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Who we are and where we meetChairman's Conflab
Up and Coming Club Events2007 Events Calendar
Robin Hood Stages RallyMarch Hare 12 Car RallyA Quiet Time RallyingPirelli International
Ford Escort RS1600 DGU888HEast Anglian Classic Historic
PegularitiesWickford Autotest
Winter Series Championship TableAnd Finally….
How to Join Chelmsford Motor Club
SPOTLIGHTMAY 2007
www.chelmsfordmc.co.uk
The Magazine of Chelmsford Motor Club Honorary President - Bill Preston
Defying gravity and physics!
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Chelmsford Motor Club Committee - 2007/8Chairman, Brian Jaggs - 01245 468763 – [email protected]
20 Mayne Crest, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 6UB.
Vice Chairman and Editor, Gavin Leech – 01376 348948 – [email protected] St Vincent Chase, Braintree, Essex, CM7 9UJ.
Secretary, Paul Barrett - 01206 572529 – [email protected] Constantine Road, Colchester, Essex, CO3 3DX.
Treasurer, Richard Nel - 01245 467715 – [email protected]
Registrar, Dave Judd - 01245 357887 – [email protected] Skylark Walk, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 8BA.
Competition Secretary, Tony Michael - 01245 466994 - [email protected] Finch, Main Road, Boreham, Essex, CM3 3JF.
Results Secretary, Tom Peddle - 01621 843086 - [email protected]
Club Chief Marshal, Tom Ward - [email protected]
Mark Andrews Mark Barham Jim Bowie Paul Brewerton Carl Brown
Matt Endean Michael Juniper Richard Preston Lloyd Shelly
Please feel free to contact any committee member if you have a question or comment.
The committee would like to welcome Paul Brewerton to the team and thank Phil Wallbank and Ed Scott who resigned their positions recently.
All other Thursdaysat 9pm
The Queens Head,Church Road,
Boreham,Essex.
We meet every 3rd Thursday at 8:00pm,
Regiment Way Golf Centre, Pratts Farm Lane,
off Back Lane, Little Waltham,
Essex.
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Firstly, can I thank everyone who attended the recent AGM, what an excellent turn out I do not know the exact numbers but from my experience to date, it appeared to be the highest turn out for such a meeting. As a result of the AGM, I will extend a very warm welcome to Paul Brewerton who has joined the Committee and appreciation to Ed Scott and Phil Walbank who have both stood down. Ed, I know will be very active on the road rallying front so I expect to see him organising events and chasing things in general, the same if not more than when he was on the Committee!, and Phil will continue to support Club events.
On the Committee front, Matt Endean stood down as Competition Secretary basically due to work constraints and also to allow time to pursue the Endurance championship, so many thanks to him for his work in this post over past 2 years and welcome in this new role to Tony Michael.
Staying on the Endurance theme, Matt Endean & Dave Leadbetter had a superb 5th overall on the Audi South West event, the first outing for the new Rover and confirmed my thoughts that all Matt needed was a more competitive car.
This leads quite nicely to our own EACS sponsored Midsummer Endurance Rally which will now be the second event in the TorqBar championship as the Welsh and Cam-brian will not now run. Paul Barrett and team will no doubt run another superb event so if you are not competing or organising then please offer your services to Ed Scott who is Chief Marshal. I did this role last year and it does need a large number of helpers.
I am also pleased to see Tony Clements being more involved in Club events following a few years ‘sabatical’. Tony has secured use of RAF Woodbridge near Ipswich for a Gymkhana on 20th May, kindly sponsored by Motex. The venue will allow for around 9 tests and an entry of 75. With over 60 entries in the first week, it is clear that this is a very popular type of event. This is additional to the Javalin Jumbo Jymkhana which will still run later in the year.
Twelve car rallies continue to be well supported thanks to Paul & Peter Brewerton and also to Bob Blows for organ-ising events the March Hare and April Blossom respectively. The latter also concluded the Winter series of 12 cars, this was very well supported throughout the year and also very close for the final championship positions. My sincere apolo-gies to those members who were closely monitoring the championship and their individual position within the champi-onship. Unfortunately the points allocation was not as per the rules agreed by the membership. Whilst there were some concerns about accuracy of some awarded points it was only when this matter was being investigated that it was identified that the published tables were not consistent with the agreed
rules. Disappointing as this will be to some, as the agreedrules are quite clear and have not been changed in 2 years,it left us little option. However, please be assured that we willbe revising the rules for this ready for 2007/08 and these willbe made known to each member so I have no doubt theWinter series will be just as popular.
