Pembrey Circuit will host the inaugural Welsh Motorsport & Supercar Festival on Sunday 22 September, exactly 31 years to the day since the late Brazilian F1 racing driver Ayrton Senna set the fastest lap around the home of Welsh motorsport. It was widely reported at the time that Senna broke the Pembrey lap record in 1988, less known however is that the team returned five years later to test … [Read more...]
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Toyota Gazoo Racing dominate WRC Rally Latvia
Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team have claimed a second successive one-two finish after Kalle Rovanperä stormed to victory ahead of Sébastien Ogier at the FIA World Rally Championship’s first Rally Latvia. Returning to the high-speed gravel roads where he began his rally career as a teenager, Rovanperä and co-driver Jonne Halttunen led the rally from the opening stage in Riga on Thursday … [Read more...]
Latvia debuts in FIA World Rally Championship this week
Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team are preparing to take on a new challenge at Rally Latvia this week, searching for victory with a full four-strong driver line-up. This will be Latvia’s debut in the FIA World Rally Championship, taking over the place in the schedule held in recent seasons by neighbouring country Estonia. Based on Rally Liepāja, a round of the FIA European Rally Championship, … [Read more...]
Ingram gives Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 maiden win
Chris Ingram gave the new Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 its first victory in the UK when he won the 2024 Nicky Grist Stages in the Castrol MEM Rally Team car, and in doing so adds his name to a prestigious list of past event winners. Co-driven by Alex Kihurani, the 2019 FIA European rally champion finished just 14.7 seconds ahead of Keith Cronin/Shane Buckley (Ford Fiesta Rally2), while Meirion … [Read more...]
Lavish, leviathan and luxurious – Goodwood Festival of Speed
Goodwood’s energetic Media Centre is always an interesting place to be, meeting old friends from the press corps but for sure the biggest challenge facing reporters is the bewildering level of information generated at this unique and idiosyncratic British motoring event. It was Sunday 20th June 1993 that Goodwood’s first Festival of Speed started as a speculative notion and now thirty-one years … [Read more...]
Stars come out for Nicky Grist Stages
A star-studded entry, made up of competitors from six major UK championships and several of the top Probite British Rally Championship drivers who are using the classic mid-Wales stages as a gravel test, will gather in Builth Wells this weekend for the Nicky Grist Stages Saturday 13 July. The quality of the Quinton Motor Club-organised event’s entry has been enhanced by the Castrol MEM Rally … [Read more...]
Toyota first and second in WRC Poland
Kalle Rovanperä claimed one of the most remarkable victories in FIA World Rally Championship history at ORLEN 80th Rally Poland on Sunday. Reigning world champion Rovanperä, who is undertaking a selected programme of events in 2024, had never even planned to start this rally but was called upon by his Toyota GAZOO Racing team to replace Sébastien Ogier at the final hour. Ogier was sidelined by an … [Read more...]
Sébastien Ogier accident forces him out of Rally Poland start
Kalle Rovanperä has been given just 48 hours to prepare for ORLEN 80th Rally Poland 27 – 30 June after he was called in to replace Toyota team-mate Sébastien Ogier late on Tuesday. While this week’s fixture did not originally form part of the Finnish youngster’s part-time 2024 WRC schedule, a dramatic Tuesday leading up to the event resulted in Rovanperä and his co-driver Jonne Halttunen boarding … [Read more...]
Paraguay joins WRC in 2025
Paraguay will become the 38th country to host a round of the FIA World Rally Championship when the South American nation joins the calendar in 2025, but the precise date is to be agreed. The announcement was made in the Paraguayan capital Asunción by President Santiago Peña at the Ceremonial Start of Petrobras Rally Transchaco 2024 – the third round of the Paraguayan national … [Read more...]
Welsh Champion will lead Nicky Grist Stages
Matthew Jackson, the 2022 Pirelli Welsh Rally Championship R2 champion, will drive a Bowler Defender as course opening zero car on this year’s Nicky Grist Stages 13 July. The 32-year old driver from Stratford-upon-Avon works for Jaguar Land Rover as a product engineer in its interior trim department, and his rallying experience has been called upon in recent years to give Bowler Defender … [Read more...]
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