Trackrod
Caroline Lodge with Kim Gray finished 23rd in the Historic Cup section of the Trackrod. 2nd in class despite pushing the car to the final MTC
Cheviot
Martin Wilkinson finished 5th OA (2nd in class) in his Mk2 Escort. Barry & Michael Lindsay were 13th OA (2nd in class), Nigel & Helen Harkness were 29th O/A (5th in class)
Mull
Caroline Lodge finished 21st Overall 1st in class navigating for Jimmy Hall
By Nic Fowler
On the warm up to this event dad and I did a couple of autotests at Longpark and Pirelli car park. I enjoyed the driving and even managed to set one or two good times. By the time we arrived at this event, I started to get the idea of how to read the map, although I wasn’t sure about the timing and the time cards but dad said “don’t worry it be reet”
After scruitneering at C&C Barnett, Townfoot we went to signing on where I actually had to sign my life away!!
Helen and team gave me a folder loaded full of paper which we took back to the car and started to look through. With hindsight I should have made my notes clearer. Continue reading
Promenade Stages.
Darren Martin with Dan Hurst finished 26th OA (16th in class) in the Evo. Jamie Martin / Kyle Gass finished 42nd OA (19th in class) in an Escort Cosworth.
Pendragon,
Jon Stynes finished 19th OA (7th in class), Phil & Caroline Jobson finished 20th OA (8th in class). Retirement for Barry & Michael Lindsay with gearbox issues.
Manx
Elfyn Evans & Craig Parry won their fifth BRC round of the year. This so the DMACK team won the BRC teams championship. CA1 team finished runner up despite Fredrik Ahlin & Morton Abrahamsen retiring with engine failure.
By Mark Talbot
Following the Pirelli there was some panel beating required on the near side rear quarter of the 106. After a trip offshore there was only a few days to get this sorted before the event. We managed to build a new inner arch and knock the side into something near and hoped that would be OK for scruitneering. The more I looked at it the more I was determined it was actually stronger than new albeit a little less flat with a few pop rivets here and there. With the event being local we drove the 106 down the night before where it sailed through scruitneering with no issues. We left home rally morning and as our house was closer to the stages than the service area and left the trailer at home and just drove down in the car. We got to the first stage in good time but had a long delay before starting. After not driving the car for a few months and feeling a little rusty we weren’t exactly up to speed after the long delay. Despite the first stage being relatively short we were flagged down four times due to other cars being off the road which also cost us a lot of time. The second stage was much longer and allowed us to get into a better rhythm. That was until the brake servo pipe came off in the inlet manifold and we lost the servo assisted brakes. We managed to keep up the pace but had to brake earlier and with much more pressure to get the car slowed down but even with the throttle closed, air was rushing into the intake making the engine rev. Half way through the stage we had pretty much caught the car in front but in the excitement under-‐steered round a 90 left and went into the ditch where the car rolled onto its roof! We spent a minute upside down whilst the marshals and spectators got us the right way up again. The car started straight away and we were thankfully on our way again, all without the car behind catching up. Continue reading
Scottish – Elfyn Evans / Craig Parry won the event despite running first on the loose roads. Rory Young finished 13th Overall (3rd in class) navigated by Dave Robson. Phil Jobson & Jerry Hettrick were 46th Overall 91st in class) in the Mk1 collecting good NHRC points. John McIlwraith were 61st (2nd in class). Fredrik Ahlin & Morton Abrahamsen retired on the start of stage 4 when the propshaft broke.
Greystoke – Phil Jobson & Jerry Hettrick finished 8th OA (3rd in class), Mark Shaw / James Coxon were 16th OA (1st in class), Rob Graham / Helen Harkness were 23rd OA (5th in class) Barry Lindsay / Caroline Lodge Retired off the road. Kieron & Jon Stynes retired after an off then Clutch trouble.
NG Stages – Elfyn Evans / Craig Parry won the event in the DMACK Fiesta R5. Fredrik Ahlin / Morton Abrahamsen went off on stage 2. Got the car repaired to super rally on day 2 and finished 30th OA 13th in class.
By Barry Lindsay
Our local event saw mixed fortunes for the many Spadeadam members. Peter Taylor & Andrew Roughead had their first outing of the year in the Lilliardsedge / Westlands Focus WRC and despite a big spin on Stage 2 loosing time then finishing the rough stage 4 with two front punctures they brought the Focus home 2nd OA and ‘If Only’ .
Rory Young and Allan Cathers lost a load of time on Stage 2 when they caught a car and had to follow in the clouds of dust for several mile but finished 13th OA 9th in class.
