Fermanagh rallying ace Jon Armstrong not only took the top of the WRC2 rostrum at Rally Spain at the weekend, which grants him two drives in an R5 category car next season, but also bagged the 2016 Rookie champion accolade while Welsh crew crowned overall champions on the same weekend.
I have touched on the Ariel Motor Company before on this blog when I road tested an Ariel Atom 2, so I won’t go into the company on this post more than to say that they are a small firm based in Somerset in the south of England who design and produce some seriously capable and unique cars.
Many of you will know what the Circuit of Ireland Rally is from my pictorial and editorial coverage in here over the years, and indeed it is one of the world’s oldest and once toughest rallies around. Ran for years by the Ulster Automobile Club (UAC) it went from strength to strength and died off over the years, returning to full bloom in the last few years again.
On Saturday I travelled into the hills above Broughshane to catch up with local drift driver Mark McBurney who at the age of just 24 has achieved something, that as far as we are aware, no one else has achieved in the Irish drift scene before now.
The TVR Griffith was the car that pushed TVR into the big league of performance car manufacturers when it was unveiled in 1990. The wedge-shaped cars of the eighties were nearing the limits of their development and a new direction needed to be found.
Ford as a worldwide brand have taken measures to create a “one Ford” type world, where by each model within the range should be available across its global market and indeed this is why the all new Mustang [read review here] is now available from new, in right hand drive, within the UK for the first time.
Next month’s Dayinsure Wales Rally GB (27-30 October) will feature a star-studded line-up after organiser, International Motor Sports, confirmed it has received a huge number of entries from right around the globe for the UK’s date on the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) calendar.
The Suzuki Baleno is a car that many will have heard of from years gone by, in fact some time ago when I started driving, the Baleno model was quite popular with those who wanted an affordable, reasonably easy to insure, good looking warm hatch with the kind of reliability only Japanese cars could provide back then.
Volkswagen is celebrating a number of class wins, and overall victory, in the annual Caravan Club Towcar of the Year Awards. The 4MOTION-equipped all-wheel drive Passat Alltrack has been named Towcar of the Year 2017 while the Passat and its smaller sibling, the 4MOTION-equipped Golf Alltrack, have taken three class wins between them.
It’s official: the 2016 edition of Dayinsure Wales Rally GB is now firmly within view, with a busy media preview at the picturesque Brenig Reservoir on 22nd September revving attendees into a frenzy as one of the world’s most spectacular sports returns to the famous Welsh forests.