MNCRC BOSS DELIGHTED TO PULL OFF A RALLY SEASON DURING COVID
Motorsport News Circuit Rally Championship co-ordinator Darren Spann has lauded the series’ organisational team for pulling off an entire season of rallying under Covid-19 restrictions.
Despite running a delayed, rescheduled and partially shortened calendar that stretched outside the championship’s usual winter months, the MNCRC is the only UK rally championship so far to run from start to finish since the first coronavirus lockdown.
Asked how satisfied he was with that accomplishment, Spann told MN: “Immensely so, and it’s first and foremost down to the team that I’ve got around me because without them we couldn’t deliver.
“It’s a fantastic team of people and we must also give a lot of credit to the sponsors that stuck it out and really must say Annette [Freeman] at Anglesey Circuit pulled it out the bag for us, and Jonathan [Palmer] and David [Scott] at MSV really pulled it out the bag for us. Because make no mistake about it, we’ve gone into racing season and that’s meant compromises on all sides to make it happen, and I’m very, very grateful for that.”
Attention though has already turned to the 2021-22 season that will begin, as normal, with the Neil Howard Stages in November.
“We’re looking forward to the wind and the rain and the snow again!” Spann laughed. “We’re headlong working into the start of the season because traditionally we’d open for registrations in late August, so I’ve got six weeks to sort myself out.”