Quick Facts
Biography
Elfyn Rhys Evans (born 28 December 1988 in Dolgellau) is a Welsh rally driver who competes in the World Rally Championship.
Career
The son of former WRC and Ford driver Gwyndaf Evans, he is sponsored by the family Ford motor dealership in Dolgellau, first established by his great-grandfather in Dinas Mawddwy, renamed to Gwyndaf Evans Motors in 1983.
Since 2007, Evans has driven a Group N production-car-class Ford Fiesta in the Ford Fiesta Sporting Trophy. In 2007 he competed in Rally GB in Wales.
In 2010 Evans won the British Junior Rally championship and was the winner of the UK Ford Fiesta Trophy series, also he won the Pirelli Star Driver Shoot-out after two days of tests and assessments at the Sweet Lamb rally complex in his native Wales, with a prize of a fully funded season in a Pirelli-backed Group N Subaru Impreza run by the championship-winning TEG Sport team — a prize worth in excess of £200,000.
In 2012, Evans secured the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) Academy title, the R2 title in the British Rally Championship (BRC) and the UK Fiesta Sport Trophy. In addition, he won the end-of-year FST International Shootout. In 2013 he contested a programme of WRC events in a 4WD car - his prize for winning the WRC Academy - and worked at M-Sport, helping to develop rally cars for the WRC and other championships.
His 2013 season began with the first round of the Australian Rally Championship, the National Rally in Canberra, in which he retired early on the first day. He then drove a Fiesta RRC on the WRC Rally of Portugal, retiring with a transmission problem before starting the final day under Rally 2 regulations. To his surprise, he was then asked to compete on the Rally Italy in Sardinia in a Ford Fiesta World Rally Car after Nasser Al-Attiyah was forced to withdraw because of commitments in Qatar. Despite having never competed on the event before, using Nasser's co-driver, competing in a WRC car for the first time and with no pre-event testing, Evans finished sixth.
Evans switched to M-Sport for the 2014 season to drive a Ford Fiesta WRC as the teammate of veteran Mikko Hirvonen. His best results have been fourth at Mexico and Germany. The driver scored two podiums in 2015, finishing 7th in the overall standings.
M-Sport dropped Evans to the WRC-2 in 2016. Driving a Ford Fiesta R5, he has scored weins at Monte Carlo, Sweden and Tour de Corse. Also with a Fiesta R5, he won the British Rally Championship with five wins in seven races.
Results
WRC results
| Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Pos. | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Elfyn Evans | Ford Fiesta ST | MON | SWE | NOR | MEX | POR | ARG | ITA | GRE | FIN | GER | NZL | ESP | FRA | JPN | IRE | GBR 42 | NC | 0 |
| 2011 | Elfyn Evans | Ford Fiesta R2 | SWE | MEX | POR | JOR | ITA | ARG | GRE | FIN Ret | GER | AUS | FRA 16 | ESP | GBR Ret | NC | 0 | |||
| 2013 | Qatar M-Sport | Ford Fiesta RRC | MON | SWE | MEX | POR 23 | ARG | GRE | 12th | 20 | ||||||||||
| Ford Fiesta RS WRC | ITA 6 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ford Fiesta R5 | FIN Ret | GER 6 | AUS | FRA 11 | ESP Ret | GBR 8 | ||||||||||||||
| 2014 | M-Sport | Ford Fiesta RS WRC | MON 6 | SWE Ret | MEX 4 | POR 22 | ARG 7 | ITA 5 | POL 35 | FIN 7 | GER 4 | AUS 8 | FRA 6 | ESP 14 | GBR 5 | 8th | 81 | |||
| 2015 | M-Sport | Ford Fiesta RS WRC | MON 7 | SWE 6 | MEX 4 | ARG 3 | POR 69 | ITA 4 | POL Ret | FIN 12 | GER 6 | AUS 9 | FRA 2 | ESP 34 | GBR 6 | 7th | 89 | |||
| 2016 | M-Sport | Ford Fiesta R5 | MON 8 | SWE 9 | MEX | ARG 17 | POR 30 | ITA | POL 13 | FIN 11 | GER | CHN C | FRA 11 | ESP | GBR WD | AUS | 21st | 6 | ||
| 2017 | M-Sport | Ford Fiesta WRC | MON 6 | SWE | MEX | FRA | ARG | POR | ITA | POL | FIN | GER | ESP | GBR | AUS | 6th* | 10* |
* Season still in progress.
WRC Academy Results
| Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Pos. | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Elfyn Evans | Ford Fiesta R2 | POR 7 | GRE 1 | FIN 1 | GER 1 | FRA 1 | ESP 3 | 1st | 144 |
WRC 2 results
| Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Pos. | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Qatar M-Sport World Rally Team | Ford Fiesta RRC | MON | SWE | MEX | POR 8 | ARG | GRE | ITA | 7th | 65 | |||||||
| Ford Fiesta R5 | FIN Ret | GER 2 | AUS | FRA 2 | ESP Ret | GBR 1 | ||||||||||||
| 2016 | M-Sport | Ford Fiesta R5 | MON 1 | SWE 1 | MEX | ARG 4 | POR 14 | ITA | POL 2 | FIN 3 | GER | CHN C | FRA 1 | ESP | GBR | AUS | 3rd | 120 |
* Season still in progress.