Sixty years ago, on 21st January 1964, a BMC Mini Cooper S took the first foreign international rally win on the 33rd edition of the Monte Carlo Rally for what became one of the most versatile and successful competition cars in history. Driven by Paddy Hopkirk and navigated by Henry Liddon, the 1071 cc, 90 bhp Cooper S defeated a top class and truly … [Read more...]
Autosport International: Gunther Steiner opened event
For many years known as The Racing Car Show and based in London’s Olympia, Autosport International or A24 as this year’s show was dubbed, traditionally marks the start of a new season and without fail, Europe’s largest annual motorsport expose provides a great platform for the sport to showcase plans for the coming year. It also brings together old friends, … [Read more...]
Welsh Rally Championship decider this weekend
Matthew Hirst/Declan Dear are poised to become Motorsport UK Pirelli Welsh Rally champions for a record third time as they take an unassailable lead into the final round of the all-gravel series, the Wyedean Stages Rally on Saturday. The defending champions have led the series since the beginning of the season, winning the opening four rounds in their Delta … [Read more...]
London to Brighton Veterans prepare
From before sunrise on Sunday, 5 November, London’s Hyde Park will be full of the sights, sounds and smells of the dawn of motoring, as 400 intrepid drivers ready themselves and their pioneering machines for the annual RM Sotheby’s London to Brighton Veteran Car Run. Then, following the symbolic tearing up of the red flag, as the sun rises at 7:00am all the … [Read more...]
Pirelli Welsh Rally Championship edges closer to honours
Matthew Hirst and Declan Dear will have another chance to clinch the Motorsport UK Pirelli Welsh Rally Championship title for a third time on this weekend’s penultimate round of the series, the Visit Conwy Cambrian Rally on Saturday 28 October. In a carbon copy of last year, the Delta Salvage/Witham Group Ford Fiesta R5 crew scored maximum points on the … [Read more...]
Pirelli Welsh Rally Championship 2024 unveiled
Many of the UK’s most famous, challenging and popular forestry stages will once again come together to form the 2024 Motorsport UK Pirelli Welsh Rally Championship. Next year will be the 13 consecutive year of title sponsorship from Pirelli, which has supported the series every year since 2012. The Welsh Association of Motor Clubs organised … [Read more...]
Hot & hard Woodpecker drains crews
A magnificent charge over the final stage of the Phil Price Memorial Woodpecker Stages last Saturday rewarded Rob Wilson/Richard Crozier with a thrilling Motorsport UK Pirelli Welsh Rally Championship win and maximum points, as the Mitsubishi Evo 7 crew finished a very impressive third overall. The Ledbury driver had arrived at the eighth and final stage … [Read more...]
Aberystwyth hosts Rali Ceredigion this weekend
Less than two weeks after the Motorsport UK British Rally Championship disembarked from the Modern Tyres Ulster Rally, the series hotfoots it to Wales for the first time this season as the JDS Machinery Rali Ceredigion 2-3 September plays host to the final asphalt round of 2023. Coupled with lashing rain and storm-force winds, the challenging lanes around … [Read more...]
Ken Rees career rallyman
Championship winning Welsh co-driver turned successful WRC team manager Ken Rees recalls working with Prodrive, Colin McRae, Petter Solberg and … shaved heads! Success achieved in motorsport is the sum of many parts, not least of which is effective team management and slick organization and for these two key aspects of success the focus is firmly on the … [Read more...]
Hirst closer to keeping Welsh Rally Championship
Matthew Hirst has moved one step closer to retaining his Motorsport UK Pirelli Welsh Rally Championship title after scoring maximum points for the fourth time in four rounds on the Nicky Grist Stages last Saturday. Co-driven by Declan Dear, the Doncaster driver was the class of the Welsh field – finishing over a minute and a half ahead of his nearest … [Read more...]
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