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ELLIOT PAYNE: UK RALLYING’S NEW YOUNG GUN

For a rising star in motorsport, natural talent alone is seldom enough to take you to the higher echelons. Elliot Payne is fortunate to have prodigious natural pace along with family support to help him progress.

His father Charlie has been rallying for four decades and so it was little surprise that his son followed him into the sport as soon as he was old enough. “I started Junior rallying when I was 14: it’s in the bloodline really,” says Payne Jr.

His first rally was in March 2017, three months after his 14th birthday. Within a

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