Sponsor Melvyn Evans and new co-driver Mark Glennerster in their Subaru Impreza WRC won Sunday's Melvyn Evans Motorsport Tour of Epynt, opener of the 2018 Protyre MSA Asphalt Rally Championship, writes Roger Gale. They set identical times to the Damian Cole / Jamie Edwards ‘Get Connected’ Ford Fiesta WRC on both the opening two stages of the Port Talbot MC event and managed to gradually pull … [Read more...]
Mother of Welsh closed-road rallies is reborn
The revamped Protyre MSA Asphalt Rally Championship returns in style this weekend with the mother of all closed road rallies in Wales., writes Roger Gale. There’s a superb entry for the Port Talbot MC-organised Melvyn Evans Motorsport Tour of Epynt on Sunday 11 March, an event which can trace its origins back to October 1965. Having taken a sabbatical in 2017, it’s been 17 months since the … [Read more...]
Tout is out and about in an Evo 10
The 2014 Welsh Tarmac Rally Champion Rob Tout will contest this year’s Protyre MSA Asphalt Rally Championship in his B13 class Mitsubishi Evo 10. The Ammanford-based driver will be one of the most experienced competitors in the series, having begun road rallying back in the late 1970s. Having stopped rallying for a number of years, Tout returned to competition in 2001 in an Escort, before … [Read more...]