Mid-Wales and Toyota works driver Elfyn Evans secured a stunning third place on the famous Monte Carlo Rally yesterday. Making his debut in the team, Evans applied steady pressure from the start on Thursday and found himself setting fastest times on some stages and leading the event in the morning of the final day as he battled with his team-mate Sebastien … [Read more...]
Evans begins his 2020 WRC bid today
This week’s classic Monte Carlo Rally 23-26 January heralds not only the start of the eagerly-anticipated 2020 FIA World Rally Championship, but also an exciting new chapter in the career of Britain’s top rally driver from Dolgellau , Elfyn Evans. After spending more than a decade with the Cumbrian-based M-Sport Ford team – winning both the British Rally … [Read more...]
Ogier on Toyota and Elfyn Evans rematch
The 2020 World Rally Championship campaign will be the first time since 2014 that Sébastien Ogier will not start the season in Monte-Carlo as reigning champion, but despite rumours of a potential retirement or hiatus from the WRC, Ogier isn’t going anywhere and is hungry for success with a new team. Read what the 6-time WRC champion (above) has to say on … [Read more...]
Rallyday arrives early at control
Next year’s Rallyday will shift from September to June to avoid a World Rally Championship clash and secure some of the sport’s biggest stars and cars. Rallyday will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a Saturday June 20 date in 2020 and this year will feature the latest sporting vehicles from MS-RT in Pontypool. M-Sport Ford World Rally Team principal … [Read more...]
WRC 2019 series ends early
This year's FIA World Rally Championship has prematurely ended. It will not stage the 2019 season finale at Kennards Hire Rally Australia due to the serious bush fires affecting the New South Wales state close to the event's Coffs Harbour base. The organisers announced the news on Tuesday after widespread consultation with the State Government, the FIA, … [Read more...]
Estonian Tänak takes WRC for drivers for first time
Ott Tänak became the first Estonian to win the FIA World Rally Championship in a tense finale to Spain’s Rally RACC Catalunya - Rally de España on Sunday afternoon. He snatched second place in the closing Wolf Power Stage to secure the 2019 crown with a round to spare, ending a 15-year French domination by the sport’s most successful drivers, Sébastiens … [Read more...]
Sam’s skills shine before WRGB
Local schoolboy Sam Scharer aged just 10 from Ysgol Bro Gwydir School, Llanrwst, Conwy, won the nationwide competition to design a striking livery for a sports car at last week's Wales Rally GB. The resulting Toyota GT86 sportscar wrapped in Scharer’s prize-winning sea-themed design was publicly unveiled in Llandudno on the eve of this year’s Wales Rally … [Read more...]
Champions return for WRGB next month
Next month’s Wales Rally GB 3-6 October has attracted a star-studded line-up. Entries for round 12 of this year’s 14-round WRC closed late last week, with an outstanding field of 59 International crews representing no fewer 25 nations revving up to compete against-the-clock on an exciting new-look route starting in Liverpool and featuring 22 gruelling … [Read more...]
End of the road for Wales Rally GB
Wales Rally GB is expected to run for the final time this year. World Rally Championship organisers will meet in Geneva tomorrow and discuss a plan to relocate the UK round of the series to Northern Ireland in 2020. Ending a 19-years association with Wales will be a blow for the Welsh Government and Welsh and British rally fans who have spent … [Read more...]
Cruel blow to Evans in Corsican thriller
Welsh star Elfyn Evans was cruelly robbed of a second win in the FIA World Rally Championship in a dramatic and heart-breaking finale to last weekend’s Tour de Corse, the campaign's first round staged on asphalt. Known as the ‘Rally of Ten Thousand Corners’, the Corsican classic lived up to its billing producing plenty of twists and turns, and … [Read more...]
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