july 2007

STOLEN TRAILER

Competitor and Marshal, John Reed, has had his 4 x wheel Woodford Galvanised 12ft x 6ft trailer stolen from his home in the Forest of Dean on the night of Tuesday, 17th July.
The trailer has the identification number 117006 on it, and anyone providing information to its safe return can expect a financial reward from John.
Anyone with information regarding the theft of this trailer should contact John on: 07721487286.

JOHN'S TRAILER HAS NOW BEEN FOUND IN A POLICE STOP & SEARCH ON THE SEVERN BRIDGE.

ditton priors stages

This event has been cancelled. Please see regs page.

QUINTON STAGES RALLY 2007

Quinton Motor Club put on 7 competitive stages last Saturday including Crychan Forest and the stage used by Wales Rally GB, Route 60, over the Epynt military ranges.
The Quinton Stages Rally was the 6th Round of the 2007 Silverstone Tyres BTRDA Rally Series.
The 100 starters did not have to face the horrendous wet weather that we have experienced prior to the event and Lyonshall’s Andy Burton left the other competitors in his dust.
Continuing with the reliable engine used on his winning run on the Severn Valley National Rally in May, Andy’s crowd-pulling Peugeot Cosworth finished the event a clear 1 minute 18 secs ahead of second placed Damien Cole from Hereford.
Ludlow Castle Motor Club had 8 members out on the event but 2 were forced to retired just over halfway.
After their recent win on the Newtown based Mid-Wales Stages bad luck returned to Shaun Gardener and Ben Innes.

Shaun & Ben

After hitting a rock earlier on in the day the TNT Tyres Mitsubishi Lancer EVO 5 broke a wishbone on Stage 4 putting Shaun and Ben out of the rally whilst lying in second place.
Stage 4 also claimed the Vauxhall Nova of Gary Scott and Mike Scrimgour when it broke a driveshaft.
The other LCMC members produced some excellent results, with Andrew “Maps” Sankey, co-driving for Hereford’s Roger Chilman Jnr in the Subaru Impreza WRC, finishing in 4th position O/A.

Roger & Andrew

James Wozencroft and Chris Ridge rounded off the top ten in the Suzuki Ignis Super 1600.
Alex Allingham kept up his consistency of finishing events with good results by bringing the Subaru Impreza home in 12 place O/A.
Further down the field Adrian Allen and Michael Wilding finished in 52nd position despite some close encounters with the forest scenery.

Adrian & Mike

As usual on BTRDA Rounds, the 1400cc section of the rally run in front of the open category.
Neil Weaver, co-driven by Nick Thornton, won this section for the 3rd consecutive year on this rally, this time in a Proton Satria.
Neil and Nick also finished 21st O/A despite power steering failure, only being beaten by, in the main, much more powerful 4 wheel drive cars.

Neil & Nick

Andrew & Roger

James & Chris

REPORT by KEITH GLUYAS