Rally Preparation Services (RPS) is delighted to sponsor the Wagon Tourism class of a brand new event celebrating the 70th anniversary of one of the greatest road race of its age – The Grand Prix of South America. Having attracted star driving legends such as Juan Manuel Fangio and the Galvez brothers to compete for…
The Endurance Rally Association (ERA) has revealed the first of its exciting events for 2018 – an all-new Trans-America Challenge that will combine great American roads with five-star luxury. Crews will rally from Charleston, South Carolina, starting on 27th May and finishing in Seattle, Washington some 21-days later on 17th June 2018. The route has…
RPS has been invited to run two cars at the Autumn Classic event, held at Prescott Hill Climb on Saturday 1st and 2nd October. Joe Robillard’s 1939 Chevrolet Coupe and Brandt’s Chrysler Tourer will both compete while Jeff Urbina’s 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air will bask in the sunshine amongst the display cars. American car owners…
There’s celebrations galore at the Rally Preparation Services (RPS) workshop as we secured two class wins in this year’s Peking to Paris Motor Challenge with 22 of the 24 cars we prepared crossing the finish line of the world’s toughest motoring challenge. Competitors Adrian Hodgson and Mark Bramall won their Classic class in their 1974…
Everyone loves a winner and that’s certainly true when its comes to preparing a car for the world’s toughest endurance rally – The Peking to Paris Motoring Challenge. After preparing the Chevrolet Fangio Coupe crewed by Phil Garratt and Kieron Brown, winners of the 2013 event, RPS has worked with 24 competitors from across the…
The 1932 Alfa Romeo 8C, prepared by Rally Preparation Services (RPS) for Shane Houlihan and Richard Pain to rally on the Endurance Rally Association’s Flying Scotsman, picked up two awards from the three-day vintage rally. As well as taking fourth place overall, Shane and Richard also achieved a Class win in the competition for Vintageant…
We’re counting down the weeks until this year’s Peking to Paris Rally and when you’re going to be spending 36 days in one car, it can be a bit daunting to begin to consider just what constitutes an essential item. Here we give you our top 10 items that we think will prove to be…
On the 27th January 2016 over 300 crews will battle the elements as they tackle the 19th running of the Monte Carlo Historique Rally – and a team from RPS will be right there with them, supporting the Swiss Historic Rally team as they brave the elements. Setting out from five European cities, Oslo, Glasgow,…
There’s three in the crew as far as Nicholas Pryor is concerned when it comes to historic rallying as Viktor, his 1962 Volvo PV544 has been a valuable part of the team since 2008. Having competed in several shorter continental rallies before embarking on five major endurance rallies, Viktor has been around the world, and…
RPS-prepared cars scored fantastic wins at the weekend as two clients took home the silverware from the Three Castles Welsh Trials. Shane Houlihan and co-driver Richard Pain followed up their Flying Scotsman class success by taking the overall win in the Heritage Trial in their 1931 Alfa Romeo 8C, while Bodfan and Beverley Jenkins won…