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Yesterday, 11:27 #11
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Given what we had a year or two ago I think his year has seen a sensible increase in event KMs. It would be wishful thinking to expect much more when the BRC seemed to be dying on its arse not so long ago.
“An innovative plan run a double header alongside the Border Counties Rally in May 2025 was unfortunately not supported by the Border Counties team.”
It would have been interesting to see how that would have worked, perhaps SRC for the BCR and BTRDA for Kielder and BRC or BHRC running the combined event maybe?
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Yesterday, 12:12 #12
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Personally, I think it would be sensible to run the Border Counties and Kielder Forest Rally on alternate years.
Neither event gets a huge entry, and as they are both within a month of each other, shouldn't be too difficult to do. This way you could have both SRC and BTRDA (depending on calendars) on the same event, which would likely make each event much more financially stable.
The alternate years strategy seems to be working quite well over in Ireland, both for the national championship and the gravel championship.
Won't happen though unfortunately.
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It made the BBC News !
On rallying's wider issues, Joe Hutchinson, who is part of the organising committee, said the motorsport was in "an interesting transition period".
"The Jim Clark and other closed road rallies are doing well but forest stage rallies, which have been the mainstay since the 1970s are struggling," he said.
"We all love images of Colin McRae driving sideways through the trees, but if we want that to continue then we need more support from the governing bodies."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxrygz2vrqo
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Today, 17:18 #15
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It's an interesting one.
With the relative lack of snow we have seen in recent years further south and in Wales, I wonder if the rally calendar will end up shifting to September-May rather than March-Dec as in the past.
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