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Entries open for Wales Rally GB 2010
publication date: Sep 14, 2010
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author/source: Robin Roberts
The countdown to Britain 's round of the FIA World Rally Championship gathers momentum as event organisers are now accepting entries for the 66th running of Rally GB. This year's event, which will run from 11-14 November, has a new look and dimension with the introduction of a National Rally, the first-ever running of a timed special stage over the barrage in Cardiff Bay , plus the return - after 11 years - to the high-speed Radnor Forest stage near Presteigne in Powys. November's event will mark 38 years of Rally GB's unbroken inclusion as a qualifying round of the FIA World Rally Championship calendar. The organisers have invested both thought and effort into planning an event which offers both WRC and amateur rally drivers a challenging and thrilling competition on some of the most renowned special stages in the world. The National Rally is open to both modern and historic cars, and allows drivers with limited budgets to enjoy the privilege of competing in one of Britain 's biggest motorsport events. Highlights of the 215 competitive miles over three days include a longer 25.1km Crychan stage - a combination of Forestry Commission and closed military roads on Mynydd Epynt - near Llandovery and nearby a new mixed-surface 10.14km special stage titled ‘Monument Hill'. This special stage is named in celebration of the 50 anniversary of the very first timed special stage to be run in Britain on the 1960 RAC Rally - the forerunner of today's Rally GB. Also new for 2010 is the Cardiff Bay special stage, run twice - on the evenings of Thursday 11 and Saturday 13 November - over the coastal barrage, one of the largest civil engineering projects in Europe during its construction in the 1990s which now links Queen Alexandra Dock and Penarth Head. |
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