2025 British & Irish Championships

[AndyRAC]

I think you’ve said it on this forum once for every competitive kilometre this rally tends to run Andy

I’m assuming a lot of it comes down to which forests are available and at which time of year. Didn’t it used to be similar forests to the NG stages and only about a month in between? There’s nothing else that annually runs through the Hafren/Sweet Lamb/Myherin complexes at any time of year now anyway since the demise of the Mid-Wales Stages and WRGB…

Ha ha, you're probably correct.,
From memory, (I'd have to root out the event programmes I've still got) I've spectated at Crychan, Radnor, Tywi, Halfway on the event. And yes, most of those are used a month later for the NG/Quinton Stages.

Sweetlamb, Myherin, Dyfnant, Hafren were once used on the Bulldog (now Rally North Wales), as well the Dyfi stages; I remember going to Dyfi in the morning, then driving to Dyfnant in the early afternoon. The Plains when run in September used to use similar stages, but now uses the Clocaenog/Brenig/Alwen area for its mileage - as does the Cambrian.


Going off topic, both ANCRO & BTRDA tended to use the same forests at different times of the year, so you'd go to the same place twice; South Wales had the Red Dragon in May & Swansea Bay July/Aug, whilst North Wales had the Astra Stages in April & Cambrian in Oct/Nov - and even part of the Vauxhall Rally of Wales in March.

The amount of great events which have gone really is depressing - and none at all in South Wales......Walters Arena could probably host a 2 day event without leaving the venue. Now used for Enduro, ADV riding, etc

[Steve Boyd]

Autosport: Welsh forest rallying in turmoil

https://www.autosport.com/national/n...lled/10690041/

And if Storm Éowyn is as damaging as Darragh was we could see further cancellations and/or postponements affecting the Lake District and Scotland.