Rob Duggan’s dream of top flight racing fades

Last season Duggan won the DMACK Junior British Rally championship and a subsidised drive in this season’s Junior WRC with the winner of that series receiving a funded drive in an R5 car on selected events within the 2018 World Rally Championship: “We thought we were getting the £60,000 altogether or in tranches of £20,000 but when it really came down to we were told we would get a sixth (£10,000) after every round.”
The alarm bells started ringing when Duggan completed the first two rounds without receiving any of the promised funding. As the funding for the opening two rounds was only paid over recently, Duggan was forced to skip the rounds in Poland and Finland.