Team MRF Tyres is looking forward to getting back on the World Rally Championship stages at the Dayinsure Wales Rally GB which will take place on 4-7 October.
The Dayinsure Wales Rally GB is the third WRC round the team has entered this year as they prepare for their 2019 assault.
Having competed on the rough roads of Rally Italia Sardegna and the fast roads of Neste Rally Finland, the classic stages in Wales will prove to be another challenging and unique test.
Team MRF Tyres will test 5 variants of tyres before the Dayinsure Wales Rally GB to assess the conditions that Rally GB can throw at the competitors including the wet and mud.
The M-Sport team will again be running the Ford Fiesta R5 and their home-ground experience will be valuable for the continued development of the MRF rally tyre range.
India’s Gaurav Gill will again be in the driver’s seat. He competed in Wales Rally GB in 2008 in a Group N spec car and is excited to return the stages that saw his debut into global rallying.
Australia’s Glenn Macneall is back in the co-driver’s seat and has also made one start in Great Britain, having rallied to a PWRC class podium in 2009.
MRF Tyres’ commitment to being competitive in the WRC is evident by their continual development of the WRC tyre range. As with the previous rounds in Italy and Finland, there is a new development for the unique conditions that Great Britain produces.
The Team MRF Tyres Ford Fiesta R5 will be competing with 23 other R5 entries in what will be a very competitive field.
The Dayinsure Wales Rally GB sees a return to the central service park in Deeside and gets underway with the Shakedown and blast through the 1.7km Spectator Super Special on 4 October.
Friday’s stages will see eight competitive stages over 110km in the Brenig, Alwen and Penmachno forests of North Wales.
A gruelling Saturday will nine stages and 150km of running. Legendary stages will Sweet Lamb, Myherin and Dyfi all await the crews. The crews will have a remote service in Newtown before coming back to Deeside in the evening.
Sunday’s stages will see five stages and 55km of running with the coastal run around Great Orme Llandudno being the final stage of the rally.
In total the crews will rally on 318.34 of competitive stages.
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