KEEPING RALLYCROSS CHEAP, AND VERY CHEERFUL

How often do you hear in modern motorsport that things are not what they used to be. Especially when it comes to rising talents being picked up by works teams to compete at a level their own budgets would otherwise not allow.

And, in the case of many junior and single-make series of the past, there was often a prize drive carrot dangling for the champion.

Those opportunities do still exist, but the budgets required to reach the point where such a drive could be won are often beyond the means of the regular nine-to-five worker, and the pressure to succeed and achieve also removes some of the raw enjoyment of driving and competition.

But now an initiative as part of the BTRDA Clubmans Rallycross Championship structure is changing that in 2020, with a prize