BUMPER ROSTER FOR HRCR SERIES AND INCLUDES NEW EVENT
John Bloxham Memorial Rally challenge added for a busy 2023 line-up
Ten historic road rallies across eight months will make up the calendar for next year’s Motorsport News-backed Historic Rally Car Register Clubmans Rally Championship.
On the back of a successful 2022 season, the ’23 schedule takes in many of the popular events as well as a new event for the end of the season.
The competition starts in March on the Tour of Cheshire, and takes in Yorkshire, Wales, East Anglia, Kent, Gloucestershire and Derbyshire, before finishing on November 18 with the newly created John Bloxham Memorial Rally from the Wolverhampton and South Staffs Car Club.
As one of Britain’s best-known road-rally drivers of his generation, Bloxham will be celebrated in a new rally to conclude the season.
As before, the championship will cater for cars from all five historic categories, taking the cutoff date up to 1990. Increasingly, cars of the 1980s feature prominently and Toyota
Corollas, Mazda MX-5s and VW Golf GTis are all now popular choices, competing alongside the earlier cars from the 1960s and 1970s.
Championship co-ordinator Ken Binstead said: “I’m pleased to unveil the calendar for next
year. The Gremlin has moved to early May and the Ilkley Jubilee has gone to early September. Those are the main changes and we bring in the John Bloxham Memorial Rally as a new end-ofseason rally.”
With typically full or close to full entries for the mainly daylight rallies, the mix of regularity sections and special tests continues to prove enormously popular and challenging for competitors.