Azores Rally Archives - Andrews Sykes

Ingram off to a flyer after Azores Rallye triumph

Posted Date 03/04/2017

Chris Ingram made the perfect start to the ERC Junior U27 Championship at the weekend after a scintillating battle with Finnish team-mate Jari Huttunen.

The Mancunian led by 0.8 seconds ahead of the Azores Airlines Rallye’s final three stages but seemed to lose all momentum when technical difficulties began to set in.

Victory seemed certain to cruelly slip through Chris’ grasp at the eleventh hour after his Opel Adam lost power on the final morning of competition.

This paved the way for Huttunen to establish a seemingly insurmountable six second lead at the final run, before he too suffered some bad luck in the form of a driveshaft failure just 200 metres from the finish.

Ingram heads to the Azores for season’s opener

Posted Date 29/03/2017

The 2017 European Rally Championship begins this week, with Chris Ingram ready to compete in the Rallye Azores alongside Opel codriver Elliott Edmondson.

And the 22-year-old Mancunian will be looking to build on his impressive record on the Portuguese island which comprises of a victory and two second place finishes in three appearance on the Junior circuit.

An untimely puncture at the corresponding event last year added 40 seconds to Chris’ eventual finishing time, dropping him from first to second position after stage 8.