PEARSON TURNS HIS BACK ON FORD FIESTA RALLY2
Title winner will continue competition in Skoda Fabia R5
Garry Pearson will see out the British Rally Championship season in a Skoda Fabia R5 as he feels the Ford Fiesta Rally2 he used earlier this year doesn’t suit him.
Pearson won four national titles last year in a Fabia hired from Dylan Davies but switched to an NPL Rally Hire-run Fiesta Rally2 for his more concentrated BRC campaign in 2022. However Pearson reverted to the
Skoda for the recent Rally Yorkshire and has no plans to go back.
Pearson told MN: “The main reason for the change was looking at 2023, I had decided I didn’t want to be in a Fiesta.
“That was the thinking. I preferred the chassis on the Skoda, I don’t mind coming out and saying that it suits my driving style better, so it’s just a case of us really now preparing for 2023. We want to get a campaign together for that.
“I’m not saying the Skoda will be the car for that,” he added. “But it’s a team I’m familiar with, it’s a car I’m familiar with so I want to try Hankooks on that and develop the tyre on a car that
I know the chassis works for me.”