Bob Fowden is celebrating 40 years in rallying this year and far from slowing down the popular Llanelli-based driver is upping the game in 2018. He's eyeing the 2018 Protyre MSA Asphalt Rally Championship in his ex-works Comline Auto Parts/NGK-backed Subaru Impreza WRC S11. Fowden began his long rallying career in 1978, driving a Mini on forest … [Read more...]
Rallying
Strong comeback marks Fowden’s return
Bob and Paul Fowden took a near two minute win on Sunday’s Rali Cwm Gwendraeth, writes Roger Gale. At the BARC Pembrey Motorsports Centre, Fowden’s Comline Auto Parts – NGK backed Subaru Impreza WRC S11 repeated the 2017 win on the event, and putting the Llanelli driver into the lead of the 2018 JD Tyres Welsh Tarmacadam Championship, as he opens his … [Read more...]
Closed roads expected for Wales Rally GB 2018
Wales Rally GB is changing forever. The event's organiser IMS is delighted that new laws facilitating closed-road motor sport events have come into force in Wales from today. The new regulations follow a long campaign by the UK governing body of four wheeled motor sport, the Motor Sports Association, and allows IMS to explore a range of new … [Read more...]
A champion returns to challenge again
The 2014 Welsh Tarmac Rally Champion Rob Tout will contest this year’s Protyre MSA Asphalt Rally Championship in his B13 class Mitsubishi Evo 10. The Ammanford-based driver will be one of the most experienced competitors in the series, having begun road rallying back in the late 1970s. Having stopped rallying for a number of years, Tout returned to … [Read more...]
Live streaming plan for Protyre series this year
The Protyre MSA Asphalt Rally Championship will be available to millions of viewers in 2018, thanks to an impressive broadcast package that will see all six rounds of the series aired on three platforms – television, on demand and on-line, including professionally broadcast live streaming. Former Welsh co-driver and seasoned presenter Howard Davies will … [Read more...]
VW Polo GTI R5 undergoes winter testing
The new Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 has been successfully put through its paces in Sweden – by three world rally champions before its sold to private teams later this year. Petter Solberg (N), 2003 WRC champion, was joined at the wheel of the four-wheel drive rally car for customer sports by 2000 and 2002 world champion Marcus Grönholm (FIN), and Pontus … [Read more...]
Sporting lines 1 February
A 1999 Ford Focus WRC, driven by the legendary Colin McRae in four rounds of the World Rally Championship, is being offered for sale by Silverstone Auctions at its Race Retro Competition Car Sale on 23 February and it’s likely to go for over £120,000. McRae, who tragically died in a helicopter accident in 2007, was the youngest and also the first British … [Read more...]
Tradelines 31 January
An overwhelming majority of motorists are supportive of a private member’s bill to introduce better regulation of private parking companies which gets its second reading in the House of Commons on Friday. Ninety-three per cent of 1,429 drivers surveyed by the RAC think Sir Greg Knight MP’s Parking (Code of Practice) Bill is a good idea, with a further 81% … [Read more...]
Wales’ speed queen crowns successful debut
Welsh speed queen Sara Williams has underlined her first successful foray into the French Renault Clio R3T Trophy that saw her competing – literally – at a high level throughout France. Driving in rallies that took her and co-driver Mark Glennester into the Cols of Mont Blanc, Midi Pyrenees and the Mountains that form the backdrop to the Cote D’Azur were … [Read more...]
Elfyn Evans gears up for historic challenge
Elfyn Evans’ bid to add further success to his history-making win on last year’s Wales Rally GB blasts off with today's Rallye Monte-Carlo 25-28 January. As tradition dictates, the FIA World Rally Championship commences with the notoriously challenging Alpine classic – a wintry event that always throws up an ultra-testing cocktail of ice, snow and slush … [Read more...]
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