Phil & Caroline Jobson were aiming for good Northern Historic Championship points and Caroline was given strict instructions to make sure they got to the finish. This they did in 33rd OA 3rd in class.
Mark & Amanda Talbot were out in the 1400 106 and were keen to see how they compared in the strong 1400 class. However a roll on Stage 2 dropped them over a minute. Stage 4 used the same corner in the opposite direction and went off there again needing the same spectators to push to get back on the road. They battled on to finish 70th OA 5th in class.
Darren Martin & Martin Steele had their recently acquired Evo 9 out from the JDM Motorsport hire fleet. However a bottom ball joint failed sending them home on SS3. Rob Graham & Helen Harkness suffered a rare wheel failure on a rough section of SS3. Splitting the wheel in two they had to stop and change but couldn’t get the wheel off, eventually a spare was fitted and they got round the rest of the event but were OTL. Barry Lindsay & Caroline Lodge were pushing for the class lead to get good SG Petch ANECC points but in an effort to gain the 4 seconds on a Fiesta R200 the 206 left the road. Stuck in the wet Kershope ditch the 2wd was stuck fast.
Dmack Stages – Peter Taylor & Andrew Roughead 2nd OA 2nd in class. Rory Young & Allan Cathers 13th OA 9th in class, Phil & Caroline Jobson 33rd OA 3rd in class. Mark & Amanda Talbot 70th OA 5th in class.
Severn Valley – Phil Jobson & Arwel Jenkins retired with gearbox problems.
Mini Epynt – Phil Jobson & Arwel Jenkins finished 23rd OA 5th in class
Weeton – Tim Finch finished 4th OA 4th in class in his Subaru
Pirelli Historic / 2wd – Phil Jobson & Arwell Jenkins took 14th OA 3rd in class in the Mk1 Escort. Mark & Amanda Talbot were 41st OA 1st in the upto 1400 class. Rob Graham & Helen Harkness were 46th OA 2nd in class despite an off.
Pirelli Clubman – Darren Martin & Martin Steele took the win in this section for the second year.
Pirelli BRC – Fredrik Ahlin & Morton Abrahamsen won the event in the CA1 Fiesta R5. Elfyn Evans & Craig Parry finished 3rd overall in the Dmack Fiesta R5, Max Vatanen & Jacques Renucci finished 10th in the Dmack Fiesta R5
By Barry Lindsay
Deputy Chief Marshal
When I was asked to join the Pirelli organizing committee 3 year ago, at first I tried to get out of it but eventually Eric Ritchie talked me round to go to one meeting. Barry Armstrong was working all the hours he could and was needing help with the marshal side so agreed to help.
2016 was my third year and back into the British Rally championship as well as the British Historic Championship, Aneccc and Northern Historic. We went back to 2 days of competition and twice the mileage to marshal on the Saturday than we did in 2015. Meetings started back last June when there was talk of a strong possibility of being in the BRC. At this point chicanes were mentioned and one of the criticisms on the 2015 event had been the pallets used to build them so 2016 had to be big bales.
At this point I probably should have engaged brain before mouth but I stuck both feet in, I seem to become in charge of Bales from that point. 40 Big Bales were bought and wrapped at Laversdale in the harvest season and stored ready for April. Continue reading
By Andy Westgarth
The first rally for me this year was filled with highs an lows after a stressful rebuild over the past couple of months. Well we got there on Saturday an did an afternoon of marshalling then finished any little jobs before camping out in the back of the car. The day started well with getting through scrutineering apart from having to put yellow tape on the earth, we then went off to the start of the first stages an all ways going well for the first few stages, there were 16 in total, we weren’t the quickest but we were having fun. We then started the 7th stage an at the start I turned to Nick an said “that chicane looks quite open, u think we can make it flat out” he agreed so of we went, when we got to the chicane it was a bit tighter than it looked, an well we hit it quite hard in third (2 wagon tyres stacked up) after that the problems started 3rd had gear gone not sure where but it’s not where it was supposed to be, wing bent and a knocking noise had now started, we carried on for another 4 stages before the knock was now a loud bang an getting worse, it was time to call it a day which I was a bit annoyed because due to cars not turning up an retiring we were in 2nd overall (also last). But after we retired I got to meet Jimmy McRae an ended up with a little memory of a bent signed wing from him just something to hang on the wall. Then on the trip home I decided time for a change so the Skoda is up for sale and a Corsa shell has arrived at my house to start a new build, I will keep you up to date on my Facebook page as I go through the build.
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