Guy Wilks

Guy Wilks

Nation:	Great Britain
World Rally Championship (WRC)
First rally:	Rally Sweden 2002
Co-driver:	Phil Pugh
Team:	Mitsubishi Motors UK
Vehicle:	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX
Rallies Victories Podiums WP 45 - - -
Points:	3
Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC)
First rally:	Rally Russia 2008
Co-driver:	Phil Pugh
Team:	Peugeot UK
Vehicle:	Peugeot 207 S2000
Rallies: Victories: Podiums: WP 26th 1 5 21st
Points:	89
Status: After rally 10 of 11, 2011 season

Guy Wilks (born January 22, 1981 in Darlington ) is a British rally driver .

Career

Starts as a private Ford driver

Guy Wilks began his career as a rally driver in 2000 with a Ford Ka and became British Ford Ka Junior Champion. In 2001 he won the British Ford Puma 1400 Championship. At the 2002 Rally Sweden he made his debut in the World Rally Championship with a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI . He then took part in the British rally championship with a Ford Puma S1600 and achieved fifth place in the overall championship and third place in the ranking for vehicles in the Super 1600 class . In the 2003 season he regularly competed in WRC races in his Ford Puma S1600 and finished seventh in the Junior World Rally Championship . His co-driver was Phil Pugh from this season , with whom Wilks formed a permanent team in the following years.

JWRC with Suzuki

Guy Wilks in the Suzuki Swift S1600 at Rally Finland 2006

When the first successes had set in, the Suzuki factory team noticed Wilks and put him under contract for the 2004 season. He received a Suzuki Ignis S1600 and competed with it for the entire season in the Junior World Championship, which was held as part of the WRC. At the Rally Greece he achieved his first JWRC victory, which was followed by a second win of the season at the Rally Great Britain . He finished the Junior World Championship just beaten in third place. He was also the British rally champion for Super 1600 vehicles with six class wins. In 2005 Wilks achieved a JWRC victory at the Rally Mexico . After the half-time of the season, Suzuki provided him with a new vehicle, the Suzuki Swift S1600 . At the end of the season he took the second championship place in the JWRC. In 2006 Wilks won the JWRC classification of the Rally Argentina and the Rally Finland and finished fourth overall in the Junior World Championship.

British championship titles and WRC guest starts

Guy Wilks in the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX at Rally Great Britain 2007

After the 2006 season, Wilks left Suzuki and switched to the works team of the British Mitsubishi importer. With a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX from Group N , he won five rallies of the British Championship in 2007 and became British Rally Champion. Sponsorship money from Mobil 1 also enabled Wilks to climb up within the WRC to a World Rally Car , a Ford Focus RS WRC 05 from the Ramsport team . With this car he contested individual WRC rallies, but narrowly missed out on the points with two ninth places in Greece and Finland two times. Finally, towards the end of the season, he finished sixth at the Rally Ireland with a privately entered Subaru Impreza S11 WRC and thus scored his first world championship points. He drove the final Rally Great Britain with the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX and achieved the PWRC class victory. In 2008 Wilks won three rallies of the British championship with the Lancer Evo IX and he managed to defend his title. With this vehicle he was used again in the Rally Great Britain in the WRC. He also contested individual rallies this year with a Honda Civic Type R R3 from JAS Motorsport .

Intercontinental Rally Challenge

For the 2009 season, Wilks planned to buy into the Subaru factory team and contest the World Rally Championship with a Subaru Impreza WRC. Since Subaru withdrew from the WRC before the season, this project failed. Wilks then found a place with the newly founded Proton factory team and started in the British rally championship with a Proton Satria Neo S2000 . From the fifth round of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge 2009, the Belgium Ypres Rally , Wilks competed in the Proton in the IRC. However, due to differences of opinion, he separated from the Proton factory team before the season finale of the IRC, the Rally Scotland . Instead, he competed in a Škoda Fabia S2000 from Škoda UK . As Kris Meeke , the fastest driver in the rally, was subsequently disqualified, Wilks moved up to first place and won his first IRC rally. At the end of the season he finished seventh in the drivers' championship.

Guy Wilks in the Škoda Fabia S2000 at the 2010 Rally Scotland

In 2010 Wilks was hired by Skoda UK for the entire season of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge. He started the season successfully with three podium finishes from the first four rallies. However, his chances of winning the title were negated by a serious accident at the Rally Sardinia in which he fractured his vertebrae. Wilks therefore had to pause at three rallies and only returned to the IRC for the ninth round of the season. At the end of the season, he finished sixth in the championship.

