Subaru could field up to five or six S14’s in the 2009 WRC

In an interview with wrc.com, Subaru’s Team director Richard Taylor admitted that there could be five or six Subaru World Rally Cars competing on next year’s WRC.

 Richard Taylor speaking to wrc.com about the possibility of running more cars:
We’ve always said we’d like to see five or six Subaru World Rally Cars running in total. So far we have the two-car Adapta M2 team - a satellite operation -… Continue reading

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2009 MSA British Rally Championship calendar announced

The MSA British Rally Championship calendar will have a new opening round for 2009, but will still retain six representative rallies, one from each of the countries in the British Isles: England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man.

International Rally North Wales will precede the previous season opener, the Pirelli International, by just three weeks, starting 2009’s BRC at the… Continue reading

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Trackrod Rally 2008 - BRC International Rally Yorkshire: Results provisional as Guy Wilks wins and then is excluded as manufacturers’ continue feud

WILKS EXCLUDED AFTER WINNING IN YORKSHIRE

In a repeat of his dominant performance in 2007, Guy Wilks took victory on every stage of Rally Yorkshire, beating title rival Mark Higgins by a minute and thirty seconds at the end of the penultimate rally in the Tesco 99 Octane MSA British Rally Championship.

However, the result was overturned soon after the finish ceremony, when a protest relating to his Mitsubishi… Continue reading

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Mikko Hirvonen was the guest star at Rallyday Castle Combe 2008

Here’s a couple of videos of RALLYDAY which was held at Castle Combe and featured Mikko Hirvonen as the main attraction in the BP Abu Dhabi Ford Focus WRC 08.  Hirvonen was immediately on a flight to Corsica after the event to begin pre-rally testing as Francois Duval and the M-Sport team are already there getting to grips with the Focus WRC 08.

Other stars in attendance included Guy… Continue reading

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Ulster Rally 2008 Results: Eamonn Boland wins to clinch his first Irish Tarmac Rally Championship title

Eamonn Boland silenced any critics he may have had after the Rally Isle of Man to score a convincing start to finish victory on the Toddsleap.com Ulster Rally 2008. Boland was never headed as he made his intentions clear from the very first stage.

You could tell everything was going well when he would say little in service, just that everything was fine. Boland becomes the first driver… Continue reading

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Ulster Rally 2008 Top Twenty Entry List, new Irish Tarmac Rally Champion Eamonn Boland heads the field

Irish tarmac champion, in all but name, Eamonn Boland heads an impressive entry on this year’s Toddsleap Ulster Rally. Boland is champion, as Mark Higgins admitted to the Belfast Telegraph that he will not be in Cork this year due to his BRC commitments. Higgins though said that he wouldn’t have caught Boland this year anyway as only had a very outside mathematical chance.

No.2 is Eugene Donnelly, in… Continue reading

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