The third Saturday of March saw crews descend on the market town of Welshpool for the second round of the MotorsportUK Fuchs Lubricants British Historic Rally Championship, Get Jerky Rally North Wales.
Mid-February had seen a very wet and soggy round 1 in Yorkshire, The Riponian, an event that left as many questions as it answered. George Lepley and Dale Bowen took the overall BHRC win in their Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 but were unable to score towards the overall championship in their recently homologated 4WD Grp A machine. Therefore, this left Yorkshire man Matthew Robinson and Northern Irishman Adrian Hetherington heading the championship standings from the returning (to BHRC) former champion Ben Friend in third.
The 2024 Pirelli Welsh Championship kicked off with the Get Jerky Rally North Wales, centered in Welshpool and featured 45 miles of iconic Welsh stages. The planned route comprised of Gartheiniog, Big Ray (Dyfi), and Dyfnant, divided into east and west sections, with each stage scheduled to run twice.
The 2023 Motorsport UK Pirelli Welsh Rally Championship season got underway at the Get Jerky Rally North Wales (March 25), where a World Class lineup of Welsh Gravel tests awaited the crews to begin the first of this seven-round calendar.
The FUCHS Lubricants British Historic Rally Championship arrived in Welshpool for the next instalment of its 2023 season at the Get Jerky Rally North Wales (March 25).
The 2022 Pirelli Ravonel Sponsored Welsh National Forest Rally Championship got underway in the unusually dry and dusty conditions at the Rally North Wales for the opening round of the season.
Three times British Rally Champion, Matt “The King Of British Rallying” Edwards returned to the British Historic Rally Championship scene in a Fiat Abarth 131 and ended the reign of the mighty MK2 Escort at the Rally North Wales.
