THE organisers of a popular road rally have cancelled the event for the second year running due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Corbeau Seats Rally, run by Chelmsford Motor Club, has announced this years event will not take place as planned on April 24 and 25. The rally was launched in 2018 and was the first rally to make use of a new legislation allowing closed road motorsport in England. Chelmsford Motor Club said Tendring is currently being hit hard by the pandemic and following consultations with Tendring Council, Essex Highways and Motorsport UK, they have concluded that the “right and proper course of action” is to cancel the rally for 2021.
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Omagh man wins British Rallycross Championship Posted: 10:39 am January 8, 2021
By Chris Caldwell
MARK Donnelly was as ‘surprised’ as anyone when Motorsport UK announced him as the winner of the 2020 British Rallycross Championship 5 Nations Trophy presented by Cooper Tires.
The announcement by the sport’s governing body was a nice fillip for Donnelly, who had to postpone his July wedding to Charly Doran for 12 months due to the global Coronavirus pandemic.
The Omagh man only made his rallycross debut in 2019 before deciding to try his hand behind the wheel of a 650bhp Citroen DS3 for the 2020 campaign, which was also majorly impacted upon by Covid-19.
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Estonia’s Ott Tanak and Martin Jareoja in a Citroen C3 WRC during day three of the Wales Rally GB in 2019 (Bradley Collyer/PA)
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The United Kingdom will not stage a round of the FIA World Rally Championship for the second year in succession, organisers have confirmed.
Wales Rally GB was cancelled in 2020 due to coronavirus and this year’s proposed Rally Northern Ireland has now been deferred due to uncertainty over public funding relative to the pandemic.
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