Following the recent announcement that Cork driver Keith Cronin will contest the British Rally Championship in an effort to win his fifth crown, comes the news that William Creighton will also return to the series in 2024.
Cronin, who will also be partnering with the M-Sport team in a Ford Fiesta Rally2, won the Galway International last month.
He will be joined by Creighton, the Irish International Driver of the Year in 2023, attracted by a fresh new calendar and a return to terrestrial television in the UK.
Thanks to winning the 2023 FIA Junior World Rally Championship title, Creighton secured four rounds of the WRC in an M-Sport Ford Fiesta Rally2 provided by M-Sport Poland.
It is a very busy time for Creighton, as in preparation for the next round in Croatia Rally in April he and co-driver Liam Regan will head to the West Cork Rally next week to sample closed road rallying for the first time in a Rally2 to gain knowledge and understanding of how the Fiesta copes on asphalt.
Creighton was the 2021 BRC jnr champion, and now he goes head-to-head with the best of the BRC regulars.
"The series is an incredibly special place for me, winning the Junior title in 2021 was the culmination of many years of demanding work and it certainly gave me the grounding to be competitive in the Junior WRC the following year, "Said Creighton
Creighton will join team-mates Max McRae and Garry Pearson in the M-Sport squad, tackling the six-round series which takes in a mix of events from closed road classics, such as the Jim Clark Rally, to Wales Rally GB forestry favourites in the Severn Valley Stages.
The series also includes the FIA European Rally Championship qualifier, Rali Ceredigion.
His BRC campaign will ultimately be used as a test ground for his WRC2 assault.
"The BRC offers a fantastic opportunity for us to carry out a programme which complements our WRC2 season as that is clearly our focus this year.
It is thanks to the Motorsport Ireland Rally Academy that we can return to the series, and it will be great to represent them and M-Sport in the UK and see how our hard work in the BRC will transition into the WRC."
The opening round of the British Rally Championship takes place on 23 March in Lancashire, with around 60 miles of closed roads in store at the Northwest Stages.
And not only is the Irish ace showing what he can do on the road, both Creighton and Galway's, Aoife Raftery have been unveiled as the new Motorsport Ireland Road Safety ambassadors.
Motorsport Ireland have a longstanding history of promoting road safety, with the 'Keep the Race in its Place' campaign being one of the most recognisable road safety campaigns in Ireland over the last 15 years.
