02/05/2012 Twingos’ Kielder confrontation

Chris Ingram and Joe Cruttenden emerged as winners in the Twingo Renaultsport R2 Trophy UK on last weekend’s Pirelli International Rally, the MSA British Rally Championship event also adding maximum points to Garry Pearson and Craig Wallace’s R1 Trophy campaign.

The 95 stage mile rally started in Carlisle City Centre on Friday evening, using two runs in Kershope Forest to get the crews in the mood for action. Split by a 45 minute break to ensure that everyone drove the second test in the dark, it was American R2 Twingo pilot who set the pace first time through the six mile stage.

Ingram was not slow, far from it. Sadly the slippery conditions had caught out the seventeen year-old mid stage and he spent around a minute in one of the event’s infamous ditches. Spectators managed to get him going again, but it seemed that the fight was over before it had really started.

23/04/2012 Pearson prepared for Pirelli

Garry Pearson from Duns and co-driver Craig Wallace from Kirriemuir travel to the Pirelli International Rally this weekend, the third round of this year’s Twingo Renaultsport R1 Trophy UK and MSA British Rally Championship.

Although the Rally is based in Carlisle, the stages are spread throughout the Kielder Forest complex and Garry is well aware of the event’s reputation of being the toughest Rally in the Championship collecting two punctures whilst competing in the BRC Challenge last year.



The R1 Category is basically a 1600cc production without a limited slip differential and as Garry explained “The tracks in Kielder tend to cut up a lot and we are also running behind the Historic and Challenge Rallies, so as the Renault Twingo R1 is still being developed as a forest car we will not be risking a maximum attack in order to try and reach the finish and score some points.”

Pearson, who is the 2011 BRC Challenge Star of the Future, is currently leading the 2012 MSA British Junior Rally Championship and the R1 Class with maximum scores in both.

12/12/2011 Dan McCalla named Renault MSA Young Motor Sport Journalist of the Year

 

 

The Motor Sports Association (MSA) is pleased to announce that Dan McCalla has been named the Renault MSA Young Motor Sport Journalist of the Year.

 

Established in 2002 in association with Renault UK, the award is designed to find and recognise the most promising British motor sport journalists aged 25 or under.

 

Hailing from Milton Keynes, McCalla joined the weekly publication Motorsport News in 2007, since when he has risen through the ranks to become the paper’s Rallying Editor – a role that includes travelling across the globe covering the FIA World Rally Championship – at just 23 years of age.