The eighth and final round of the Mitsubishi Ralliart Evolution Challenge takes place this coming Saturday – and the Bulldog Rally looks certain to produce a new winner for this season.
Having scored a record six Evolution Challenge victories this year, Phillip Morrow was able to wrap-up the championship at the Rally Yorkshire earlier this month, with one round still to go.
Fellow Ulsterman Neil McCance is the only other driver to win a round of the series in 2007, when he scooped Evo Challenge honours for the first time on the RBSI Manx Rally in May.
As is the usual trend entries tend to decline as the motorsport season progresses, especially when the championship has already been decided. However, organisers of the Mitsubishi series are pleased to report that ten registered drivers will be in action this weekend.
A secure second in the championship standings is the man that kept Morrow honest all season, Seb Ling. Although assured of the runners-up spot, Ling has decided to compete in order to try to put at least one Evo Challenge win on the board this year.
Currently third in the series is Nik Elsmore, but his podium position could well come under threat by Stephen Petch. Although having an indifferent season so far, the young County Durham driver has regularly managed to get into the points and, following this event, will claim the PIAA Junior Award for under-25 year-old drivers.
Having scored a career best when he was second of the Evos two weeks previously in Yorkshire, Daniel Barry is back to prove that his performance was no fluke and is fired-up for a flying finish his first full season in a Mitsubishi
Making a habit of coming to rally in the UK is Daniel Sigurdarson. Rapidly familiarising himself to British forests, the recently crowned Icelandic Rally vhampion could well have scored his first ever Evo Challenge podium result in Yorkshire had a rear suspension arm not broken. Always spectacular, he will be another to watch this weekend.
![Sebastian Ling. Plains Rally 2007. [Pic credit: Geoff Mayes Media - www.geoffmayesmedia.com]](http://pix.crash.net/thumbs/381920.jpg)
