JCB Photography was in Beverley for the East Riding Stages Rally on Saturday night for Special Stages 1 and 2, then on Sunday for Stages 9 and 10.
The rally is part of the Protyre autocare Motorsport UK Asphalt Rally Championship, North of England Tarmacdam Championship and Roger Albert Clark Historic Rally Championship 2026.
The event is now in its 5th year and was again run by Beverley and District Motor Club with an increase in overall stage miles and for the first time stages run in the dark on Saturday evening.
Then on Sunday morning competitors would set off from Beverley and tackle six more stages before returning to the Westwood Spectator Super Special for SS 9 and 10 with the 2 stages again interposed on 30 second intervals.
Rally HQ was at Beverley Racecourse while the central Service area was at Bishop Burton College.
With up to 160 competitors taking part, the event was the UK’s largest closed road rally.
The competitive mileage was 72 miles with a total of 14 Special Stages.
The event was won by Sam Touzel, co-driven by Max Freeman driving a Ford Fiesta Rally2. Second was James Ford and co-driver Neil Shanks in a Citroen C3 Rally2 and third was Matthew Hurst and co-driver Declan Dear in a Skoda Fabia Rally2.
Full Results from the event can be found here: