Spar Rally Team
The car has a very interesting history as it was the car Kenneth Ericcson campaigned on 5 WRC rounds in 1997/98 which included rally GB and was also the car that won the Swidish Rally WRC event in 1997.
The 2009 Pirelli MSA Gravel Rally Championship will be contested over 8 rounds and will include two English based rallies in the shape of Rallye Sunseeker in Bournemouth and a new rally to the series, The Woodpecker, based in Ludlow.
It will also visit Scotland twice once for the Brick and Steel Border Counties Rally and for a second time a month later when the series links up with the British Rally Championship (BRC) on the Pirelli International event in Carlisle.
The series will also include the regular two sorties to Wales, with the Severn Valley Stages Rally in late May and the Swansea Bay National Rally in mid July. There will also be a return trip to yorkshire after a succesful first trip there in 2008 to contest the Trackrod rally where the series again meets up with the BRC in late September.
To complement these mainland events, there is also a trip across to the Isle of Man again, for the RBS International Manx Rally, where the crew will contest the only tarmac round of the championship, on the fast bumpy islandroads.
If you work for any Spar store in the UK or regularly shop in one, go along and support the Spar Rally Team at an event near you, if you can't make it to any of the events then please look out for us on the Rally Fever television shows on Sky Sports. You will also be able to keep up to date with the teams progress by looking back here for regular team news.