OLIVER SOLBERG TO LINE UP ON CAMBRIAN RALLY START RAMP
Ousted World Rally Championship star set to tackle UK event
World Rally Championship star Oliver Solberg will contest Wales’Cambrian Rally later this month - his first start since losing his Hyundai Motorsport drive.
Solberg, 21, has shared a third i20 N Rally1 with veteran Dani Sordo this year and had been slated to contest Rally Japan in early November, but two weeks ago Hyundai announced that it would no longer be continuing with Solberg.
The Swede will travel to Japan to do the recce, but first will compete in north Wales using the family’s own Volkswagen Polo GTI R5.
“Obviously things have changed a little bit this season. I don’t want to talk about what has happened, I want to look forwards to the future,” Solberg said.
“I have talked a lot with my sponsors about the situation and they agreed that the best thing for me to do is drive again. I am very fortunate to have a car and the chance to do this – so we go to Wales!”
Solberg has never done a UK national event before, but has competed in the area before on Rally GB 2019. Co-driver Elliott Edmondson did the rally last year with Matthew Wilson.
The Cambrian is the final round of the British Rally Championship, where a new winner is guaranteed in the absence of new champion Osian Pryce and his season-long rival Keith Cronin.
James Williams, Ruairi Bell and Garry Pearson are among the favourites for BRC success, although Junior BRC champion Eamonn Kelly will join them in the top class.