Bob also organised a Scatter Rally which had an entry of12 crews, feedback was very supportive and enthusiastic soexpect to see more of these events throughout the year, alsowe need to challenge or should that be curb?, the competi-tive nature of Tony Michael & Tom Peddle who won the scatter with an almost perfect 100% score.
On the road rally front, nothing is happening locally theFunky Elephant has moved to September and the Wessexwill not run in June, so it seems that the Association of SouthWest Motor Club events is the one to do. Gordon Popper-well & Bob Blows had a 3rd overall on the rally of the Moors.The ASWMC events are excellent events, superb roads andvery well organised, championship tables were event up-dated before we had got back home! Any Novices consider-ing doing larger events, notwithstanding the travel down,they are well worth it and the pre-plot instructions will makeit a lot easier to get the exact route.
I am enjoying Rob Dillon’s and Tom Ward’s ‘blogs’ on their respective stage rally exploits looks like Rob and Shaneare really enjoying their 205 challenge events and Tom isgetting ready for yet another national championship chal-lenge. I also saw us with a major contingent of support forthe SCCON Malcolm Watson Spring Stages. Steve Till-brook / Richard Bonner (West Essex and CMC), Rob Cameron / Tom Peddle, Irene Lewsey (Wickford/CMC),Richard Lewsey (Wickford/CMC) / Ben Scott, Peter Mor-gan (SCCON/CMC) / Chris Heatherington, Matt Endean, Jim Bowie/Tony Clements and Kevin Jarvis/David Church were all out flying the flag. Unfortunately results wise, we seem to have suffered with only Steve/Richard,Irene, Matt and Kevin/David recording a finish, the latterdoing very well on their first ever stage rally. No doubtelsewhere in this magazine we will hear or individual exploitsbut my consolations goes to Rob and Tom who were ex-cluded after stage 1 for a MSA license issue which sounds abit ‘jobs worth’ by the organizers.
The East Anglian Classic rally ran on Saturday 21st April, apart from one regularity finish it was or least appeared frommy competitors perspective to have been marshaled to nearperfection. The tests at Sculthorpe, Brandiston and OultonStreet were excellent and really would struggle to see howthey could be improved. The start/finish venue was verygood so overall I think the organisers, Matt, Gavin et al,deserve our appreciation for running a superb event. WhilstI am aware that behind the scenes leading up to the event,things were a bit ‘tight’ at times, on the day it all cametogether and ran with out any noticeable issues or problems.(Although from my perspective scrubbing regularity F wouldhave been much appreciated and bumped us up to thirdoverall, all inducements to organisers and results crew fellupon deaf ears) - [No formal query was raised by any entrant - Ed[
For those of you that have attended recent events or ClubNights, you will have received your commemorative CMC taxdisc holder and ceramic mug. If you have not received yours,then please make contact with a member of the Committee.
Brian A Jaggs
Chairman’s Conflab - Brian Jaggs
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Spotlight - Don’t forget, it’s your mag.....!Please send your thoughts, ideas, comments and contributions to me, the Editor, Gavin Leech.
When you have done an event, marshalled or just noticed something daft, drop me a few lines and as long as it’s not illegal or immoral, I’ll include your words.
You can get your words to me, by email, post or in person.Email - [email protected]
Post - 10 St Vincent Chase, Braintree, Essex, CM7 9UJ. In Person - I can be found at most 3rd Thursday club nights.
If you have a picture let me have it and I will scan the original and return it to you. Sometimes, due to limited space, it may be necessary to edit articles.
This, however, is the legal bit. Chelmsford Motor Club does not accept any responsibility for theviews of contributors expressed in this magazine, and The Editor's views are not necessarily those of the Chelmsford Motor Club committee. Although he would sometimes like them to be!
The next issue will be published on Thursday 19th July.ALL copy to me by the end of June please.
May Club Night - Thursday 17th. Stage Rally Co Driving focusing on timing. Mark Andrews and Tom Ward
MOTEX Gymkhana - Sunday 20th MayEntries - Brian Jaggs - Contact details on page 2Marshals - John Conboy - 01255 860022 - [email protected]
EACS Midsummer Endurance Rally - 9th JuneClerk of the Course - Paul Barrett. Contact Details on page 2Chief Marshal - Ed Scott. See advert on next page.
