issue 22 - kdmc bulletin june 2015

KDMC Bulletin June 2015 Edition

Committee Members

President: Alan Smith Vice Presidents: Mike Harrison Norman Robertson Jeff Gray Chairman: Jef Sumner Vice Chairman: Steve Henstock Secretary: Jeff Gray Treasurer: Lorna Harrison Competition Secretary: Mike Lawson Membership Secretary: Margaret Mullen Club Development Officer: Vacant Social Secretary : Vacant Equipment Officer: Simon Barnett Bulletin Editor: Barbara Skepper Chief Marshal: Mike Timmins Committee Posts: Mike Vokes Steve Skepper Andrew Lawson Lee Skilling


Welcome to the June edition of the KDMC Bulletin. We are nearly half way through the year already.

Where has it gone? I hope you have all had a successful and enjoyable year so far. See the end of the

bulletin for events you can join in with. For those who like their motorsport further afield there is an

attachment with this bulletin giving details of an event next year in South Africa!

Don’t forget our Summer Party next month. Come and have a great time – the more the merrier!

Please send articles for the August bulletin to [email protected] by July 29th.

Barbara Skepper.

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FOR YOUR ATTENTION

Please send all claims for marshal and competition points (including claims for articles) to Richard

Duddell. When claiming points for articles you must send a copy to both Richard and the bulletin

editor.

Tim Sargeant Memorial Autotest Sunday 28th June 2015

Help Required Only a few weeks to our round of the MSA, BTRDA and ANWCC championships Autotest. Once again we will be organising the event at Demon Tweeks on the Wrexham Industrial Estate. Scrutineering and signing on from 8.30hrs with the first test starting at 10.15hrs. We need help with running the event, either marshals or timekeepers. If you don’t have previous experience we will give you training so that you can be fully involved. I also need help setting up the venue from about 7.30hrs. Mike Vokes is Chief Marshal (01829 741826/07745 371386, e mail [email protected]) so please get in contact with him. If you want regulations they are on the club and ANWCC web site. I expect a high quality entry, although numbers are down this year. KDMC member Chris Chapman will be challenging for a top spot while dad, Ian, will be out to win the top KDMC award. If you are coming to the event, follow the Wrexham Industrial Estate signs and then follow the arrows within the estate. Duncan Wild Clerk of the Course

mailto:[email protected]

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CHAIRMAN’S CHAT

Hi All, It doesn’t seem 5 mins since Barbara was chasing me for the last Chairman’s Chat, which was

back in April, I only do one every two months so I don’t know how Allan and my other predecessors

managed to submit a report every month

So what has happened within the confines of KDMC, since my last report, well not a lot really, a

number of people have been working hard in preparation for and then the running of our Premier

Forest Stage Event, the Plains Rally which I am sure you all know took place on the 16 May. I am sure

that there will be many various reports within this bulletin, looking at the event from various

aspects, so I have no intention of stepping on other people’s toes, but will make a few comments

from the Clubs perspective.

Firstly, I must thank Les (Sharp) for stepping in as Clerk of the Course when Graham (Raeburn)

decided that he had to stand down, but thanks also to Graham for stepping in to manage results. I

am sure that Les did not know what he was letting himself in for; the unfortunate incidents in

Scotland during 2014, and other problems, led to a dramatic Safety review which imposed

restrictions and increased legislation / paperwork / signage on our Event, this coupled with Natural

Resources Wales (NRW) deciding that they needed to reconstruct roads within our allocated zone,

meant a number of Route Changes, some very last minute and the need for revisions to the Event

time schedule.

Thanks Les, you overcame, to put on another great Plains Rally; although some of us felt that you

took too much on yourself!

Event in hand, up and running, so the next Club Thank-you is to the “Y Llew Coch, Squadron” as they

have become known. That dedicated team of Club Members and Friends who travelled down to

Wales on the Wednesday to set up the Stages, appreciated by all Stage Commanders and well

reported on; It should be added that a large number of that team were still there at 21:00Hrs on the

Saturday, clearing the Stages and Equipment. My and the Clubs thanks to each and every one of you.

