July 25th 2010 will see the third running of the Greystoke Stages Rally in Greystoke Forest in Cumbria.

One of the few forest single venue events in the North of England ,possibly the only one in the North West of England,the rally will again have support from P & R Benn of Cockermouth and be run in the M-Sport owned Greystoke Forest near Penrith, just off Junction 40 of the M6.

This years rally will be part of the Association of North East and Cumbria Car Clubs (ANECC) Stage Rally Championship and also again be included in the Kirkby Lonsdale Motor Clubs Stage Rally Championship.

Making an entry for the first time the event will be a round of the Association of Northern Car Clubs (ANCC) Stage Rally Championship. It is also on the reserve list of the Association of North Western Car Clubs (ANWCC) Forest Rally Championship hoping to be included in 2011.

The organising team from the West Cumbria Motorsport Club, made up from most of the previous two years successful organising teams, are looking at providing 32 miles of the very best forest stages with a maximum entry of 70 cars. The increased number of entries being possible with the enlargement of the central service area. At the end of 2009 the M-Sport owned Greystoke venue came in for high praise from Colin Heppenstall, who having done the route survey for the  Roger Albert Clark Rally said of Greystoke

  "...the best prepared forest stage I have ever seen in my life" was Colin's verdict with its smooth surface and the fact that trees have been removed to a distance of ten metres from the track to provide clearer sight lines during testing we can expect some fast times here. The 2010 website, www.greystokestages.co.uk  will be up and running soon with regular updates and information available this way. Alternatively further information  can be obtained from the Greystoke Stages Publicity Officer Andy Barnard on This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it