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What Pat said ....
HANKOOK 1600 Challenge
McVay went mad on the 6 mile Tyle stage blitzing everyone by 9 seconds
to take the rally lead, Winstanley flew too, While the leaderboard was
refreshed with Geno Cook/Tudor Jenkins, plus Rob Wilson/Dylan Jenkins
getting on the pace.
After SS2 McVay , led from Hancke, Bayliss, Wilson and Johnston, Winstanley
was now fighting back up the board. Into the 11.5 mile Resolven stage,
Bayliss took fastest while he waited, at the finish, news filtered through
that McVay had crashed heavily and rolled, undeterred Phil and Nik,
gathered spectators got the car out of the bog, and made service, Andy
Hebron/Simon Illsley rolled out of the Beginner category lead here.
Luckily both OK. At the front, Wilson, took 2nd fastest followed by
Winstanley, While Andy Davison/Sandie Taylor got it together to take
4th, with Gaz Nutt/Kevin haven, taking 5th.
Into Stage 4 the classic Walters Arena, the new Hankook course car,
flew through just to show the 4,000 spectators gathered at this popular
venue what was in store from the spectacular 205s. Nutt/Haven
took fastest by just 0.3 over Bayliss/Mason, With Wilson, Hancke, Winstanley,
Davison and Johnston all very close.
Hancke was dominating the novice category, but Andy Davies/Tim Young
and Craig Pearce/Rob Humble were now flying to put Hancke under pressure,
In their turn they could not let up as, Shaun Hattersley/Paul Briggs,
Lee Jones/Phil Martin, soon to retire Si Rees/Dan Mayo, and Will Parry/Iestyn
Leyshon were all pressurising for places in this very competitive category,
Derby boys Chris Paulson/Andy Dover also made their move here!
The
rally moved to the final stage without Ray Stevenson/Arthur King, or
McVay who had suffered too much damage. Going into the final stage Bayliss
led by 16 secs from Wilson, Winstanley was 29secs behind While Hancke,
Nutt, Davison, Johnston all looked to improve.
Geno
Cook/Tudor Jenkins flew as did Winstanley & Nutt, it was very tense
at the end, as it was Obvious Winstanley/Bye had driven on the limit
on the last stage. Bayliss’s face went white, but then turned to
joy as he realised that he and Mark had taken the win by just 1.1 seconds,
after over 3000 seconds of competitive Motorsport it was just 1.1 seconds.!!!Poor
Davison/Taylor dropped out of a top 6 when they lost 6 minute in a ditch!
Nutt
had managed to elevate himself to 4th with that fine drive, while Cook
leapfrogged to 6th.
Having
a few problems on the way, but getting fine finishes were Rodel/Walker,
while father & son Goodman team had a good top 20 placing, Sartain
got a worthy finish on his first forest event while teammate Instance
retired on the last stage, Benson/Benson, had a great finish on their
first forest event.
Pete
Thompson/Charly West took the beginners, from Jez Rogers/Neil Billingham,
after front runner Tom Jones/Kev Winslade retired. Poor Jonah Nuttgens/Phil
Jones crashed on the final stage
HANKOOK 1400 Challenge
Running
within the Clubmans rally were the 1400 Junior cars,
Paul Dark/Marc williams had joint lead of the championship with Craig
Golder/Steve McPhee and Yasayuki Munakata/Stefan Arndt. This battle
carried on all day, however Andy Chalmers/Gemma Cantrell, and Mike Rhodes/Andy
Juniper took the battle to them.
SS1 saw Golder fastest just from Chalmers, Dark, Rhodes and Munakata,
while teenagers, Harley/Ward took 6th.
Stage
2 saw Chalmers pull a second back from Golder, while Dark and Munakata
were very close, after SS£ Paul Dark took fastest , but Chalmers
was in 2nd, so the leaderboard was Chalmers/Cantrell , then Dark +5secs,
Golder +11. Munakata + 21, Rhodes + 23.
However
Chalmers picked up a road penalty of 2mins, plus had an off on SS4,
Poor Paul Smith/Chris Moore, crashed their Ti Motorsport 1400 on ss4,
retiring on the spot. While Harley/Ward also retired with a broken bottom
arm. However Dark took the lead here, Golder was flying but took a 1
minute road penalty to give Dark the chance to ease off for the final
stage Munakata continued to push hard. While Rhodes chased him all the
way, Barry Tottie /Holly Bailey had a scare when running in the dust,
they left the road and luckily skidded to a halt feet from a lake!!!
So
the final results saw Paul Dark/Marc Williams, take the win and beat
many of the new 206 cup runners, but he had a hell of a battle, with
Golder, Chalmers, Munakata, and Rhodes, these 5 crews traded times all
day, never more than a few seconds apart.
RWD Challenge
The BMWs were also represented even though it was not a round, they
also did the clubmans event. New boy Roland Llewellin/Eurig Evans scored
a cracking 11th overall on the rally.
Llewellin/Evans 52.41
Fox/Fox 56.18 [inc 60 secs penalty]
White/Cooper 59.27 [ had problems]
Long/Gibson 59.39
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1600 Challenge
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1st
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Chris Bayliss/Mark Mason (52.09.5) |
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2nd
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Ian
Winstanley/Neil Bye (52.10.6) |
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3rd
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Rob Wilson/Dylan Jenkins (52.19.8) |
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Challenge |
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1st
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Paul Dark/Mark Williams (57.18.0)
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2nd
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Craig
Golder/McPhee (57.24.0) |
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3rd
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Yasuyuki Munakata/Stefan Arndt (58.43.0) |
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Pat Flynn and Sam Collis in the HANKOOK Celebrity 205 1600
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1st again for Chris Bayliss/Mark Mason in the SLN Racing 205 1600
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Paul Dark/Marc Williams took first 1400 after a day long battle
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Spirit of the Rally winners, David and Renecca Bramwell-King, made it
to the end despite an early roll
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Phil McVay/Nick C - damaged after a roll but still running - however
not for long
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