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2024 saw a raft of changes for the Probite British Rally Championship, a different look to the calendar, a new title sponsor, highlights programmes on ITV & ITVX and a highly competitive field of competitors.
Xlerate catches up with the man behind the V6 Escort that’s been turning heads on social media over the past few seasons.
Ever since the late sixties, and particularly throughout the seventies and eighties, Ford’s Escort has dominated rallying globally, from the world scene to regional national rally championships, including right here in the UK.
It’s February 2024 in North Yorkshire, and the opening round of the 2024 Motorsport UK, FUCHS Lubricants, British Historic Rally Championship is being hosted by the Riponian Rally.
The Ecurie Royal Oak (ERO) Motor Club has motorsport and in particular, road rallying running through its veins. During the club’s very early days of the 1960s, it managed to ruffle a few feathers but eventually gained acceptance and official motor club status from the RAC in 1970; having also been given the nod by the well-respected legend of the game that is Don Barrow.
This weekend under the cover of darkness, 35 crews armed with OS Maps 118 and 119 will depart from the Knots Inn, Rushton to take on a 110-mile adventure in the lanes of Cheshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire. With tar, gravel, grass, concrete, and everything in between lying in wait, one thing that is for certain is a great night of motorsport is on the cards for all.
Every year in mid March, the annual Land & Estate Maintenance Agbo Stages Rally comes to life within the expansive 1000 acres of Weston Park’s stunning grounds.
The 2024 East Riding Stages, organised by the hard-working team at the Beverley & District Motor Club would kick off closed road stage rallying for the year. Conveniently hosted a little under a month before the start of both the British Rally Championship and the Protyre Asphalt series. The fast and flowing ‘Ypres-like’ stages of North East Yorkshire would offer crews a perfect opportunity to gain valuable seat time after the winter break, aiding in their preparation for the season ahead.
On a surprisingly mild morning in January, the rally season officially commenced at the Royal Welsh Showground based just outside the market town of Builth Wells. The North Road Garage Toyota Showground Stages would provide both UK rally fans & competitors with their first event of 2024. The event had been organised and reimagined by the Newton & District Automobile Club and proudly sponsored by the Pritchard family’s North Road Garage Toyota.
I have had an interest in Automotive and Motorsport-related stuff since the late nineties, but I would consider myself a bit of a latecomer to Rallying. It wasn’t until 2006 that I got my first taste of stage rallying and that event was the South of England Tempest rally based in the Aldershot region.