The Motorsport UK British Rally Championship makes a return to the iconic Dalby Forest next weekend, as the Trackrod Rally Yorkshire 23-24 September hosts the penultimate, and potentially title-deciding round of the 2022 season. The blisteringly fast English forest stages are well-known across the decades for witnessing epic battles when the World Rally … [Read more...]
Osian Pryce leads the British Rally Championship
Osian Pryce has retaken the lead of the British Rally Championship after a ‘near perfect’ result on the Get Connected Rali Ceredigion in his Demon Tweeks-backed Volkswagen Polo GTI R5. With just two rounds of the series remaining – the Trackrod Rally Yorkshire (23/24 September) and the Visit Conwy Cambrian Rally (29 October) – the move back to the top of … [Read more...]
Hirst and Pryce edging closer to crowns
Hirst edges closer to Pirelli Ravenol Welsh Rally Championship title after the Nicky Grist Stages rally. He won the Interclub series event for the first time this year after already taking the opening three rounds of the series. Hirst and co-driver Declan Dear (above) were once again on unbeatable form, scoring maximum points on the Builth Wells-based … [Read more...]
Cronin sweeps to Jim Clark Rally win
Four-time British Rally champion Keith Cronin put the hammer down for a fifth title bid last weekend, taking his Volkswagen Polo GTi to a sensational Beatson’s Building Supplies Jim Clark Rally victory in the Scottish Borders. Cronin and co-driver Mikie Galvin were a forced to be reckoned with all weekend long, opening up an unassailable forty second lead … [Read more...]
Thrilling climax to BRC this weekend
Osian Pryce is just one step away from becoming British Rally Champion for the first time as he leads the drivers’ standings heading into the final round of the series, the Modern Tyres Ulster Rally on Saturday. Having finished on the podium in all six rallies this year, including winning last time out on the Visit Conwy Cambrian Rally and a maximum bonus … [Read more...]
Nicky Grist Stages figures in BRC 2022 series
Next year’s Nicky Grist Stages on Saturday 9 July, will host a round of the British Rally Championship for the fourth time in the event’s history. The Quinton Motor Club organised forestry event, which dates back to 1980, first hosted a round of the BRC in 2016. Elfyn Evans/Craig Parry won the event that year in a Ford Fiesta R5, a result which helped … [Read more...]
Tough Trackrod Rally will test BRC teams
The Motorsport UK British Rally Championship will make a return to the iconic Dalby forest for the first time since 2013, as the Trackrod Rally Yorkshire 24-25 September hosts round four of Britain’s premier rally series. With stages draped in history from across the decades, the super-fast Yorkshire forests will provide the longest gravel encounter of … [Read more...]
Green for go with Nicky Grist Stages
Rallying has the green light to return to the Welsh forests, but without spectators. This year’s Nicky Grist Stages has been given the green light to host the first major forest rally in Wales for 17 months on Saturday 10 July – although one of the compromises in these unprecedented times will be that spectators will unfortunately not be permitted to … [Read more...]
Thrilling opener to BRC encourages Osian
Osian Pryce is looking forward to the remaining rounds of the British Rally Championship after opening his 2021 series account with a tight and strong third place finish at the Neil Howard Stages in his Rocked-!T-backed Volkswagen Polo GTI R5. The event was Osian’s first rally for eight months, his first at the Oulton Park motor racing circuit … [Read more...]
Warming up for this year’s British Rally Championship
It has been a long 15 months since the BRC circus left the town of Llandudno following the Visit Conwy Cambrian Rally in February 2020. It is now only 11 days until the 2021 campaign starts.There are over 45 crews registered for the series with competitors from all around the UK and Ireland in a variety of machinery; from historic to the very latest in … [Read more...]
