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Pathfinders 2017

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The May club night was the Pathfinders, thank you to Barry Lindsay & Martyn Petry, last year’s winners for organising. Next year’s event will be organised by Christine & John Ross.

Results

1st Christine & John Ross               12 Clues 41miles
(1hr 40) tie decider

2nd Geoffrey Harkness, Martyn Petry  Kay Lindsay    12 Clues 41miles
(1hr 42)

3rd Nigel & Helen Harkness                                               12 Clues 43miles

4th Yvonne & Graham Petry, Michael Lindsay               12 Clues 44mile

5th Linda & Eric Ritchie                                                       8 Clues 45mile

6th Kieron & Jon Stynes                                                       3 Clues 41mile

Rally Results (June 2017)

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Warcop Stages – Barrie Thomson & Jerry Hettrick brought the Clio home 24th OA 2nd in the upto 2ltr class. James Coxon navigated his way to 33rd Overall (6th in class). William Thomson navigated Tom Pearson to 37th Overall (10th in class).

Severn Valley – Phil Jobson finished 13th OA 3rd in class on the British Historic championship event.

DMACK Carlisle Stages – Darren Martin & Martin Steele despite the poor seeding and passing cars all day finished 15th Overall 3rd in class. Barry Lindsay & Caroline Lodge brought the 206 back out to get a finish in 24th Overall (2nd in class). Rob Graham & Helen Harkness were 36th Overall and won the Historic up to 1600 class.

Lake District Classic Rally 2017

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By David Garstang

Well after a disappointing retirement from the Berwick Rally due to a broken CV joint after about 2 hours on the second day of the event I was looking forward to a great day out in Cumbria.

My navigator decided to give this event a miss due to family commitments so I had to find another navigator, in stepped the WIFE, as Grandad was competing Granny was commandeered to look after Will our little boy (if you ask Will he was Granny siting) for the day and Heidi strapped herself into the navigator’s seat.

I believe that there were 5 other Spadeadam crews competing on the event, Murry/Ross in a Mini Cooper S, Holliday/Cathers in a MG Midget, Myself/Wife (Garstang/Garstang) in a Mk 1 Fiesta, Harkness/Lindsay in a Corsa, Fowler/Hamilton in a MK2 Escort and Graham/Sutton in a Ford Puma. If there were any other Spadeadam crews my apologies for not mentioning you.

Test 1 Truckstop

This is always a quick test on concrete usually 3 slalom’s through lines of wagons. Graham/Sutton set the pace on this one for the Spadeadam crews (which he continued to day for the whole day) with a time of 49 seconds just 1 second behind the fastest time of Beaumont/Fish (Sunbeam Rapier H120) 48 seconds. Followed by Garstang/Garstang on 53, Harkness/Lindsay & Fowler/Hamilton on 57, Murray/Ross on 61 and Holliday/Cathers on 86. Continue reading →

Lake District Classic & Targa 2017

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By Helen Harkness
(N.B. You might want to get a cuppa & a biscuit, I tend to waffle on a bit)

All ideas have to start somewhere, even the daft ones. This idea started on the Doonhamer targa rally last year. After a quick run through a test to check everything was in place, I thought to myself, “I’d quite like a go at this sort of thing for real.” I did happen to be sat next to Barry Lindsay at the time, so it was a very quick, and tidy run through! At that point I was thinking about doing a targa as a navigator, so later managed to persuade Kenton Pattison that it would be a good idea for us to do Hexham’s single venue targa together that November. It was really good fun and as you may remember from his report, not without excitement or incident, but there was still an idea in the back of my mind  that maybe, just maybe, I’d quite like to have a go as a…. driver!

Months  went  past,  and  I  had  another  brilliant  idea – to  get  Colin  the Corsa (the black one on the front of this newsletter) sorted and MOT’d, and it was at that point that the two ideas suddenly merged:

I would like  to do a targa rally in Colin, mwahahaha!  *insert flashes of lightning and the sound of rolling thunder*. Continue reading →

Severn Valley Historic Stages 4th round MSA British Historic Rally Championship.

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By Phil Jobson

Starting from Builth Wells show ground, the Severn Valley takes in some of the very best fast flowing stages around the Epynt ranges in Wales; classics such as Crychan and Radnor.

Having beaten Stanley Orr on the Pirelli and him choosing not to contest this round, there was prospect of us taking maximum BHRC points. But with our improved pace I was hopeful of taking the challenge to other C5 contenders such as Andrew Stokes in his late brother and Rally legend, David’s BDA Escort Mk1. Also entered, though not registered BHRC, Ernie Graham and Gary Smith are pace setters with Escort Mk1s.

We set quickest C5 time through the short first stage Cefn (Arwel tells me that Cefn means ‘Back’ in Welsh apparently), but by only 1 second from Ernie Graham. Through Crychan and Gwibedog, Gary Smith clawed back time from us while Ernie Graham pulled ahead of the Class. This left Gary Smith and ourselves on the same time. Tyre wear was high, so at first service we decided to fit new medium compound Pirellis, hoping they’d last. We then set exactly the same time as Gary through the 8.91 mile Radnor. All to play for in the final loop. At second service Richard replaced a front tyre that would certainly have punctured otherwise Continue reading →

Rally Results (May 2017)

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Pirelli Rally
Phil Jobson / Arwel Jenkins finished 8th Overall in the Historic and won their class.

John Overend Stages
Darren Martin / Martin Steele took there Subaru to 13th Overall (11th in class), Jamie Martin / Kyle Gass were 27th Overall (16th in class) in an Evo.

RSAC Scottish Rally , National B
Rory Young / Allan Cathers took there Fiesta R5 to 4th OA (2nd class),
John McIlwraith took the Subaru to 13th OA (3rd in class).
Darren Martin / Pete Johnson were 23rd Overall (5th in class)

Thank you!!

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To Every club member who marshalled on the event in any way a big

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Spadeadam MC were represented on all of the 8 stages, service area, re-group, start & finish.

Was good to see the Spadeadam banner managed to get itself propped up in a prominent position in middle of a stage also!! Who saw it on the TV coverage?

Hope you all enjoyed the action. Kind Regards

Barry

Chief Marshal

Pirelli International 2017 Exclusive – Behind the scenes view.

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By Barry Lindsay

Rallying is a lot more than a driver and navigator in a car going as fast as they can, anyone who wants to get involved in the running of an event is part of a big team of officials. Here’s an insight to only my small part of a big event.

Pirelli meetings start about September 7 to 8 months before when all it is,  is a blank note pad and a copy of Kielder map with a red line on it. Following the 2016 debrief it was obvious more chicanes were needed. So    I was to organize another 42 large bales wrapped and stored for winter. Along with another role I was appointed that first night; the role of Chief Marshal.

By December’s cold icy days, a route and format were decided and I went on a route survey choosing points we could have chicanes  where  a  marshal could man them and have a car parked at or near. The conclusion after this was we are going to need a lot more bales. Continue reading →

Rally Results (May 2017)

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Speyside Stages

John McIlwraith finished 36th Overall on the Scottish championship event. 9th in class in the Subaru.

12 Car Results (April 2017)

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1st Exp   Phil Jobson / Paul Hettrick 5f 18min
2nd Exp Evan Porter / Alex Guest 5f 40min
3rd Exp Chris Thornton / Dan Whitmore 9f 28min
1st Nov Barry Lindsay / Graham Petry 4f 19min
RTD Paul Schatz / Andrew Brass Rear Wheel Bearing

Thanks to marshals and Jerry Hettrick for organizing.