Anderson plotting rallying return after truck exploits

Woodpecker Rally winner Jamie Anderson is set to return to rallying next season after a year out while he acclimatised to truck racing.

The Leicester driver finished third in the British Truck Racing Championship this year in his first full season.

That has meant he has failed to compete since September 2017, when he was on for a Woodpecker victory but had a gearbox failure in his Mitsubishi Lancer WRC05.

“My general plan is to blend a full European [truck racing] attack with some rallying,” said Anderson.

“I want to bring the World Car back out and we’re having a look now to see what we’ll do. I’ll definitely be bringing the world car back out to some events, I just don’t know which ones we’ll be able to blend in yet. I’d never leave rallying completely.”

Anderson – who sold his Ford Fiesta R5 he’d used in the British Rally Championship at the end of 2017 – is as yet unsure of which events he will contest.

“It’s just going to be events that I want to do,” he added. “I really want to take the Woodpecker back, but I don’t know if it clashes with one of the European truck rounds. But never say never, if I don’t do it next year, I’ll be coming back for it another year.

“I want to get three or four events in, gravel events, I just want to get out and enjoy, remembering what we used to do instead of forgetting about it.”