This year’s battles on the highly praised ‘Road to Wales’ initiative have all now been settled with eight worthy winners now gearing up to pit their skills against the world’s finest on next month’s eagerly-anticipated Wales Rally GB 12-15 November. Introduced in 2013, the Road to Wales programme rewards Britain’s best rallying talent with free entries into the UK’s concluding round of the FIA … [Read more...]
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Armchair rallying comes home
WRC 5, the official game of the 2015 FIA World Rally Championship, is now on sale from £24 to £45 depending on games platform. It allows players to drive 65 different special stages, five each from all 13 rounds of motorsport’s toughest championship for production-based cars including classics such as El Condor from Rally Argentina, Ouninpohja from Neste Oil Rally Finland and Hafren from Wales … [Read more...]
Pirelli Welsh series concludes this weekend
The Pirelli MSA Welsh Forest Rally Championship reaches its conclusion this saturday with the Llandudno based Cambrian Rally. The driver’s title has already been won by North Wales born Bob Ceen and he will be looking to round off the season with a victory on home turf. Although he now lives in Malvern, Bob was born on the Llyn peninsula and brought up in Holyhead but he has other reasons to … [Read more...]
Wales Rally GB will host a Big Bang
Next month’s Wales Rally GB will be the focal point for a number of initiatives aimed at inspiring the nation’s ambitious young talent. More than 1500 students from local educational establishments are expected to visit the ‘Big Bang’ Industry Awareness STEM Event being organised in the Wales Rally GB Deeside Service Park 12-15 November. Hundreds more will be engaged through a pair of special … [Read more...]
Evans above its Wales on a new high
Welsh rugby and football is on a high and now Welsh rallying is on a similar high after Elfyn Evans scored an outstanding career-high second place in the Tour de Corse, the French round of this year’s FIA World Rally Championship. Earlier this season the 26-year-old from Dolgellau and his co-driver Daniel Barritt posted his maiden WRC podium when finishing a fine third in Argentina in his … [Read more...]
Welsh rallying legend dies
Motorsport lost an accomplished rally co-driver, event organiser, and results service provider on Wednesday 16 September, Hywel Thomas, writes Roger Gale. Affectionately known by many friends as “Hywel the Mac”, a term that arose from his early garb as a road rally navigator and stuck with him forever, passed away in the early hours after several months of characteristically stoically coping … [Read more...]
Race of Champions returns to London
Race Of Champions, the end-of-season competition that sees stars of F1, Le Mans, WRC, Moto GP and touring cars battle for glory in unique head-to-head races using identical cars, is returning to London for the first time since 2008. Over the weekend of 20-21 November, this motorsport spectacle will be thrilling crowds at the former Olympic Stadium in Stratford, London, bringing its special … [Read more...]
Ceen claims Welsh rallying crown
While two of the younger guns in the Pirelli MSA Welsh Forest Rally Championship fought out a thrilling battle to take maximum points on the penultimate round of the series, the Eventsigns Woodpecker Stages Rally, a slightly more measured approach from Malvern’s Bob Ceen was enough for him to clinch the 2015 overall drivers’ title. From the Ludlow Racecourse start, competitors on the event … [Read more...]
McRae and Solberg honours at WRGB
The 20th anniversary of Colin McRae being crowned as Britain’s first ever World Rally Champion driver is being celebrated at this year’s Wales Rally GB 12-15 November. It will be exactly two decades previously that on Wednesday 22 November the legendary Scot won Britain’s concluding round of the 1995 FIA World Rally Championship – then the Network Q RAC Rally – to make motor sport history. It’s … [Read more...]
Stages Set For Welsh Rally Championship Showdown
Competitors in the Pirelli MSA Welsh Forest Rally Championship travel to Ludlow on Saturday for the penultimate round of the series with no fewer than seven drivers still with a chance of taking the title. With the series enjoying a surge in registrations this season there are plenty of class honours still to be decided as well on the Woodpecker Rally. Paul Davy, from Worcester has yet to … [Read more...]