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For round seven of the 2008 SG Petch ANECCC Stage Rally Championship competitors made the first of 3 visits to the Otterburn Ranges, weather ranged from dry to damp to dry to torrential downpours with rivers running over the stages.
Richard and Edwin Cook (Vauxhall Astra) followed up their maximum score on the Jim Clark Reivers Rally to take their third maximum of the year. This was an excellent result for the Cooks who ran with the 4WD cars all day and only lost out on 2nd overall on a tie breaker, this was despite a misfire that limited them to 5000 rpm.
An excellent drive by Barry and Michael Lindsay (Peugeot 106) netted them 2nd place points and 6th overall, they were spurred on with having Richard Cook starting 30 secs behind them on each stage, until the inevitable happened on the 13.5 mile 10th stage when Richard caught them near the finish. Adam Bradford took 3rd place co-drivers points while co-driving for David Conley (Hillman Avenger BRM), this was despite having a stage maximum on the 5th stage. Geoff Wilson (Ford Escort Mk2) with another different co-driver, Simon Martin this time, had a clean run to 9th overall and 3rd place points.
William Jarman/Mark Fisher (Escort Cosworth) were competing on the Otterburn Ranges for the first time and had a very mixed day with good times interspersed with problems, a puncture on one stage and a 360 deg spin into a field at the start of the last stage after aquaplaning on standing water were two of their problems. Michael Davison/Luke Tait (Vauxhall Nova) had a steady run to 5th, as did Sian Beaty/ Julianne Antrobus (Ford KA) to 6th after a time query had been sorted out. Kevin Monaghan/ Chris Purvis (Vauxhall Corsa) were in 4th place after the 3rd stages but a broken throttle cable at the start of the 4th stage put them out.
To demonstrate the strength of competitors in the SG Petch ANECCC Stage Rally Championship 3 of the classes on the Tyneside stages were won by SG Petch ANECCC Stage Rally Championship competitors.
In the overall Drivers standings Richard Cook now leads on 60 pts, with William Jarman 15 pts behind, with Carl Tuer and Marcus Noble tied in 3rd on 42 pts.
In the Co-Drivers standings Edwin Cook is on 60 pts with Mark Fisher and Rob Tuer tied on 45 pts with Helen Hall 4th on 42 pts.
There is now a 2 month break until the next round, the Pendragon Stages on the 24th August, regs should be available soon on the rally website, www.pendragonstages.co.uk.
Then it is into the forest at Hamsterley on the 14th September for the Tour of Hamsterley, regs will be available soon at www.tourofhamsterley.co.uk
For those competitors who want to fill this summer gap regs for West Cumbria Motorsport Club’s Greystoke Stages on the 13th July, are available at www.Greystokestages.co.uk, and for the 1400cc competitors’ regs for the 1400 Only Lion Stages on 9th August are also available at www.lionstages.co.uk
Championship Regulations and Entry Forms are available on our regulations pages at www.anecccstagerally.co.uk/regulations.html
If anyone has any questions please contact.
Gordon Dundee
S G Petch ANECCC Stage Rally Championship Coordinator
Home - 0191 3773228
Mobile - 07799 140427
E-mail - gordon@dundee.fsworld.co.uk.
Posted in Tyneside Stages on: June 23rd, 2008