PRYCE: MY SEASON WILL ONLY GET STRONGER FROM HERE
Round one winner thinks the rest of calendar will suit him even better
Early British Rally Championship leader Osian Pryce says that future rounds of the championship will suit him even better than the season-opening Rally Tendring and Clacton.
Pryce and co-driver Noel O’Sullivan won the Essexbased
closed-road event at their first attempt with the VW Polo R5 from Melvyn Evans Motorsport. That immediately put them into the lead of the BRC and Pryce says that his strongest events are yet to come.
Pryce said: “It’s the perfect start to our BRC campaign and we’re looking forward to keeping this momentum going on the next round.”
Round two is another closedroad asphalt event, the Jim Clark Rally based at Duns in the Scottish Borders on May 27-28. “The most encouraging thing is that our strongest events in the series – rallies that I have more experience on and events that have longer stages and that will suit the car and my driving style a lot better – are still to come,” added Pryce.
The Tendring and Clacton event was a new challenge for the mid-Wales driver. “You needed confidence in the car because although the stages were relatively short there were some very fast sections where you needed a lot of commitment” Pryce said.
“The stages were similar in character to some events that
I’ve done in northern France and Belgium. They were a good challenge and I really enjoyed them.
“I’ve made slow starts in the British Rally Championship before which has immediately put me on the back foot, so this time I was determined to start well. I’m really chuffed that we managed to nail it and that everything went to plan.”