2010 British Rally Championship season
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The 2010 Dulux
Dulux
Dulux is an internationally available brand of paint. It is produced by AkzoNobel . The brand name Dulux has been used by both ICI and DuPont since 1931 and was one of the first alkyd-based paints.-History:...

 Trade MSA
Motor Sports Association
The Motor Sports Association , is the official governing body of motorsport in the United Kingdom.-Responsibilities:...

 British Rally Championship season
was the 52nd season of the British Rally Championship
British Rally Championship
The Dulux Trade MSA British Rally Championship is a yearly rallying series based in the United Kingdom. It comprises seven events with eight scoring opportunities throughout the British Isles. The first championship was run in 1958 and it has been licensed by the MSA Motor Sports Association since...

. The season consisted of six rounds and began on March 27, with International Rally North Wales. The season ended on September 25, at the International Rally Yorkshire. Dulux
Dulux
Dulux is an internationally available brand of paint. It is produced by AkzoNobel . The brand name Dulux has been used by both ICI and DuPont since 1931 and was one of the first alkyd-based paints.-History:...

 Trade was the title sponsor of the series, which is part of a two-year deal agreed in February 2010.

Irishman Keith Cronin
Keith Cronin
Keith Cronin is an Irish rally driver. He won the 2009 British Rally Championship, in his first year in the series, defeating multiple champion Mark Higgins in his privately entered Cronin Motorsport Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 9. Cronin successfully defended his title in 2010 driving a Subaru...

 won the championship for the second year in a row in a Subaru Impreza
Subaru Impreza
Introduced in November 1993, the Impreza was offered in either front-wheel drive or all-wheel drive versions and as a four-door sedan/saloon or five-door station wagon/estate. According to a Motor Trend article written March 1992 on page 26, the name of Subaru's new compact was, initially, to be...

, taking wins in both the Bulldog and Isle of Man rallies on the way to the title.

Calendar

The calendar consisted of six rounds as in 2009.
Round Dates Location Rally HQ Surface Winner
1 27 March   Bulldog International Rally North Wales Bala
Bala, Gwynedd
Bala is a market town and community in Gwynedd, Wales, and formerly an urban district of the historic county of Merionethshire. It lies at the north end of Bala Lake , 17 miles north-east of Dolgellau, with a population of 1,980...

 
Gravel   Keith Cronin
Keith Cronin
Keith Cronin is an Irish rally driver. He won the 2009 British Rally Championship, in his first year in the series, defeating multiple champion Mark Higgins in his privately entered Cronin Motorsport Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 9. Cronin successfully defended his title in 2010 driving a Subaru...

2 23–24 April   Pirelli International Rally  Carlisle
City of Carlisle
The City of Carlisle is a local government district of Cumbria, England, with the status of a city and non-metropolitan district. It is named after its largest settlement, Carlisle, but covers a far larger area which includes the towns of Brampton and Longtown, as well as outlying villages...

 
Gravel   Gwyndaf Evans
Gwyndaf Evans
Gwyndaf Evans is a Welsh rally driver, ex-school bus driver, and car dealer. He won the British Rally Championship in 1996, and was also the runner-up in 1995, 1998, 1999 and 2010...

3 28–29 May   Jim Clark International Rally Duns
Duns
Duns is the county town of the historic county of Berwickshire, within the Scottish Borders.-Early history:Duns law, the original site of the town of Duns, has the remains of an Iron Age hillfort at its summit...

 
Asphalt   Gwyndaf Evans
Gwyndaf Evans
Gwyndaf Evans is a Welsh rally driver, ex-school bus driver, and car dealer. He won the British Rally Championship in 1996, and was also the runner-up in 1995, 1998, 1999 and 2010...

4 9–10 July   Isle of Man International Rally
Rally Isle of Man
Rally Isle of Man is a rally competition held in the Isle of Man. It was first held in 1963, and later became a well-known event in the British Open Rally Championship and the European Rally Championship...

 
Douglas
Douglas, Isle of Man
right|thumb|250px|Douglas Promenade, which runs nearly the entire length of beachfront in Douglasright|thumb|250px|Sea terminal in DouglasDouglas is the capital and largest town of the Isle of Man, with a population of 26,218 people . It is located at the mouth of the River Douglas, and a sweeping...

 
Asphalt   Keith Cronin
Keith Cronin
Keith Cronin is an Irish rally driver. He won the 2009 British Rally Championship, in his first year in the series, defeating multiple champion Mark Higgins in his privately entered Cronin Motorsport Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 9. Cronin successfully defended his title in 2010 driving a Subaru...

5 20–21 August   International Rally Northern Ireland
2010 Ulster Rally
2010 Ulster Rally incorporating Rally Northern Ireland was held between 20–21 August 2010. The Rally HQ located in Antrim, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland and organised by the Northern Ireland Motor Club The 2010 Ulster Rally was the fifth round of the 2010 MSA British Rally Championship and the sixth...

Antrim
Antrim, County Antrim
Antrim is a town in County Antrim in the northeast of Northern Ireland, on the banks of the Six Mile Water, half a mile north-east of Lough Neagh. It had a population of 20,001 people in the 2001 Census. The town is the administrative centre of Antrim Borough Council...

