Chris
Birkbeck Rallysport is renowned throughout Europe for it's broad experience of
running pace setting, front wheel drive rally cars; which is an appropriate
claim to fame reflecting the types of car piloted by Chris during his successful
rally driving career from the mid 1980's to the early 90's.The
company was founded in 1988, whilst his competition career was in full swing,
the company initially worked on Vauxhall, Peugeot, Opel and Mitsubishi cars,
before switching to Ford in the mid 1990's.The company is also running Conrad
Routenbach and Barry Clarks' Junior Team Pumas in the Junior World Rally
Championship (JWRC) and the British Rally Championship (BRC) For the past four years, Birkbeck RallySport has
ran the most successful Pumas in the Super 1600 Championship the JWRC - in 2001
with Norway's Martin Stenshorne, in 2002 the team claimed it's first
major win with Francois Duval's
Puma in Monte Carlo - and have had two superb third places in Finland and Turkey
with Guy Wilks on last years JWRC, as well as securing
the JWRC’s youngest points scorer in Conrad Routenbach this year.