Guy Wilks

Guy Wilks
Guy Wilks
	Guy before the start of the 2010 Rally Scotland
Nationality	British
Born	22 January 1981 (age 43)
FIA World Rallycross Championship career
Debut season	2015
Current team	LOCO Energy World RX
Car number	100
Former teams	JRM Racing
Starts	13
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Best finish	15th in 2017
Active years
World Rally Championship record
Active years	2002–2008
Co-driver	Roger Herron; Phil Pugh; David Moynihan
Teams	Skoda, Mitsubishi, Ford, Suzuki
Rallies	45
Championships	0
Rally wins	0
Podiums	0
Stage wins	0
Total points	3
First rally	2002 Swedish Rally
Last rally	2008 Rally GB

Guy Wilks (born 22 January 1981) is a British rally driver. Wilks started rallying at the age of 19, but currently drives for JRM in the FIA World Rallycross Championship. In 2011 Wilks drove for Peugeot UK in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge. In 2012 he did not compete.^[1]

Career

Wilks who was born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham became Ford Ka Junior Champion in 2000 in his first year in the sport, graduating within the Ford 'Ladder of Opportunity' scheme to the Puma 1400 series for 2001. He finished second in the championship. The following year Wilks entered the British Rally Championship (BRC) in a Super 1600 specification Puma, finishing fifth overall in the championship and third in the British Super1600 Rally Championship. In 2003 Wilks competed in the Junior World Rally Championship (JWRC) driving a Ford Puma prepared by Chris Birkbeck Motorsport finishing seventh in the standings. Wilks missed out on an opportunity to join the Subaru World Rally Team for the 2004 season, as he had signed a contract with Suzuki.

For 2004 Wilks made the switch from Ford to a works entry in the JWRC with Suzuki driving an Ignis alongside Per-Gunnar Andersson. Over the next three years Wilks won five rallies and finished second in the JWRC in 2005. Wins included his first JWRC victory at the Acropolis Rally in 2004 and Rally GB in the same year. During his time driving for Suzuki Wilks also won the British Super 1600 title and British Junior title in 2005.

Wilks split with Suzuki at the end of 2006 as they moved their focus to a full-fledged enter in World Rally Championship (WRC). In 2007 Wilks joined the Mitsubishi Motors UK Works team driving a Group N specification Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX in the BRC. Over the next two years Wilks won eight rallies and the BRC title outright.^[2]

In addition to the BRC in 2007, Wilks also competed in a number of WRC events with Mobil 1 support allowing him to make his World Rally Car debut in Norway driving a Ford Focus 03 WRC. In total he competed in seven events with a sixth place in Rally Ireland his best finish in a Subaru S11 WRC.

2008 saw Wilks supplement his BRC commitments with several outings in a Honda Civic Type R R3 rally car for Italy's JAS Motorsport.

Wilks made the switch in 2009 to S2000 class rallying with Mellors Elliot Motorsport driving a Proton Satria Neo Super 2000 car in the Pirelli International Rally. Then, on 6 June 2009, Proton announced an entry for Wilks in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC). He competed in six events with Proton before making the switch to drive for Škoda UK in Rally Scotland which he won.

On 12 January 2010, it was announced that Wilks would compete on selected rounds of the 2010 IRC driving a Škoda Fabia S2000 for Škoda UK. In the first four rallies of the season, Guy finished 6th in Rallye Monte-Carlo, 2nd in Rally Internacional de Curitiba, 2nd in Rally Argentina and 3rd in Rally Islas Canarias.

