A DECADE ON FROM A FORGOTTEN BRITISH RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON
At first glance, there’s nothing particularly vintage about the 2011 British Rally Championship season. Although the title battle was still alive on the final round, it was essentially a foregone conclusion, and the star names like Mark and David Higgins, Guy Wilks and Gwyndaf Evans had evaporated from the series.
But dig a little deeper and actually, 2011 was a rather significant year that is often (wrongfully) overlooked. David Bogie became British Rally champion at the tender age of just 24, creating a nice slice of history as the only Scotsman outside the McRae clan to take the crown.
To make the success that bit sweeter, he became the first, and so far only, driver to win both the Scottish and British titles in the same year too.
It was also current Toyota World Rally Championship star Elfyn Evans’s breakthrough season at a national level as he stepped up to four-wheel drive. Atitle-winning return in 2016 aside, 2011 was Evans’s last full season competing nationally before making the jump into the world scene. The third challenger was Northern Ireland’s Jonny Greer who had led the points heading into the 2010 finale before Keith Cronin won. Greer represented the new breed of cars in
