- Portugal is the second gravel rally of the season with street stages and mountain passes
- Loeb & Elena confident of more points in Portugal
- Hirvonen & Lehtinen aiming to increase understanding of their DS3 WRC and fight for a podium finish
Round four of this year’s WRC, Rally de Portugal is one of the season’s most popular events. A three-time winner of the event, the Citroën Total World Rally Team will be looking to secure another victory here with its crews. Read More »
Round two of the MSA British Rally Championship, the Bulldog Rally, marked the best ever result for Citroën in British rallying history. Young Welsh ace Tom Cave took a splendid overall victory in his DS3 R3, and the 1600 turbo charged rockets filled the following three places. All eight of Citroën DS3’s that started the event finished in the top twelve places! Citroën UK now lead the Manufacturers series after two rounds.
The Prodrive WRC Team will make its debut at Rally Portugal next week running two MINI John Cooper Works WRCs for Dani Sordo #37 and Patrik Sandell #52.
After a dramatic day’s action, Tom Cave and co-driver Craig Parry emerged winners of the Bulldog International Rally of North Wales and in doing so, recorded their first MSA British Rally Championship victory.
Following on from the disappointment of a final stage retirement on the opening round of the 2012 British Rally Championship last month, Pirelli TEG Sport driver Jukka Korhonen got his season underway with a solid seventh place on this weekend’s Bulldog Rally of North Wales.
Our focus once again was on the Historic rally and with the stage cancellations that hit the International event, we made the right choice. It was a fine follow up win for Nick Elliott & Dave Price (Escort MkII) who were pushed hard by Julian Reynolds & Patrick Walsh (Escort MkI). The victory margin was only just over 16 seconds which was a fantastic achievement for Reynolds in older technology. Kevin Davies & Dale Furniss (Escort MkII) completed the podium with 2nd place in the classics. The Historic category went the way of Rikki Proffitt & Phill Harrison (911) but only by 18 seconds after a fine drive by Dessie Nutt & Geraldine McBride (911).