Aire Rally Sport

Our Jim Clark rally ended midway through the Friday stages for reasons that are insignificant. We all know the risks associated with Motorsport but we do it anyway. RIP Dai Roberts and get well soon James Williams from everyone at Aire Rally Sport.

Well a busy few weeks for us,crammed in more rallies than usual now that we feel that we have the car handling properly. After a successful trip to Pembrey not long after we were on our way to Anglesey to compete in the Protyre Motorsport UK Asphalt Rally Championship SMC Stages on Sunday 13th April 2025. Overall a good day for us! Happy to report that everything was working well,the tyres,set up and we felt that we had the right approach to the rally. Happy to finish 11th overall and 4th in class ☺️ Only a week later we were heading North to compete in the NHMC Warcop Stages on 20th April 2025. A rally that we've not competed on before but happy to be there and asked to be moved up a little from our seeding which was thankfully granted. The most technical of the three recent rallies that we've done but again the car and crew worked well. Was running just outside the top ten for a while but dropped down a bit in the afternoon and also came across a bad crash that resulted in the stage being stopped. Thankfully the crew were safely extracted after help was quickly on the scene. This was not such a bad scenario for us personally as we'd just picked up a puncture so a nominal time for us was welcomed! Both really well supported and well run rallies!! Thanks as always to the organising clubs and the many Marshalls which without we all know that we wouldn't be able to do what we love! 🏁☺️

Late update I know,JDS Machinery Rali Ceredigion 2024 . The positives first,what an absolutely fantastic rally! Surely one of the best closed road rallies in the UK? Definitely top 3! Being a round of the European Rally Championship you kind of expect it to be very well run and well organised-and it certainly was. Scrutineering was let's say a little keener than normal but we just about managed to get through! The stages wow! Both technical and fast with plenty of challenges for all crews. Unfortunately for us our handling issues still persisted, despite us taking many steps to try and rectify it the unpredictable handling was still very much a problem for us. The stage times would lead you to believe it was our first rally with us running near the back,but for us to push more it would only end one way in a crash. So the tough decision was made to pull the plug before the two Aberystwyth street stages on the Saturday evening. Not what we wanted to do but the right decision all the same. Before packing away we decided to drop the oil in the rear diff and the real problem came to light. Looks like either the crown wheel or pinion (or both) is breaking up with a few big chunks of metal in the oil. Time for us to fix it before the Jersey rally in October but we will now have to miss the Hills Ford Stages down in Worcestershire in a few weeks. We'll be back to fight another day,but as the saying goes - that's rallying! 🙄💯