BRC

Ulster: Harry Hunt is IRDC Most Improved

Harry Hunt is IRDC Most Improved on Ulster Rally The International Rally Drivers' Club continues to monitor the improvement of drivers within the MSA British Rally Championship and the results from the recent Toddsleap.com Ulster International ...

Published: Oct 2, 2009, 4:16 PM

Copy link

Share on Viber

Add as a preferred source

Harry Hunt is IRDC Most Improved on Ulster Rally

The International Rally Drivers' Club continues to monitor the improvement of drivers within the MSA British Rally Championship and the results from the recent Toddsleap.com Ulster International Rally have now been calculated.

Newcomer to rallying and contesting the Fiesta SportTrophy in his debut season, Londoner Harry Hunt is the latest driver to top the IRDC's Most Improved table.

The table is calculated using a unique algorithm which has been employed since the 1980s, taking a representative sample of stage times from each event and comparing them. In this case the sample was taken before Hunt's retirement from the Ulster Rally which is therefore not taken into account.

But the 20 year-old, whose first ever rally was the Fiesta Sport Trophy opener in early March, has improved in speed and confidence in the 24 weeks since he began. By stage five of the 127 mile tarmac rally he had moved into 15th place in the BRC, surely a sign of things to come.

The IRDC scheme operates on an event-by-event basis, but the boffins who make the sums work also have a calculation for the most improved throughout the season, the eventual winner taking a cash prize at the British Rally Championship awards ceremony on October 31st.

Most improved drivers round-by-round

Round 1-2 Kyle Orr

Round 2-3 Fin McCaul

Round 3-4 Mark Higgins

Round 4-5 Harry Hunt

How it works

A raw score for each competitor is calculated on stage times for (usually) four stages chosen across the event. The four stages are chosen to ensure most (if not all) competitors passed through the stage.

Their personal raw score is then compared with the last event and a difference in the two figures is established. The person with the highest difference is shown at the top of the table.

-credit: brc

We want your opinion!

What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?

Take our 5 minute survey.

- The Motorsport.com Team

Read and post comments

Share Or Save This Story

Copy link

Share on Viber

Previous article Rally Yorkshire: BRC Challenge preview

Next article Marty McCormack is MSA British Junior Rally Champion

Top Comments

There are no comments at the moment. Would you like to write one?

View More & Comment

Latest news

Lamborghini | Barcelona selected to host the 2027 Super Trofeo World Finals

Lamborghini Super Trofeo

LBST Lamborghini Super Trofeo

World Finals - Monza 2026

9 min

Lamborghini | Barcelona selected to host the 2027 Super Trofeo World Finals

F1 United States GP live commentary and updates - FP3

Formula 1

F1 Formula 1

United States GP

29 min

F1 United States GP live commentary and updates - FP3

Lamborghini World Finals | AM-LC Race 1: An unstoppable Lewandowski dominates to win Race 1

Lamborghini Super Trofeo

LBST Lamborghini Super Trofeo

World Finals - Monza 2026

2 h

Lamborghini World Finals | AM-LC Race 1: An unstoppable Lewandowski dominates to win Race 1

Why Cadillac F1 boss provoked fresh intrigue by dodging driver question

Formula 1

F1 Formula 1

United States GP

4 h

Why Cadillac F1 boss provoked fresh intrigue by dodging driver question

Subscribe and access Motorsport.com with your ad-blocker.

From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.

You have 2 options:

Become a subscriber.
Disable your adblocker.

Subscribe now Already subscribed? Sign in here

Already disabled your adblocker?
Reload page

Manage Alerts