LLandudno based 27 year old Matt Edwards has recently embarked on his 6th season of Rallying and is now a well known figure both within the sport as a determined chareacter, and within his local area as a sports star.  

 Matt is now Self-Employed after a spell working for Ford World Rally team in Cockermouth. Using his ever increasing experience and contacts within the sport, he spends many hours instructing at Rallyschool.co.uk‘s venues, and also with a range of motorsport related companies selling items from Mitsubishi Gearboxes from Evoparts.org, to fuel and brake-line fittings for Racing-lines.com; a company new to motorsport who were quick to make use of his industry experience on his departure from M-Sport  

Despite his ongoing budgetary contrains to compete at the level his ambitions aspire to, Matt already has several impressive titles to his name, including; 

• 2010 BTRDA 1400 Series Winner, + MSA English Champion
• 2010 Mid Wales Stages Overall Winner (Subaru Impreza N12b)
• 2009 Fiesta Sport Trophy Media Award Winner
• 2009 Fiest Sport Trophy Runner-Up
• Bulldog and Manx BRC Challenge Rally Winner
• 2008 ANWCC Forest Champion
• 2008 Welsh National Grp N Champion
• 2008 Welsh National and BTRDA U-25 Champion
• 2008 BTRDA Grp N Champion Runner-Up
• 2006/7/8 ANWCC Junior Champion
• 2007 Welsh National U-25 and Class A Champion
• 2007 BTRDA B8 Class Champion in 1400 Series
• 2007 Runner Up BTRDA 1400 Series 

Matt won the coveted Motorsports News Media Award in 2009 for his own efforts in promoting his season to local and national media outlets

Matt had a relatively late start to his rallying career, contesting his first rally at 20 years old. That event was his local Cambrian Rally, a rally that in future years would play a big part in his career. For the time being, Matt was gaining experience in his self built and prepared 1400 Vauxhall Astra, and also building up a reputation as a gutsy and determined competitor, oftern going the extra mile on his comparitively small budget and basic car.   

With event class awards and championship titles racking up, Matt finally got his first big chance, as with the support of Geoff Jones behind him, Matt would compete in 4wd for the first time in 2008 BTRDA events. This season would see Matt gaining in speed and confidence in every event, achieving faster and faster stage times, yet always bringing the car home; indicating maturity beyond his years and a telent that enabled him to quickly adapt to different cars.   

In his carreer so far, Matt has already competed in four different 4 wheel drive cars, and three different front wheel drive cars, and on each occasion found himself at the front of both rally and championship tussles.   

For 2010 Matt again challenged himself with a different car to learn, using a 586 Sport-run MG ZR 1400 in the BTRDA1400 Series, and once again proved the dominant force of the season, taking 5 wins from 8 events, including the last 4 events in a row.