Brc 2021

[the sniper]

Scrambled into the forests for the grampian. Lovely weather, great pace from the top guys but Matt Wilson was visibly faster through this 5 left in Fetteresso we watched from. Amazing commitment using every inch of the road and more.

Glad to hear it, too far for me to go and chance it, particularly not knowing the lay of the land up there. I'm still gutted so many had to miss the Nicky Grist. They're putting on a great show on the stages this year and it might not be repeated...

The coverage is fine; they do a good job, with limited material to work with. It's over 20 years since we has BBC coverage, and just under that for the excellent CH4 coverage of the F2 days. When you have top drivers, teams, and budgets etc it's a lot easier to make events look like they're important.

I still can't get my head around them not using any onboards...

Our premier series basically is just another rally series - and the events are 'club' events. One day forest events (and less than 40 mins of timed stages) are not what a country's premier series should be about.....but we know why. How we get the BRC to a similar level to BTCC, BSB, British GT is the holy grail for UK rallying.

Totally agree, but I've come to believe/somewhat accept that this is what 'the bubble' are comfortable with. The obscurity some want the sport to hide in will probably be the death of it in the end, as it's easy to ban something nobody can see or care about.

Great shout. McDiarmid Park as your service park, a day’s stages at Carron Valley and Loch Ard, another day around Fetteresso/Durris/Drumtochty and your final day in the Tay Forest park stages.

But then that’s a discussion for another thread...

I'd base it at Ingliston/Edinburgh Airport, the Royal Highland Centre. 50 mins away Cardrona/Elibank in the Borders, 1hr 5m to Craigvinean, 45m to Carron Valley or 55 minutes to the core Trossachs stages.

Nice idea but I see the Green's are now in power in Scotland (with the SNP). I cant see any chance of this govt giving a new WRC event the time of day.

I'm afraid I think you're right, unless they can be duped by the Hybrids.


I went to the Historic Rally Festival at Weston Park today. Nice event, could really do with being a timed rally, as there seemed to be little impetus for many entrants to push on. A good few moments down at the water splash though, even if regardless of yesterday's rain it was more of a puddle, even with it being topped up between stages with a hose pipe!

And for those (on BRF...) who say spectators don't pay, £16 to £22 each and there was a good crowd there. All purchased in advance I believe. The sport isn't dead yet, no matter how hard they try...