June Club Night - Thursday 21st.Outdoor Sports (Golf Gti Challange) - Richard Nel and Richard Preston
July Club Night - Thursday 19th.Re run of last years fantastic outdoor barbeque. Mr’s Juniper and Shelly have confirmed that the food will NOT be last years left overs……
Priestley 12 Car Rally - Friday 10th August (NOT SATURDAY 11TH AS PREVIOUSLY ADVERTISED)90 miles in Mid Essex, starting and finishing at Tesco, White Courts, Braintree.Gavin Leech is at the helm again - Contact details on page 2. First event of the 2007/8 Winter Series.
August Club Night - Thursday 16th Rally car preperation - Gordon Popperwell and Matt EndeanAlso, more Stage Rally Co Driving. Mark Andrews and Tom Ward.
Autocross - Saturday 18th AugustPotential date for an Autocross at Sawbridgeworth. More details soon.
Jumbo Jymkhana - Saturday 15th SeptemberDetails to be confirmed soon.
September Club Night - Thursday 20thTable Top Rally (Stan’s at it again) - Brian Jaggs & Tom Peddle
Autumn Mist 12 Car Rally - 5th OctoberOrganiser is Matt Endean. The start will be in Tillbury again this year.
LOTS OF MARSHALS NEEDED
EVEN MORE FOR THIS ONE
47.2% of all statistics are made up on the
spot!
Thought OfThe Day
Up and Coming Club Events
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Owen Turner / Andrew Dadswell – 2005 & 2006 Winners All photos provided by M&H Photography
Chelmsford Motor Club is pleased to announce the 2007 Midsummer Endurance, a day/night road rally for the Endurance Road Rally formula. This year the event moves to North Norfolk and is again supporting the East Anglian Air Ambulance; last year we raised over £1100 for the charity.
As always, to keep the standard as high as previous years, we will rely on an army of marshals of all experiences to help with the Saturday afternoon Selectifs Tests, and the 200 mile night route ending with a final visit to Sculthorpe in the early hours of Sunday morning.
If you can offer to help, talk to Ed Scott or Jon Wilson at Chelmsford Motor Club, telephone, or simply email us your details at [email protected] where they will be much appreciated. Make sure you include your email and home address details, as all offers to help will be acknowledged, and indicate how many likely to be with you, and if you are available Sat afternoon and/or the Sat/Sun night route. We have an allocation of FREE evening meals and breakfasts for those who marshal the day and night parts of the event, so sign up early to guarantee we can allocate free meals to you.
The start, finish & breakfast-time awards presentation will be at Fakenham racecoursewww.fakenhamracecourse.co.uk – camping and caravanning are available for anyone wishing to stay over. Look forward to hearing from you, and seeing you all on the 9th / 10th June.
For full details visit www.chelmsfordmc.co.uk
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Gordon, sometimes known as Bill, sadly passed away on the 2nd March 2007.He became a member of Chelmsford Motor Club in it’s very early days, serving as Chairman for a while, and was greatly
instrumental in the expansion of the club to include the Britvic Rally (the first of which he won as a driver) and a new sportcalled autocross.
Because of his contacts with local farmers (he ran a local wholesale fruit and vegetable business) he was able to arrangefields for the club to use for autocross, acting as clerk of the course for the first few events. It was the popularity and growthof this sport which greatly contributed to the secure financial position which the club enjoys today.
Those who attended the annual dinner and dances in the sixties and seventies will surely remember Gordon auctioninghuge bunches of bananas during the evening. This earned him the fond nickname of “Gordon Bananas”.
When Gordon retired from work he still remained competitive and took up the game of bowls which he continued to playuntil fairly recently.
Chelmsford Motor Club were represented at the funeral by President Bill Preston and his wife Rosemary, pat Deavin,David and Elizabeth Everett and Barry Withers.
We offer our sincere condolences to Gordon’s wife Betty and her family.
