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The 2026 MGJ Engineering Brands Hatch Winter Stages would once again mark the midway point of the Protyre Circuit Rally Championship. Organised by Chelmsford Motor Club, the event offered competitors 35 miles of sealed surface rallying across 8 demanding stages
As another year gets underway, the traditional start to the UK’s busy rally season returned to the Royal Welsh Showground at Builth Wells, with the Newtown & District organised Showground Stages. Set within the 150 acre venue, the event makes the most of the space available, mixing gravel and tarmac sections, creating a challenging layout that often sees plenty of casualties before the finish.
More than five weeks had passed since the engines fell silent in the forests surrounding Ambleside, yet the drama that occurred during the Coppermines Grizedale Stages Rally would still continue to resonate long after the final time control.
A crisp and cold late November morning would, by mid-afternoon, descend into a brisk but heavy snow shower. The Carmarthen weather heralding the start of the 2025 Roger Albert Clark Rally. The chaotic weather set the tone for the next 5 days of fierce competition and organisational challenges on this bi-annual feast of rallying.
The Richard Cole Contracting Wyedean Stages 2025 delivered a day of unrelenting gravel action, which ended with a shower of champagne. The Forest of Dean has long been one of British rallying’s most recognisable backdrops, where the stages are fast and slippery in places, and always provide a demanding challenge. This was the forty-seventh running of the Wyedean and the final event of the 2025 Pirelli Welsh Rally Championship.
Since its inclusion on the WRC calendar in 2021, Rally Croatia has been a popular addition to the World Rally Championship calendar, renowned for its demanding tarmac stages with ever-changing surface conditions and grip levels. Combined with unpredictable weather conditions, it has produced some of the most entertaining and dramatic battles in recent WRC history. The 2022 edition springs to mind, when the win was decided in the Power Stage with Kalle Rovanperä pipping Ott Tänak to victory by just 4.3 seconds. For this year’s rally, however, Rally Croatia stepped back onto the European Rally Championship schedule. But that didn’t mean it would be any less entertaining.
The 2025 Salford Van Hire Neil Howard Stages at Oulton Park once again provided the curtain raiser for the 2025/26 Protyre Circuit Rally Championship. Traditionally, the Neil Howard Stages not only opens the Protyre season but also brings Oulton Park’s busy motorsport calendar to a close for winter. Organised, as ever, by the Bolton-le-Moors Car Club, this year’s event featured 53 miles of technical stages that made full use of the Cheshire circuit’s perimeter roads and infield sections. The rally also included the much photographed water splash on two stages, as well as a gravel section running parallel to the start finish straight, making it one of the most varied challenges competitors will face this season.
Since 1955, the North Wales Car Club has been getting its hands dirty in National motorsport, and its flagship stage rally, the Cambrian, would return to the forest of North Wales this year in celebration of the club’s 70th year of organizing motorsport events.
The Protyre Asphalt Rally Championship returned to Wales for its final fling of the year with a two-day affair over the infamous roads of Epynt to close out the season.
The afternoon of Friday 26th September saw the North Yorkshire seaside town of Filey play host to almost 170 rally cars as they gathered on the sea front for the ceremonial start of the 2025 Trackrod Rally Yorkshire.