CAMBRIAN RALLY AIMING TO REKINDLE 2021 ULSTER BATTLE
Cambrian Rally clerk of the course Alyn Edwards wants to mimic last year’s British Rally Championship showdown on the Ulster Rally with next month’s event.
Last year, Alyn’s son Matt and Osian Pryce squared off for the title that eventually went Matt’s way. A 7.75-mile asphalt stage, run twice on Friday evening (October 28) before eight gravel stages on Saturday, has been added to try and recapture that spirit.
Asked why the asphalt test had been added, Edwards told MN: “Because it’s the Cambrian: we never like to give competitors the same thing twice. It’s the final round of the BTRDA, it’s the final round of the British championship and we want to make a replica of what happened on the
Ulster. We want to make it something special.
“You’ve got 15 miles of asphalt in the dark, you’ve got 45 miles of demanding,
North Wales forest stages and it is going to be demanding as they’re doing nearly 20 miles of stages with only three miles of road section between all three: Clocaenog, Brenig and Alwen. Then there’s a short road section to Penmachno to finish off the loop.
Edwards likened the closedroad stage near the village of Nebo to the Nant-y-Moch test on Rali Ceredigion with some urban and moorland sections. “It’s a challenge,” he said.