[ERC] JDS Machinery Rali Ceredigion 2025

This is also on youtube as well ;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5vV1bQ5G1g&t=516s

I don't know why but I quite often remember when he won the Hyundai i20 in eSports WRC and in his victory speech he said he'd sell it. Probably not what they had in mind Jon lol.

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Originally Posted by WRCStan

I don't know why but I quite often remember when he won the Hyundai i20 in eSports WRC and in his victory speech he said he'd sell it. Probably not what they had in mind Jon lol.

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It was a road car he won, not a rally car. I'm sure he put the sale money towards his career as a real rally driver.

Polish ERC3 driver Kowalczyk calls Armstrong a true rallying role model :)
https://www.fiaerc.com/en/news/how-t...wc-progression

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Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

It was a road car he won, not a rally car. I'm sure he put the sale money towards his career as a real rally driver.

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Yes pretty easy to understand but still, if you give something away as a prize that you made and want to promote the virtues of as a great product and they say 'what a bag of sh I don't need this lol', you'd be pretty miffed too.

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Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

So maybe 3 drivers more... not a lot is it.

And I'm sure they and others would've been here if they had any chance of a high finish in the Championship.

And comparing here to earlier Rounds isnt fair when then the drivers had full ambition and budget for the season.

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https://www.ewrc-results.com/entries...ia-rally-2025/

The Rally Croatia entry list proves that there is something fundamentally unattractive about Rali Ceredigion to crews from Europe.

Last round of the season, only three drivers with a chance of winning, so you’d think the entry list would be worse than Wales, and it’s completely the opposite.

I attended Rali Ceredigion, and thought it was well organised for spectators, but inevitably I had no answer to my friends when they asked why there were so few entries in the ERC.

Not trying to be negative, I just fear if this is not addressed the ERC will opt for a more popular event in future, which will be disappointing.

Furthermore, there are 28 Rally2 cars, and only 1 is a Croatian crew in Croatia.

Without the UK and Ireland entries, there were 4 Rally2 European crews in Wales.

I am telling it all the time - for ERC competitors Rali Ceredigion is the most expensive round in terms of costs (and also logistics due to ferry, customs issue, id/passport issues etc) so it is first event to cut. And to say the truth, lot of drivers in Croatia is doing it mainly as a test for WRC Croatia 2026...

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Originally Posted by Doon

https://www.ewrc-results.com/entries...ia-rally-2025/

The Rally Croatia entry list proves that there is something fundamentally unattractive about Rali Ceredigion to crews from Europe.

Last round of the season, only three drivers with a chance of winning, so you’d think the entry list would be worse than Wales, and it’s completely the opposite.

I attended Rali Ceredigion, and thought it was well organised for spectators, but inevitably I had no answer to my friends when they asked why there were so few entries in the ERC.

Not trying to be negative, I just fear if this is not addressed the ERC will opt for a more popular event in future, which will be disappointing.

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But also have in mind that some crews are using it as preparation for CER and also thinking about next season in WRC.

The only fair way to compare would be to move Ceredigion to be one of the early events in the year. And UK Motorsport could provide some funding for ferry costs etc like the other island events did.