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The Severn Valley Stages rally returned to national rallying with a bang, or perhaps more fittingly with a clap of thunder, serving up a combination of challenging world-class Welsh gravel stages and brutal wintry conditions.
Meirion Evans showed his intent for 2026 with a clinical victory at the opening round of the Pirelli Welsh Rally Championship. Meanwhile, it was business as usual in the BTRDA Gold Star rankings, with arch-rivals Matthew Hirst and Elliot Payne duking it out for top honours. In the BHRC, it was a returning old friend, Marty McCormack, who stood on the top step of the podium in his rapidly rising fan-favourite BMW M3.
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 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 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.
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.
After months of waiting, the sounds of rally cars would once again reverberate around the Welsh countryside; at the 2025 Plains rally. This year, the Plains would not only see the event return to national rallying after suffering insufficient entries last year but would also signal the return of rallying to the Welsh Forests for the first time since the Cambrian Rally back in October last year.
The 2025 British Rally Championship was reawakened for the second round of the season, the much-anticipated Kielder Carlisle Stages, which made their triumphant return to the BRC calendar for the first time since 2019.
The Pirelli Welsh Rally Championship arrived in Llandudno, North Wales for the penultimate round of its 2023 Championship at The Visit Conway Cambrian Rally. Organised by the very capable North Wales Car Club, the team were challenged in the run-up to the event when one of the planned venues, Alwen Forest became unworkable and thus some adjustments to the route had to be made.
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.