Tyneside Stages– Peter Taylor won, getting maximum points. Barry & Michael Lindsay finished 23rd (3rd in class). Geoffrey Harkness & Caroline Lodge finished 46th (8th in class).
Author: Spadeadam Motor Club
Rally Results (July 2014)
Scottish Rally – Rory Young & Allan Cathers retired with heating trouble. John McIlwraith also retired, with engine failure.
Greystoke Stages– Darren Martin / Peter Johnson finished 12th OA (8th in class) in the Evo, James Coxon navigated Mark Shaw to 22nd (2nd in class), Jon & Kieron Stynes on their first event took the 205 to 35th OA (12th in class) Mark Goodfellow / Kyle Gass took the Subaru to 39th OA (12th in class) despite a maximum. David Coleman / Dan Hurst took the Skoda to 40th OA (5th in class) Barry Lindsay / Caroline Lodge retired on stage 5 with a broken Driveshaft.
Greystoke Stages -13th of July 2014
By Barry Lindsay
The P&R Benn Greystoke stages were ran by West Cumbria Motorsport Club in July. With entries oversubscribed two weeks after the regs were published back in April. 55 cars started the single venue forest event a round of the SG Petch ANECCC championship amongst others. I had asked Caroline Lodge to navigate the maps only event at the start of the year and had entered long before the 206 was wrote off against a Hamsterley tree. On the run up to the event I first said find someone else. Then I got a donor shell to swap all the good bits into. But then the shell had to go right back to a bare shell and that wasn’t going to work. So option 3, was to hire a 4wd, but it landed back to the 106. I said it was only going to do tarmac but recent events on tarmac I had damaged three doors, two wings and a rear panel and umpteen mirrors. So with it lifted and having got a set of DMACK’s finest bolted on I was ready for a quick test. With the track dry, loose but only needed a couple of runs for the smile to be on my face. Yes the 106 and the DMACKs worked together.
At Scrutineering on the Saturday everything went to plan all signed on and other class contenders informed me about getting heaps more power, but quietly I kept confident we could be up there.
Darren Martin with Pete Johnson in the map reading seat were at 23 in the Evo. James Coxon was navigating for Mark Shaw in the Sunbeam at 29. Mark Goodfellow & Kyle Gass had the JD Motorsport Subaru at 48. Jon & Kieron Stynes were on their first rally having got a 205 were raising money for Breast Cancer research and had completely wrapped the car in pink for the event. Dave Coleman & Dan Hurst were at 57 in a hired Skoda Felicia also from JD Motorsport.
David Coleman / Dan Hurst
Overnight rain was much needed to settle the dust and meant the event would run to time and the 30sec starts for the first 4 stages would work OK. Continue reading
My First 25 Years Of Rallying
By David Coleman
I thought I would put finger to keyboard and share some memories with you on my motorsport life so far…..
I started my love of Rallying in 1985 standing on my old school bridge that crossed Wigton rd in Carlisle and watching the last of the Gp.B cars heading from Carlisle into the lake district on the RAC rally.
After leaving school in 1988 I started my first job through my late dad at B&Q in Carlisle on an apprenticeship. One of my colleagues was a keen rally fan and took me under his wings telling me about the golden days of the sport and introduced me to Spadeadam MC and the meetings held at the sportsman in Laversdale.
My memory is a little shaded so some of the following may be slightly incorrect (20 years of painting cars seems to have broken the grey matter!).
I was introduced to marshalling through Spadeadam, on Moresby pits (Fellside stages?) where we had the clocks on the flying finish , Brett Mitton’s Chevette was one of the cars I remember to do well that day. We also did clocks at the Setmurthy stage which I think was part of the Lakeland stages, now the Malcolm Wilson rally where Dougie Watson-Clark was in his newly built Sierra Cosworth.
Jim Dent – Moresby Pit
We spectated at the Scottish rally later that year, a very hot dusty, midge bitten day that was worth it purely for the sound of the 3 door Sierra’s wastegates chattering through the forest, surely that sound should return to the BRC ! It was then I chose my rallying hero, and still to this day I have so much admiration for Jimmy McRae who after speaking to him briefly on 2 occasions seems so down to earth and friendly. Continue reading
Pirelli Summer Autotest
By Barry Lindsay
Eleven drivers lined up to go head to head over twelve tests on the good tarmac of the main carpark at Pirelli during the plant being on summer break. The 11am start got things going as a full entry of 20 had been hoped for, but those that did take part enjoyed themselves.
Caroline Lodge & Michael Lindsay were armed with there stopwatches and kept the track busy as one car finished another started.
