Guy Wilks has won the Production Car World Rally Championship class award on Wales Rally GB. With this victory he also took the 2007 British Rally Championship.The 26-year-old was a guest driver in the category, after being nominated by his sporting authority, the Motor Sports Association, to run in the division,His rally was made more complex as he was also battling with fellow Briton Mark Higgins, 36, for the British Rally Championship title.

For the majority of the event Wilks and Higgins duelled at the front, both of them pushing their Mitsubishi Lancer’s to the maximum.

However, Higgins had a run of problems, including punctures and gearbox woes, at the end of day one, and was never able to recover the lost ground as more issues beset his car.

At the finish an elated Wilks, who is co-driven by Phil Pugh, said: “I’m absolutely delighted. That was a long final stage. I was concentrating 100% but it is an absolutely fantastic feeling.

“Great. Awesome. I’m over the moon. It’s been a hard year.”

 Higgins, co-driven by Scott Martin, was heart-broken after the rally - and faced a tough battle just to get his Mitsubishi to the finish at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium as his gearbox problems worsened.

The 36-year-old said: “We’ve lost 4th, 5th and 2nd gears and we’re not back to Cardiff yet. Guy did well and made very few mistakes. But next year I’ll be back to give him a fight.”

Daivd Higgins Younger brother of Mark brought his Subaru Impreza home in 19^th with Wilks team mate Gwyndaf Evans finishing 41^st in what will probably be his last Rally GB as a driver.

One of only two S2000 spec cars in the rally was the MG s2000 of Stuart Jones and Andy Bull a fantastic sight and sound through the Welsh stages. What started as a promising run 32^nd during leg 2, The MG crashed off on the second run of the Halfway stage.

Co-Driver Bull was taken to hospital in nearby Merthyr Tydfil where he was treated a broken clavicle bone.