But that’s not all, what about the Rally HQ Team, those that manage Scruitineering, Signing On,

Results and awards presentation, everybody is part of that team that work “together” to put on the

Plains Rally.

And Finally, thanks to those who turned up at the Clubs Storage Containers on Saturday 23 May to

Clean, de-staple, and put away all the equipment 3 / 4 (Mike will confirm) full Transit loads, as they

say “Many hands make light work”, we started at 10ish and were finished by 1pm, more hands

would make it even easier.

Thank you to one and all, we know look forward to what next year is going to throw at us.

Regards

Jef Sumner


Here are two articles from Peter Boyce. The first about the Poppy Rally and the second on the Irish

Retro Classic.

A BELGIAN ADVENTURE

Living as we do in Hawkinge near Folkestone, the Channel Tunnel and Dover Port are only a few

minutes away. This makes a rally in Belgium an attractive proposition compared with say the North

Yorkshire. Rich Harrison and I had decided that this year we would do some of the longer events and

fit in those HRCR rounds that we could (a) afford and (b) get away with without losing points at

home. The Classic Rally Association’s Poppy Rally seemed an ideal start, with me having competed

on the first one in 2009 in a Saab 96 and having found it really enjoyable. Also entered were our

former Knutsford colleagues and rivals Duncan Wild and Steve Skepper in the Mini. They, along with

Rich spent the night with us and we took advantage of a few drinks in the Cat and Custard Pot,

where to our pleasure Charles Harrison popped in to join us. Mike and Lorna Harrison were staying

near Ashford but we would meet them the next day.

Next morning a few curtains twitched as neighbours peeped to see Duncan’s trailer being reversed

down the close and then our MGB setting off for Dover and the ferry. We went via Dunkerque and

within 40 minutes of landing were in Poperinge for scrutiny and fuel, before a practice regularity to

take us to the Rally HQ in Ypres and signing on. Here we received the basic tulip roadbook for the

link sections and the test venues and diagrams. Also given out were the so called “London Maps” for

the next day’s regularities, all 12 of them. They consisted of sets of points, sometimes as many as 20,

each lettered and to be visited in order and from specified directions. No grid references or spot

heights to worry about. The maps were 1:50,000 just like our OS Landranger series but with very

different conventional signs. This area of Belgium is Flanders and is criss-crossed by scores of country

lanes, all “whites”, mainly tarmac but all narrow. Running at 46 we started at 09.16 so a fairly

civilised breakfast in the comfortable Novotel in the centre of Ypres before a run out to Poperinge

for the start. Mike and Lorna were having big trouble with the TR3, belching smoke out of the

exhaust with fuel mixture problems. We began with a set of tests, a Kart circuit and a strange

banked bowl circuit included, before the first regularities. More tests followed, which on this event

include some very fast ones on closed roads and over a mile long. (Except that we were working in

Kilometres!). Lunch included quite the biggest piece of ham I have ever seen and set us up for the

afternoon, which included an unusual test round the town square in Watou, on cobbles and using a

big statue as one of the “cones”. Eventually we came to the supper halt in Proven, again very

welcome and really good, before the night section of regularity and time control sections. This was

really fantastic fun, with about 3 hours or so of full on rallying. One particular farm slot caused us

and others a bit of a problem but we completed the night OK after some pretty tricky route finding.

We had been hard at it from the start till 23.15 without let up, so just a couple of beers and to bed.

Sunday began at 06.30 with two regularity sections before breakfast! We could see why when the

first regularity took us in and out of and round about an industrial estate on the outskirts of Ypres

before work started! Another control right at the end of the second regularity caused us a problem. I

had mis-plotted a direction of departure and we were a control missing! We were on the way to

breakfast when I saw my mistake and we hurried back to get the control and Rich had to drive

spiritedly to get to the main control in Ypres within our penalty free lateness. Breakfast was very

welcome and then more tests on closed roads and regularities to the Finish back in Ypres at about

16.00. One of the afternoon regularities caused interest when a not as map loop brought many

crews to a small wooden footbridge! How to get across the river? It actually involved a loop onto a


main road and over the river, but many crews chose to cross the wooden footbridge, there being

just enough width to take a Mini like Duncan’s, but also a 911 did it as did others. Sadly they all

missed the timing point on the junction with the main road! Time now for a stroll around the town

to see the superb Cloth Hall, rebuilt after having been flattened in WW1, in its original style, Ypres

and nearby Passchendale having been a hub of serious fighting in that war. On the Friday evening

many of us had walked the few hundred yards from the Novotel to the impressive Menin Gate for

the daily ceremony of the Last Post at 20.00. One of Jackie’s great uncles has his name among the

thousands engraved on its wall of those with no known grave.

