After tackling two ERC rounds in 2023, Pryce was back for more European action on JDS Machinery Rali Ceredigion, which doubled as a round of the Probite British Rally Championship, from 30 August - 1 September.
He said: “I’d love to do more ERC events to be honest. I had a bit of a stab last year and had some unlucky times there. I’m determined to crack it a little bit, I thought we would have done it this year, but everything didn’t quite click. But no doubt we’ll be back for more.”
Welshman Pryce’s hopes of making it three Rali Ceredigion wins were undone by a persistent understeer issue on his Ford Fiesta Rally2, which restricted him to seventh place at the finish.
“We just haven’t been able to find that extra one per cent that we need to fight at the top this weekend,” Pryce said. “It doesn’t sound much, but if you’re one per cent down on every corner then that equates to quite a gap by the end of a long event like Rali Ceredigion – and it’s why we’ve ended about 40 seconds away from the podium.
“There have been some good bits that we are happy with, but it’s frustrating that we weren’t able to crack the code and get us to where we wanted to be. I’m happy to have finished unscathed, but it’s a case of what might have been.
“To be fair to everyone in the Dom Buckley RSC team, they tried absolutely everything they could think of to find a solution. It’s not a major issue, but it’s that little sweet spot that you need at this level that just wasn’t there this time. I’ve even compared our on-board videos from last year where we were on rails to this year, and you can see that we were understeering and running out of road this weekend even when we weren’t going quite as fast.”
The 2024 ERC season reaches its climax on JDS Machinery Rali Ceredigion from 11 - 13 October.
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