The Calendar for the 2018 Pirelli MSA Welsh Forest Rally Championship has been unveiled, featuring the return of an old favourite along with a new event to the series.
The Championship will kick off once again with the Cambrian Rally before the return, following a one year absence, of the Grooms Garage Mid Wales Stages.
Rally North Wales is round 3 of the Championship while Midland Manor Motor Club’s Rallynuts Stages Rally moves from its traditional June date to Mid-April for 2018.
Next up is the Plains Rally before the New Red Kite Stages make their Championship debut. The Amman and District MC run event will relocate next year to the classic but underutilised forest stages of South Wales.
The Nicky Grist Stages revert to their popular one day format while the penultimate round of the season will see the Championship cross the border to Ludlow for the Eventsigns Woodpecker Stages Rally.
As this year, the season will be rounded off with the Wyedean Stages, the only opportunity of the year for crews to experience the stages in the Forest of Dean.
Unveiling the calendar, Championship organiser Dave Evison said, “I know that all our Championship contenders will be delighted to see the Mid Wales Stages back in, while the revamped Red Kite will give them the chance to tackle a great new set of stages.” He added, “Competing on the Championship will take crews to many of the finest forest stages in the UK. All the forest stages belonging to Natural Resources Wales will have been prepared by Rally4Wales so I am confident that competitors will find the roads in prime condition.”
You can find out more about the Pirelli MSA Welsh Forest Rally Championship at www.wnrc.wamc.org.uk, the Championship Facebook page and on Twitter@WnRC.
EVENT | DATE | VENUE |
CAMBRIAN RALLY | SATURDAY, 17 FEB 2018 | LLANDUDNO |
GROOMS GARAGE MID-WALES STAGES | SUNDAY, 4 MAR 2018 | NEWTOWN |
RALLY NORTH WALES | SATURDAY, 24 MAR 2018 | DOLGELLAU |
RALLYNUTS STAGES RALLY | SATURDAY, 14 APR 2018 | BUILTH WELLS |
PLAINS RALLY | SATURDAY, 12 MAY 2018 | WELSHPOOL |
THE NEW RED KITE STAGES | SUNDAY, 24 JUN 2018 | NEATH |
NICKY GRIST STAGES | SATURDAY, 14 JUL 2018 | BUILTH WELLS |
EVENTSIGNS WOODPECKER RALLY | SATURDAY, 1 SEPT 2018 | LUDLOW |
WYEDEAN STAGES | SATURDAY, 10 NOV 2018 | FOREST OF DEAN |