Before the 2011 season , Wilks accepted an offer from Peugeot UK , as he can also participate in the development work at Peugeot. Since then he has competed in a Peugeot 207 S2000 prepared by Kronos Racing . He started the season with third place in the 2011 Monte Carlo Rally .

statistics

title

• British Rally Championship : 2007, 2008

WRC results

season	team	vehicle	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	Points	Item
2002	Guy Wilks	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI	MON	SWE DNF	FRA	ESP	CYP	ARG	GRE	KEN	FIN								0	-
	Guy Wilks	Ford Puma S1600										GER DNF	ITA	NZL	OUT	GBR 29
2003	Guy Wilks	Ford Puma S1600	MON DNF	SWE	TUR 18	NZL	ARG	GRE 33	CYP	GER	FIN 24	OUT	ITA 28	FRA	ESP 33	GBR DNF			0	-
2004	Monster Sport Europe	Suzuki Ignis S1600	MON DNF	SWE	MEX	NZL	CYP	GRE 12	TUR 13	ARG	FIN DNF	GER	JPN	GBR 18	ITA 11	FRA	ESP DNF	OUT	0	-
2005	Monster Sport Europe	Suzuki Ignis S1600	MON 19	SWE 22	MEX 11	NZL 27	ITA 23	CYP 29	TUR 52	GRE 17	ARG								0	-
		Suzuki Swift S1600										FIN 18	GER 15	GBR 32	JPN 17	FRA	ESP DNF	OUT
2006	Suzuki Sport Europe UK	Suzuki Swift S1600	MON	SWE 38	MEX	ESP	FRA	ARG 19	ITA 26	GRE	GER	FIN 15	JPN	CYP	TUR 19	OUT	NZL	GBR 52	0	-
2007	Ramsport	Ford Focus RS WRC 05	MON	SWE	NOR DNF	MEX	POR DNF	ARG	ITA	GRE 9	FIN 9	GER 10	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN			3	18th
	Guy Wilks	Subaru Impreza S11 WRC															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	DOOR	FIN 18	GER	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN			0	-
	Mitsubishi Motors UK	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX															GBR 14

IRC results

season	team	vehicle	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	Points	Item
2008	JAS Motorsport	Honda Civic Type R R3	IS	POR	YPR	RUS DNF	MAD	ZLI	AST	SAN	VAL	CHN			0	-
2009	Mellors Elliot Motorsport	Proton Satria Neo S2000	MON	CUR	SAF	AZO	YPR DNF	RUS 4	MAD 10	ZLI DNF	AST 12	SAN 13			15th	7th
	Škoda UK	Škoda Fabia S2000											SCO 1
2010	Škoda UK	Škoda Fabia S2000	MON 6	CUR 2	ARG 2	CAN 3	SAR DNF	YPR	AZO	MAD	ZLI 7	SAN DNF	SCO DNF	CYP	27	6th
2011	Peugeot UK	Peugeot 207 S2000	MON 3	CAN 5	COR DNF	YAL 5	YPR 4	AZO DNF	ZLI DNF	MEC DNF	SAN DNF	SCO DNF	CYP		47	7th

Web links

Commons : Guy Wilks  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Results and statistics on ewrc-results.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Final results of the British Rally Championship 2002
2. ↑ Guy Wilks changes to Suzuki  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (Rallye-Magazin.de on December 15, 2003)
3. ↑ Final results of the 2004 British Rally Championship
4. ↑ Final results of the British Rally Championship 2007 ( Memento from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Wilks takes a step forward ( Memento from August 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Rallye-Magazin.de on March 21, 2007)
6. ↑ Final results of the British Rally Championship 2008 ( Memento from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ JAS Motorsport starts in Australia (Rallye-Magazin.de on March 22, 2008)
8. ↑ Guy sells shares in Wilks  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (Rallye-Magazin.de on July 9, 2008)
9. ↑ Guy Wilks starts in the Proton (Rallye-Magazin.de on June 5, 2009)
10. ↑ Proton: Wilks throws down! (Rallye-Magazin.de on October 15, 2009)
11. ↑ Wilks in the Skoda Fabia S2000 (Rallye-Magazin.de on November 9, 2009)
12. ↑ Meeke is disqualified (Rallye-Magazin.de on November 27, 2009)
13. ↑ Wilks reaches for the IRC crown (Rallye-Magazin.de on January 7, 2010)
14. ↑ Ucci leads - Wilks injured (Rallye-Magazin.de on June 5, 2010)
15. ↑ Wilks postpones return (Rallye-Magazin.de on July 12, 2010)
16. ↑ Wilks: "Peugeot simply had the better package" (Motorsport-Total.com on November 3, 2010)
17. ↑ Wilks starts 2011 in the Peugeot (Motorsport-Total.com on October 29, 2010)