shattered the five year old record set by Sebastien Loeb by 16 seconds and took 7m 57.148s in the 680ps VW sports car up the 12.42m course overlooking Colorado Springs. Just 250 days had passed between the announcement of the Pikes … [Read more...]
Road racers get new track for July
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [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 … [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 … [Read more...]
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