The Motorsport UK Probite British Rally Championship has today [5 November] unveiled its calendar of events for the 2025 season.
Sponsored by UK-based performance brake manufacturer Probite, the British Rally Championship will aim to build on the overwhelming success of the 2024 season, by continuing to offer an established formula which saw some of the best drivers in the business battle it out for the coveted British titles, going down to the final stage of the final round of the year.
In a bid to ensure costs are reduced at all levels of the championship, Britain’s premier rallying series will feature six rounds on the UK mainland. In its 67th season, the BRC will retain its focus on high-profile and more challenging rallies, adding a new rally to start the season to compliment a tried and tested roster.
Delivering an action-packed campaign, the 2025 BRC season will continue an equal split of asphalt and gravel rallies, encompassing some of the best stages in the UK, each with its own unique features and formats.
Also continuing into next year will be the enhanced media package, including a dedicated one-hour highlights show on ITV4 after each round of the series, broadcast at prime time with further repeat broadcasts and an end-of-season round-up programme. The highlights will also continue to be available on the accompanying online catch-up service ITVX and the free-to-air TV coverage will have universal reach in the UK and Republic of Ireland.
A new addition to the BRC, the East Riding Stages Rally will provide a scintillating curtain raiser for 2025 and offers an earlier start to the season for eager crews. Taking place on 23 February, the Yorkshire closed public roads around the Beverley rally base will evaluate contender’s mettle over ten challenging stages. The popular event is also famed for its dedication to taking the sport to a wider audience, complimented by an impressive presence in the local community, town centre activities, spectacular street stage and dedicated Fan Zones during the weekend.
In April, the series heads for the world-class gravel of the Severn Valley Stages which once again offers one of the longest one-day gravel events in the country. Threading its way through classic stages from the Wales Rally GB archives, the Builth Wells-based event takes crews into iconic tests such as Myherin, Sweet Lamb and Hafren.
The Scottish Borders play host to the Borders Competitions Jim Clark Rally which, after upping the ante with a longer route in 2024, is all set to extend mileage once again this year with an impressive two-day format. Taking in both daylight and nighttime tests, the Jim Clark Rally offer the perfect BRC proving ground.
After the extended summer break, the Scottish gravel calls as the Voyonic Grampian Forest Rally returns to the roster near Aberdeen. Both drivers and fans alike hail the Kincardineshire forest stages as some of the finest in the country which has led to a plethora of fascinating BRC battles in recent times. The rally is set to retain its two-day format, ensuring the trip north will be well rewarded.
September will once again offer the opportunity for the BRC contenders to go toe-to-toe with some of the best drivers in Europe at the JDS Machinery Rali Ceredigion. The three-day spectacular captured the hearts and souls of the UK rallying community in 2024 with the ERC returning to our shores for the first time in decades. The Aberystwyth-based closed-road encounter provides arguably the toughest rally of the season and in a change to 2024, the event will count for one scoring opportunity.
Witnessing a fitting season finale in 2024, the Visit Conwy Cambrian Rally will once again bring the curtain down on the BRC. With stages steeped in history, the North Wales forests provide an exciting contest to potentially decide the title, as Wales Rally GBs of the past echo across the trees whilst the BRC could once again crown its champions at the Brenig stop line.
The structure of the BRC will continue, as top-flight Rally2 cars and Rally3 cars fight it out for overall supremacy, with all other homologated classes catered for, including the Junior BRC in Rally4 and Rally5 machinery. The National Rally Title and Open Rally Title categories also return, offering the opportunity for non-homologated machinery to compete toe-to-toe with the BRC contenders, enjoying recce and a host of benefits associated with a top-line championship.
2025 Probite British Rally Championship calendar
Round 1 – East Riding Stages Rally – Beverley – 23 February
Round 2 – Severn Valley Stages – Builth Wells – 12 April
Round 3 – Borders Competitions Jim Clark Rally – Duns – 23-24 May
Round 4 – Voyonic Grampian Forest Rally – Banchory – 8-9 August
Round 5 – JDS Machinery Rali Ceredigion – Aberystwyth – 5-7 September
Round 6 – Visit Conwy Cambrian Rally – Llandudno – 25 October
BRC Championship Manager, Reece Tarren:
“The 2024 season was one of the best for the British Rally Championship in recent times and so it made total sense to build on the success of the past season and offer some stability to our competitors, teams, fans and stakeholders.
“Each one of the events in the calendar this year absolutely stands out for me and really rose to the occasion so we did not want to disrupt what we have worked so hard to build up over the past 12 months. It’s exciting to welcome the East Riding Stages Rally into the mix in February which means we have a much earlier start to the season. We always knew we would need a new curtain raiser as the Legend fires North West Stages takes its sabbatical this year.
“With a thrilling calendar of events, and continued terrestrial TV coverage on ITV4 and ITVX, I believe we will continue the momentum we have built up during 2024 and I`m extremely excited to see how the 2025 season shapes up. I look forward to seeing everyone in Yorkshire next February.”
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