Lampeter & District Motor Club hosted the latest round of the Welsh Road Rally Championship, the Rali Bro Caron last weekend, and attracted a full entry of 90 cars. With midnight striking on the Lampeter town hall clock the first cars started the challenging event with the first half of the route heading west towards Aberaeron. Leaders at the petrol halt at Llanwnen were Irfon Richards … [Read more...]
Motorsport
Exciting rally opener goes to wire in North Wales
The 2016 Pirelli MSA Welsh Forest Rally Championship got off to the most exciting start possible as Rhuddlan’s Luke Francis and co-driver John H Roberts took outright victory on the Cambrian Rally by the narrowest possible margin, writes Peter Hughes. 2015 was a bumper year for Wales’s premier rally series and registrations are at an even higher level at this early stage of the season with over … [Read more...]
Pirelli Welsh series begins this weekend
The 2016 Pirelli MSA Welsh Forest Rally Championship gets underway this weekend with the Llandudno based Cambrian Rally. Last year was a bumper one for the championship with strong entries and close, exciting battles throughout the season. Early indications are that 2016 should match, if not exceed it. With reigning champion Bob Ceen stepping back from the sport for … [Read more...]
Rally, riding and racing boosts for Wales in 2016
A leading Welsh company has added its support to the Pirelli MSA Welsh Forest Rally Championship. Pembroke Dock based Genpower are multi-brand distributors of generators, pressure washers, water pumps, air compressors and garden machinery. In a sponsorship package valued at £3000 Genpower will give vouchers against the purchase of any of the Hyundai equipment for which they are distributors … [Read more...]
Jeep off-road centre opens in Wales
Jeep is further broadening the appeal and accessibility of its award-winning 4x4 vehicles, after agreeing a partnership with specialist off-road driving organisation 4x4 Events UK. The link-up with the events company, which operates off-road driving sites in Abergele, Cheshire and Yorkshire and has plans for two more venues in the UK, will allow more people to experience the … [Read more...]
Monte men Elfyn and Craig open 2016 account
It was to be celebration time for Elfyn Evans and Craig Parry after the two welshmen won the WRC2 category on the classic Monte Carlo Rally which was the opening round of the 2016 FIA World Rally Championship. Not even two punctures could stop Evans powering the Fiesta R5 Evo to victory finishing 8th overall, Evans even mixed with the far more powerful WRC cars and even beat many of them on … [Read more...]
Junior crews get Vital boost & Mid-Wales wins award
Welsh-based Vital Equipment will be title sponsors for the junior category of the 2016 Pirelli MSA Welsh Forest Rally Championship. The Pontrilas company was originally established to provide fuel and lubricants to competitors and is the official fuel supplier for the British Rally Championship as well as the British Touring Car Championship. However, Its rapidly expanding apparel department … [Read more...]
Spring Classic Tour mapped out from Wales
The route for the 2016 MSA Spring Classic will offer a fabulous weekend of non-competitive motoring over the weekend of 23-24 April, based at the luxurious Celtic Manor Resort hotel, Newport. Organised by International Motor Sports Limited (IMS), this year’s scenic tour for classic cars more than 20 years old will coincide with the annual celebration of classic motoring known as ‘Drive It … [Read more...]
Sara shines with GoldStars award
The BWRDC 2016 Elite GoldStars Award was presented to V-Ex Sponsored rally driver Sara Williams by former Williams F1 test driver Susie Wolff. The award is designed to provide recognition and mentoring for talented female drivers, something Susie has benefitted from earlier in her career. The award was made on Susie’s Dare 2 Be Different (D2BD) stand at the Autosport International show at … [Read more...]
Evans looking forward to home fight this season
FIA World Rally Championship star Elfyn Evans is looking forward to competing on home turf this year after confirming that he will enter the revitalised MSA British Rally Championship with the DMACK British Rally Team. Evans will join forces with another son of a famous rallying father – Finnish sensation Max Vatanen – in DMACK’s two-pronged assault, and will pilot a … [Read more...]