2025 British & Irish Championships

[HKSjbg]

As I had hoped last year, this year’s Severn Valley Rally will again be 60 stage miles:

https://britishrallychampionship.co....valley-stages/

After a few years in the doldrums it appears British rallying is steadily regaining its health - and not going too ambitious after one good year either.

I’m also glad to see the end of the name ‘Rallynuts Stages’. I’m sorry but when the BRC needed some cache, class, whatever you wanna call it - that name just sounded too amateur to me

[AndyRAC]

It had a few names, which never helps; I recall the Kerridge, Mutiny, then Severn Valley, and Rallynuts.......(We see the same in horse racing, and cycling with races/ team names by the sponsor name only)

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Ingram doesn't say on entry list currently he's doing BRC.

Maybe he's just using it as a warm up rally for a possible WRC2 event.

I'd be a bit surprised if he did the BRC again.

[Sal yet again]

When was the last time Keith Cronin and Donagh Kelly were on a reserve list?!

[archie106]

I make it 3 Junior BRC and 2 BRC1 crews on the reserve list. Not really ideal, hopefully the BRC organisers can get them a run, as I believe the entry selection process has already happened.

[Sal yet again]

They will all get runs as trust that is a condition of the event being part of the BRC. It was always going to be an oversubscribed event and expect there will be mutterings of favouritism. For rally fans though its going to be a belter, just hope it runs more smoothly than the NW Stages in '24!

[archie106]

I hope that is what happens, the event regulations seem pretty clear about how the reserve list works.

Will be a cracking event anyway! The stages are a lot easier than the NW stages, so there shouldn't be as many blockages.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Cronin has swapped to a Citroen C3 this year. Maybe he's using it as he will in the ITRC, for the prize money.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

I hope that is what happens, the event regulations seem pretty clear about how the reserve list works.
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This on FB...

A friend who shall be nameless but a leading rally organiser told me that some Irish entries don't think the normal rules apply to them. The particular situation was regarding the desire to only pay the entry fee at the start - and in cash, but be on the seeded list.

[archie106]

Yeah I've just seen that now!

My impression of the East Riding Stages organisers is that they don't take nonsense from anyone, and want to make sure that the clubmen competitors still get a top event without crews buying their way in.

I suspect that the BRC organisers are currently trying to work things out, we'll see if they succeed!

It's also probably worth mentioning that the order of reserves on the current list (order of entry) is not the order in which spaces will be offered (names out of a hat) so it may be possible for crews to get bumped up.