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.
The Woodpecker Rally is now firmly settled into its new Mid Wales base after last year’s move from Ludlow. The switch has opened up some of the sport’s most famous gravel stages, with around 45 competitive miles on offer through Hafren and the rarely used Tarenig – stages that have shaped rallying history for decades.
When Britain lost its place on the World Rallying stage with the demise of Wales Rally GB after its final running in 2019, British fans were left initially in disbelief, which was soon followed by them feeling rather hurt that such an iconic event and Britain’s place in the WRC could be taken from them. An awful lot of resentment was floating about, and following a number of failed attempts from across the Irish sea, it seemed that there was to be no way back for our nation’s hand in our beloved sport to return to the top tier level of rallying once again.
The Probite British Rally Championship arrived at its most northerly stop for round four of the 2025 season, returning to the gravel at the Voly Grampian Forest Rally.
Saturday 12th July 2025 marked a landmark occasion in British rallying as the iconic Nicky Grist Stages returned for its 40th consecutive year as part of the BTRDA Forest Rally Championship. Hosted once again by the experienced hands of Quinton Motor Club, the award-winning event drew more than 140 crews to the picturesque town of Builth Wells for the one-day gravel showcase.
From the stunning Cowal Peninsula in Scotland, the Dunoon Presents Argyll Rally would return to host the Asphalt, British Historic and Scottish Rally Championships.
Organised by the Mull Car Club, the event featured over 66 competitive miles across 16 Asphalt stages. Spread over two days, a little under one hundred crews would tackle this magnificent event from its rally HQ in Dunoon.
