Wales Rally GB moving further North

[AndyRAC]

Hell Yea!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll always remember going to the Radnor stage (normally 1st of the day) where you could hear the cars coming up the valley for a good 5 mins, which sounded awesome in the cold crisp air off November.
Then obviously theres the famous Sweetlamb Hafren. Most of my memories of this stage where when it was run an the dark, most famously the McRae comeback in 95! Amazing atmosphere in the bowl with alot of noise, if you like that sort of thing.
With the likes of Myherin, the hilly Esgair Daffyd, Twyi, Dyfi etc... it's all good............here's a directory of some welsh stages
http://www.wda.co.uk/index.cfm/wda_h...orsport/en9798

The main thing the organisers have to sort out is the bad traffic congestion, which was a big problem when these stages were last used in 2000!

Been to quite a few places in Hafren, Sweetlamb bowl is aewsome in the dark, a real natural ampitheatre, blows Walters Arena away. My personal favourite place was the Nant Melen hairpin, always a good atmosphere there, especially 1995.
Do hope this is true and that they sort the traffic out, wasn't well thought out in 1999 when there was chaos. We could do with the return of the best stages in Wales, Rally GB might start to be a great event again.

[Simmi]

Anything that brings it north a bit gets my full support.

[StevoEvo]

Most definatly Andy, it's got to be the most popular stage in Wales. Always packed without fail...
Lets hope we are going north!!! If WRGB is to stay in Wales, it would be good to use all of Wales, and nice to see some black top used lol

MY IDEAL RALLY ( if it's to be all 3 days in Wales)
THURS
CERIMONIAL START 18.30 Builth Wells
Overnight halt Aberystwyth

FRIDAY
05.00 START
Service Dolgellau
SS1 Penmachno
SS2 Clocaenog
Service Dolgellau
SS3 Machynlleth
SS4 Pantperthog
Service Dolgellau
SS5 Sweetlamb 1 (night Stage)
Service Builth Wells and overnight halt

SATURDAY
06.00 START
SS6 Radnor
SS7 Sweetlamb 2
SS8 Hafren
Service Builth Wells
SS9 Tywi
SS10 Esgair Cerrig
SS11 Myherin
Service Builth Wells and overnight halt and tarmac setup

SUNDAY
05.30 START
SS12 Epynt (tarmac stage)
SS13 Brecon Beacons North (tarmac stage)
SS14 Brecon Beacons South (tarmac stage)
Service Glyneath and gravel setup
SS15 Resolven
SS16 Rhondda
SS17 St Gwynno
Service Cardiff
SS18 Cardiff City (tarmac stage on city roads on gravel tyres sideways is always good)
Finish Cardiff City Hall

Here's Hoping

[Tomski]

Start in Cardiff, first night remote service Carlisle, second night York, finish in Cardiff.

Everyones happy!!

[kernel_gdi]

it's a bit off-topic, but i will ask here as there are a lot of Wales Rally experts

i've seen a massive jump (and real fast, maybe 140/150 km/h) on Eurosport on the last 2 editions (if not more). Last year i remember Solberg jumping a lot. I have suspicion that this jump is in Epynt stage... but not sure

so where is it¿?

[MJW]

it's a bit off-topic, but i will ask here as there are a lot of Wales Rally experts

i've seen a massive jump (and real fast, maybe 140/150 km/h) on Eurosport on the last 2 editions (if not more). Last year i remember Solberg jumping a lot. I have suspicion that this jump is in Epynt stage... but not sure

so where is it¿?
Its actualy on the Margam (or Port Talbot named stage this year) near junction 4 on that stage. Its a man made jump and you can get really high jumps.

[Norwegian Blue]

Did they finish Port Talbort stage in Margam park this year? In my view the rally season just HAS to finish in Margam park! Shame it didn't happen this year! Great news that the rally is spreading out, hopefully some day I'll get to see one of the classic long and adventurous Rally GBs i am too young to remember!

[kernel_gdi]

Its actualy on the Margam (or Port Talbot named stage this year) near junction 4 on that stage. Its a man made jump and you can get really high jumps.

It may be that... the jump i'm refering is on 2:18 on that video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktldc6vSPYA

Did they finish Port Talbort stage in Margam park this year? In my view the rally season just HAS to finish in Margam park! Shame it didn't happen this year! Great news that the rally is spreading out, hopefully some day I'll get to see one of the classic long and adventurous Rally GBs i am too young to remember!

no, this year Margam Park area was not used

[VodkaKick3]

I would love to see the rally head back north but it wont unfortunately due to traffic congestion the roads JUST wouldnt be able to cope with the amount of traffic, its a pity as it would be awesome to see them use Hafren, Dyfi, Radnor, Myherin, these are possibly the best stages in England.

[StevoEvo]

it's a bit off-topic, but i will ask here as there are a lot of Wales Rally experts

i've seen a massive jump (and real fast, maybe 140/150 km/h) on Eurosport on the last 2 editions (if not more). Last year i remember Solberg jumping a lot. I have suspicion that this jump is in Epynt stage... but not sure

so where is it¿?

Epynt has many jumps but the ones used by the WRC are Deers and Paras.
Last year was probably the Deers Leap jump, just east of Dixies corner. This year they introduced a new jump called Para's. Heres some vids of them..
Deers Leap:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCFYiKiRbBE

Para's Jump:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl4yOafN-PA : poor quality

Also found a few vids of the national rallies on Epynt ranges:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=epynt

Is this the Margam jump you mean? I do like the look of this jump!! . Does anybody confirm where about it is?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCFYiKiRbBE