Two Ludlow Castle Motor Club crews competed on Saturday 17^th April on the Horiba d’ Isis rally.

The event was organised by Quinton Motor Club and was held at the MIRA proving ground at Nuneaton in Warwickshire.

This was a single venue event and offered approx 50 miles of good quality tarmac stages.

The rally was a round of three championships and attracted approx 80 crews.

 It was the AWMMC AB Motorsport Heart of England Rally Championship that LCMC members, Eric Weaver/Andrew Sankey and Duncan Edwards/Colin Stevens were competing in.

After a manic week before the rally preparing the Darrian and a late night Friday night, fitting a new flywheel, Weaver/Sankey had quite a good result, despite a bad first stage where they lost 25 seconds. It was a dry hot day and Weaver was struggling with the tarmac just eating away at his tyres. After purchasing a harder compound tyre his problems were solved until the second to last stage when he picked up a puncture, which cost him the class win.

Meanwhile Edwards/Stevens had a trouble free rally, apart from tyres going off quickly, which seemed to trouble many competitors in the hot weather.

The rally claimed a lot of retirements during the day, with only 47 finishers, but Weaver/Sankey brought the Darrian home in 6^th place overall and 2^nd in class. Edwards/Stevens were 17^th overall and 5^th in their class.

The next round in the Heart of England Rally Championship will be the Welsh Rally over the Epynt Military Ranges on 2^nd May.