The results showed that we were 31st overall and 2nd in our class, in fact beaten by another MGB

who were 30th. Duncan and Steve came 25th and Mike and Lorna, having missed the first regularities,

did well to come 36th. The whole event had been enormous fun and the MG had behaved

impeccably despite a little anxiety when the spots would not work just before the evening section,

fixed by Rich just in time. The area covered was from Poperinge in the west to Diksmuide in the

north, Roeselare in the east and Ballieul (France) in the south. The crews were very well fed and the

Total fuel station where 80 cars all filled up several times must have been ecstatic! If you are

tempted to go rallying in Flanders, one little tip - don’t cut the 90 degree junctions as there is nearly

always a big hole on the inside of the junction. For an all out intensive weekend’s rallying the Poppy

takes some beating.

THE IRISH RETRO CLASSIC RALLY 24 – 26 APRIL 2015

Ten or so years ago I competed on the Irish Classic, once driving my Saab 96 with Graham Raeburn

navigating and once navigating for Dave Russell in his TR4. On both occasions we had a most

enjoyable event both in terms of the competition, the hospitality and the amazing social


atmosphere. Later, in 2011, the Rally of the Tests had its first 2 days in Ireland and again I was there

in a Saab though on that occasion navigating, and again a great atmosphere prevailed. So the

prospect of going there again to do the resurrected Irish Retro was seized with relish. Fred Bent was

Rally Master with Michael Jackson and Mickey Gabbett as Clerks of the Course, backed up by Frank

Fennell as advisor, a star team of competitors as organisers. So with accommodation fixed in Rally

HQ at the excellent Newpark Hotel in Kilkenny and the ferry from Holyhead to Dublin booked via

Nutt Travel the adventure began. I had been on holiday in Anglesey and Rich had been on duty at his

second grand daughter’s birth in Berkhamsted immediately beforehand and we met up at a nice

country hotel near Caernarvon on the Wednesday before the ferry on the Thursday, not really well

prepared for a three day rally.

On arrival in Dublin we made the poor decision to drive through the city at 5.00pm, a bad mistake as

Dublin rush hour is hellish. One hour later we were just clear of the city having covered about 4

miles. However the run down to Kilkenny on the M7 and M9 was fine on a sunny evening. We met

many friends, had a few beers and a meal. There was a big UK contingent there and we spent a lot of

time with fellow MGB crews Roger Jenkins and Peter Cox, and Ken Jones and Richie Bestwick as well

as Dilwyn Rees and Tony Newman in the Healey 3000. On Friday morning there was time to look

around the town ( Kilkenny is a very interesting place) before driving to the nearby Gowran

Racecourse for scrutineering and signing on. We had time to do the necessary plotting and look at

the tests before the Prologue began. It started with 3 tests within the racecourse before a splendid

supper, followed by a regularity round the ”inside camera car circuit”, another test and a final

marked map regularity back to Kilkenny. A slight problem with the clock caused us a few too many

seconds on the regularities but a fun evening which ended in the bar for some good “craik”, so much

so that the live music was drowned by the noise.

