KIELDER FOREST RALLY A NEW FORMAT FOR AN OLD FAVOURITE

An "ALL NEW, SHORT SHARP" format will greet competitors to the Kielder Forest Rally , the new event from Cumberland Sporting Car Club which replaces the club's long established Pirelli International Rally, for many years a mainstay of the British Rally Championship.

This new event, a round of the Fuchs Lubricants British Historic Rally Championship, the English rally Championship and the North East based Motoscope / Northern Historic and SG.Petch/ ANECCC series will feature a very compact route with the start, finish, service area and stages all contained within the confines of the Kielder Forest complex. The 45 stage miles will be divided into two loops of three stages with a central service area located at the well known Greenside venue.

The 2020 route will, for the first time in several years, use stages based both North and South of the vast Kielder Reservoir with the tracks specially chosen to minimise the use of chicanes on the stages and keep road mileage to a minimum.

Clerk of the Course, Steve Waggett commented, " Given that this is the first running of the new style event we have planned a route that has variation from fast flowing to technical and demanding stages but one which, above all, compact. We have made best use of the roads available to us within the forest and which are close to the central service area at Greenside. The team, many of whom have been involved with the Pirelli for many years, have been instrumental in sharing their wealth of knowledge to help put the event together and we are really excited about what we have to offer the competitors"

The Kielder Forest Rally will run on Saturday 25th April 2020 and further information is available from the event website or from the event's media Manager, Ed Graham, e-mail edgraham01@sky.com.