The 2024 Protyre MUK Asphalt Rally Championship continued its Scottish tour, moving northeast to the scenic Cowal Peninsula for the fifth round of the championship.
The Argyll Rally, run by the experienced members of the Mull Automobile Club, boasted significant expertise in organizing closed-road events and had prepared an outstanding event for 2024. Based once again at Dunoon Stadium, this year’s weekend offered 75 stage miles of top-class closed-road rallying, spread over two days. After two runs through the fan-favorite Dunoon Town Centre on Friday, five stages in the surrounding countryside lay ahead, several under the cover of darkness. This was followed by a further eleven stages on Saturday.
As the Protyres BTRDA Rally Series has now passed the mid-point in the 2024 season, we can begin to build a picture of the runners and riders who are potentially in line for championship awards. With fierce battles across the field to date, the series would return to Builth Wells, Powys in Wales for the second time this year for the Nicky Grist Stages.
Returning to the Asphalt for the third round of the 2024 Motorsport UK, Probite British Rally Championship, the Beatson’s Building Supplies Jim Clark Rally (May 24/25) would provide 87 competitive stage miles, over 14 stages and across two days.
From the Scottish border town of Duns, Berwickshire, the Jim Clark Rally has been a mainstay in the British Rally Championship since it first joined the series in the late nineteen nineties. It has always delivered ample drama and has proved to be a challenge for the competitors time and time again, this year was no exception.
The Motorsport UK FUCHs Lubricants British Historic Rally Championship would venture to the picturesque Cowal Peninsula in Scotland for the sixth round of its 2024 season.
The Dunoon Presents Argyll Rally has earned a good reputation among the Asphalt Championship fraternity since it joined their series back in 2022. When speaking to Xlerate ahead of the season, BHRC Championship Manager Colin Heppinstall talked of how he wanted to add “well-known” Asphalt events with “good reputations” to the expanded Championship calendar this year and the Argyll along with the Manx were the ones that everyone “loved” or “raved about”.
Following a dramatic double-header at the Manx Rally, the ProTyres Motorsport UK Asphalt Rally Championships would return to action for Round 4 in the Scottish Borders at the Jim Clark Rally (May 24/25).
From the town of Duns in the county of Berwickshire, Scotland, the Jim Clark Rally is affectionately named after the 1963 & 65 Formula One Champion and would once again offer up a challenging two-day, 86-mile Asphalt rally across 14 stages.
The 2024 Protyres Asphalt Rally Championship would move on from what became a short sharp blast around the Lancashire Lanes, onto the ferry, and across to the intimidating Isle of Man for the iconic Manx Rally.
For Rounds 4 & 5 of its 2024 season, The FUCHS Lubricants, Motorsport UK, British Historic Rally Championship would return to the Isle of Man for the first time since 2017 for a doubleheader points scoring opportunity. A place that has a rich history in Motorsport and indeed British Rallying, the Isle of Man offers up the ideal playground of quality closed roads around the stunningly picturesque Island for a two-day event covering 126 stage miles, which was a very welcomed return to the series.
The Motorsport UK Pirelli Welsh National Rally Championship relocated a little further south to Mid Wales for the second round of its 2024 Championship. To celebrate the 50th running of the Severn Valley Stages, the event, once again sponsored by Rallynuts would offer up some 60 competitive stage miles, over and above a normal 45-mile one-day rally. It would also feature some of the finest gravel stages that Wales has to offer in the Coed Sarnau, Myherin/Tarennig and Harfren Forest complexes.
Around a month had passed since the Malcolm Wilson Rally in the Lake District had raised the curtains on the 2024 Protyres BTRDA Rally series in March. This time around the series would travel to Mid-Wales for the second round of the Championship, the Rallynuts Severn Valley Stages Rally, where world-class gravel stages would await the crews.
Organised by the Midland Manner Motor Club, the 2024 edition of the Severn Valley Stages rally would host the second round of the Motorsport UK ProBite British Rally Championship for the first time in its long-standing history.
