Across an incredibly busy season, David Henderson has contested 17 rallies and won six of them.
Significantly, he has been quick on both asphalt and gravel and has won on circuit events, on closed-road events and in the forests.
His ability to be quick on all surfaces is unusual and was surely a factor in his success in the Motorsport New Rally Driver of the Year readers’ vote.
Henderson told Motorsport News: “I’m humbled. I’m absolutely humbled to be voted rally driver of the year by Motorsport News readers. It’s a really good way to finish the season. It’s very rare nowadays, because you only really get the British Rally Championship people who are running on both surfaces and are very fast on both. You tend to get people who are just disciplined to gravel or to Tarmac and they don’t really cross over, and if they do they struggle a little bit on one or the other surface. But what I must say about 2022 is that I’ve met some really, really outstanding people and made some fantastic friends
