Adrien Fourmaux became the first-ever Frenchman to win the British Rally Championship title after he and co-driver Alexandre Coria beat an on-form Garry Pearson and Daniel Barritt to Trackrod Rally Yorkshire victory.
Having missed Rali Ceredigion three weeks earlier, the Trackrod offered Fourmaux his first chance of wrapping up the title. The only man who could stop him was Pearson – but the Scotsman was pulling out all the stops to keep his own championship chances alive. With three podiums on Tarmac under his