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Welsh rally driver (born 1988)
Elfyn Rhys Evans is a Welsh professional rally driver. He has competed full-time in the World Rally Championship since 2014, originally for M-Sport Ford, and since 2020 for Toyota Gazoo Racing. He is the reigning world drivers' champion having won the 2026 World Rally Championship, making him the first Welshman to win the drivers' championship, and the first British driver to win the drivers' championship since Richard Burns in 2001. Evans was also runner-up in 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025. Scott Martin has been his co-driver since 2019.
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British annual awards ceremony
The BBC Sports Personality of the Year is an awards ceremony that takes place annually in December. Devised by Paul Fox in 1954, it originally consisted of just a single award of the same name. Several new awards have been introduced, and currently seven awards are presented.
More on Wikipedia ↗Fresh from his dramatic World Rally Championship triumph, Dinas Mawddwy’s Elfyn Evans has entered the BBC Sports Personality of the Year betting as recognition grows for his history-making achievement.