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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nOsian drove for Melvyn Evans Motorsport (MEM) when he clinched the BRC drivers\u2019 title in 2022 and returns to the familiar surroundings of the Carmarthenshire-based team for another all-out attack at the title.
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The 33-year old Machynlleth-born driver has an enormous amount of experience, and few drivers anywhere in the world have competed in as many different R5 and Rally2 cars as Osian.
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The opening round of the 2026 BRC, the Severn Valley Stages (11 April), will be Osian\u2019s first event in a Pirelli-shod Toyota GR Yaris Rally2, and his 125th rally start.
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Osian will team up with James Morgan (from Llandysul in Ceredigion) for the 2026 BRC season. The pair have done one rally together before \u2013 the 2015 Cambrian Rally.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nThis will be Meirion Evans\u2019 third season with the Castrol MEM Rally Team, having established the squad with his father Melvyn Evans at the beginning of 2024.
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Having started rallying in 2009, the 30-year old from Lampeter in Carmarthenshire also has a vast amount of experience. Once considered an asphalt rally expert, Meirion is now equally at home competing on gravel, having challenged for victory on several major loose-surface events last year.
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Meirion will contest the forthcoming Rally North Wales (28 March) as a pre-season test in the Michelin-shod Toyota.
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He\u2019ll continue to be partnered by Dale Furniss (from Llanfyllin in Powys), who finished third in the 2025 BRC co-drivers\u2019 standings after an excellent season guiding Meirion last year.
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Castrol MEM Rally Team will be aiming to add to its BRC Teams\u2019 title that it won in 2024 and score a straight hat-trick of BRC Drivers\u2019 and Co-drivers\u2019 titles \u2013 having won with Chris Ingram\/Alex Kihurani in 2024 and William Creighton\/Liam Regan last year.
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Osian Pryce said: \u201cIt’s nice to return to the British Rally Championship with a familiar team and top Rally2 machinery. I’ve been searching for a way back into a regular seat in a Rally2 car for a while, and it came when I was least expecting it. It was nice to receive the \u2018phone call and to hear that I\u2019m still considered worthy of the opportunity.
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\u201cI’m really looking forward to it. It’s obviously going to be a new challenge taking on a new car, but the best results have always come for me when I\u2019m in the same car on a regular basis, and I\u2019m very much looking forward to working again with Melvyn Evans Motorsport.
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\u201cIt would be nice to start where we left off with Melvyn Evans Motorsport last time. A few years have gone by since then, but I\u2019m really looking forward to the challenge and being back in the British Rally Championship in a top car. I\u2019ve only sat in the Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 so far, so I can\u2019t wait to drive it for the first time. The aim is to do our best and hopefully take the title at the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nMeirion Evans said: \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to my third season competing in the Castrol Toyota GR Yaris Rally2. The first year we did quite a lot of development work, dialling it in to not only my driving style but the nature of the British roads, because nobody else had taken on the car apart from us at that time. The last two years have been very good for the team, and I hope this year will be no different. Castrol MEM Rally Team has unveiled an all-Welsh star-studded line-up for its assault on the 2026 British Rally Championship \u2013 with Osian Pryce\/James Morgan joining Meirion Evans\/Dale Furniss in a two Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorised"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.251\/melvynevansmotorsport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.251\/melvynevansmotorsport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.251\/melvynevansmotorsport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.251\/melvynevansmotorsport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.251\/melvynevansmotorsport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.251\/melvynevansmotorsport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5182,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.251\/melvynevansmotorsport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions\/5182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.251\/melvynevansmotorsport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.251\/melvynevansmotorsport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.251\/melvynevansmotorsport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.251\/melvynevansmotorsport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\u201cWe started 2025 knowing that we could win on asphalt, and we proved that. But by the end of the year we were on the pace on gravel too \u2013 especially on the Cambrian Rally, when we were fighting for the win all day. To go into the last round of the British Rally Championship last year with a chance of winning the title really showed what we are capable of and how far we have come.
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\u201cLast year was my first time with Dale [Furness] in the car and things clicked well. With a strong year behind us it will hopefully put us in good shape to get off on the right foot this year.
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\u201cWith Osian as team-mate, it\u2019s another very strong Castrol MEM Rally Team driver line-up. In the last two years it\u2019s been my team-mate who has become British champion, so I like to make it hard for myself to win the title!
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\u201cFirst and foremost, though, it\u2019s important for us as a team to make sure the car is winning rallies and championships. Last year both cars were on the podium on most events, which shows that the package we have is very strong, and we both went into the final round with a chance of winning the title. Hopefully it will be the same again this year.
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\u201cThe last time Osian was with us he became British champion \u2013 but it\u2019s also a title that I\u2019d like to add to my career CV. It\u2019s never an easy championship to win, but the important thing for us is that the best drivers are in our cars and we can go out and compete for wins.\u201d
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2026 British Rally Championship calendar<\/strong>
11 April\u2026.Severn Valley Stages
22\/23 May\u2026.Borders Competitions Jim Clark Rally
5\/6 June\u2026.Kielder Carlisle Stages
7\/8 August\u2026.Grampian Forest Rally
4\/6 September\u2026.Rali Ceredigion
24 October\u2026.Cambrian Rally
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