Pirelli BRC stars to compete on WRC Wales Rally GBTwo of the leading Pirelli-equipped drivers in this year’s British Rally Championship will compete on the World Rally Championship’s Wales Rally GB this weekend.
As in the BRC, Sweden’s Fredrik Ahlin and Scotsman David Bogie will drive a Ford Fiesta R5 and Skoda Fabia R5 respectively with the CA1 Sport team.
Ahlin won the Pirelli Carlisle Rally this year and showed his speed on WRC stages on the Mid Wales Stages, where he finished second. Both he and Bogie – the 2011 British champion with Pirelli – will be making third starts on Wales Rally GB, and both are registered for the WRC2 category.
Also competing on Pirelli tyres in Wales will be regular World Rally Car privateers Lorenzo Bertelli (Ford) and Valeriy Gorban (Mini), WRC2 contenders Nicolas Fuchs (Skoda) and Jaroslaw Koltun (Ford) and WRC3 challenger Michel Fabre (Citroen).
Young stars to race in BRDC British F3 Autumn Trophy with PirelliThe BRDC British Formula 3 Championship Autumn Trophy takes place at Snetterton this weekend, with a host of talented young drivers already signed up to compete.
Enaam Ahmed, a race-winner at Snetterton at the start of the 2016 season, moves from Douglas Motorsport where he is joined by James Pull – who contested the final round of the season at Donington – and Cameron Das, who this year won the inaugural F4 United States Championship supplied by Pirelli.
Australian Joey Mawson, the winner of the German ADAC F4 series – another equipped by Pirelli, will race for Douglas Motorsport along with Jamie Caroline. Dan Ticktum will drive for Double R Racing, while South African Callan O’Keeffe joins Fortec Motorsports alongside Ben Hingeley, a podium finisher this season for HHC Motorsport.
Hillspeed with Cliff Dempsey Racing has announced a two-car line-up of Thailand’s Sasakorn Chaimongol and Oman’s Abdullah Al Rawahi.
The Autumn Trophy takes place over two days, which both feature a qualifying session and two races.
Melker’s Assen double in Pirelli-supplied Supercar ChallengeNigel Melker won both races at the Pirelli-equipped Supercar Challenge finale at Assen in the Netherlands.
The former GP2 driver was dominant in the opening race in his Ligier LMP3, but it was much closer for second with Siggi Pfeiffer edging out the similar Norma of Luc de Cock/Tim Joosen by just 0.149 seconds. After British Radical drivers Rob Wheldon and Steve Burgess were handed a penalty, Henk Thuis took the SuperGT division win in his Puma.
In race two, Melker had a margin of a minute over ex-Formula 1 driver Jan Lammers and his team-mate Frits van Eerd. Rob Kamphues and Leon Rijnbeek finished third in their Wolf. The SuperGT win went to Henry Zumbrink in his Volvo who secured second in the division standings behind Mosler duo Kostas Kanaroglou and Daniel Campos Hull, who claimed the title last time out at Spa.
