The prestigious British Rally Championship will return in 2021 with a revised calendar of events after a radical overhaul from the originally planned schedule. With ongoing restrictions forcing a change to the provisional programme set out last December, the first three qualifiers, the Circuit of Ireland Rally, Corbeau Seats Tendring and Clacton Rally and … [Read more...]
Eight championships swell one rally
The Nicky Grist Stages will host eight prestigious championships and include a lucrative tyre incentive by Cooper Tires when the event comes to Builth Wells on Saturday 10 July. The Welsh Historic Rally Championship is the latest series to add the Nicky Grist Stages as a points-scoring qualifying round. It had been its reserve event, but has now been given … [Read more...]
Welsh rallying return hoped for this summer
Fingers are crossed that rallying can return to Wales this summer. This year’s Nicky Grist Stages 10 July remains on course to host rounds of several championships. The event will be based in Builth Wells town centre, with the service area located on the Builth Wells RFC pitch. Rally headquarters will be in the magnificent Strand Hall on Strand Street, … [Read more...]
Nicky Grist Stages postponed to July 2021
Top club event, the Nicky Grist Stages, will return to the classic mid-Wales forestry stages on Saturday 10 July 2021, following the cancellation of this year’s event. Quinton Motor Club had originally planned to run the event – which is a five time winner of the BTRDA ‘Rally of the Year’ award – on Saturday 11 July, but owing to Covid-19 lockdown … [Read more...]
Nicky Grist Stages wins ‘Rally of the Year’ award
The Builth Wells-based Nicky Grist Stages has won the prestigious BTRDA Rally Series ‘Rally of the Year Award 2019’. It was presented to the event organisers, Quinton Motor Club, at the British Trial & Rally Driver Association’s annual gala awards ceremony. Voted for by competitors, the Nicky Grist Stages was praised for the smooth running of the event … [Read more...]
Faulkner leads forest series into second half
A second successive maximum points score means that Scott Faulkner leads the 2019 Pirelli Motorsport UK Welsh Forest Rally Championship by a single point as the series reaches its Halfway stage, writes Peter Hughes. Having taken top points score on the previous round, the Rallynuts Stages, a similar performance on the weekend’s Plains Rally, … [Read more...]
120 contest Nicky Grist Stages
Over 120 crews will contest this Saturday’s Nicky Grist Stages on Saturday 14 July. The very best competitors from the Jordan Road Surfacing BTRDA Rally Series, Pirelli MSA Welsh Forest Rally Championship, MAXXIS MSA English Rally Championship, MRF Fiesta ST Trophy, FMP Rally Challenge and the Swift Shining Stars Rally Series battling it out over 45 … [Read more...]
Nicky Grist Stages returns with a new test
Jordan Road Surfacing BTRDA Rally Series leader Paul Bird is aiming to make it three wins this season – and a hat-trick of victories on the Nicky Grist Stages on Saturday 14 July in his Dom Buckley Motorsport/IRS-prepared Ford Focus WRC08. The Cumbrian driver has won the Nicky Grist Stages twice before, in 2014 and 2015 with Aled Davies co-driving, and … [Read more...]
SNAP to action for road safety
The Nicky Grist Stages Saturday 14 July maintains its association with GoSafe, the Wales Road Casualty Reduction Partnership encouraging rally fans to help make Wales’ roads safer by getting involved in Operation SNAP. The event is a round of many UK championships and is proud to help raise awareness of the Fatal Five, a road safety initiative by the Mid … [Read more...]
Nicky Grist Stages to pioneer new format
Nicky Grist Stages entries are open and the BTRDA and Welsh Championship event will be first in Wales to run with relaxed split-field seeding. Entries are now open for the Nicky Grist Stages on Saturday 14 July with the official event Regulations and Entry forms published on-line at nickygriststages.co.uk. This year’s Quinton MC-organised event will … [Read more...]
