MINI and the X-raid Team have launched into the final preparation phase for the Dakar Rally 2018 with the presentation of their current racing cars. For the first time MINI and X-raid will face the challenges of the most demanding long-distance rally in the world using two different types of drive. In addition to the further advanced version of the all-wheel drive MINI John Cooper Works … [Read more...]
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Rallies calendar unveiled for 2018 Welsh season
The Calendar for the 2018 Pirelli MSA Welsh Forest Rally Championship has been unveiled, featuring the return of an old favourite along with a new event to the series. The Championship will kick off once again with the Cambrian Rally before the return, following a one year absence, of the Grooms Garage Mid Wales Stages. Rally North Wales is round 3 of the Championship while Midland Manor … [Read more...]
Black hits purple patch to clinch Welsh championship
A fourth maximum points score in as many rounds contested has secured the 2017 Pirelli MSA Welsh Forest Rally Championship for Callum Black, says Peter Hughes. With treacherously slippery conditions greeting competitors on the morning stages of the Winners Garage Wyedean Stages Rally, the Brackley driver and co-driver Elliott Edmondson were among many to suffer early spins. Despite that, … [Read more...]
Dramatic finale looms in Welsh forest series
Contenders in the Pirelli MSA Welsh Forest Rally Championship face the final round on 11 November with the Winners Garage Skoda Wyedean Stages Rally. In the absence of Surrey’s Wug Utting, it’s a straight two horse race for the overall driver’s title. Callum Black has only contested a limited programme of championship rounds this season but he has claimed maximum championship points … [Read more...]
VW will return to WRC
Volkswagen will return to the WRC in 2019. A tantalizing sketch of the car it will be testing from the middle of next year was released this week. With the Polo GTI R5, Volkswagen returns to rallying under a new guise. In the second half of 2018, Volkswagen will make the 270 hp rally version of the Polo available to professional teams and aspiring drivers to enable them to compete in … [Read more...]
WRGB historic win by Welshman Elfyn Evans
Welsh rally ace Elfyn Evans swept to victory on WRGB today, ending a 17 year gap since it was last won by a British driver. It was the best drive of his career after less than a second robbed him of a maiden WRC win in Argentina. Evans, son of another Welsh and British legend Gwyndaf Evans from Dolgellau, and co-driver Dan Barritt swept out of the muddy Welsh forests and onto the … [Read more...]
Go Elfyn go….into history
Elfyn Evans gave the huge crowds lining the Welsh forests plenty of reason to cheer today becoming the first British driver to lead on home soil for 16 years as he established a commanding advantage of almost 25 seconds on the opening leg of Wales Rally GB. Having set the pace on yesterday’s Shakedown, Evans headed into today’s action – held in the famous mid-Wales forests and comprising two … [Read more...]
Welsh schoolboy’s a winner on WRGB
Toyota GAZOO Racing star Jari-Matti Latvala and Welsh Cabinet Secretary for Economy & Infrastructure, Ken Skates, uncovered a Toyota GT86 sports car in the prize-winning livery of local school pupil Rheinallt Jones at Deeside Rally Village today. Twelve-year-old Rheinallt – a Year 8 student at Ysgol Gyfun Llangefni on Anglesey – was the creative force behind the winning effort, with his … [Read more...]
Motor sports show takes to WRGB stages
The M-Sport World Rally Team cars will be wrapped in a special Autosport International livery at Wales Rally GB this week. The unique collaboration also marks the announcement that M-Sport will be exhibiting at the show in January. The Wales Rally GB weekend is a decisive one for the M-Sport team. The British outfit are within striking distance of the manufacturers’ crown, needing just four … [Read more...]
Keep Welsh eyes on Elfyn Evans, says David Llewellin
Wales’s most successful rally driver, David Llewellin, is tipping his fellow countryman Elfyn Evans for great success and even an historic victory on Wales Rally GB 26-29 October. Although a number of Welsh co-drivers have won Britain’s classic round of the FIA World Rally Championship, no Welsh driver has ever stood on the podium let alone won their home event. Indeed, no British … [Read more...]