Britain’s Frank Bird will this year realise his long-held ambition to compete in Sol Rally Barbados, the event won twice in a Ford Focus WRC07 by his father Paul. Having started the season with victory in the Brands Hatch Winter Stages (January 15), the team confirmed that Bird and co-driver Jack Morton, who sat with ‘Birdy’ when he finished third in Sol RB18, will enter the FIA R5 class in a Dom Buckley Motorsport-prepared Ford Fiesta Rally2.While Frank’s main focus is to build a career in GT and endurance racing, he has still managed to compete in 25 stage rallies since his debut at Donington Park in March 2019, where he finished fifth. He claimed his first win in the Lee Holland Memorial Stages at the Anglesey race circuit two weeks later, and his first on gravel, the Greystoke Stages, in July.Those early victories and eight more came in the Focus in which his father had won in Barbados, which was retired at the end of 2020 for a rebuild. Since he switched to the more nimble
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Benjamín Hites y el finlandés Patrick Kujala (Fiat-Ferrari Santiago-Caballo Loco) consiguieron en el circuito de Misano el segundo lugar en la serie Silver, logrando el primer podio del año en el Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo.
La prueba de una hora en la clasificación general fue ganada por el binomio belga integrado por Charles Weerts y Dries Vanthoor (Audi) con 1:00’19”322. En la serie Silver venció la pareja Frank Bird (Gran Bretaña)-Ryuichiro Tomita (Japón) en un Audi, con 1:00’37”927.
En tanto que Hites-Kujala registraron 1:00’46”511, tiempo que los ubicó en la sexta posición en la general.