The Rally Club will be a platform to encourage and develop business to business opportunities within the Welsh automotive and other business sectors.

The Cardiff Stage at the Millennium Stadium on the night of Saturday 1st December 2007 is likely to be very popular, where a special Rally Club package for the only indoor special stage in the FIA World Rally Championship has been announced. For just £99 (+VAT) per person, the Rally Club package at the Cardiff Stage will include:

• Private dining
• Use of private bar facilities
• Premier Gold Seating
• Pre-rally video entertainment
• Guest speaker - Nicky Grist (twice winner of Rally GB)
• Hostess service throughout the evening

This Rally Club offer represents excellent value for money when compared to similar packages offered at other major sporting event at the Millennium Stadium, like:

British Speedway Grand Prix (Silver Hospitality Box)…£204 per person
Wales v France rugby international (Sunday 26th August)…£165 per person
Wales v Germany football international (Saturday 8th September)…£179 per person

Individual tickets into the Cardiff Stage are still available for as little a £5.  A Family Ticket to watch Wales Rally GB at the Millennium Stadium costs as little as £35 (2 adults and 2 children) – which includes two programmes, (one per adult) worth £8.50 each!

Andrew Coe, chief executive of International Motor Sport (IMS), organisers of Wales Rally GB, said: "We are very pleased to be launching the hospitality opportunities for the 2007 Wales Rally GB. We are providing a number of low cost packages to try and encourage more Welsh and UK business interest in this years Rally. The Rally Club at the Stadium is a new venture for 2007 and I am confident it will be a great success for smaller companies and rally fans."

Further details on the Rally Club can be obtained from Alyson Beach at Viking Hospitality, tel: 029 20 76 66 61 / e-mail: hospitality@walesrallygb.com.

12th September 2007

For more information please contact:

John Horton, National Press Officer.
Telephone: 0121 378 2828.
Mobile: 07778 282899.
E-mail: media@walesrallygb.com

or

Paul Evans, Regional Press Officer, Wales
Telephone: 029 20 38 30 88
Mobile: 07710 74 31 67
E-mail: paul.evans@goodevansco.com

Notes for Journalists:
 
Wales Rally GB is the UK round of the 16-round FIA World Rally Championship (WRC). It is one of only six events that have retained their unbroken World Championship status since the WRC was established in 1973.

Cardiff first hosted the event in 2000 and the Welsh Assembly Government has been the title sponsor of Wales Rally GB since 2003.

Wales Rally GB is held annually and is the UK’s biggest motor sport event. It is organised and promoted by International Motor Sports Ltd (IMS), the commercial arm of the Berkshire-based Motor Sports Association (MSA), the governing body for all UK motor sport.

This year's Wales Rally GB will be the 75th Anniversary of the event.

Since its inception in 1932 the rally has been run 62 times; this year’s event will be the 63rd edition. Enforced stoppages have included World War 2, Suez Crisis (1957) and Foot and Mouth (1967).

No “Overall Classification” was produced until 1953 when the event finished in Hastings and was won by Yorkshire husband-and-wife Ian and Pat Appleyard in a Jaguar XK120.
 
WRGB is also the sixth and final round of the 2007 Tesco 99 Octane British Rally Championship and the eighth and final round of the 2007 FIA Production World Rally Championship.
 
2007 is the first year that the prestigious SA1 Swansea Waterfront development at Swansea Bay will be used as the service park. The current population of the City and County of Swansea now stands at 226,400, the third highest population of the 22 Welsh Unitary Authorities.

Tickets for this year’s Wales Rally GB are available from 0870 060 1764 and on-line at http://www.walesrallygb.com/