Motorsport: McBride on track for Billy Coleman Young Rally Driver of the Year Award

The 22-year old earned the January-May nomintion 

Donegal's Kyle McBride (Peugeot 208 Rally4) is this season's first nomination for the 2025 Billy Coleman Young Rally Driver of the Year Award. Picture: Martin Walsh.

Donegal's Kyle McBride is this season's first nomination for the 2025 Billy Coleman Young Rally Driver of the Year Award. The 22-year old from Clonmany scooped the January-May monthly grouping after notching up some impressive class wins during that time. Currently dovetailing the Irish and UK Stellantis Rally Cup and the Junior British Rally Championship in a Peugeot 208 Rally4, he secured class wins in the East Riding Stages Rally, the West Cork Rally, the Jim Clark Rally. In last weekend's O'Connell Group Cork '20' Rally he also netted another class win and finished thirteenth overall.

Indeed, the result in Cork has promoted him into a one-point lead over fellow Donegal driver Joe Kelly in the Stellantis Motorsport Rally Cup IRE & UK that carries a top prize of a supported entry into five rounds of the 2026 FIA European Rally Championship. McBride, who is part of the MI Academy, is also very much in the hunt for the Junior BRC title.