Double BTRDA champion Ricky Evans returns to the Nicky Grist Stages in his title-winning Peugeot Double BTRDA Gold Star champion Ricky Evans will return to this year's Nicky Grist Stages Saturday 11 July in the very same Peugeot 205 GTI that carried him to successive championship titles in 1994 and 1995. The 66-year old driver from Tamworth last drove … [Read more...]
Tredegar business will head top Welsh rally
David Spear Commercial Vehicles will continue its support of one of Britain’s most popular gravel rallies after confirming a second successive year as the official vehicle supplier to the Nicky Grist Stages on Saturday 11 July. Last year the award-winning, family-run commercial vehicle supplier, which was established in 1987 and is based at the Crown … [Read more...]
Stellar entry for Nicky Grist Stages
William Creighton and Liam Regan have been seeded at number one for the 2025 Nicky Grist Stages on Saturday– with the Quinton Motor Club organised event attracting another stellar entry. The top seeds will be driving the same Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 that won the event last year (in the hands of Chris Ingram/Alex Kihurani) – with Castrol MEM Rally Team … [Read more...]
Route 60 returns to challenge Nicky Grist Stages crews
Four-time Pirelli Welsh champion Matthew Hirst is ready for the challenge of one of his favourite stages – Route 60. The famous Route 60 stage returns to the Nicky Grist Stages Saturday 12 July after a seven-year break – and it’s a favourite stage for the four-time and reigning Pirelli Welsh Rally champion Matthew Hirst, who says that ‘whoever sets the … [Read more...]
David Spear Commercials backs premier Welsh rally
David Spear Commercial Vehicles will be the official car supplier to the 2025 Nicky Grist Stages on Saturday 12 July in a deal, like all good deals, that was forged on the golf course! Nicky Grist and David Spear are both members of the Rolls of Monmouth Golf Club, and it was on a stroll down a fairway that the idea was hatched. David Spear Commercial … [Read more...]
Stars come out for Nicky Grist Stages
A star-studded entry, made up of competitors from six major UK championships and several of the top Probite British Rally Championship drivers who are using the classic mid-Wales stages as a gravel test, will gather in Builth Wells this weekend for the Nicky Grist Stages Saturday 13 July. The quality of the Quinton Motor Club-organised event’s entry has … [Read more...]
Welsh Champion will lead Nicky Grist Stages
Matthew Jackson, the 2022 Pirelli Welsh Rally Championship R2 champion, will drive a Bowler Defender as course opening zero car on this year’s Nicky Grist Stages 13 July. The 32-year old driver from Stratford-upon-Avon works for Jaguar Land Rover as a product engineer in its interior trim department, and his rallying experience has been called upon in … [Read more...]
Nicky Grist Stages makes history before it starts
This year’s Builth Wells-based Nicky Grist Stages on Saturday 13 July will be the first multi-venue stage rally to run as a 2025 National Competition Rules test event. NCRs represents a move by Motorsport UK towards modernising and improving the accessibility of the rules that govern the sport. The transition to the 2025 NCRs primarily represents a format … [Read more...]
Welsh classic voted Rally of the Year
The Nicky Grist Stages has won the prestigious Motorsport UK Pirelli Welsh Rally Championship’s ‘Rally of the Year’ award, as voted for by registered competitors. The Speedsports Shield was presented to event organisers Quinton Motor Club at the annual Welsh Association of Motor Clubs gala prize giving. Based in the centre of Builth Wells, with a … [Read more...]
Hirst heads Nicky Grist Stages field
Matthew Hirst heads a star-studded Nicky Grist Stages entry as six major rally championships arrive in Builth Wells this weekend. Matthew Hirst will lead a star-studded field away at the start of the Nicky Grist Stages on Saturday 8 July, as the Doncaster rally ace is seeded at number one in his Delta Salvage/Witham Group Ford Fiesta R5 … [Read more...]
