The Motorsport UK British Rally Championship crowned all new Champions in 2022, with seven tough and challenging rounds across both gravel and asphalt stages up and down the country; the series offered up the ideal proving ground for Britons’ bright young rallying hopefuls at the pinnacle of national rallying.
The MRF Tyres sponsored BTRDA Rally series arrived for its season finale in Llandudno, North Wales at the Visit Conway Cambrian Rally. Here is where the crews were faced with 8 tough gravel stages, covering 45 miles.
The MRF Tyres BTRDA Rally Series ventured into the Forests of North Yorkshire for its penultimate round of the 2022 season. The fast gravel stages dotted around the Pickering area offered up 45 competitive miles across those classic Yorkshire tests which have been synonymous with British rallying over decades.
It seems like a forever and a day since the FUCHS Lubricants British Historic Rally Championships last graced the stages, but finally, one of the UK’s most popular series returned into action at the Phill Price Memorial Woodpecker Stages Rally.
The Pirelli Ravenol Welsh National Rally Championship relocated South to Builth Wells for the fifth round of the 2022 season at the Nicky Grist Stages.
The Quinton Motorclub organised Nicky Grist Stages played host to Round 5 of the 2022 MRF Tyres BTRDA Rally Series; where 8 gravel stages covering some 44 competitive miles awaited the crews from its rally HQ in Builth Wells, Wales.
The British Rally Championship arrived in Builth Wells, Wales for Round 3 of the 2022 season and ventured onto the loose stuff for the first time this year at the Nicky Grist Stages.
This year saw the 7th annual 6R4.net Test Day take place recently at a private airfield in Lincolnshire.
Organisers Dan Ellmore and David Sims had arranged yet another thrilling day of non-stop track action, including once-in-a-lifetime opportunities for select passenger rides, and with the added option to simply ‘chill’ in the informal social atmosphere of the paddock – despite the blistering heat on the second year running at this venue.
The MRF Tyres BTRDA Rally Championships remained in the North and ventured into the legendary Kielder Forest complex for the fourth round of the 2022 series. From the Northumberland market town of Hexham, 6 gravel stages (two loops of three) awaited some 86 crews who contested the rally.
Returning to the British Rally Championship for the first time since 2014 as the second round of the 2022 season, the iconic Jim Clark Rally was to once again offer up an immense closed road stage rally in the Scottish Borders.