HOW A FAMILY TEAM CONQUERED THE BRITISH RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP
Lining up ready to grab Osian Pryce for a word as he returned to Llandudno as the winner of the Cambrian Rally, we shuffled ourselves into position.
But before we could grab Pryce’s attention and find out just how he’d done it, Meirion Evans’outstretched hand appeared and the two embraced. “Well done boy,” Evans said before Pryce was engulfed by the whole team desperate to congratulate him.
Rallying is a team effort, and that’s no more apparent than within the service tent of Melvyn Evans Motorsport. Pryce’s win was huge for his own title bid – that he’d ultimately miss out on at the Ulster Rally – but along with Matt Edwards in third it also secured Melvyn Evans Motorsport the British Rally Championship teams’trophy, up against the team that had dominated the series for years: M-Sport. That’s no small feat.
“Winning events is OK, winning anything is always nice, but something like the BRC which has got a good name to it, to win that – especially the first time we set out to do it – feels
