2025 British & Irish Championships

[hutchie]

As a clubman currently on the reserve list, and having been emailed the reserve list order. I will be very annoyed if these BRC competitors who entered after the ballot are given any favouritism. BRC championship and its entries already had opportunity in the ballot to secure entries for those they wanted to as well as the event organisers themselves. It seems bizarre to me that such a big name didn't enter before the ballet closed even if they weren't sure if they would be competing.

Hopefully everything carries on as stated in the regulations and we will get a run. Done every East Riding event so far and it's fantastic both the stages and town centre atmosphere.

[Tom206wrc]

Cronin has swapped to a Citroen C3 this year. Maybe he's using it as he will in the ITRC, for the prize money.

Good news
Also his brother Daniel will drive a Citroën

[archie106]

Reports on Facebook that Ingram will do a full season of BRC...

Interesting if so.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Good news

Why particularly ?

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Reports on Facebook that Ingram will do a full season of BRC...

Interesting if so.

Source ?

[archie106]

Source ?

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1L1zjBkjrD/

[Sal yet again]

And still they keep appearing. William Creighton now on the reserve entry but as yet no car nominated..!

[archie106]

They must be pretty confident of getting a run if they are putting in entries this late....

Also a bit strange that Creighton is not one of the MSport entries.

[Tom206wrc]

Why particularly ?

It'll be a great opportunity to see a Citroën winning several UK/Irl rallies(maybe even a championship)

[Fast Eddie WRC]

CRONIN CHOOSES CITROËN

Keith Cronin will defend his NAPA Auto Parts Irish Tarmac Rally Championship title in a Citroën C3 Rally 2. The West Cork driver, who will again be navigated by Killarney's Mikie Galvin, will line up in the French machine for the first time at the opening round of the Tarmac series, the Galway International Rally, which takes place on February 1st and 2nd.

For Cronin, the move sees him return to a marque with which he has enjoyed much success in the past. He won his third of four British Rally Championships in a DS3 R3T in 2012, and in the same model took a WRC3 win at Rally Finland the following year. In 2016, he and Galvin won their first Irish Tarmac Championship in a DS3 R5.

"We looked at various options, and the Citroën came up as the best overall package for us for 2025," said Cronin. "Their current Rally 2 car won over 130 rallies last year on every sort of surface, all over Europe, in Africa and in North and South America, and scored five WRC2 victories in the World Championship. C3 drivers won the French, Danish, Mexican and Ivory Coast Championships. Hopefully we can replicate that type of form with it in Ireland," he added.

The Citroën will be prepared and run by Tom Gahan Motorsport, as was the Ford Fiesta that brought Cronin to the 2024 Tarmac title, and the Volkswagen Polo he drove in 2022 and '23.

Continuing the Gallic flavour, Cronin and Galvin will run on Michelin tyres in 2025.

In addition to committing to their Tarmac Championship campaign, Cronin and Galvin have also entered the opening round of the Probite Brakes British Rally Championship, the East Riding Stages, which falls three weeks after Galway, but they are currently on the reserve list for the Yorkshire closed road event. "We'll have to wait and see firstly as to whether or not we get a start," remarked Cronin. "If we get going, we'll take the BRC on a round-by-round basis after that and see how things progress."