• Understanding-self
• Understanding the driver
• Understanding your coaching practice
• Understanding the coaching environment
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M-Sport Award for Motorsport UK Pirelli Welsh Rally Championship leaders
Two young contenders from the 2025 Motorsport UK Pirelli Welsh Rally Championship will win a fabulous chance to work with the M-Sport World Rally Championship team on Rally Japan later this year.
In a partnership between the Welsh championship and M-Sport, the leading junior driver and co-driver after the third round of the championship season will be invited to join the M-Sport team to work as a weather crew on Rally Japan in November.
The top scoring under 25 driver and co-driver after the Nicky Grist Stages on 12th July, will have a unique opportunity to see how the M-Sport team works on an event, the chance to learn from team professionals and meet the current M-Sport drivers and co-drivers. Accommodation with the team and travel while at the event is included so the lucky pair will only need to cover their flight costs to Japan.
Pirelli Welsh Rally Championship 2024 Junior Champion Lewis Hooper on the Nicky Grist Stages
This unique prize has been developed to help promote young competitors from Wales and there is a tremendous synergy in that the prize will be awarded following the event supported by former World Rally champion co-driver Nicky Grist. M-Sport, of course, has an impressive record of success in Wales over some of the world’ s finest gravel special stages.
“ We would like to thank M-Sport and in particular Rich Millener for coming up with this wonderful prize,” announced Bryn Pierce, Pirelli Welsh Rally Championship co-ordinator.“ When we approached them with an idea, little did we think that Rally Japan would be offered up. Thank you, M-Sport Ford World Rally Team.’’
Rich Millener, M-Sport Ford World Rally Team Principal, added“ M-Sport has a rich history of developing younger talent, but that development shouldn’ t necessarily be confined to just focusing on the driving roles. There are many other aspects to becoming professional drivers at the top of their sport. This prize offers the chance for two motivated and upcoming stars to join us on a WRC event to understand how much information is gathered and passed to the crews to operate at the top level of the sport. I hope the experience will give them a competitive edge as they go forward in their careers.’’
Ben Lawrence
Coaching Conversations underway
Launching across April, May, and June 2025, Motorsport UK is hosting a new series of webinars for coaches and instructors working in any discipline of motorsport, who are looking to learn, connect, innovate and collaborate.
Coaching conversations is open( and free) for anyone involved in coaching and instructing drivers. Across the five weeks it will cover a range of topics and themes supporting you to be the best coach you can be. The themes of the session will be built around:
• Understanding-self
• Understanding the driver
• Understanding your coaching practice
• Understanding the coaching environment
Coaching Conversations will offer a space for you to develop your knowledge, skills and understanding of coaching through shared practice and connection with other coaches and instructors, help you reflect on your current approach to coaching, and support you to shape your own sense of identity as a coach or instructor. There will also be the opportunity to draw on the collective expertise of the group, solving problems and coaching challenges together, providing Peer support and a way to share the challenges related to coaching and instructing.
By taking part in Coaching Conversations, you will be able to engage with diverse perspectives and approaches to coaching, helping you develop creative and new approaches to supporting drivers.
Register for coaching conversations HERE Get further details HERE
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