- “The stages selected are the best in the world” – Elfyn Evans
- “The start of a new era for Wales Rally GB” – Tom Cave
Two top Welsh rally drivers Elfyn Evans and Tom Cave have given their enthusiastic support to exciting new plans to revitalise Wales Rally GB, the UK’s season-ending round of the FIA World Rally Championship. Read More »
- 24 competitive stages culminating with the Great Orme
- Return of night stages in Snowdonia plus ‘spectator stages’
- Reduced ticket prices for 2013
- Special discounted entry fees for UK crews
- Wales Rally GB key to showcasing strength of Wales’ automotive sector
- New base for the UK’s round of the FIA World Rally Championship
- HQ on Deeside with ceremonies in Conwy and Llandudno
International Motor Sports – organiser of Wales Rally GB – is delighted to announce an exciting new partnership with the MSA British Rally Championship.
The far-reaching collaboration between the UK’s round of the globe-trotting FIA World Rally Championship and this country’s premier national rally championship will form an integral part of IMS’s latest the ‘Road to Wales’ initiative – a targeted activity promoting Wales Rally GB including special displays at major events such as the renowned Cholmondeley Pageant of Power (14-16 June) and Castle Combe’s popular Rallyday (21 September). Read More »
The Motor Sports Association, governing body of UK motor sport, will launch its ‘Year of the Volunteer’ at the Autosport International show to be staged at the NEC, Birmingham from 10-13 January 2013.
Klarius Group sponsored driver, Sara Williams, a true rising star of British motorsports, has finished 6th overall at the Wales Rally GB; an event that runs alongside the World Rally Championship round over three days. Driving her Group N Subaru Impreza, adorned with the familiar Klarius livery, Sara and her co-driver, Patrick Walsh, were awarded the Gareth Roberts Memorial Trophy for highest placed Welsh crew. Read More »
The brilliant 2012 sports season of Molly Taylor and Seb Marshall has just ended, with yet another strong performance at Wales Rally GB on board the Citroen DS3 R3T with the United Business livery. At the finish in Cardiff, after a race which saw them win stages, occupy the leadership and stand out in their class battling with fast and more experienced drivers, the crew received two important awards: Molly won the Richard Burns Trophy and Seb was awarded the Michael Park Trophy as the best British non-priority drivers. Read More »
“Molly Taylor is really fast and strong” this is the brief comment from Pier Liberali, Untied Business team principal at the end of the Wales Rally GB, rally which marked the end of the 2012 sports programme of Molly Taylor and Seb Marshall with the Citroen DS3 R3T followed by Bp Racing with the livery Italian sports management company United Business. A season planned at the best: several days of testing and Rally Casentino, where the crew was running as course car and where the race was used as a further test and four races: Geko Ypres Rally, Coppa Città di Lucca, Neste Rally Finland and Wales Rally GB. Asphalt and gravel, prestigious national events, European Championship, IRC and World Championship. Read More »
- Second and fifth for Sébastien Loeb and Mikko Hirvonen in Wales guaranteed that a Citroën driver would be crowned 2012 World Rally Champion
- Loeb and Hirvonen’s points haul moves Citroën Total World Rally team within touching distance of an eighth Manufacturers’ World Championship
- Loeb won a hard-fought battle with Petter Solberg to hold on to second place at Wales Rally GB Read More »
This weekend saw the welcoming of the world’s best rally drivers to the Welsh countryside as they fought it out for the British round of the World Rally Championship, WRC Wales Rally GB. There was also a new face to rallying in the supporting National Rally with the debut of Rally Team GB’s 3rd Driver Facebook competition winner, Scott Larder, a 26 year old factory worker from Cwmbran, taking the wheel of the Production World Rally Driver Louise Cook’s Fiesta ST. Read More »
