Rallying

Thorburn hopes to clinch BTRDA Series this weekend

11 July 2019

The Nicky Grist Stages on Saturday has received a bumper 130 car entry, with top seeds Euan Thorburn/Paul Beaton hoping that a good result on the eight stage Mid-Wales forestry event will clinch them the prestigious 2019 Jordan Road Surfacing BTRDA Rally Series title. The Scottish duo (right) has been unstoppable so far this year with four wins out of … [Read more...]

Champions clean sweep in Ypres

4 July 2019

Last year’s British Rally Champion Matt Edwards and co-driver Patrick Walsh in their Pirelli-backed Ford Fiesta R5 took a dramatic win on the classic Renties Ypres Rally – the exciting overseas round for the British Rally Championship. For Edwards and his M-Sport team they repeated their 2018 win in fine style to take maximum BRC points, sixth overall … [Read more...]

Things have changed for Dylan

27 June 2019

Reigning Pirelli Motorsport UK Welsh Forest Rally Champion Dylan Davies returned to the sport after an eight month lay-off on Sunday and showed he has lost none of the pace that took him to last year’s title, writes Peter Hughes. Dylan tackled the Red Kite Stages, organised by Amman and District Motor Club, in a hired R5 specification Ford Fiesta. With … [Read more...]

WRGB eyes future artists and designers

20 June 2019

Wales Rally GB has once again joined forces with Toyota GB to reignite its exciting car livery design competition for young students, with the winning entry being applied to a real-life GT86 rally car. The highly successful initiative launched in 2017 and now enters its third year. When liveried, the GT86 will be displayed within the Big Bang showcase … [Read more...]

North Road will have all points covered

30 May 2019

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 … [Read more...]

Liverpool start & Oulton Park stage for WRGB

23 May 2019

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 … [Read more...]

End of the road for Wales Rally GB

16 May 2019

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 … [Read more...]

Faulkner leads forest series into second half

16 May 2019

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, … [Read more...]

Welsh Forest Rally series slides to half-way point

9 May 2019

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 … [Read more...]

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