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Rallying championship series, highest level of rallying competition
The World Rally Championship (WRC) is an international rallying series owned and governed by the FIA. Inaugurated in 1973, it is the third oldest FIA world championship. Each season lasts one calendar year, and typically consists of 13 three- to four-day rally events driven on surfaces ranging from gravel and tarmac to snow and ice. Each rally is usually split into 15–25 special stages which are run against the clock on up to 350 kilometres (220 mi) of closed roads.
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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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Solberg is a surname of Norwegian origin, and may refer to:Asbjørn Solberg (1893–1977), Norwegian politician from Østfold; served three terms in the Storting Dorvan Solberg, American politician from North Dakota; state representative since 1998 Eirik Lae Solberg, Norwegian politician from Buskerud; representative in the Storting and government minister Erna Solberg, Norwegian politician; serving in the Storting since 1989; Prime Minister of Norway since October 2013.
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