PWRC entry for David and Ieuan on Wales Rally GB
As the TQ.com team make their final preparations for Wales Rally GB, news has broken that David Higgins and Ieuan Thomas will compete for both British Rally Championship and PWRC points on the World Rally Championship event.
The opportunity to score points in the world production class has come through PWRC driver Niall McShea who has sold his entry under the Russian TaCK team to David for the event.
“It will be fantastic to be running higher up in the field among the PWRC drivers,” says David. “We were second in the PWRC points when we competed in Monte Carlo last year so it will be good to show we’re still on that pace. It’s also good for us because the top three drivers in the BRC points, my brother Mark, Guy Wilks and Gwyndaf Evans, will all be running in the PWRC section of the event so I will be up there in the fight with them for BRC points now too.”
The downside to competing for PWRC points is that it means David is not permitted to test in the same country as the event for three weeks prior to the event.
“We won’t be able to do any pre-GB testing now,” says David. “But we are competing in the Autotek Subaru Impreza again, the one we used on Trackrod Rally Yorkshire, and we were pleased with both the car and the team on that gravel event. We also know the team will do everything they can to help us get through the event. They are a very dedicated crew.”
The TQ.com car will have an addition to its livery for Rally GB too, designed by children from the Ysgol Dyffryn Trannon school near David in Wales.
“We ran a competition for the kids to design a road safety sticker for our car,” says David. “The theme was Look, Stop, Listen or Think. There were 12 winners and their pictures will form a door plate on each TQ.com rally car on Rally GB.”
David and Ieuan will be joined on the event as usual by their TQ.com team mates Hugh Evans and Iestyn Williams in their Mitsubishi Lancer Evo9. The event will be Hugh’s first foray into the ranks of the WRC as he and David try to secure a good position for TQ.com in the final teams championship standings on the BRC.
The opportunity to score points in the world production class has come through PWRC driver Niall McShea who has sold his entry under the Russian TaCK team to David for the event.
“It will be fantastic to be running higher up in the field among the PWRC drivers,” says David. “We were second in the PWRC points when we competed in Monte Carlo last year so it will be good to show we’re still on that pace. It’s also good for us because the top three drivers in the BRC points, my brother Mark, Guy Wilks and Gwyndaf Evans, will all be running in the PWRC section of the event so I will be up there in the fight with them for BRC points now too.”
The downside to competing for PWRC points is that it means David is not permitted to test in the same country as the event for three weeks prior to the event.
“We won’t be able to do any pre-GB testing now,” says David. “But we are competing in the Autotek Subaru Impreza again, the one we used on Trackrod Rally Yorkshire, and we were pleased with both the car and the team on that gravel event. We also know the team will do everything they can to help us get through the event. They are a very dedicated crew.”
The TQ.com car will have an addition to its livery for Rally GB too, designed by children from the Ysgol Dyffryn Trannon school near David in Wales.
“We ran a competition for the kids to design a road safety sticker for our car,” says David. “The theme was Look, Stop, Listen or Think. There were 12 winners and their pictures will form a door plate on each TQ.com rally car on Rally GB.”
David and Ieuan will be joined on the event as usual by their TQ.com team mates Hugh Evans and Iestyn Williams in their Mitsubishi Lancer Evo9. The event will be Hugh’s first foray into the ranks of the WRC as he and David try to secure a good position for TQ.com in the final teams championship standings on the BRC.
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