Elfyn Evans

Elfyn Evans

Evans in 2014
Personal information
Nationality	British
Born	December 28, 1988
World Rally Championship record
Active years	2007, 2011, 2013–present
Teams	M-Sport Ford
Rallies	50
Championships	0
Rally wins	0
Podiums	2
Stage wins	3
Total points	196
First rally	2007 Wales Rally GB

Elfyn Rhys Evans (born 28 December 1988 in Dolgellau) is a British rally driver from Wales who competes in the World Rally Championship.

Career

The son of former WRC and Ford driver Gwyndaf Evans, he is sponsored by the family Ford motor dealership in Dolgellau, first established by his great-grandfather in Dinas Mawddwy, renamed to Gwyndaf Evans Motors in 1983.^[1]

Since 2007,^[2] Evans has driven a Group N production-car-class Ford Fiesta in the Ford Fiesta Sporting Trophy. In 2007 he competed in Rally GB in Wales.^[3]

In 2010 Evans won the British Junior Rally championship and was the winner of the UK Ford Fiesta Trophy series, also he won the Pirelli Star Driver Shoot-out after two days of tests and assessments at the Sweet Lamb rally complex in his native Wales, with a prize of a fully funded season in a Pirelli-backed Group N Subaru Impreza run by the championship-winning TEG Sport team — a prize worth in excess of £200,000.

In 2012, Evans secured the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) Academy title, the R2 title in the British Rally Championship (BRC) and the UK Fiesta Sport Trophy. In addition, he won the end-of-year FST International Shootout. In 2013 he contested a programme of WRC events in a 4WD car - his prize for winning the WRC Academy - and worked at M-Sport, helping to develop rally cars for the WRC and other championships.

His 2013 season began with the first round of the Australian Rally Championship, the National Rally in Canberra, in which he retired early on the first day. He then drove a Fiesta RRC on the WRC Rally of Portugal, retiring with a transmission problem before starting the final day under Rally 2 regulations. To his surprise, he was then asked to compete on the Rally Italy in Sardinia in a Ford Fiesta World Rally Car after Nasser Al-Attiyah was forced to withdraw because of commitments in Qatar. Despite having never competed on the event before, using Nasser's co-driver, competing in a WRC car for the first time and with no pre-event testing, Evans finished sixth.

Evans switched to M-Sport for the 2014 season to drive a Ford Fiesta WRC as the teammate of veteran Mikko Hirvonen. His best results have been fourth at Mexico and Germany. The driver scored two podiums in 2015, finishing 7th in the overall standings.

M-Sport dropped Evans to the WRC-2 in 2016. Driving a Ford Fiesta R5, he has scored weins at Monte Carlo, Sweden and Tour de Corse. Also with a Fiesta R5, he won the British Rally Championship with five wins in seven races.

WRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Pos.	Points
2007	Elfyn Evans	Ford Fiesta ST	MON	SWE	NOR	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	GRE	FIN	GER	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN	IRE	GBR 42	NC	0
2011	Elfyn Evans	Ford Fiesta R2	SWE	MEX	POR	JOR	ITA	ARG	GRE	FIN Ret	GER	AUS	FRA 16	ESP	GBR Ret				NC	0
2013	Qatar M-Sport	Ford Fiesta RRC	MON	SWE	MEX	POR 23	ARG	GRE											12th	20
		Ford Fiesta RS WRC							ITA 6
		Ford Fiesta R5								FIN Ret	GER 6	AUS	FRA 11	ESP Ret	GBR 8
2014	M-Sport	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	MON 6	SWE Ret	MEX 4	POR 22	ARG 7	ITA 5	POL 35	FIN 7	GER 4	AUS 8	FRA 6	ESP 14	GBR 5				8th	81
2015	M-Sport	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	MON 7	SWE 6	MEX 4	ARG 3	POR 69	ITA 4	POL Ret	FIN 12	GER 6	AUS 9	FRA 2	ESP 34	GBR 6				7th	89
2016	M-Sport	Ford Fiesta R5	MON 8	SWE 9	MEX	ARG 17	POR 30	ITA	POL 13	FIN 11	GER	CHN C	FRA 11	ESP	GBR	AUS			21st	6

* Season still in progress.

WRC Academy Results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	Pos.	Points
2012	Elfyn Evans	Ford Fiesta R2	POR 7	GRE 1	FIN 1	GER 1	FRA 1	ESP 3	1st	144

WRC 2 results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Pos.	Points
2013	Qatar M-Sport World Rally Team	Ford Fiesta RRC	MON	SWE	MEX	POR 8	ARG	GRE	ITA								7th	65
		Ford Fiesta R5								FIN Ret	GER 2	AUS	FRA 2	ESP Ret	GBR 1
2016	M-Sport	Ford Fiesta R5	MON 1	SWE 1	MEX	ARG 4	POR 14	ITA	POL 2	FIN 3	GER	CHN C	FRA 1	ESP	GBR	AUS	3rd	120

* Season still in progress.

References

1. "About GEM", Gwyndaf Evans Motors
2. "Rally champion's son takes wheel". BBC Wales. 3 March 2007. Retrieved 17 June 2008.
3. FSTUK: Q&A: Elfyn Evans – EXCLUSIVE. | Rally UK Features

External links

• Gwyndaf Evans Motors