Elfyn Evans

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Elfyn Evans

Evans at the 2007 Wales Rally GB
Personal information
Nationality Wales Welsh
Born (1988-12-28) December 28, 1988
World Rally Championship record
Active years 2007–Present
Teams Ford
Rallies 8
Championships 0
Rally wins 0
Podiums 0
Stage wins 0
Total points 16
First rally 2007 Wales Rally GB
Last updated on: 25 August 2013.

Elfyn Evans is a junior Welsh rally driver.

Biography

The son of former WRC driver Gwyndaf Evans, he is sponsored by the family Ford motor dealership in Dolgellau, first established by his great-grandfather in Dinas Mawddwy, renamed to Gwyndaf Evans Motors in 1983.[1]

From 2007,[2] Evans has driven a Group N production car class, Ford Fiesta in the Ford Fiesta Sporting Trophy, an event in 2008 he currently jointly leads. In 2007 he competed in Rally GB in Wales.[3]

His career took a massive leap forward when he won the FIA WRC Academy title in 2012, together with the R2 title on the British Rally Championship and the UK Fiesta Sport Trophy.

Career to date

In 2010 Evans won the British Junior Rally championship and was the winner of the UK Ford Fiesta Trophy series, also he won the Pirelli Star Driver Shoot-out after two days of tests and assessments at the Sweet Lamb rally complex in his native Wales, with a prize of a fully funded season in a Pirelli-backed Group N Subaru Impreza run by the championship-winning TEG Sport team — a prize worth in excess of £200,000.

In 2012, Evans secured the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) Academy title, the R2 title in the British Rally Championship (BRC) and the UK Fiesta Sport Trophy. In addition, he won the end-of-year FST International Shootout and so in 2013 he will contest a programme of WRC events in a 4WD car - his prize for winning the WRC Academy - as well as enjoy a year working at M-Sport, helping to develop a range of rally cars for the WRC and other championships.

His 2013 season began with the first round of the Australian Rally Championship, the National Rally in Canberra, on which he retired early on the first day. He then drove a Fiesta RRC on the WRC Rally of Portugal, retiring with a transmission problem before starting the final day under Rally 2 regulations. To his surprise, he was then asked to compete on the Rally Italy in Sardinia in a Ford Fiesta World Rally Car after Nasser Al-Attiyah was forced to withdraw because of commitments in Qatar. Despite having never competed on the event before, using Nasser's co-driver, competing in a WRC car for the first time and with no pre-event testing, Evans finished sixth.

Career results

WRC results

Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Pos. Points
2007 Elfyn Evans Ford Fiesta ST MON SWE NOR MEX POR ARG ITA GRE FIN GER NZL ESP FRA JPN IRE GBR
42		 NC 0
2011 Elfyn Evans Ford Fiesta R2 SWE MEX POR JOR ITA ARG GRE FIN
Ret		 GER AUS FRA
16		 ESP GBR
Ret		 NC 0
2013 Qatar M-Sport World Rally Team Ford Fiesta RRC MON SWE MEX POR
23		 ARG GRE 12th 20
Ford Fiesta RS WRC ITA
6
Ford Fiesta R5 FIN
Ret		 GER
6		 AUS FRA
11		 ESP
Ret		 GBR
8
2014 M-Sport World Rally Team Ford Fiesta RS WRC MON
6		 SWE MEX POR ARG ITA POL FIN GER AUS FRA ESP GBR 6th* 8*

WRC Academy Results

Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 Pos. Points
2012 Elfyn Evans Ford Fiesta R2 POR
7		 GRE
1		 FIN
1		 GER
1		 FRA
1		 ESP
3		 1st 144

WRC 2 results

Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Pos. Points
2013 Qatar M-Sport World Rally Team Ford Fiesta RRC MON SWE MEX POR
8		 ARG GRE ITA 7th 65
Ford Fiesta R5 FIN
Ret		 GER
2		 AUS FRA
2		 ESP
Ret		 GBR
1

* Season in progress.

References

  1. ↑ "About GEM", Gwyndaf Evans Motors
  2. ↑ "Rally champion's son takes wheel". BBC Wales. 3 March 2007. Retrieved 17 June 2008. 
  3. ↑ FSTUK: Q&A: Elfyn Evans – EXCLUSIVE. | Rally UK Features

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