British & Irish Rally calendars 2022

[ouvreur]

Meirion Evans Galway onboard on the Black Road...

https://youtu.be/Q2XZDyDLTgo

Hell, that's some going

[Sal yet again]

https://www.rallies.info/webentry/20...ies.php?type=u

North West Stages provisional entry is up with a certain Christopher Ingram entered in a Toksport Fabia..

[Jewy46]

Meirion Evans Galway onboard on the Black Road...

https://youtu.be/Q2XZDyDLTgo

Top class driving from Evans. He was good to watch all weekend!

I had a bit of a "moment" over the jump in that video back in the 2016 Galway International

See here: https://youtu.be/yyh3VkOOQfU?t=293

Good memories!

[Fast Eddie WRC]

So the NW Stages wasn't a joke from Chris, although I think saying he'd do it in a Micra was !

Nice to hear Chris Ingram today saying he wants to do a UK event to stay sharp in the break until he does Rally Croatia. He even suggested the NW Stages !

[Fast Eddie WRC]

The AR Podcast are doing a special with Matt Edwards - apparently a review of his career as he confirms he hasn't the budget for doing either BRC or ITRC this year.

[AndyRAC]

No budget, for a multi BRC champion.....words fail. When are the MSUK going to get their act together and actually help sort the mess that is British Rallying? A damning indictment of the sport in this country.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

So seems that's Cave and Edwards both now gone from the BRC due to finance - the two very top driver's that we can ill-afford to lose.

This year's Championship will be a shadow of what it was even in recent years.

[Crutt]

What incentives are there though? There is no decent media or television coverage, there is no fan fare around it and the events themselves are lack lustre and stale.

How can the likes of Belgium and France be thriving for their national championships? Because they are well promoted with big incentives for the winners and those events are the pinical in those countries. There are way too many events and championships in the uk

[HKSjbg]

I think at the moment the BRC is going for quantity over quality. I’d like to see the number of events reduced down to 5 if that meant 2 tarmac rallies with the same combined stage mileage as the 3 currently on the calendar and 3 gravel events with the same combined mileage of the 4 we have now.

So long as there were rallies out there that are prepared to do that we could have 3 100km gravel rallies and 2 165km tarmac rallies (based on the last two runnings of the Jim Clark and the Corbeau and RBC’s own website stating this year’s event will be 95 miles of stages).

I’d also like to see a highlights programme dropped into some of the lulls in between race sessions on ITV4’s BTCC coverage. Perhaps commentated by Steve Rider, perhaps by Mark James.

Speaking of Mark James, has anyone else seen British Rally Media’s video on Wales Motorsport in BHRC?

https://youtu.be/8l-BMH7AX6Q

It may only be focusing on one team but the presentation and commentary are miles better than that ‘documentary’ feel that the BRC was going for last year. You don’t get the sense that the rallies are ‘only’ 70km long, 45 minutes and you’re done.

The BRC’s coverage last year started out alright, but after a while just fell a bit flat and was basically Colin Clark talking on top of video of obscure angles with a weird grey filter

[HKSjbg]

I was checking out all the calendar shuffling on ewrc-results.com after Ypres joined the WRC on the same weekend as the Ulster - specifically the Celtic Rally Trophy and noticed Rali Bae Ceredigion is now a round of TER.

https://www.terseries.com/en/news/13...bae-ceredigion

That makes RBC the only rally in the country this year with the distinction of being part of a pan-european or world championship