2025 AWARD WINNERS
Organising Team of the Year Kielder Carlisle Stages
Early in 2025 rallying was hit with the notification from Natural Resource Wales that there would be no rallying in Wales for at least the first four, and likely, six months of 2025 due to the damaged caused by Storm Darragh, and the needs to remove the fallen trees.
With the British Rally Championship having dedicated coverage on ITV4, the Roger Albert Clark Rally Motor Club thought that the promotion of the sport to the public was too important just to lose the opportunity due to the damaged caused by the storm.
The club approached both the Championship organisers and Motorsport UK to offer a potential replacement round for the Severn Valley Stages Rally which had been cancelled due to the storm damage.
The club then began discussions with Forestry England to obtain a forestry allocation on the same date as the lost round in April – which was only three months away. Most rallies take between six to nine months to organise, so the organising team had to work very closely together, and with Forestry England, to prepare and run an event to the quality and standard expected for the British Rally
Championship. After just 12 weeks of the team working towards the goal of organising 50 Stage Miles of forest rally, including recce for the BRC crews, exactly 100 crews entered the five-stage event.
The event ran to time the whole day with no major incidents. The Safety Delegate wrote in his post-event report,“ Considering the [ limited ] time that the organising team had to organise the event they did an incredible job.”
Revolution- December 2025
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