Alastair Fisher needed to use all is ingenuity to finish third overall in the final WRC Academy Cup standings when the series concluded on Wales Rally GB on Saturday evening (November 12th).
The new-for-2011 category enabled some of the world’s best young rally drivers to fight it out for a scholarship of 500,000 Euros on six rounds of the World Rally Championship in identical Ford Fiesta R2s.
Fisher, from Trillick in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, needed to finish ahead of Spanish rival Yeray Lemes on the final round in Wales to claim a coveted top three finish in the final drivers’ table.
He was on course to do just that when drama set in prior to..
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