Motorsport UK is delighted to confirm Alex Stefan has won the 2025 award for Young Photographer of the Year, and Thiemo Albers- Daly has won the 2025 award for Young Journalist of the Year.

Alex is a motorsport photographer with years of experience capturing the dynamic world of rallying. In 2025, he joined the official photography team for the Probite British Rally Championship, representing Spacesuit Media.

“ Being recognised with this award is a tremendous honour,” added Stefan,“ especially given the standard set by previous winners. To see my name included among such talented photographers is something I am genuinely proud of.

“ I would like to thank the team at Spacesuit Media and the British Rally Championship for their continuous support, guidance, and the opportunities they have provided. It has been a privilege to photograph the sport at this level and to play a part in telling the story of the Championship.”

Thiemo Albers-Daly is a freelance journalist who has written for DriveTribe and produces his own podcast‘ On the Kerbs’. He also contributes to Paddock Chronicle.

“ I’ m delighted and honoured to have been chosen by Motorsport UK for this award,” said Albers-Daly,“ and grateful to them for both the recognition of myself and of the Paddock Chronicle. I love what I do and for it to be noticed at this level is something that I could only dream about until now – and is a heck of a motivator for me to keep pursuing my passion and hopefully is for others too. It doesn’ t seem quite real yet!”

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A new all-asphalt historic rally championship is being launched for 2026 – the Roger Albert Clark Historic Asphalt Rally Championship. This will run over five existing highprofile UK closed-road rallies and give competitors in all categories of historic car the chance to compete in a dedicated asphalt championship.

The British Historic Rally Championship will continue to be a mixed surface championship, with more gravel rounds than asphalt. The new series recognises that a growing number of historic rally cars are being prepared purely for asphalt rallies and that some competitors with historic cars are choosing to only compete on sealed surfaces.

The championship will cover all four historic categories, running from the oldest pre-68 cars through to the Category 4 cars of the 1990s and will also accommodate, on an invitation basis, cars that fall into the new Category 5, for cars built up to 1999.

Historic Asphalt Rally Championship calendar

22 February: East Riding Stages Rally 8-9 May: Manx Rally 24 May: Jim Clark Reivers Rally 19-20 June: Argyll Rally 19-20-September:

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By limiting the 2026 schedule to five events, competitors have been given the option to sample the new series while contesting other events, and the schedule may be increased and extended in 2027.

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