Reseeded after the Prologue section, we began the Saturday legs. A couple of tests and a jogularity

to start with followed by a regularity over Leinster Mountain in thick mist, where we managed to get

a wrong direction at a timing point by going the wrong side of a cone in the fog, the cone being a

beer bottle which we didn’t see! Some excellent tests and a variety of regularity sections took us to

lunch at Huntington Castle after which we did a test on a rough gravel driveway on which the last

three feet of the MG’s exhaust parted company. We got to the end then Rich had to walk back up

the test to collect the exhaust, mercifully not flattened by subsequent cars. 25 minutes later with

exhaust back on chained to a rear overrider and perilously close to OTL, off we go and manage to

complete the rest of the leg’s tests and regularities to the supper halt near Crookstown. Now came

the evening leg of 2 regularities either side of a navigation section, the old 4 minute sections at 30

mph (allegedly), all over the Comer Plateau in the mountains East of Kilkenny. After about 4 controls

we found several unmanned ones and eventually all unmanned – very odd. Unknown to us the

section had been cancelled due to intense activity by the Garda! A few of us had not been contacted

by marshals and completed the section, a wasted effort but we got our money’s worth I guess.

Worse still was the fact that most of the field were back in the bar an hour before us!

Sunday and a beautiful day with Ireland looking at its best. The first test was on a big farm where

tractors, Land Rovers and big machines had been placed strategically as obstacles to manoeuvre

around! Further tests and regularities took us to lunch by Fethard Castle where lunch was taken in

McCarthy’s “ Pub, Restaurant and Funeral Parlour”. Where else in the world would you find such a

combination of services? One afternoon Deeleyarity caused some mayhem when a”white cottage on

the left” seemed to be on the right until you saw the little narrow lane beside it which, when


entered put the cottage on your right. The problem was compounded by another white cottage,

more obvious, on the left a few yards further on! Much coming and going here! No further dramas

and back to Kilkenny for the finish. Much merriment in the bar as the results were worked out and

then the gala dinner and prize presentation. Winners were Owain Lloyd and Matthew Vokes in the

Mk2 Escort, ahead of Geoff Hall and Martyn Taylor in the Mini, with Charles Colton and Ryan

Pickering 3rd in the 911. Rich and I were 37th overall but 2nd in class, beaten by Ken Jones and Richie

Bestwick in another MGB. Roger Jenkins and Peter Cox were 40th in their MGB. Sadly Eamonn Byrne

and Anthony Preston broke the gearbox of the Mini on Test 1.

All in all a fabulous rally in the area around Kilkenny and the southern parts of the Wicklow

Mountains. 20 tests and 16 regularities in 2 full days; beautiful scenery, good roads, little traffic,

great camaraderie and smiles everywhere, and a nice variety of tests and navigation. Rally HQ was

excellent as was the hospitality everywhere. On Monday morning we had plenty of time to get back

to Dublin via a carwash and interior vac! On the ferry from Dublin we were in the company of our

friends and the journey passed quite quickly. A rather tedious drive from Holyhead to Moreton but

a bottle of good red and nice cheese soon put that behind us. If the Irish Retro runs again I can

recommend it and would be keen to do it again.

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Andy Williams has sent an article about some of the early season events in which he took part.

The Story So Far.......

Demon Tweeks Autosnowlo and PCA, that's not a spelling mistake. January 18th

Rolling out the Micra for its first competitive event this year started with a fresh covering of winter

and an early start, the KDMC Autosolo and PCA at Demon Tweeks. As points were valid for BTRDA

and ANWCC Autosolo, ANWCC junior PCA and allrounders and KDMC off road champs there were

going to be some 'big guns' out today. The weekend before had been a warm up at the Autosport

show as part of the Autosolo display team with cool but dry weather. This was a whole different ball

game! James and I started with 10 minutes of snow shifting just to get the car off the drive.

On arrival at Demon Tweeks the marshalling team were busy spreading grit around both lower car

parks with the top car park being out of bounds in the morning due to the amount of ice covering it.