6-May Bentwaters Sprint Borough 196-May ECMC Autotest Autotest ECMC10-May 7Oaks Evening Autotest Autotest 7Oaks MC12-May Cambrian Endurance Rally Tregaron MC12-May Altratech and 061 Road Rally High Peak and 06112-May Miglia Quadrato Road Rally University of London MC13-May Debden Sprint Herts County17-May Stage Rally Co-driving Club Night19-May Danum Road Rally Lindholme20-May North Weald Sprint Harrow20-May Motex Gymkhana Gymkhana CMC24-May 7Oaks Evening Autotest Autotest 7Oaks MC28-May Chris Rees Millbrook Stages Club Stage Rally WECC2-Jun Plymouth Road Rally Plymouth MC2-Jun Wessex Road Rally Dolphin MC2-Jun Lydden Sprint Rochester3-Jun Hughes Historic Rally BMCK7-Jun 7Oaks Evening Autotest Autotest 7Oaks MC9-Jun GPMC Memorial Historic Rally GPMC9-Jun EACS Midsummer Endurance Rally CMC9-Jun Abingdon Sprint Sutton & Cheam9-Jun CAR-nival Stages Club Stage Rally Sutton & Cheam17-Jun Et Memorial AutoTest Autotest Wickford AC21-Jun Outdoor Sports Club Night21-Jun 7Oaks Evening Autotest Autotest 7Oaks MC23-Jun PK Memorial Road Rally Bala23-Jun Lydden Sprint Borough 1923-Jun Dukeries Club Stage Rally Dukeries MC24-Jun Leukaemia Historic Rally Ecurie Cymraeg24-Jun ECMC Autotest Autotest ECMC30-Jun Goodwood Sprint Tunbridge Wells1-Jul Essex Charity Stages Club Stage Rally Wickford AC5-Jul 7Oaks Evening Autotest Autotest 7Oaks MC7-Jul Tour of Anglesey Endurance Rally C & A CC7-Jul Lincolnshire Road Rally Lincoln and Louth MC14-Jul Pacemaker Road Rally Knighton15-Jul Debden Sprint Herts County19-Jul Barbeque Club Night19-Jul 7Oaks Evening Autotest Autotest 7Oaks MC21-Jul Barbara Carter Memorial Road Rally Exmouth MC21-Jul Drystone Road Rally Mid Derbyshire MC
Gordon Martin (1930-2007) Obituary
Events Calendar
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Congratulations to Richard Millbank on making the grade as a RAC Patrol Man. If you are unfortunate enough to break down in London, he is the man who may come to your rescue!
29-Jul Ross Traders Historic Rally Ross MS29-Jul 7Oaks Sunday Autotest Autotest 7Oaks MC4-Aug Devils Own Historic Rally Kirby Lonsdale MC4-Aug St Wilfrids Road Rally Ripon MC5-Aug Hethel Sprint Borough 1910-Aug Priestley 12 Car 12 Car Rally CMC11-Aug Curborough Sprint BARC12-Aug Cloverleaf Road Rally WECC12-Aug Cloverleaf Historic Rally WECC16-Aug Car Preparation Club Night18-Aug CMC Autocross Autocross CMC18-Aug Welsh Endurance Endurance Rally Amman DMC26-Aug North Weald Sprint Sevenoaks1-Sep Twilight Historic Rally Ecurie Cymraeg1-Sep The Oaks Trophy Road Rally Ecurie Royal Oak2-Sep Mini Tempest Club Stage Rally Sutton & Cheam8-Sep Bullnose Road Rally Oxford MC8-Sep Moonraker Endurance Rally Oxford MC8-Sep Exeter Rally Road Rally Exeter MC8-Sep Brands Hatch Sprint Tunbridge Wells15-Sep Yorkshire Endurance Endurance Rally Ilkley & DMC16-Sep North Weald Sprint Borough 1920-Sep Table Top Rally Club Night22-Sep Mercian Rally Road Rally Mercia MSG23-Sep North Weald Sprint Harrow23-Sep Sculthorpe Club Stage Rally Kings Lynn29-Sep Funky Elephant Road Rally Wessex CC29-Sep Hexham Road Rally Hexham MC30-Sep Devonian Historic Rally Torbay MC7-Oct Jumbo Jymkhana Gymkhana CMC7-Oct Debden Sprint Herts County7-Oct Longcross Club Stage Rally Bexley13-Oct Regis Historic Rally Bognor Regis MC13-Oct Harvest Road Rally South Hams MC13-Oct AB Motorsport Rally Road Rally Matlock MC18-Oct Road Rally Navigation Club Night27-Oct Pheasant Plucker Road Rally CMC / Guildford MC28-Oct Premier Stages Club Stage Rally Dukeries MC3-Nov Cilwendig Road Rally Teifi Valley8-Nov Lombard Endurance Rally Endurance Rally Endurance RA10-Nov Cossack Road Rally Eastwood MC10-Nov Poacher Rally Road Rally Grimsby CC10-Nov Ilfracombe Road Rally North Devon MC11-Nov Mill Hill PCT Production Car Trial CMC15-Nov Club Night Club Night18-Nov Sculthorpe Club Stage Rally Green Belt24-Nov P? Road Rally Borough 18 / Sevenoaks MC24-Nov Maple Garage Beaver Rally Road Rally Beverley & DMC29-Nov Wales GB Rally Marshalling1-Dec Eagle Road Rally NADAC8-Dec The Preston Road Rally CMC8-Dec Welsh Retro Road Rally Clwb Modwr Cymru15-Dec Bolton Midnight Road Rally Bolton le Moors CC20-Dec Christmas Mince Pies Club Night9-Feb The Great Bustard Rally Endurance Rally Salisbury & Shaftesbury
