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Rally GB set to reveal revised route

The route for this year's Rally Great Britain will be revealed in Cardiff later today - and it will include significant changes to last October's event

The main change to the November 11-14 event is the inclusion of three new stages - and the addition of six miles of asphalt on the Crychan stage on Saturday.

Cardiff Bay will get an asphalt superspecial stage, run on the private dockside roads on the eve of the event and on the Saturday night. The crowd-pleaser is a shade under a mile in length.

The opening day of the event is identical to last season. Day two, however, starts with a return to Radnor for the first time since 1999. The 9.38-mile stage will open the leg's proceedings and the crews will return first thing after lunchtime service. That service will be a remote - meaning the drivers can only fit spare parts carried in the car with them. Friday and Saturday will include remote services in Builth Wells, north of Cardiff, as opposed to just day one running a remote last season.

Also new to Saturday is the Monument Hill stage, so called in memory of the first ever RAC Rally special stage, which ran 50 years ago this year. The Monument Hill stage runs after Radnor and before the lengthened Crychan stage which includes asphalt sections in the Four Ways area of the Epynt military ranges.

This year the Ford, Citroen and Petter Solberg World Rally Team will have services in the area at the front of the Millennium Centre in the Cardiff Bay area, as opposed to considerably less scenic port car park which the organisers were forced to use in order to cater for the manufacturers and their hospitality areas last year.

Rally GB 2010 itinerary

Thursday November 11

Start Cardiff 1845

SS1 Cardiff Bay (0.99 miles) 1930

Friday November 12

SS2 Hafren 1 (19.87 miles) 0938

SS3 Sweet Lamb 1 (2.67 miles) 1019

SS4 Myherin 1 (17.32 miles) 1037

Remote service Builth Wells 1210

SS5 Hafren 2 (19.87 miles) 1351

SS6 Sweet Lamb 2 (2.67 miles) 1432

SS7 Myherin 2 (17.32 miles) 1450

Service Cardiff 1830

Saturday November 13

SS8 Radnor 1 (9.38 miles) 1000

SS9 Monument Hill 1 (6.27 miles) 1110

SS10 Four Ways Crychan 1 (16.21 miles) 1141

SS11 Halfway 1 (11.41 miles) 1219

Remote service Builth Wells 1333

SS12 Radnor 1 (9.38 miles) 1458

SS13 Monument Hill 1 (6.27 miles) 1608

SS14 Four Ways Crychan 1 (16.21 miles) 1639

SS15 Halfway 1 (11.41 miles) 1717

SS16 Cardiff Bay 2 (0.99 miles) 1925

Service Cardiff 1937

Sunday November 14
SS17 Resolfen 1 (18.20 miles) 0833

SS18 Margam Park 1 (4.97 miles) 0946

SS19 Resolfen 2 (18.20 miles) 1127

SS20 Margam Park 2 (4.97 miles) 1240

Finish Cardiff 1357

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