Friday, April 2025

Peter Elkins WRC Car on Display at Media Day 5th April 2025

Peter Elkins displays his Ford Festa WRC Car at the launch of the 2025 Castle Combe Stage Rally at Castle Combe Media Day on April 5th 2025 after finishing 5th Over all and 2nd in Class in the first running of the rally in 2024

The Ford Festa WRC Car is Chassis 37 built by M-Sport in 2013 for Poland’s wealthiest citizen, a man by the name of Michal Solowow then competed in the WRC for a couple of years.

Ott Tanak also drove the car as a factory entry on the 2014 Rally GB finishing 6th.

In later years the car has been campaigned by a few notable national drives such as Conor McCloskey, Melvyn Evans and Luke Francis.

Peter  have owned the car since 2021, finishing 5th overall in the 2024 Castle Combe Circuit Rally Stages.

Photos coutersy of Peter Elkins and Scott Bolton Jack Flash Photograph 

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