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Having marshalled the Robin HoodRally last year, Carole & I knew what a good event it was. This year promised to be even better. For the first time ever there were over 100 historic (HRCR) entries on any event in the UK and 60+ moderns. Additionally this year we would be able to marshal the Saturday evening stage in the dark and watch the historics go through for their first run.
We had the invitation to marshal thesame stage this year from Ian the Stage Commander shortly after the conclusion of the Premier last year. He certainly is very well organised both on stage and off stage.
Steve Perez – Pouring on the nostalgia in his wonderful
“Vodka Kick” Lancia StratosCarole, unusually, had the Saturday
off work and so we both made our wayover to Birklands Stage start for signingon at the prescribed time. We wereassigned to an uphill 90deg bend forin-stage marshalling along with DEL1 –a great pair of gents who made theevening more enjoyable.
The appointed hour came and withall in place and functioning correctlyand with numerous course carspassed, the historics began to flythrough the stage.
Oh, I remember the days (just) –many, many years ago when we usedto trek out to Sherwood, Scotland orWales to watch the Lombard RAC Ral-ly, the proper rally, before it becamevarious other things and ended up asthe “Rally of South Wales” or to becorrect, The Rally of Wales GB! Thesound of those Mk1 & Mk2 Escortsflying through the forests, the smell ofCastrol R, getting showered with losegravel and sandy soil or flying rocks asthe works teams and clubman alikebattled it out for individual supremacy intheir own class. Even a good soundsystem attached to the TV and turnedup as loud as you dare still couldn’tmatch the thrill or the bark of the Es-corts through the forests, pursued hotly
by other works teams in a variety ofcars including the likes of Audis,SAABs and Lancias to name a few.
Quite amazingly there was only oneproblem in our sector and that was witha Mk 1 Lotus Cortina. It ground to ahalt on the uphill section just before ourbend. DEL1 radioed in the in-stagestoppage and I went to investigate. Ihad only just made the scene safedeploying their triangle and showingtheir “OK” board to other competitors,when within a very few minutes theywere mobile again, seemingly at rallyspeed and DEL1 radioed in their depar-ture. Regrettably, within a few minutes,they were reported missing in-stageand were found in a short while laterabout ½ mile further into the stagealong a very long, almost straight, sec-tion broken down with the same electri-cal gremlin. This time the problem wasto be terminal for them.
We saw our very own Brian Cam-mack co-driving for Dick Mauger in aGrp4 Escort, unspectacular, but the carwas a lovely sound and sight and afterall it’s all about finishing as well asthrowing the car around and enjoyingyourself!
All the action was over by around2130 – 21:45 and although we offeredto assist with change-over (the stagebeing run in the opposite direction onSunday) we were told that it was all in
Derek Stocks and Peter Mears on start radio / control. We signed on and rumbled steadily through the stage dropping Steve & Shane off from the convoy at what was junction 13. Shane knew the junction well, for it was here on the Premiere that we had Richard & Pat Egger roll right in front of Carole & me just before Shane wandered down to join us, from Steve’s point a junction or two earlier in the stage. Later that same day we had a major off where the crew were recovered by rescue and eventually the co driver was sent to hospital. Shane ably assisted with scene management until rescue ar-rived.
