British & Irish Rally calendars 2023

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Matt Edwards wins SS9 in Dònegal ! Very impressive as he's new to the Polo and Moffett and Devine are going flat out at the top trading seconds.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

An even better time by Edwards on SS12 taking 7sec out of Devine and 14sec off Josh Moffett. He loves that Knockhalla stage !

Edit:
Just to prove he's not a one stage wonder, Edwards wins SS13 & SS14 by good margins too.
I believe he had diff issues on Friday so without that he would probably be challenging for the win.

[Steve Boyd]

Is it wishful thinking to hope ‘two major events each year’ means they’re aiming to bring the BRC back to the Isle of Man?

Good question, I have no idea, but the International Rally was a round of the ERC & ITRC as well as the BRC before the BRC banned 4WD cars in the late 90's.

[HKSjbg]

That was also a different motor club organising the International too wasn’t it? And what used to be the Pokerstars Rally has crept ever closer to the traditional September date

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Josh Moffett, the defending champion, is out of the Donegal International Rally following a crash on SS17, Fanad Head.

He and his co-driver are ok thankfully.

Callum Devine is now out in front by 53.1 seconds. Sam Moffett and Matt Edwards are now battling for 2nd place.

[ouvreur]

Matt Edwards wins SS9 in Dònegal ! Very impressive as he's new to the Polo and Moffett and Devine are going flat out at the top trading seconds.

New to the Polo, that he won 3 rallies and the 2021 BRC in?

[Steve Boyd]

That was also a different motor club organising the International too wasn’t it? And what used to be the Pokerstars Rally has crept ever closer to the traditional September date

That sort of depends on how far back you go. Certainly during the later years the International event was organised by a separate company to limit any financial liability on the local motor clubs but it relied heavily on members of both local clubs for its manpower. There was a period in the 90's where both the National in May and International in September had the same Clerk of the Course.

The Pokerstars has grown considerably in recent years particularly following the demise of Rally Isle of Man. My guess is that that Manx Autosport's plan is for that event and the May event to form the basis of the two future events but they need a bit more time to get the teams together to run two events to the standard that's expected and they'll need IoM Government support for road closures and use of the TT facilities, for example, to run those events.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

New to the Polo, that he won 3 rallies and the 2021 BRC in?

I meant after driving hardly at all and in a C3 last year.

[AndyRAC]

BRC - Ypres starts later this afternoon. The usual end of stage coverage on Facebook. I do wonder why Special Stage can do live coverage of BTRDA/National events, yet for the BRC, all we get is post stage coverage.....

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Great start by Chris Ingram in Ypres, just 0.7s off the fastest time on SS1 !