Rallying

From farmyard to fame, the future fuel?

20 January 2022

Rally cars powered by agricultural waste have claimed second and fourth place in Dakar 2022 and saved 28 tonnes of CO2 emissions in the process. Bahrain Raid Xtreme (BRX) was the first major motorsport team to compete with a new generation of advanced sustainable fuels. Claiming second place was the Prodrive Hunter driven by nine-time World Rally Champion … [Read more...]

Rally1 cars unveiling this weekend

13 January 2022

The superstars of the FIA World Rally Championship’s ground-breaking new hybrid era will rip the wrapping from the 2022 season at a spectacular year launch in Austria next weekend. For the first time, the WRC’s dramatic new-generation Rally1 cars from the three manufacturer teams will be together in Salzburg’s innovative Hangar-7 museum as the series’ … [Read more...]

Book review: Through the lanes and into the forests

6 January 2022

You didn’t really need expensive equipment to produce good images, just common sense, and enthusiasm, combined with a discerning sense of pictorial composition. This adage is proved by Richard Jones who as a teenager captured many pivotal rallying images on his Ilford Super Sporty camera, a Christmas present from an aunt 1963. This modest £5 camera – not … [Read more...]

Loeb joins Fourmaux in Ford Puma WRC team

23 December 2021

M-Sport says Adrien Fourmaux and Sébastien Loeb will join Craig Breen and Gus Greensmith in Monte Carlo in a fleet of all-new Ford Puma Hybrid Rally1 cars. Frenchman Fourmaux joins Breen and Greensmith to form M-Sport’s trio of drivers for a full 2022 World Rally Championship campaign as the sport enters its new and exciting hybrid era. Fourmaux began … [Read more...]

Hyundai WRC drive for top British junior driver

16 December 2021

The winner of the 2022 Motorsport UK Junior British Rally Championship will be offered a career-defining opportunity to contest a round of the FIA World Rally Championship, behind the wheel of a Hyundai Motorsport Customer Racing-built i20 N Rally2. For the third time since its inception in 2019, a collaboration between the British Rally Championship and … [Read more...]

Melvyn Evans Motorsport wins BRC Teams title on debut

2 December 2021

West Wales-based Melvyn Evans Motorsport has won the British Rally Championship Teams' title at the first attempt after an incredible season of success preparing and running a pair of Volkswagen Polo GTI R5s. Over the seven-round series, which in total included 61 stages and 465 stage miles, the Melvyn Evans Motorsport cars scored five firsts, four … [Read more...]

Osian set for thriller beginning today & ending in Wales

25 November 2021

Osian Pryce will bounce straight back from finishing runner-up in the British Rally Championship by aiming for victory on the Roger Albert Clark Rally. This year’s five-day and 351 stage mile event will be the longest special stage rally in Great Britain for 30 years (since the 1991 Lombard RAC Rally in fact) and Osian will contest the event for the first … [Read more...]

Evans takes Toyota to WRC crown in Italy

25 November 2021

Flying Welshman Elfyn Evans helped Toyota win the WRC manufacturers' title for the first time in three years, but it was a bitter sweet result for him. Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia swept to a remarkable eighth FIA World Rally Championship title in nine seasons in Italy on Sunday afternoon. The Frenchmen ended their careers together in style … [Read more...]

Thrilling climax to BRC this weekend

18 November 2021

Osian Pryce is just one step away from becoming British Rally Champion for the first time as he leads the drivers’ standings heading into the final round of the series, the Modern Tyres Ulster Rally on Saturday. Having finished on the podium in all six rallies this year, including winning last time out on the Visit Conwy Cambrian Rally and a maximum bonus … [Read more...]

Pearson powers to Welsh National Championship