British & Irish Rally calendars 2023

[Sal yet again]

Found this pic online of the Cole wreck and testament to the strength of the Fabia cage that they were both relatively ok. Must be doubly upsetting for him that his daughter was in the nav's seat.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid...9&locale=en_GB

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Found this pic online of the Cole wreck and testament to the strength of the Fabia cage that they were both relatively ok. Must be doubly upsetting for him that his daughter was in the nav's seat.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid...9&locale=en_GB

Wow that must've been brutal. So glad they survived it relatively well.

[AndyRAC]

Another example of Epynt taking no prisoners; how many times has he done events on Epynt - and yet it can still catch you out. There are very rarely small 'offs' there......

A speedy recovery to both the crew.....

[AndyRAC]

https://www.autosport.com/national/n...ival/10464444/

Motorsport UK behind plans for a UK rally festival...........

[the sniper]

If they want it to "help grow rallying" it should feature a truly representative stage, it'd have to be somewhere like Sutton Park, Wollaton Park, Bute Park or Bellahouston Park, somewhere as near as possible to a large popular centre, where people can easily come and have a look. The likes of Castle Combe and Chatsworth are just too far out. It may be a couple of years too late for the former though, in terms of getting the local authorities onboard and keeping the likes of Just Stop Oil away... Sadly, I think the time to do this was 10 years ago.

[AndyRAC]

I thought it could do with being part of an actual event; but I'm not sure how they'd make that work. And it would have to be an annual event, not a 'one off'.

[Paul Hudson]

Do we really need another rally festival ?, why not spend the money getting a WRC Event back in the UK and build on that with, Hospitality, Media, Spectator numbers in the Thousands every day.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Do we really need another rally festival ?, why not spend the money getting a WRC Event back in the UK and build on that with, Hospitality, Media, Spectator numbers in the Thousands every day.

I agree with this.

We need a top series event back (ERC / WRC) and then have a spectator stage like the Rallyfest we had at WRGB with top cars and also demo runs from Group B cars etc. This would need to be as central and near cities as possible.

Rallyday already exists and adding something similar wont make any difference - another sticking plaster on a gaping wound.

[AndyRAC]

Do we really need another rally festival ?, why not spend the money getting a WRC Event back in the UK and build on that with, Hospitality, Media, Spectator numbers in the Thousands every day.

I'm guessing that they don't expect to find the funds to get either a WRC/ERC back, so this will have to suffice.

Saying that, the current events are pretty small, and hardly what you'd describe as a Festival.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Osian Pryce has done a deal for the next 3 Rounds of the ERC !

Great news and will be good to finally have a someone British to cheer again.