Horsham Legends Cars racer Nigel Kelsey has finished fourth in this year's Rockingham Championship.

The former motor sport sprint champion has always looked at home in the 1200cc Yamaha powered scaled replicas of yesteryear's American cars.

The plant hire contractor, who is in his fifth season of Legends Cars racing, was rarely out of the top placings.

His immaculate car is always popular with the younger spectators as he runs with Tasmanian Devil cartoon character as part of his livery.

Kelsey's young fans had plenty to cheer this season as he took second place in the first and third rounds and fifth in the second round. The final round saw him again up at the front of the field.

The next Legends Cars race meeting is the two-day Winter Championship at Donington Park next weekend.

John Lloyd, from West Marden near Chichester, contests this year's Network Q Rally of Great Britain which roars into action in Cardiff on Thursday.

The 47-year-old West Sussex driver competes on the 14th and final round of the FIA World Rally Championship alongside seven past and present world rally champions including outgoing champion Richard Burns, 1995 champion Colin McRae and last year's rally victor, Finn Marcus Gronholm, who has added this year's world title to his 2000 crown.

The 90-car entry includes professional and amateur crews from 21 counties.

Lloyd, who first competed on this annual rally in 1998, is partnered by Pauline Gullick, 54 from Bristol, in a 2001 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo. Lloyd will tackle 17 special stages, the majority on Forestry Commission roads in mid and south Wales.

Andrew Bargery, from Hove, is co-driver for Justin Dale in a Subaru Impreza, while Maurice Hamilton, from Rudgwick, will be alongside Tony Jardine in an MG ZR.

Additional motorsport reporting by Richard Neil