With competitors walking the tests and treading in the grit the ice started to break up in places and a

suggestion was made to send the cars around the larger test in convoy to really break it up which

helped immensely. We left the road tyres on for today - we were going to need something with

tread. The event started a little late but everyone was happy with getting a practice lap in as a

bonus. The PCA's went out for their first 3 runs with a massive 9 crews taking part with the Clubman

and Nat B Autosolo groups following after. Grip was sporadic to say the least! An interesting spread

of times came in and it was anyone's guess who would win. After lunch the sun had done a great job

of thawing out most of the top car park enough to use it so the full course was laid out and we went

for it. Last year I went wrong test at this point, daft after I'd done it 3 times already sat next to James

on the PCA. This year was going to be different, I'd done it with James 3 times again and this year I'm

supposed to know what I'm doing so no problem, or so I thought. The top test was basically a figure

8 with a gate in the middle. Up I go through, round, back down and around the bottom. Did I do the

gate on the way down? I wasn't sure, I look across to see Dale lifting his arms to signal wrong test!

I'd missed it but I can still correct it, as I go around the bottom box I went wide, back around the gate


and this time went through gate 4 thus returning to the point I'd gone wrong, round the box a

second time accompanied by a wry smile from Dale, some finger pointing, a thumbs up from Jeff

Buchannan and then on to the rest of it. It cost me 11 seconds, but that's 9 less than 20 for a wrong

test and at the end of the event it had dropped me from 4th to 7th o/a and 2nd to 5th in class. Deja

vu! James did well for his first ever event on ice with a very respectable 3rd o/a only 12s off the lead

against some strong opposition. It was a great event as always, well run and plenty of KDMC help.

BLMCC Autosolo & PCA January 25th

Round 2 of ANWCC Autosolo, junior PCA and round 1 of SD34 non race rally & junior driver champs

got under way. What a difference a week makes. Clear blue sky and just 1 week after the

autosnowlo at Demon Tweeks. The usual suspects were out to play with a couple of new faces at the

BLMCC event at Makro Manchester. Last year I lost 1st o/a by 0.1 second to an MX5 and after last

weekend’s deja vu I thought I'd just run with it today. There was some good competition today with

class and overall champions out to play and with good weather it was going to be close. By the half

way mark I'd made a mistake going into the bottom slalom. All my fault, going out with James in the

PCA first I'd noticed he seemed to be quicker than me around that section, (can't have that) so I

upped it a little and of course entered too fast, locked up, overshot, stalled and had to reverse.

Game over I thought so I was just going to go and do what I could to salvage something. We all know

if you go out to try and make up the time you always loose more. After test 3 Phil Clegg on his first

go in National B class retired his Haynes roadster with a broken propshaft joint, not the best start to

a season but he jumped into Steve Johnson's purple rally Micra for the rest of the day, same class so

that worked out. I checked the times at lunch and I was 4th, better than expected. James was

leading the PCA with his steady runs.

The afternoon saw a few mishaps on the bottom bend around the island. John North clobbered his

Passat rear door on a safety rail, Alec Tunbridge knocked a tyre off the rim on the outside kerb,

luckily no damage, we blew it up and he carried on, then on the same kerb Gary Sherriff clipped his

front wheel. I say clipped, on the jack the wishbone, steering arm and anti roll bar linkage were all

bent and he retired. Even the kerb moved back 2 inches after that! After that lot most were taking it

a little easier around there, me included, funny though I couldn't sense James lifting off! At the end

of the event I'd somehow managed to pull back to 2nd o/a 1st in class A1 behind Steve J in the rally

micra just 3.1s adrift. Steve Kennell (2.0 Scimitar) was 3rd o/a & 1st in class A2 just another 2.5s

behind. James won the PCA, we're going to have to keep an eye on him when he goes full solo! All in

all a good day out for er....most of us! On to Blackburn.

KDMC Scatter 151

Team Williams were out with 5 other crews on the first scatter of 2015 with our first priority being

home on time. Last year’s championship was a real eye opener for both of us as it was a lot of years

since my last one and James's first go at navigating anything map based. This year we have a better

idea, allegedly, and on arrival at the start apparently we are now experts, James has won the club

navigators award. Graham Raeburn set a good spread of places and clues so a challenging evenings

route planning found us on all sorts of roads to get the best mix of points and clues we thought we'd

be able to get around in the time allowed. The clues we visited were all reasonably straight forward


apart from a sign in the trees I couldn't see. It was there because another crew saw it so my bad. We

did get a concessionary half point for "enough written information" which made no difference

whatsoever to the final result. All the clues were visited by at least one crew on the night which is a

good thing. We finished a few minutes early this time and had a look at the tie breakers, just one.

