by Rob Wilkins
Reigning British Rally Championship class R3 title-holder and
Crash.net columnist Matt Beebe has said that he be gunning for the R2 class win on the Rally Yorkshire this coming weekend.
Beebe is currently well placed in the race for both the R2 and Junior Tesco 99 Octane MSA British Rally Championships crowns and he is determined to bounce back after engine problems cost him the class win in Ireland at the start of September.
“Obviously to win the class in R2 in the BRC - that is our main aim for the Trackrod and that is what we are going for in the championship,” he told
Crash.net Radio at the recent Castle Combe Rallyday event in the UK.
“With every driver though if there are other cars out there and in the same sort of class as me - because the MG is actually an N3 car, where as the Citroen C2 in the class are A6 and the Suzuki Swifts are N2, so there are various different cars in the class within the BRC. I want to beat all the guys and girls going for the BRC, but if there is anyone else up there in an N3 car we want to beat those people as well.
"The Fiestas are in N3 and there is usually a couple of those out on events. We have been struggling to match those out on events this year.
"It will be interesting to see on gravel and on a rally I know quite well, what the pace is like compared to the Fiestas and some of the other cars. We are going up there to get to the end of the event and see what happens.”
Asked what it will be like to get back onto the loose after three events on asphalt, the MG user conceded that will make things a bit tougher, at least initially.
“The biggest thing going onto gravel from tarmac is the braking distances. They are sort of double the distance on gravel to what they are on tarmac,” he continued. “That takes a bit of getting use to. It will be a few corners before I am really on it again. I have done the Trackrod twice before though and so I know the forests up there and the roads.
