David Higgins has confirmed that he will be able score points in both the Tesco 99 Octane MSA British Rally Championship and the
FIA Production Car World Rally Championship on the Wales Rally GB.
The 2004 British Rally champion has got the chance to score points in the PWRC after Niall McShea, who won the previous event in Ireland, but who has had sponsorship issues, sold his entry under the Russian TaCK team to the 35-year-old.
"It will be fantastic to be running higher up in the field among the PWRC drivers," said 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 [the latter two entered as PWRC ‘wild-cards'], 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, however, is that it means David is not permitted to test in the same country as the event for three weeks prior to it.
"We won't be able to do any pre-GB testing now," he added. "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."
Higgins' TQ.com car meanwhile will have an addition to its livery for Wales Rally GB, designed by children from the Ysgol Dyffryn Trannon school near David's home in Wales.
"We ran a competition for the kids to design a road safety sticker for our car," he explained. "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."
Higgins and co-driver Ieuan Thomas will be joined on the event as usual by their TQ.com team mates Hugh Evans and Iestyn
Williams in their Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9.
