Two Welshmen will this week fight it out to decide the British Rally Championship, in Scotland. After five pulsating rounds, the British Rally Championship will be decided on the final event of the season — the Armstrong Galloway Hills Rally in southern Scotland this saturday. Two drivers have a mathematical chance of clinching Britain’s premier rallying title, and all that stands between the … [Read more...]
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Champions return for WRGB next month
Next month’s Wales Rally GB 3-6 October has attracted a star-studded line-up. Entries for round 12 of this year’s 14-round WRC closed late last week, with an outstanding field of 59 International crews representing no fewer 25 nations revving up to compete against-the-clock on an exciting new-look route starting in Liverpool and featuring 22 gruelling special stages with the majority in the … [Read more...]
Pryce marks historic Welsh rally win
Osian Pryce has made history by winning the first ever closed road stage rally to be held in Wales, after scoring a sensational victory on the Get Connected Rali Bae Ceredigion. Not having contested a rally in a fully-homologated R5 car for two years, and coming just six weeks after breaking his collarbone in a mountain ‘biking accident, the talented 26-year old Machynlleth-born star had said … [Read more...]
Rally fans enter European marathon
Three members of Maesteg MC this weekend begin a challenge across Europe in a 25 year old car. Padrig Wakefield-Newberry, Rhys Ford and Ben Davies - all in their 20s - are tackling the 2,700 miles round trip from Northern France to Prague via the Alps and skirting the Mediterranean. Their challenge was to find a car for under £500 to take part in the Motoscape Rally covering 12 countries in 7 … [Read more...]
Pryce in Hyundai R5 seat for Sunday thriller
Osian Pryce will contest the Get Connected Rali Bae Ceredigion on Sunday in a Melvyn Evans Motorsport-tuned Hyundai i20 R5 – which will mark his return to competition in a fully-homologated R5 car after an absence of two years. The event, which will be the first closed road stage rally to be held in Wales, will be Pryce’s first rally in a fully-homologated R5 car since he contest the 2017 British … [Read more...]
Colwyn Bay stage of WRGB eagerly awaited
Colwyn Bay is gearing up for its evening in the World Championship motorsport spotlight on Saturday 5 October. As confirmed earlier in the summer, this year’s eagerly-anticipated Wales Rally GB is coming to the popular resort in Conwy County Borough with the world’s top drivers and the sport’s fastest ever cars racing against-the-clock on the town’s recently regenerated waterfront … [Read more...]
Chips are down for Woodpecker Stages
Competitors in the Pirelli Motorsport UK Welsh Forest Rally Championship start the penultimate round of the series, the Eventsigns Woodpecker Stages, with most of the overall and class awards still to be settled this weekend, writes Peter Hughes. The overall driver standings are headed by Tom Llewellin (above) but the top six in the table all retain at least a mathematical chance of taking the … [Read more...]
Thrills for thousands in UK first low carbon rally in Wales
Thousands of shoppers, holidaymakers and sports enthusiasts saw some of the world’s most advanced cars in Swansea at the weekend for Britain’s first exclusively low carbon rally, writes Robin Roberts. Fuel cell models lined up with a wide range of battery electric vehicles from nearly every manufacturer selling in Britain to compete in the Green Dragon EV Rally and Show. Streets … [Read more...]
Swansea welcomes a UK first
Some of the world’s most advanced cars will be gathering in Swansea today for Britain’s first exclusively low carbon rally. Toyota and Hyundai fuel cell models will line up with a wide range of battery electric vehicles from nearly every manufacturer selling in Britain to compete in the Green Dragon EV Rally and Show on Saturday. Streets around Castle Square will be filled with … [Read more...]
Wales to host Britain’s greenest ever motorsport event
Britain’s greenest-ever rally is taking place in Wales next weekend. The Green Dragon EV Rally is exclusively for hydrogen and pure electric cars and is based in Swansea, where Sir William Robert Grove invented the fuel cell in the 1840s. The event also breaks ground as it’s not only the first low carbon rally to be held in Britain, but it also allows any driver with a battery electric vehicle … [Read more...]