During the first stage of the 2010 Rally d'Italia Sardegna Wilks crashed his Škoda and was flown to hospital after reporting pains in his lower back.^[3] Hospital checks found the Wilks had fractures to his first and second lumbar vertebrae.^[4] The injury meant that Wilks missed three events on the IRC Calendar making a comeback at the Barum Czech Rally Zlín at the end of August.^[5]

It was confirmed that Wilks, who finished the year in sixth overall in the championship, would make the switch from Škoda to the Kronos Racing run Peugeot UK Team for the 2011 IRC.^[1]

Racing record

Complete WRC results

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Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
2002	Guy Wilks	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI	MON	SWE Ret	FRA	ESP	CYP	ARG	GRE	KEN	FIN								NC	0
2002	Guy Wilks	Ford Puma S1600										GER Ret	ITA	NZL	AUS	GBR 29			NC	0
2003	Guy Wilks	Ford Puma S1600	MON Ret	SWE	TUR 18	NZL	ARG	GRE 33	CYP	GER	FIN 24	AUS	ITA 28	FRA	ESP 33	GBR Ret			NC	0
2004	Guy Wilks	Suzuki Ignis S1600	MON Ret	SWE	MEX	NZL	CYP	GRE 12	TUR 13	ARG	FIN Ret	GER	JPN	GBR 18	ITA 11	FRA	ESP Ret	AUS	NC	0
2005	Guy Wilks	Suzuki Ignis S1600	MON 19	SWE 22	MEX 11	NZL 27	ITA 23	CYP 29	TUR 52	GRE 17	ARG								NC	0
2005	Guy Wilks	Suzuki Swift S1600										FIN 18	GER 15	GBR 32	JPN 17	FRA	ESP Ret	AUS	NC	0
2006	Guy Wilks	Suzuki Swift S1600	MON	SWE 38	MEX	ESP	FRA	ARG 19	ITA 26	GRE	GER	FIN 15	JPN	CYP	TUR 19	AUS	NZL	GBR 52	NC	0
2007	Ramsport	Ford Focus RS WRC 04	MON	SWE	NOR Ret	MEX	POR Ret	ARG	ITA	GRE 9	FIN 9	GER 10	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN			18th	3
	Guy Wilks	Subaru Impreza WRC 05														IRE 6
	Mitsubishi Motors UK	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX																GBR 13
2008	JAS Motorsport	Honda Civic Type-R R3	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	JOR	ITA	GRE	TUR	FIN 18	GER	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN			NC	0
2008	Mitsubishi Motors UK	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX															GBR 14		NC	0

JWRC results

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Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	JWRC	Points
2003	Guy Wilks	Ford Puma S1600	MON Ret	TUR 3	GRE 6	FIN 3	ITA 6	ESP 11	GBR Ret			7th	18
2004	Guy Wilks	Suzuki Ignis S1600	MON Ret	GRE 1	TUR 3	FIN Ret	GBR 1	ITA 2	ESP Ret			3rd	34
2005	Guy Wilks	Suzuki Ignis S1600	MON 7	MEX 1	ITA 6	GRE 2						2nd	35
2005	Guy Wilks	Suzuki Swift S1600					FIN 3	GER 3	FRA	ESP Ret		2nd	35
2006	Guy Wilks	Suzuki Swift S1600	SWE 9	ESP	FRA	ARG 1	ITA 8	GER	FIN 1	TUR 4	GBR 11	4th	26

PWRC results

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Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	PWRC	Points
2007	Mitsubishi Motors UK	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	SWE	MEX	ARG	GRE	NZL	JPN	IRE	GBR 1	12th	10
2008	Mitsubishi Motors UK	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	SWE	ARG	GRE	TUR	FIN	NZL	JPN	GBR 3	18th	6

Complete IRC results

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Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	WDC	Points
2009	Mellors Elliot Motorsport	Proton Satria Neo S2000	MON	BRA	KEN	POR	BEL Ret	RUS 5	POR 11	CZE Ret	ESP 22	ITA 13			7th	15
2009	Philip Pugh	Škoda Fabia S2000											SCO 1		7th	15
2010	Škoda UK	Škoda Fabia S2000	MON 6	CUR 2	ARG 2	CAN 3	SAR Ret	YPR	AZO	MAD	ZLI 7	SAN Ret	SCO Ret	CYP	6th	27
2011	Peugeot UK	Peugeot 207 S2000	MON 3	CAN 5	COR Ret	YAL 5	YPR 4	AZO Ret	ZLI Ret	MEC Ret	SAN Ret	SCO Ret	CYP		7th	47

