The route of Wales Rally GB has been published and tickets are now on sale for the spectator stages. Once again the UK round of the World Rally Championship, which has been hotly contested so far this year with four different winners over six rounds, will be held to co-incide with the autumn half-term 26-29 October and the organisers are giving free admission to accompanied … [Read more...]
Rallying
Wales’s first lady of rallying makes French connection
Welsh rally driver Sara Williams – already a successful competitor on numerous events in Wales and Internationally – has entered a new challenge for 2017, the six round Clio R3T Trophy France Championship, writes Roger Gale. Sara is twenty eight and born into a motorsport family – her father Jonathan a rallying driver, and her first experience in competition was as co-driver to him. A … [Read more...]
Welsh crews head to Scotland & BRC third round
The action-packed Prestone MSA British Rally Championship travels back into Scotland this week for the third round of Britain’s premier rally series. The RSAC Scottish Rally 19/20 May will welcome the BRC top-guns, as they tackle the demanding gravel stages around Dumfries with over 74 competitive miles playing host to the exciting rallying showcase. Last time out in Cumbria the BRC teams … [Read more...]
Changes at top of Pirelli Welsh series
The second points scoring round of the Pirelli MSA Welsh Forest Rally Championship saw top honours go to Brackley driver Callum Black while Ffestiniog’s Ieuan Rowlands moved to the top of the series standings. Black and co-driver Elliott Edmondson led the Championship field from the very first stage on Saturday’s Plains Rally, going on to take maximum championship points in the R5 specification … [Read more...]
Racing lines 18 May
Mid Wales racing driver Ben Power has extended his lead in the MRF National Legends Car Championship after winning three races in the two-day meeting at Cadwell Park, Lincolnshire. Power, aged 27, from Guilsfield, near Welshpool, won both of Saturday’s heats and the second race on Sunday to give him a 130pts lead in the series this season. WRC Promoter has strengthened its FIA World Rally … [Read more...]
Mid-Wales battle looms for Plains honours
Competitors in Wales’s premier rally championship will be in Welshpool on Saturday 13 May for round 3 of the series, the Plains Rally. With the opening round of the Pirelli MSA Welsh Forest Rally Championship cancelled due to adverse weather conditions and competitors able to discount their worst result of the season, everything is up for grabs and the eventual champions may have yet to score … [Read more...]
Welsh drivers’ outstanding performances celebrated
Demon driver Elfyn Evans almost pulled off his first WRC win in Argentina at the weekend while Tom Cave set the pace for most of the Pirelli Rally in Northern Britain. Rally Argentina had it all: more twists than The Da Vinci Code, gravel roads rougher than the bottom of the Grand Canyon, and a spectacular finish tenser than a violin bow, with Hyundai driver Thierry Neuville winning by … [Read more...]
Welsh rallymen eye Pirelli International podium
Welsh rallying's rising stars Tom Cave and James Morgan will debut the Hyundai i20 R5 this weekend. The action-packed Prestone MSA British Rally Championship returns next weekend with the famous Pirelli International Rally playing host to the second round of Britain’s premier rallying series. The legendary Kielder Forests await with over 100 gravel miles for the BRC elite and after a … [Read more...]
Fowden flies & is man to beat on tarmac
Welsh rally driver Bob Fowden took maximum points in the JD Tyres Welsh National Tarmacadam Championship at the weekend, writes Roger Gale. It was his third time in succession this year with a second overall and class victory at the Marshall & Hall Caerwent Stages on 2 April. He had to give best to local driver Paul Willet in his potent and nimbler in the tight stages - 2.4 litre Ford … [Read more...]
Welsh Forest Rally Championship begins
Rally North Wales offers competitors a first chance to score points in the Pirelli MSA Welsh Forest Rally Championship following the unfortunate cancellation of the opening round, the Cambrian Rally, due to extreme weather conditions. While reigning champions Luke Francis from Rhuddlan and John H Roberts of Colwyn Bay will be absent a number of crews will be intent on securing maximum points as … [Read more...]