British & Irish Rally calendars 2022

[Sal yet again]

Mintex Rally 'touring event" tommorow in a bit of a shambles due to its main spectator location getting pulled at the 11th hour. Leaves only a run round the car parj at Odsal Stadium even though they are using Duncombe Park. Same organiser was involved with a last minute canning of a demo event in Bradford last year sadly...

[AndyRAC]

Is Duncombe no longer spectator friendly? Or they just didn't want to use that venue?


Went to Sweetlamb for the Rallynuts Stages; nice day for the most part - bright & sunny, but a cool breeze. Plenty of action, and not one, but two Fiat 131 Abarths......Watched in the bowl in the morning, then went exploring in the afternoon further into the stage. If being honest, I prefer it in it's old date, early June, and and the forests south of Builth Wells.

[HKSjbg]

I didn’t get to go in the end; with the one car between me and the other half it just wasn’t practical in the end

Shame because some of the videos I’ve seen it wasn’t too dusty!

Is this the ‘bowl area’: https://youtu.be/B8MqKtgXxD8 That would have been a good spot to watch if I’d been able to get there.

I think the next rally for me will be Three Shires, by which time I’ll be living a ten minute walk from the service park so no excuses haha

[AndyRAC]

No, that's not the bowl area - that's almost the same place that I was in the afternoon.......

[Sal yet again]

They have used Duncombe on the Rally of the Tests etc but dont seem to want to have people watching.

Looks like the Odsal "stage" was a bit of a joke and traffic issues in Leeds saw only a handful of cars make it.

Think the organiser means well however this appears to be the latest in a series of unfortunate problems and suspect it will be to do with liability insurance and possible MSUK involvement as even "demo" events now seem to fall under the same banner as a full stage rally.

[AndyRAC]

Tour of Epynt this Saturday; still no news on spectators, so I guess that means none allowed.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Circuit of Ireland ITRC Rd3 this weekend too...

http://www.irishtarmac.com/itrc-cont...it-of-ireland/

[the sniper]

Tour of Epynt this Saturday; still no news on spectators, so I guess that means none allowed.

Is the Epynt Commandant still trying to assess what rallying is...?

[Sal yet again]

Is the Epynt Commandant still trying to assess what rallying is...?

I had heard he'd been very much made aware of what rallying was and was full of enthusiasm however if that translates into allowing members of the public onto the ranges when a rally is on I'm not so sure.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Seems Devine has switched to a Polo for the CoI. I hope this is just while his Fiesta is being fixed.