About Us
Tour Britannia is an event organised by former competitors for competitors, thereby providing an unrivalled level of expertise and knowledge for today's crews. Its strong organising team, headed by Fred Gallagher and Alec Poole, has more than 70 years of motorsport competition and management experience and has good relations with both the British (RACMSA) and World (FIA) governing bodies. Working in association with the British Racing Drivers' Club, one the world's most prestigious motor racing clubs, Tour Britannia is organised, managed and promoted by a respected team with a wealth of experience.
Fred Gallagher - Sporting Director
During a motorsport career spanning 30 years, Fred Gallagher has earned a reputation as one of Britain's most experienced and successful co-drivers. In that time, teams and organising bodies alike have also seized upon his wealth of experience and the Ulsterman has filled the role of Clerk of the Course for Britain's round of the FIA World Rally Championship since 1994 as well as for the 50th anniversary East African Safari Rally. In addition, he has undertaken rally consultancy work in the US and Middle East and was Strategy Manager to the Nissan Rally Raid Team for the 2003 and 2004 Dakar Rallies. He is also active as an FIA Steward and delegate in the World Cross Country Cup.
Fred has won some of the world's most exotic and spectacular rallies, from the steaming jungles of the Ivory Coast to Kenya's mammoth Safari Rally - an event he has won three times - and the barren territories of Morocco's Atlas Rally. Partnering some of the sports most legendary drivers, including the late Henri Toivonen, Björn Waldegård, Timo Salonen, Ari Vatanen and Juha Kankkunen, with nine different factory teams, Fred has won five FIA World Rally Championship rallies and taken outright victory in no fewer than seven FIA Cross Country Championship events. In 1997 he and Ari Vatanen won the FIA World Cup for Cross Country Rallies.
Alec Poole - Commercial Director
Alec Poole qualified as an engineer but his passion for motorsport saw him start a career in the sport by the mid-sixties. In 1968, he finished second in the famous London-Sydney with Paddy Hopkirk, and also contested the Le Mans 24 Hours in an Austin Healy Sprite, where he finished 14th overall.
In 1969 Alec contested the British Touring Car Championship with a privately-entered team, took the series by storm and claimed the title in a Mini Cooper. In a varied career, he has also competed in the Daytona 24-Hour Race, finishing third in a Porsche in 1978.
During the 1990s, the Dubliner joined Nissan Europe as Manager of Motorsport, delivering considerable success and domination in the Super Touring and Touring Car world. His focus then turned to the Nissan Rally Raid Team, where he was responsible for contracting drivers such as Ari Vatanen and Colin McRae for the team's cross country programme.
Combined, Alec and Fred have more than 70 years of motorsport competition and management experience and have strong relations with both the British (RACMSA) and World (FIA) governing bodies.
Andrew Kellitt - Clerk of the Course
Road rallies provided the lure for Andrew Kellitt and the Englishman started co-driving in these and then more latterly stage rallies at national and international level in the United Kingdom up until the late 1980s.
From 1985 to 1993 he held the position of Clerk of the Course of the Cumbria Rally, a role he continued to fulfil until 1998, when the event was known as the Pirelli International Rally. From 1989 to date, he also worked with the organiser of Britain's round of the FIA World Rally Championship as the event's Route Co-ordinator.
In 1991 he became Deputy Clerk of the Course on the RAC Rally, a role he continues to perform for today's Wales Rally GB event. He was also employed as the Sporting Manager for the Rally of Great Britain between 2000 and 2002 and will have overall responsibility for the running of Tour Britannia.
Grahame White - Race Director
Grahame White has a long and illustrious career in motorsport and is currently the Executive Director of the Historic Sports Car Club, the premier historic motor club in the UK. It organises more race meetings, solely for historic categories, than any other organisation in the country and Grahame has been Clerk of the Course or Race Director at more than 300 events over the years. A lifelong involvement in the sport has taken him from active competition in international rallying and racing, through team management to event organisation and he was also in charge of the British Automobile Racing Club during the 1960s and 70s. Grahame will fulfil the role of Race Director for Tour Britannia and take overall control of all matters pertaining to race competition.