Plot the GPS position of Graham's Mondeo in the car park! A couple of crews got within seconds of

the correct point, very impressive. Everyone enjoyed the night and congrats go to Alan Smith and

Shon Gosling on the win. Mike Vokes and Dale Cox were 2nd and also 1st novices. We ended up 4th

out of 6, pleased with that. I hope we can be somewhere near this standard for ours on 7th

September, 154. Save the date...

Accrington Motor Sports Club Autosolo 15th February

A damp start to the event at Blackburn with Darwen services saw a full entry list for this combined

Autosolo, Autotest and PCA. James is away on his hols for this one so just me for team Williams this

weekend. A fairly straight forward day all round for all but one (first time) competitor who over

cooked the top chicane and had a fight with a tree and came second! A bit of front wing and pride

dented. Last year this was my first FTD and to my amazement I was FTD today by 2secs. Jason Crook

(1.3 Stage Rally Micra) and Steve Kennel (2.0 Scimitar) had been quicker all day but Jason collected a

cone and Steve had a reverse so that was it. I'd kept it clean and at the end less than 5 seconds

separated the 3 of us. It's that Deja vu, again! This is getting un-nerving.....

BLMCC Autosolo & PCA Makro Preston. March 22nd

As we returned to Makro Preston for round 4, a familiar layout around the compact venue was on

offer and nice weather to boot, not good for me then. A fairly straight forward day for all with little

drama. No chance of Deja Vu this time. I won last year’s event but with this year’s field I was going to

struggle. I wasn't wrong, in class I was just 6s off James Swallow's 1.4 Corsa but the overall went to

Alec T in his Caterham a country mile in front. I finished 6th o/a and 2nd in class. I was happy with

that. James did well in the PCA. Alex T had upgraded his B-Max to a brand new Fiesta Zetec between

events so that's 125bhp to our 59! Both 1 litre cars but one's got a turbo, not us. Consequently

James got 2nd o/a 1st in class but only by 3.1s. A result he can be proud of.

Current NW standings

Andy

2nd o/a in ANWCC Autosolo

1st o/a in SD34 Non Race/Rally

James

2nd o/a ANWCC PCA

2nd o/a SD34 U18


Next we have an article from David Goodlad about the Scammonden Hill Climb.

MG Car Club Scammonden Hillclimb

Sunday May 17 saw me take the Pug out for the first of the 3 proposed hill climbs at Scammonden

Dam for this year. Despite the BBC forecast it was dry which was what I wanted as my last run there

was in the dry and I was keen to see if my new tyres, Uniroyal Rainmasters, would be any

improvement on the Stunner Scudo tyres I had used for the last 8 years. My fellow competitors had

been telling me for a while that they were past their best, but they did last a lot longer than I

expected when I got them.

After the formalities of scrutineering and signing on, I went down to the start for the first practice

run. On my approach to the second corner I hit the brakes hard and the engine cut out suddenly. The

marshals pushed me back to the start area, and I checked the engine compartment for clues and

found that a thick wire from the battery positive terminal was not attached to anything. After much

searching I found it had been connected to a fuse box on the bonnet slam panel, all that remained

there was a ring secured by a nut. It seems my heavy braking had broken it off despite all the pot

holes etc the car has been over recently.

I stripped the plastic covering off the wire and made a ring out of the 2 ends and secured it to the

fuse box. The engine turned over but didn't start; after further investigation I found fuel was not

reaching the engine. At this point, Mike Geen, a fellow competitor and Peugeot expert and Richard

Davis who was marshalling came to my aid. Richard is an auto electrician which was a big help in the

circumstances as I am not an expert in that field. It was decided that a temporary power supply for

the fuel pump was required, after several tries Richard found a terminal in the fuse and relay panel

in the glove compartment that did the trick.

