Chances of an OfficialWRC round in the UK next year are still alive - don't despair yet! 🍀
The World Rally Championship is willing to give organisers behind the United Kingdom’s bid for a 2024 round until the end of May to meet the necessary requirements.The UK has become a backbone of rallying’s top flight, appearing on the inaugural calendar in 1973 and holding a spot on the schedule until 2019 courtesy of Rally GB, formerly known as the RAC Rally.
In February the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Motorsport, an informal group of members of UK parliament, met with senior representatives of the WRC, Motorsport UK, the event promoter, Tourism Northern Ireland and Events Northern Ireland to revive the bid, which resulted in the end of April being set as a deadline to secure the required funding for an event next year.“Every second day I’m talking to Bobby Willis and it is not over yet,” WRC event director Simon Larkin told Autosport.
“Rallying in Ireland both sides of the border, they do massive events every couple of weeks with 150 cars. We are still working very strongly and hard as we can.” “The problem we have got there is we have the will of the politicians and the civil servants in Tourism Northern Ireland, but Stormont [Northern Irish government] is not sitting so there isn’t any body that can approve this kind of activity,” Chambers told Autosport.“There are a lot of people, like MPs James Sutherland and Ian Paisley, pushing really hard but it is massively frustrating that we can’t get this one across the line.
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