BRC announces entries to date

[uncoversport]

Hey guys,

The BRC has announced those who've entered this year's series so far.

http://www.serviceparknews.com/?c=121&a=1182

It looks like it should be a killer year this year. If only we were so lucky down in Australia to have similar depth in the field! *sigh*

Cheers

[Mirek]

Nice to see that something happens around MG. Duo Mark Higgins, Stuar Jones is sure very nice to see in the car!

[sal]

Guys whilst it's nice that you are enthusiastic about our premier rally championship the organisers are putting a lot of + spin on what is quite a dissappointing entry. Juho Hänninen the current leader of the PWRC is only likley to the Pirelli and possibly Wales at the end of the year and a lot of these cars are part of one make series (the Swifts and Citroen C2s). Whilst it's nice to see the MG's there could do with being some more numbers there as most of the qualifying rounds have to rely on entries from other series that share events such as the Irish Tarmac and British Historics that help bolster the numbers and allow the events to run in the first place. It's not quite as rosy as they are making out and sadly the move away from allowing WRC cars has yet to bear the fruit of progressing our young talents careers as was promised.

[ste898]

Is that it?

Thankgod for the ITC entries on Jim Clark and Historics on Pirelli and Trackrod....

[AndyRAC]

The BRC is, shall we say, weak and dieing. The one-make series have padded the entry. I will still go and spectate, but it's not what it was.

[BDunnell]

Oh dear. It's another indication of rallying being in a bit of a crisis at the moment. Why would anyone outside a core of die-hard fans want to go and see a few Group N machines? The BRC badly needs some sort of overhaul. Super 2000 rules, maybe? Even then, though, it's difficult to see it recovering to anywhere like its status 10 years ago.

[Micke_VOC]

Patrik Flodin annouced today that he will do the BRC with TEG Sport .
They will use the new Subaru N14.

Teamate will be Wyn Humphreys

[Elgin Man]

I'd still put my money on Darren Gass to win.

[306 Cosworth]

Is that it?

Thankgod for the ITC entries on Jim Clark and Historics on Pirelli and Trackrod....

MSA Gravel Championship is also using Trackrod as a championship round, so should see some WRC Cars out and Mr Burton in his 306 :up:

[uncoversport]

The BRC has announced those who've entered this year's series so far.


You can add another to the list of drivers competing, Patrik Flodin:
http://www.serviceparknews.com/?c=121&a=1211

[m.lowe]

The only good thing about the BRC this year will be the sight of the MG S2000 cars and possibly more as more cars have been sold and maybe the new owners will contest selected events

As for the rest of it its another dissapointing year for what is supposed to be the pinnacle of our Rally championships hehe

Regards
Mark
MG S2000 SPORT SITE (http://mg-s2000sport.mysite.orange.co.uk/)

[Bruce D]

Yeah I think more people have to go the S2000 route now for "regional" championships. We've been running them in South Africa for 4 years now and having watched the opening round a few weeks ago it was awesome action. We only have 2 manufacturers doing S2000 but we still have 9 cars in the main class. And rallies are usually decided by less than 20sec. So in Europe where you can get more manufacturers involved there should be huge fields.

[m.lowe]

SA championship needs these too Bruce
MG S2000 SPORT SITE (http://mg-s2000sport.mysite.orange.co.uk/)

I was gutted the RED /Toyota SA deal fell through

[Bruce D]

yeah we definately need more than just VW and Toyota fighting it out and Ford are back this year, unfortunately with just N3 cars for now but Fiesta S2000 cars from next season onwards, but we do need more.

The problem is two-fold - 1) our manufacturers championship counts all finishing competitors for manufacturers so its always more of a "who has the most cars in the event" type of thing, not rewarding the top guys all the time, thus a 2-car operation has no chance in a championship where overall points are awarded down to 20th place and the top 6 in each class get points, regardless of overall position, and b) our privateers are spending millions are Subarus and Mitsubishis rather than proven S2000 cars.

[Langdale Forest]

Should be a very exiting year!

[macjam]

Couple of things a few people seem to have an optical bypass on, or a case of making the facts to suit themselves.

BRC has more registered crews than it has had for a great number of years.

The BRC have always only been part of the whole event. There are currently 49 crews entered, mid to late 90's there were approx. 30. Early 2000's the International rally of Wales ran with 24 BRC crews.

10 years ago the entry looked brilliant, due to the number of different manufacturers entering, but there were less registered crews.

So perhaps in your eyes they have wrecked it, but if you did ever look at the facts you'll find it is being ressurected slowly over the years.