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Up-and-coming co-drivers are set to benefit from “once in a lifetime opportunities” as part of a new working arrangement between Motorsport UK and World Rally Championship team, M-Sport Ford.

The Vice-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Motorsport has warned that the window of opportunity to relocate the British round of the FIA World Rally Championship to Northern Ireland is closing quickly.

Northern Ireland is no longer being considered for the final vacant spot on this year’s World Rally Championship calendar after the sport’s governing body in the UK pulled its support for the idea.

Motorsport UK plans for national motorsport to resume in Britain from July following the enforced hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The outbreak of coronavirus forced British motorsport’s governing body to suspend all motorsport events in the UK until June 30 in March.

The ban suspending all Motorsport-UK sanctioned events have been extended until June 30 in response to the UK’s lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic.

All Motorsport-UK sanctioned events have been suspended until at least the start of May due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Motorsport UK chairman David Richards is pushing to make motorsport in the United Kingdom more accessible for younger people in a bid to “safeguard” the future of the sport.