REPORT / AGBO STAGES 2026
The Weston Park Foundation celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2026, and once again, they would grant access to the annual AGBO Stages Rally to run around the estate’s 1000+ acres of woodland and access roads.
The Weston Park Foundation celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2026, and once again, they would grant access to the annual AGBO Stages Rally to run around the estate’s 1000+ acres of woodland and access roads.
The picturesque grounds of Weston Park roared to life with the sounds of engines and squealing tyres for the 2025 AGBO Stages. This popular single-venue event annually transforms the Shropshire estate, featuring short yet incredibly fast stages that weave through the estate’s various access roads.
Every year in mid March, the annual Land & Estate Maintenance Agbo Stages Rally comes to life within the expansive 1000 acres of Weston Park’s stunning grounds.
The last weekend of September saw the third running of Historic Rally Festival. Based in and around the grounds of the seventeenth century grade II listed Weston Hall in Weston Park, near Telford in Shropshire, this “demonstration rally” (untimed) attracted some big names to classic RAC rally stages with star attractions in the name of former British and World Rally Champions.
Set in over one thousand acres of landscaped parkland, with wide open vistas and its famous water splash, this classic, former “RAC Rally” stage was the perfect venue to host a display of classic rally machinery, but more of that later.
The event, ran by the Rallying History organisation, is the only multi venue MotorsportUK sanctioned demonstration rally in the country where cars run untimed at two venues. Previously held both at Weston Park and Ironbridge power station, this year welcomes a new venue with the event moving o Hatton Grange (from Ironbridge) for a bank of three stages on Saturday Morning.
The AGBO like many rally events started life as a road rally, gaining in popularity throughout the 60’s, 70’s and…