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2009 Rallies  Round 1 Welsh rally Epynt, A closed road Tarmac event, nearly 100 miles of MOD roads, on perfect Asphalt. A briefing by Damien Cole and World Champion Nicky Grist saw the crews from the Challenges receive huge amounts of safety info about the “Scary bits” of Epynt, thanks to this all crews made it back safely. Hell of a load of good battles, great to watch
Top BMW was Andy Fox/Steve McPheeTop 205 1600 was Russ Thompson/Ashley TrimbleTop 205 1400 was Ben Cressey/Sam CollisTop 205 Modified was Dewi Williams/Aled Edwards

  Round 2 Plains Rally, our own event within the overall event and Micks woodyard too, classic Welsh stages and a Barn Party afterwards, Again very close battles with leads swapping all the time, brilliant sideways action thru’ the woodyard, the 205/BMWs got massive cheers
Top BMW was Andy Davison/Mike CurryTop 205 1600 Russ Thompson/Ashley TrimbleTop 205 1400 Jack Horner/Ant HellewellTop 205 Modified Dewi Williams/Aled Edwards

 Round 3 Rally of Midlands 2 days, again big battles, with dan Corner, Jamie Edwards and Russ all scrapping, Mallory saw awesome Foxy drifting, with Felgate retiring, Davo and Toni battled to bring it back to Foxy, Dewi and andy Chalmers were in a huge battle, Scooby Max, won Star of the Rally for biggest ever skids in the 205, Damien Smith continued to shine despite damaging every corner of the car!!
Top BMW Andy Davison/Mike CurryTop 205 1600 was Andy Corner/Ade CampTop 205 Modified was Dewi williams/Aled Edwards

Round 4 was Swansea Bay, again our own rally, 6 stages, very slippy being first on the road, again a huge battle between Russ and Dan, Dewi and Andy Chalmers, while the top 5 BMWs Stanny, Richie, Toni, Foxy and Davo scrapped and swapped all day. Brilliant stages, great to watch thru’ Walters, after I finished as Course Car.Plus a brilliant night out on the famous Wind St Challenge party.
Top BMW Richie Felgate/Mark MasonTop 205 1600 Russ Thompson/Ashley TrimbleTop 205 1400 Ben Cressey/Andy MurphyTop 205 Modified Dewi Williams/Aled Edwards

  Round 5 is the Lindisfarne on Otterburn,

The Rally was ran in fine weather, the BMW/205 boys attacked from the start, Davo led just from Foxy, Toni and Felgate. Russ Thompson caught a Subaru on ss1, but went off trying to pass him, Damien smith was on fire leading the 205s from mart Auskerin, ben Cressey and Adam Laurence were locked in the 1400 battle, Adam’s diff cried enough on ss9, leaving Ben a worthy winner, Despite Russ attacking all day Damien held a good lead till a slight off on the penultimate stage laft him stuck in a bog, gutted!!, Martin Auskerin then took the 205 win his first!! Foxy attacked after Davo, but holed the sump on SS4, Toni had electrical problems losing 2 mins, Richie Felgate broke the X-member on a big yump, Davo cruised the last stage for a win.

Andy Davison/Mike Curry are 2009 RWD Champions

Russ Thompson/Ashley Trimble are 2009 205 Champions



Round 6 is the KallKwik rally day one of the legendary RAC rally on Olivers Mount, Langdale etc, 2008 Champion mat Smith returns for this rally, The BMWs and 1400s will no doubt be decided here.Wait and see,the format changes from last year making a more compact route in North Yorkshire  Pictures of Dan, Foxy, Davo and Andy Hebron from Digital Motorsport taken at MIRA