 
Asphalt   Craig Breen
Craig Breen
Craig Breen is an Irish rally driver. He is the current World Rally Championship Academy champion, winning his first event at the 2011 Rallye Deutschland and sealing the championship with a win at Wales Rally GB.-Career:...

6 24–25 September   International Rally Yorkshire Pickering
Pickering, North Yorkshire
Pickering is an ancient market town and civil parish in the Ryedale district of the county of North Yorkshire, England, on the border of the North York Moors National Park. It sits at the foot of the Moors, overlooking the Vale of Pickering to the south...

 
Gravel   Gwyndaf Evans
Gwyndaf Evans
Gwyndaf Evans is a Welsh rally driver, ex-school bus driver, and car dealer. He won the British Rally Championship in 1996, and was also the runner-up in 1995, 1998, 1999 and 2010...


Drivers championship standings

EWLINE
Pos Driver BUL
 
PIR
 
JCR
 
IOM
 
ULS
 
YOR
 
 Pts 
1   Keith Cronin
Keith Cronin
Keith Cronin is an Irish rally driver. He won the 2009 British Rally Championship, in his first year in the series, defeating multiple champion Mark Higgins in his privately entered Cronin Motorsport Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 9. Cronin successfully defended his title in 2010 driving a Subaru...

1 Ret 3 1 2 3 98
2   Gwyndaf Evans
Gwyndaf Evans
Gwyndaf Evans is a Welsh rally driver, ex-school bus driver, and car dealer. He won the British Rally Championship in 1996, and was also the runner-up in 1995, 1998, 1999 and 2010...

Ret 1 1 2 Ret 1 88
3   Jason Pritchard 7 6 5 3 6 5 78
4   Jonathan Greer 5 2 4 4 7 75
5   Daníel Sigurðarson 8 4 7 Ret 20 6 65.5
6   Alastair Fisher Ret Ret 2 Ret 3 2 61
7   Elfyn Evans
Elfyn Evans
-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....

9 9 13 8 11 13 55
8   Adam Gould 3 10 6 Ret 4 53
9   Craig Breen
Craig Breen
Craig Breen is an Irish rally driver. He is the current World Rally Championship Academy champion, winning his first event at the 2011 Rallye Deutschland and sealing the championship with a win at Wales Rally GB.-Career:...

Ret 3 Ret 9 52.5
10   Robert Barrable 15 12 9 10 Ret 12 44.5
11   Dave Weston, Jr. 2 Ret 8 6 Ret 42
12=   Jarkko Nikara
Jarkko Nikara
Jarkko Nikara is a Finnish rally driver. He lives in Saarijärvi, Finland.- Career :Nikara started racing at the age of 16 in national autocross competitions. The next year, he participated in Finnish rallysprint races, winning the junior championship. In 2006, he was the Finnish Junior rally...

13 7 14 5 Ret 38
12=   Mark Donnelly
Mark Donnelly
Mark Donnelly is a Canadian singer famous for singing the national anthem "O Canada" at Vancouver Canucks home games. Donnelly is well known for holding the microphone to the crowd and encouraging the crowd to sing along....

11 17 11 12 13 38
12=   Alan Cookson Ret 8 10 Ret 7 38
15   Euan Thorburn 4 14 DNS 9 30
16   Matti Rantanen
Matti Rantanen (rally driver)
Matti Rantanen is a Finnish rally driver from Lammi.- Career :Rantanen began rallying in 2003 in his native Finland. In 2004 and 2005 he competed in the Finnish Junior Rally Championship, and the main Finnish Rally Championship in 2005 and 2006...

Ret Ret 12 7 15 29
17   Mikko Pajunen 17 11 19 Ret Ret 10 27
18   John MacCrone 24 Ret 23 13 16 17 25.5
19   Daniel McKenna 4 22.5
20   Molly Taylor 18 19 17 14 Ret 14 21.5
21   Max Utting 14 15 16 16 8 17
22=   Owen Murphy Ret 5 Ret 14
22=   Steve Graham
Steve Graham
Steve Graham is an Australian Paralympic winter sport coach. He was head coach of Australia's Winter Paralympic team for the 1994 Winter Paralympics, 2006 Winter Paralympics and the 2010 Winter Paralympics. , Graham is the current head coach of the Australian Institute of Sport's Winter Paralympic...

25 21 21 20 26 20 14
24=   Darren Gass 6 13
24=   Tom Clark 20 Ret 27 18 13
26   John Boyd 21 Ret 18 15 11
27=   David Bogie
David Bogie
David Bogie is a Scottish rally driver from Dumfries. He currently holds the titles of Scottish Rally Champion and British Rally Champion. He is the first person to hold both titles simultaneously.-Career:...

12 Ret 8
27=   Joe McGonigle 19 16 15 Ret Ret 8
29   Luke Pinder
Luke Pinder
Luke Pinder is a 27 year old British rally driver from Shipley, West Yorkshire. Pinder has been involved with motorsports since the age of 13 having started competing in Autograss and moving to rallying when he passed his driving test at the age of 17....

20 13 Ret 7
30   Peter Taylor Ret 18 Ret 15 6
31   Mark Gamble 19 4.5
32=   David Harrison 23 Ret 18 4
32=   Peter Horsey 16 4
34   Spencer Wilkinson 22 Ret 1
Pos Driver BUL
 
PIR
 
JCR
 
IOM
 
ULS
 
YOR
 
 Pts 


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