Complete FIA World Rallycross Championship results

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Supercar

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	WRX	Points
2015	JRM Racing	Mini Countryman RX	POR	HOC	BEL	GBR 6	GER	SWE	CAN	NOR	FRA 33	BAR	TUR	ITA	ARG	23rd	14
2016	Guy Wilks	Ford Fiesta ST	POR	HOC	BEL	GBR 18	NOR	SWE	CAN	FRA						23rd	3
2016	JRM Racing	Mini Countryman RX									BAR 13	LAT 14	GER	ARG		23rd	3
2017	LOCO Energy World RX	Volkswagen Polo	BAR 7	POR 16	HOC 19	BEL 14	GBR 14	NOR 17	SWE 20	CAN 15	FRA	LAT	GER	RSA		15th	21

References

^ ^a ^b "Peugeot UK IRC chance for ace Wilks". ircseries.com. Intercontinental Rally Challenge. 29 October 2010. Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 2 November 2010.
^ Wilks and Mitsubishi win British Rally Championship for second year running^{[permanent dead link‍]} BRC Press Release
^ "Wilks suffers bruising in crash on SS1". www.ircseries.com. Intercontinental Rally Challenge. 5 June 2010. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 5 June 2010.
^ "Wilks continues recovery in hospital". Ircseries.com. 6 June 2010. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 12 August 2010.
^ "Wilks to mark comeback with Czech test". Ircseries.com. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 12 August 2010. Archived 13 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine

External links

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Martin Rowe	Autosport National Rally Driver of the Year 2004	Succeeded by Mark Higgins

[Peugeot-1] "Peugeot UK IRC chance for ace Wilks". ircseries.com. Intercontinental Rally Challenge. 29 October 2010. Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 2 November 2010.

[2] Wilks and Mitsubishi win British Rally Championship for second year running^{[permanent dead link‍]} BRC Press Release

[3] "Wilks suffers bruising in crash on SS1". www.ircseries.com. Intercontinental Rally Challenge. 5 June 2010. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 5 June 2010.

[4] "Wilks continues recovery in hospital". Ircseries.com. 6 June 2010. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 12 August 2010.

[5] "Wilks to mark comeback with Czech test". Ircseries.com. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 12 August 2010. Archived 13 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine

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v t e Winners of Autosport's National Driver of the Year
Racing winner	1982: Tommy Byrne 1983: Martin Brundle 1984: Johnny Dumfries 1985: Andy Rouse 1986: Andy Wallace 1987: Johnny Herbert 1988: JJ Lehto 1989: Allan McNish 1990: Robb Gravett 1991: David Coulthard 1992: Tim Harvey 1993: Kelvin Burt 1994: Gabriele Tarquini 1995: John Cleland 1996: Frank Biela 1997: Alain Menu 1998: Rickard Rydell 1999: Laurent Aïello 2000: Antônio Pizzonia 2001: Takuma Sato 2002: Robbie Kerr 2003: Nelson Piquet Jr. 2004: James Thompson 2005: Matt Neal 2006: Mike Conway 2007: Jason Plato
Rally winner	1982: Malcolm Patrick 1983: Darryl Weidner 1984: David Llewellin 1985: Mark Lovell 1986: Ken Wood 1987: Louise Aitken-Walker 1988: Malcolm Wilson 1989–90: David Llewellin 1991–92: Colin McRae 1993: Richard Burns 1994: Malcolm Wilson 1995: Alister McRae 1996: Gwyndaf Evans 1997: Mark Higgins 1998: Martin Rowe 1999: Tapio Laukkanen 2000: Mark Higgins 2001–02: Justin Dale 2003: Martin Rowe 2004: Guy Wilks 2005–07: Mark Higgins
Combined winner	2008: Oliver Turvey 2009: Colin Turkington 2010: Jason Plato 2011: Matt Neal 2012: Gordon Shedden 2013: Andrew Jordan 2014: Colin Turkington 2015–16: Gordon Shedden 2017: Lando Norris 2018: Dan Ticktum 2019: Colin Turkington 2020: Harry King 2021: Ashley Sutton 2022: Tom Ingram