After a hard-fought day on the military ranges, third-seeds Steve Simpson and Patrick Walsh in their Subaru Impreza WRC won the Melvyn Evans Motorsport Tour of Epynt last Sunday, reports Roger Gale. The opening round of the MSA Asphalt Rally Championship offered a mouth-watering promise of performances to come. In spite of being unable to take part in the event recce on the … [Read more...]
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Welsh crews dominate Mid-Wales Stages
The opening round of the relaunched British Rally Championship produced a home victory for Elfyn Evans while the same event also provided a maximum points haul in the Pirelli MSA Welsh Forest Rally Championship for Llanon driver Dylan Davies. An icy Mid-Wales Stages saw a two day battle between Evans and co-driver Craig Parry and Scandinavian duo Fredrik Ahkin and Morton Erik … [Read more...]
Asphalt Championship gets on the road this weekend
Port Talbot Motor Club gets the opening round of the 2016 MSA Asphalt Rally Championship underway on Sunday. The Melvyn Evans Motorsport Tour of Epynt, incorporating the BTRDA Rally Challenge, Millington Rear Wheel Drive Challenge, and AB Motorsport Front Wheel Drive Challenge, is also included in the 2016 J D Tyres Welsh National Tarmacadam Championship, the Restruct Ltd Welsh Mixed Surface … [Read more...]
Mid-Wales Stages kick-starts new BRC series
The MSA British Rally Championship blasts back to life next weekend as no fewer than 54 registered crews from 11 nations tackle the opening round of the series, the Newtown-based Mid Wales Stages. After a year’s break over concerns about the series, the championship’s top category will feature four-wheel-drive competition for the first time since 2011, as the exciting new R5 cars do battle with … [Read more...]
Davies and Richards claim Bro Caron victory
Lampeter & District Motor Club hosted the latest round of the Welsh Road Rally Championship, the Rali Bro Caron last weekend, and attracted a full entry of 90 cars. With midnight striking on the Lampeter town hall clock the first cars started the challenging event with the first half of the route heading west towards Aberaeron. Leaders at the petrol halt at Llanwnen were Irfon Richards … [Read more...]
Exciting rally opener goes to wire in North Wales
The 2016 Pirelli MSA Welsh Forest Rally Championship got off to the most exciting start possible as Rhuddlan’s Luke Francis and co-driver John H Roberts took outright victory on the Cambrian Rally by the narrowest possible margin, writes Peter Hughes. 2015 was a bumper year for Wales’s premier rally series and registrations are at an even higher level at this early stage of the season with over … [Read more...]
Pirelli Welsh series begins this weekend
The 2016 Pirelli MSA Welsh Forest Rally Championship gets underway this weekend with the Llandudno based Cambrian Rally. Last year was a bumper one for the championship with strong entries and close, exciting battles throughout the season. Early indications are that 2016 should match, if not exceed it. With reigning champion Bob Ceen stepping back from the sport for … [Read more...]
Rally, riding and racing boosts for Wales in 2016
A leading Welsh company has added its support to the Pirelli MSA Welsh Forest Rally Championship. Pembroke Dock based Genpower are multi-brand distributors of generators, pressure washers, water pumps, air compressors and garden machinery. In a sponsorship package valued at £3000 Genpower will give vouchers against the purchase of any of the Hyundai equipment for which they are distributors … [Read more...]
Monte men Elfyn and Craig open 2016 account
It was to be celebration time for Elfyn Evans and Craig Parry after the two welshmen won the WRC2 category on the classic Monte Carlo Rally which was the opening round of the 2016 FIA World Rally Championship. Not even two punctures could stop Evans powering the Fiesta R5 Evo to victory finishing 8th overall, Evans even mixed with the far more powerful WRC cars and even beat many of them on … [Read more...]
Junior crews get Vital boost & Mid-Wales wins award
Welsh-based Vital Equipment will be title sponsors for the junior category of the 2016 Pirelli MSA Welsh Forest Rally Championship. The Pontrilas company was originally established to provide fuel and lubricants to competitors and is the official fuel supplier for the British Rally Championship as well as the British Touring Car Championship. However, Its rapidly expanding apparel department … [Read more...]