Rising rally star Osian Pryce will swop steering wheel for microphone when he joins the Ralïo TV broadcast team for S4C’s biggest ever coverage of Wales Rally GB 4-7 October. The 450th Ralio programme will see three stages broadcast live, a preview and nightly highlights package, and seven hours of rally coverage. Ralïo will broadcast eight shows in five days, and it will be the … [Read more...]
Six round Prestone BRC 2019 outlined
As the fast-paced 2018 series gears up for an exciting climax, the Prestone MSA British Rally Championship has confirmed its 2019 calendar. In 2019, Britain’s top-tier rallying series will feature six rounds in six territories, with events across the UK in Wales, England, Northern Ireland and Scotland, while Wales Rally GB 2019 is scheduled as a reserve round with the date to be fixed. The … [Read more...]
Is it a bird, is it a plane? No it’s a car
A spectacular flying car sequence has been created to promote Wales Rally GB this autumn. Organisers of the event teamed up with Zip World and Slate Mountain to put a car on Europe’s longest zip wire and send it down the mountain overlooking Bethesda for the #Skydriver sequence. The internationally known venue provided the perfect backdrop for one of the world’s best known rallies taking … [Read more...]
Elfyn Evans claws way onto Portugal podium
Elfyn Evans has returned to the FIA World Rally Championship podium with an impressive second place finish on last weekend’s Vodafone Rally de Portugal, round six of this year’s WRC series. It was the first time the 29-year-old Welshman and co-driver Daniel Barritt have stood on the podium since sensationally winning last October’s momentous Wales Rally GB to become the first Welsh driver in … [Read more...]
Prestone BRC powers into 2018 & onto C4
The 2018 Prestone MSA British Rally Championship is one of the most eagerly anticipated in the series’ 60-year history. Britain’s premier rallying series will burst into life for yet another thrilling campaign, getting underway in Carlisle, Cumbria with the Pirelli International Rally, 28 April staging the opening round and the final at Wales Rally GB this autumn. The WRGB route will be … [Read more...]
Rallylines 22 March
The Prestone MSA British Rally Championship celebrates its Diamond Jubilee with Britain’s premier rallying series turning 60, ahead of what is expected to be another action-packed year. Beginning next month, the new logo will be carried across all official branding in 2018 and several celebrations will take place to mark the significant milestone before the final round is Wales Rally … [Read more...]
Closed roads expected for Wales Rally GB 2018
Wales Rally GB is changing forever. The event's organiser IMS is delighted that new laws facilitating closed-road motor sport events have come into force in Wales from today. The new regulations follow a long campaign by the UK governing body of four wheeled motor sport, the Motor Sports Association, and allows IMS to explore a range of new opportunities for this year’s Wales Rally GB … [Read more...]
Elfyn Evans gears up for historic challenge
Elfyn Evans’ bid to add further success to his history-making win on last year’s Wales Rally GB blasts off with today's Rallye Monte-Carlo 25-28 January. As tradition dictates, the FIA World Rally Championship commences with the notoriously challenging Alpine classic – a wintry event that always throws up an ultra-testing cocktail of ice, snow and slush making the already demanding mountain … [Read more...]
Prestone BRC plan to “excel in extremes”
The Prestone MSA British Rally Championship is ready to ‘excel in extremes’ as Prestone launched its plans for the year ahead. Prestone, maker of the No.1 coolant in the US, will return as headline sponsor for the MSA British Rally Championship – topping up a powerful relationship first established during a successful 2017 season. New for 2018, Prestone has strengthened its … [Read more...]
Wales Rally GB preview today at Autosport show
Visitors to this week’s Autosport International Show at Birmingham’s NEC will be treated to a very special sneak preview of the 2018 Wales Rally GB 4-7 October. All the WRC stars will be present today to launch the eagerly-anticipated 2018 series which blasts off with the world famous Monte Carlo Rally later this month and then travels the globe before returning to Britain in early … [Read more...]