British & Irish Rally calendars 2023

[Steve Boyd]

Personally I liked the running order that used to be used on the Dukeries (and I'm sure on other events as well) where the field was split into 3: 1400s and slow historics, all other 2WD cars, then 4WD, with each group running fastest first. I know the Dukeries always used fairly short stages, but it seemed to work quite well from a spectators standpoint.

The irony here is that MSUK has stated that the changes are to make it better for spectators.

[Sal yet again]

Fourmaux now on the Trackrod entry list however the numbers are in the "supporting" Historics and BTRDA rounds rather than the BRC as per usual.

[Sal yet again]

A temporary "halt" to the running order proposals for 2024 has been agreed. Will be interesting to see what developments will now occur.

[HKSjbg]

Fourmaux now on the Trackrod entry list however the numbers are in the "supporting" Historics and BTRDA rounds rather than the BRC as per usual.

The Historic Cup and the Trackrod Forest Stages usually have strong enough entries all on their own that they could run as two mutually-exclusive rallies to give us a 140/160km ‘International’ Rally Yorkshire.

Would the loss of the pitiful few extra well-heeled gentleman drivers who aren’t interested in that length of rally be outweighed by more international drivers being tempted to do a proper rally?

[Steve Boyd]

The Historic Cup and the Trackrod Forest Stages usually have strong enough entries all on their own that they could run as two mutually-exclusive rallies to give us a 140/160km ‘International’ Rally Yorkshire.

Would the loss of the pitiful few extra well-heeled gentleman drivers who aren’t interested in that length of rally be outweighed by more international drivers being tempted to do a proper rally?

In order to get that mileage you'd need to double-run the stages - there's nothing significant available in Yorkshire that isn't already being used on the event, and Dalby is already being used twice. The double useage might put a few off. You then have to ask where these international entries are coming from. If your proposed event was a round of the ERT or some European national championships, then you might get a few foreign entries, but without that I doubt you'd get any.

[AndyRAC]

Three Shires Stages around the roads of the Malvern Hills (Ledbury & Eastnor).

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Oliver Solberg enters the RAC Rally !!

https://dirtfish.com/rally/oliver-so...ars-rac-rally/

[archie106]

Will be very interesting to see how he does, he surely has to be favourite for the win, but can he keep it on the road?

Also, I imagine its the first rally he has done in a while without a recce, and with the number of very experienced crews entered, his lack of experience in Kielder and Scotland might make it tighter at the top of the times.

[Sal yet again]

Was interesting last time around when everyone started throwing it off the road towards the end and Ryan C came through to win. Will be a slightly different experience for Oscar in managing his pace rather than being on it from the get go as much although even the Albert is more of a sprint now in real terms than it used to be.

[HKSjbg]

A 574km sprint? Longer than it ever has been in 15 editions? What do you mean exactly?