ERC
Allen to build on 2024 experience with full-time ERC bid
Philip Allen is planning to build on the experience gained in 2024 when he goes for a full FIA European Rally Championship season in 2025.
Allen, from Northern Ireland, tackled six ERC events last year and completed his campaign with a personal best result of 10th place on Rally Silesia last October.
Back with Sports Racing Technologies, who he joined for the first time on BAUHAUS Royal Rally of Scandinavia last June, Allen is set to contest all eight ERC rounds aboard the Latvian team’s brand-new Škoda Fabia RS Rally2.
“The plan [last year] was to try to learn the rallies and go again [this year] with a different attitude and a bit more experience,” said the 33-year-old. “Obviously the European pace is serious but let’s see where it goes.”
Allen will pilot a Škoda Fabia RS Rally2 in 2025
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Obviously the European pace is serious but let’s see where it goes.
Craig Drew, who will continue to co-drive Allen in 2025, said he was “hoping to build on some promising pace from last year”.
Sports Racing Technologies remains one of the ERC’s leading teams having achieved success with Ralfs Sirmacis, Nikolay Gryazin and Mārtiṇš Sesks in the past.
The 42nd Rally Sierra Morena - Córdoba Patrimonio de la Humanidad in Andalusia, Spain, forms the opening round of the 2025 ERC season from 3 - 6 April.
