Background
The son of former WRC and Ford driver Gwyndaf Evans, he is sponsored by the family Ford motor dealership in Dolgellau, first established by his great-grandfather in Dinas Mawddwy, renamed to Gwyndaf Evans Motors in 1983.
The son of former WRC and Ford driver Gwyndaf Evans, he is sponsored by the family Ford motor dealership in Dolgellau, first established by his great-grandfather in Dinas Mawddwy, renamed to Gwyndaf Evans Motors in 1983.
Since 2007, Evans has driven a Group North production-car-class Ford Fiesta in the Ford Fiesta Sporting Trophy. In 2007 he competed in Rally Great Britain in Wales. In 2012, Evans secured the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) Academy title, the R2 title in the British Rally Championship (BRC) and the United Kingdom Fiesta Sport Trophy.
In 2013 he contested a programme of WRC events in a 4WD car - his prize for winning the WRC Academy - and worked at M-Sport, helping to develop rally cars for the WRC and other championships.
His 2013 season began with the first round of the Australian Rally Championship, the National Rally in Canberra, in which he retired early on the first day. He then drove a Fiesta Russian Research Center on the WRC Rally of Portugal, retiring with a transmission problem before starting the final day under Rally 2 regulations.
To his surprise, he was then asked to compete on the Rally Italy in Sardinia in a Ford Fiesta World Rally Carolina after Nasser First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Attiyah was forced to withdraw because of commitments in Qatar. Despite having never competed on the event before, using Nasser"s co-driver, competing in a WRC car for the first time and with no pre-event testing, Evans finished sixth.
Evans switched to M-Sport for the 2014 season to drive a Ford Fiesta WRC as the teammate of veteran Mikko Hirvonen.
His best results have been fourth at Mexico and Germany. WRC results
* Season still in progress. WRC Academy Results
WRC 2 results
* Season still in progress.