The Motorsport UK British Rally Championship is set to round out its 2023 season in the world-class gravel stages of North Wales, as the Visit Conwy Cambrian Rally plays host to the seventh and final round this weekend.
The race for the coveted BRC title was decided in the super-fast forests of Trackrod Rally Yorkshire back in September, as Frenchman Adrien Fourmaux took his fifth BRC win of the season to etch his name on the impressive trophy.
With the overall championship decided, the focus now turns to the remaining clashes not only for position in the standings but across the other categories in the series and the Llandudno-based event provides the perfect battleground to see out the season in style.
Matthew Hirst and Declan Dear will have another chance to clinch the Motorsport UK Pirelli Welsh Rally Championship title for a third time on this weekend’s penultimate round of the series.
Callum Griffiths (co-driven by William Lewis) leads the category in his Presteigne Tyre Services-supported Fiesta ST and arrives at the penultimate round just three points ahead of Sam Mason who (co-driven by James Seymour) won the class last time out in his SM Autocare Ford Fiesta.
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Callum’s brother Liam Griffiths and co-driver Daniel James are third, a further two points behind in his Fiesta ST.
Machynlleth’s Gethin Price (co-driven by Sion Rowlands) is fourth in the Junior standings and will be aiming to repeat his Rallynuts Stages class victory to help keep his title challenge alive in his RKP Haulage Nissan Micra.
Boyd Kershaw/Keegan Rees remain in a strong position in the 2WD category.
They have won the class three times and retired twice, meaning that they can count both their final scores in their Flying Kiwi Ford Escort Mk2.
Ricky Crone is 17 points behind in fifth, after a trio of good results in his two-litre Toyota 3SGE engined MS Textiles Ford Escort Mk2.
Co-driven by Ifan Devine, the Montgomery man will certainly be aiming to finish the season on a high.
Everything is still up for grabs in the Restruct Welsh Historic classes, with the additional incentive of the top three finishers in each class at the end of the season being put forward for the David Stokes Historic Challenge award for drivers and the Guy Weaver award for co-drivers.
Andrew Stokes and Newtown’s Jonny Evans arrive in Llandudno with a healthy class W8 lead, thanks to two wins and three second place finishes.
Another good result in their Ford Escort RS1600 Mk1 will secure them the title.
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