I had missed both practice runs and two timed runs by now so I went to the start for my first run, for

some reason the timing didn't work so I got another run. My time was 30.71 which was quicker than

my personal best (PB) the last time I was there. My next run was 30.26 and the next was 30.1. I had

hopes of a sub 30 run on the final timed run so I did a more aggressive startline technique. The first

split time was quicker as was the second one where I was 0.13 quicker than on my 30.1 run, but for

some reason I was slower on the final sector and got a time of 30.11. I was still pleased to have got a

new PB and am hopeful of a sub 30 time in the future. As I was the only person in my class I won

although when I was having my problems earlier I wondered if I would get any result at all. I was

very grateful for all the help I got from Richard and Mike and several other people who helped out in

various ways.

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And finally a contribution from Duncan Wild about the first two club Autotests.

Grass Autotest 151 The first grass autotest of the year took place at Mere at the end of April. There was a disappointingly small entry, However those who took part enjoyed a series of four straight forward tests, repeated three times to beat the daylight. David Dunlop in the Micra took the lead on the first


test but was soon overtaken by Dave Aincham in the Mini. Andy Williams took time off Dave A on the second round but a spirited drive on the last four tests gave Dave Aincham the win. Andy Williams was second and won the class. David Brown was third followed by David Dunlop. Jeff Buchanan was best novice on the autotest. The PCA had four entries. James Williams won the PCA from Historic Rally driver Andy Cooper who partnered his son Rob in the Polo. I think that this was Rob’s first PCA and we look forward to seeing him out again. Russ Henstock was the best Novice in the PCA. Thanks to the marshals, we had an excellent turn out 16 marshals and officials who kept the event flowing very quickly. Thanks to Steve Skepper for calculating the results. Results Autotest 1 David Aincham Mini 433.6 2 Andy Williams Micra 447.7 3 David Brown Micra 488.0 4 David Dunlop Micra 524.4 5 Jeff Buchanan Mazda MX5 613.7 PCA 1 James Williams Micra 486.0 2 Andy Cooper Polo 531.0 3 Russ Henstock Honda Jazz 553.0 4 Rob Cooper Polo 708.0

Grass Autotest 152 You would have been excused for thinking that our second grass autotest was held in winter, not on the 1st June. Mike Lawson assembled his team of helpers on a wet and windy evening. With a very small entry of just five; 4 autotest and 1 PCA it was decided to tackle the first two tests four times then the second pair of test, also four times. This kept the band of timekeepers busy. I gave the VW Up its first outing and the low power proved ideal under the conditions. Andy Williams was my closest challenge but he was having problems with grip and when he collected a wrong test I had a comfortable lead. James Williams moved up from the PCA to the Autotest this time and enjoyed the event, although his youthful exuberance showed at times on the slippery grass. Unfortunately Jeff Buchanan couldn’t see out of the Mazda MX5 in the wet condition making reversing impossible so decided to retire and help with the timekeeping, a great gesture under the conditions. Russ Henstock had Steve to guide him around in the Honda Jazz as the only entry in the PCA. Thanks to the marshals for a sterling effort and Mike for organising the event. Results Autotest 1 Duncan Wild VW Up 818.8 2 Andy Williams Micra 914.1 3 James Williams Micra 1026.7 4 Jeff Buchanan Mazda MX5 retired PCA 1 Russ Henstock Honda Jazz 776.0


EVENTS

Below are upcoming events to add to your diary.

Sunday June 21st – Lymm Autosolo (Round 6 Off Road Championship)

Sunday June 28th – Tim Sargeant Autotest

Saturday July 4th – Kick Energy (Round 4 Road Rally Championship)

Saturday July 4th – Karting Evening Warrington

Monday July 6th – Grass PCT 153

Sunday July 12th – Greystoke Stages (Round 5 Stage Rally Championship)

Monday July 13th – Social Evening Golden Pheasant, Plumley (Car Park Capers)

Saturday July 18th – Ross Traders (Round 4 Historic Road Rally Championship)

Sunday July 19th –HCC EWales Trial (Round 7 Off Road Championship)

Monday July 20th – KDMC Summer Party

Sunday July 26th – Filtrate Trial (Round 8 Off Road Championship)

Sunday August 2nd – Three Sisters (Round 9 Off Road Championship

Monday August 3rd – Grass Autotest 154

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