North Road Garage, a company synonymous with both the motor industry in Mid-Wales and with national rallying, will provide state-of-the-art scrutineering facilities for this year’s Nicky Grist Stages – which takes place on Saturday 13 July. The Toyota dealership situated in a prime position on the A470/A483 roundabout on the outskirts of Builth Wells has very kindly offered its pristine workshop … [Read more...]
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Liverpool start & Oulton Park stage for WRGB
Wales Rally GB is breaking a 20 years tradition and starting in England from Liverpool before the opening stage around Oulton Park circuit, Cheshire, last used for the event in 1993. The service park for the 3-6 October WRC UK event is relocating from Deeside to Llandudno town centre which means the classic Great Orme stage is concentrated around the headland. There is also a new Colwyn Bay … [Read more...]
End of the road for Wales Rally GB
Wales Rally GB is expected to run for the final time this year. World Rally Championship organisers will meet in Geneva tomorrow and discuss a plan to relocate the UK round of the series to Northern Ireland in 2020. Ending a 19-years association with Wales will be a blow for the Welsh Government and Welsh and British rally fans who have spent millions of pounds promoting and … [Read more...]
Faulkner leads forest series into second half
A second successive maximum points score means that Scott Faulkner leads the 2019 Pirelli Motorsport UK Welsh Forest Rally Championship by a single point as the series reaches its Halfway stage, writes Peter Hughes. Having taken top points score on the previous round, the Rallynuts Stages, a similar performance on the weekend’s Plains Rally, organised by Knutsford and District Motor … [Read more...]
Welsh Forest Rally series slides to half-way point
Competitors in the 2019 Pirelli Motorsport UK Welsh Forest Rally Championship reach the half way point in the series this weekend, writes Peter Hughes. They take on the 53rd running of the Plains Rally organised by Knutsford and District Motor Club. As they head to the start of the event in Oswestry, two of the youngest drivers in the Championship currently share the overall series … [Read more...]
A world apart celebrated in Wales
Wales Rally GB is launching a new brand identity. It's specifically created to emphasise the unique attributes of the UK’s annual round of the FIA World Rally Championship and to introduce the extraordinary sport to wider audiences. The dynamic rebrand builds on the more traditional ‘Rally of Legends’ positioning of recent years and provides a new platform from which to market and further … [Read more...]
Welshman gets R5 trial
Last weekend both 2018 Junior British Rally Champion Steve Røkland and 2018 runner-up James Williams, of Newcastle Emlyn, experienced the next step of their rallying careers. Both the Norwegian and Welshman applied their trade in the Junior BRC last season in front-wheel-drive R2 cars and as a reward for their championship exploits, the pair joined the Hyundai Customer … [Read more...]
Double top for Cave in the BRC
Welshman Tom Cave produced a faultless drive to win the third round of the British Rally Championship - the Pirelli International Rally last weekend. Along with co-driver Dale Bowen, the Welsh pairing marched to a 17.6 second victory in their Michelin-shod Hyundai i20 R5 on the third round of the series and for Cave he made it two wins on the bounce in Britain’s premier rallying series. WRC2 … [Read more...]
Fortune favours the brave in Kielder Forest
The action-packed British Rally Championship heads to Carlisle, Cumbria for the Pirelli International Rally on saturday and the third round of the series. This weekend the intrepid British championship crews face a one-day shoot out over 80 fast and furious gravel miles in the infamous Kielder Forest complex. The Ceremonial Start will take place at the Pirelli factory on the outskirts of … [Read more...]
One-second thriller ends third round of Welsh series
A thrilling Rallynuts third round of the Pirelli Motorsport UK Welsh Forest Rally Championship saw Scott Faulkner and Gareth Parry (right) take maximum points by just a single second following 45 miles of special stages,writes Peter Hughes. It was round two winners Matthew Hirst and Declan Dear who took the lead on the opening stage in their Mitsubishi Evo IX, two seconds ahead of … [Read more...]