Guy Wilks
Guy before the start of the 2010 Rally Scotland
NationalityUnited Kingdom British
Born (1981-01-22) 22 January 1981
FIA World Rallycross Championship career
Debut season2015
Current teamLOCO Energy World RX
Car number100
Former teamsJRM Racing
Starts13
Wins0
Podiums0
Best finish15th in 2017
World Rally Championship record
Active years2002–2008
TeamsSkoda, Mitsubishi, Ford, Suzuki
Rallies45
Championships0
Rally wins0
Podiums0
Stage wins0
Total points3
First rally2002 Swedish Rally
Last rally2008 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 driving his Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution at the 2007 Wales Rally GB.

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.

Wilks in the Škoda Fabia at the 2010 Rally Scotland.

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

(key)

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
Ford Puma S1600 GER
Ret		 ITA NZL AUS GBR
29
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
Suzuki Swift S1600 FIN
18		 GER
15		 GBR
32		 JPN
17		 FRA ESP
Ret		 AUS
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
Mitsubishi Motors UK Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX GBR
14

JWRC results

(key)

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
Suzuki Swift S1600 FIN
3		 GER
3		 FRA ESP
Ret
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

(key)

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

(key)

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
Philip Pugh Škoda Fabia S2000 SCO
1
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

(key)

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
JRM Racing Mini Countryman RX BAR
13		 LAT
14		 GER
 ARG
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

  1. 1 2 "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 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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