Tony Crisp
Test 1, Tony Crisp had brought his Autotest mini over from Durham along with Son Jonny with his Ka for his second appearance at a SMC Autotest. Tony flew round the course in a time of 49 sec. Stephen Dixon was the quickest of the SMC members with 53 sec in his stripped out Corsa. Geoffrey Harkness & Barry Lindsay were close behind on 54sec.
Test 2 was a re-run over the same course, Tony was again quickest with 51sec with Stephen & Barry just behind on 52sec then Geoffrey on 53.
Barry Lindsay
Test 3 Moved a few cones then was quickly underway after a walk round. Barry fought back with the old 106 getting 42, ahead of Geoffrey on 43, John Ross got 44sec using the club car Fiesta then Stephen, Tony & Jon Stynes now with a Mazda all getting 45sec.
Rally Results (June 2014)
Severn Valley- Phil Jobson finished 12th Overall 3rd in class.
Dmack Carlisle Stages – Phil Jobson finished 22nd overall 2nd
in class. Rob Graham and Helen Gibbon had another non finish,
due to a distributor issue. While Mike Martin & Kyle Gass
finished 8th overall in the modern section, 4th in class on Mikes
first event and in the JD Motorsport hire car. Darren Martin and
Martin Steele also suffered with troubles and had to retire.
Test On The Rest
By Eric Ritchie
Sometimes, life is just so difficult that it is hard to come to terms with the trauma and stress of it all………………….. !!!
Such was the weekend I spent on Scotland’s iconic hill climb the ‘Rest and be Thankful’. This fantastic stretch of road was first used as a hill climb in 1949, the year before I was born! In its time it has hosted drivers of the calibre of Sir Jackie Stewart and the late Jim Clark. Raymond Mays, the elder statesman of British Motor sport held the record for the fastest time over the 1.6km (1 mile) sprint course with a time of 68 seconds, and that was well over 40 years ago!
It is over four decades since the glen was last used competitively and the rally test day organised by John Parker and Brian Kinghorn, brought back a flood of memories to the many fans and spectators who gathered in the car park above the hairpin. This time, it would not just be the 1.6km hillclimb section that would be used, but the entire 4km from the bottom of Glen Croe to the traditional finish line above the hairpin. Continue reading
Autotest Round 3 – 8th of June 2014
By Barry Lindsay
The summer Grass tests were ran at Longpark in June. Despite rain on the Saturday afternoon it had dried enough to run on the Sunday afternoon. Ian Robinson & Michael Lindsay were the timekeepers for the afternoon while Caroline Lodge worked on the results. 12 tests were run with the final two being a head to head special test.
First test Barry Lindsay was quickest with 53sec only just ahead of Andrew Graham on 54sec then Landowner Joe Thomlinson on 56sec, visitor Jonny Crisp a junior from the North East brought his KA over and got 58sec. John Ross got off to a bad start getting a wrong test. On the rerun Barry got 54sec as conditions dug up a little, Andrew got 56sec along with Geoffrey Harkness. Jonny & Nigel Harkness got 57sec.
Andrew Graham
Rally Results (May 2014.)
Hamsterley – Phil Jobson took his Mk1 to 27th Overall and 2nd in class on the popular event, which was a round of the R.A.C Historic Championship. Barry & Michael Lindsay retired after hitting a tree in the Modern section in the 206.
Pirelli (Saturday) – Peter Taylor wheeled the Focus back out of the garage. A puncture dented their hopes of a win. They finished 3rd Overall. Darren Martin & Martin Steele took their Evo to 7th OA while in the Historic event Phil & Caroline Jobson finished 17th OA while the similar machine of Rob Graham & Helen Gibbon retired with fuel / engine problems.
Pirelli (Sunday) – Peter avoided any punctures and took the Clubman section win. John McIlwraith brought his immaculate Mk2 out and finished 9th OA.
Manx. – Peter Taylor was back out, but into his Fiesta in tarmac trim but got caught out when a stage was delayed It rained and he was on slicks! The off into a bank caused Peter & Andrew to need medical attention. Pleased to report they were both released after being checked.
Autotest Round 2 – 27th of April 2014
By Barry Lindsay
At the end of April it was thought that ground would be hard…well it wasn’t! But the event went ahead with some tricky conditions and would reward those with a feel of grip through there right foot.
Ian Robinson had designed some new routes for the event and set the event off marshalling tests 1&3 while Barry Lindsay ran 2&4 at the same time.
Geoffey Harkness
Geoffrey Harkness was fastest on the first test with 1m 06. Nigel Harkness was next on 1m 14 then Andrew Graham & Kieron Stynes on 1m17. John Ross, George Carrick & Alex Beaty all wrong tested.
Test 2 Neil Thomlinson was quickest on 54sec ahead of Nigel on 55sec, Richard Clark with 57sec then Kenton Pattison, Andrew & John on 58sec.
Plenty of mud flying – Neil Thomlinson
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