Jimmy McRae RS1800 1st Classic - Getting a wobble on
through our corner]hand and so we departed for home,around an hours’ journey away.
Sunday was to be a reasonablyearly start as we had to pick up AndrewGilbert who sometimes marshals withus, he lives a handful of miles away –in the opposite direction. That done weset off for Birklands once more andenjoyed a full day of rally sport. Theschedule for the day was once morethrough for the historics and twicethrough for the moderns. KL&DMCwas better represented on Sunday withSteve Lloyd & Shane marshalling and
The action we had on the Premiere was not to be repeated for Steve and Shane this time around on The Robin Hood, everyone traversing the stage safely.
As ever Kevin Procter, in his Sub-aru, was competitive and flew through our corner and away downhill with all the gusto of a two wheel drive on his first attempt of the day! He looked on the ragged edge, but controlled the car very well. I guess when it came to the second time through Birklands for the moderns there were still a few stages to go and so, although still very quick, there was perhaps a slightly more measured approach – maybe???? Certainly he didn’t leave any souvenirs for us to collect for Shane like last year.
Enough ramblings from me except to say that if rallying is your burn then this is a terrific event, as is the Pre-miere – Oh and The Dukeries too, and not ever so far to travel. Wonderfully enjoyable, thanks Lindholme Motor Club and thanks to Ian for the invite and again for the invite to the Dukeries.
These images were taken by Carol and we hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed the event.
Kevin Procter/Mike Gilby – Subaru Stunning Perfomance
Robin Hood Stages 10/11 March - Bob & Carol Offer
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The year has not started off too well for my competitive assault, although Gordon Popperwell managed to pro-vide some splendid amusement in Devon on the Rally of the Moors in March owing to Brian Jaggs having a better (?!) offer of entertainment that evening.
On the organising front I normally spend my time planning to upset the Chief Marshal on the Pheasant Plucker by introducing as many con-trols as possible in a 200-mile route. This year in addition to the main event I foolishly offered to organise a 12 car and wanted to try out the concept of a scatter rally for CMC. So as with all good timetables we scheduled them to run within a fortnight of each other.
The idea for the scatter was to pro-vide competition for a broad church (a.k.a. religious silo) of members. To build on the work of Ed Scott and Brian Jaggs in the teach ins, to have
a social event where the competition is an excuse for a chat, to provide those who wished to be competitive enough of a challenge and to encourage the younger members of the Club to learn about maps and rallying. Simple. A scatter is low-key entry level to rallying on the public highway. There is no fixed route, no timing (except to return to the finish at a specified time), no limit on the number of crews, variable de-grees of difficulties in the clues (navigation) to appeal to all and a shopping car which does not require any additional features except maybe a map light. A more complex scatter might have manned controls with a simple orienteering exercise or indeed a travelling marshal. I decided at the outset not to have any marshals in order to keep it simple.
The organising effort is relatively straightforward, drive around aimlessly for a day or two identifying potential
points. These need to be definable by navigation to a point on the map, the ability to park at least two cars road-side without blocking traffic and, in the type I organised, which was based on permanent features (not a small post-card stuck under a stile), information to base a question which could be an-swered if visited in the correct location and not a question which might be answerable (correctly or otherwise) but from the wrong place. Simple.
Then send the points off to the RLO apply to the MSA for a permit, buy prizes (nearly failed here) and get tro-phies – thanks here to Keith Lane. Oh and write up clues, decide on degree of difficulty, drum up entries, and or-ganise a 12 car at the same time.
So 24 questions, a start that moved twice, some paper work and on the evening of the 30th March I was de-lighted to see twelve crews wishing to compete. Others have written about
In common with all the Winter se-ries events, the March Hare was over-subscribed, but a couple of last minute drop-outs meant that we ran with a full entry, and no extra course cars.
The start and finish was at the Saracen’s Head on the A134 in New-ton Green, and the route took the form of a clockwise circuit of Sudbury. Be-ginners had only 15 minutes pre-plot time, novices getting their route in-structions as they started and experts got sealed envelopes to be opened at each control. The navigation was var-ied and challenging enough to ensure a result!
The fun started when Gordon Pop-perwell & Brian Jaggs in the course opener had a puncture between TC2 and TC3, and Adam & John Conboy managed to get in front of them and
stayed there for the entire route! John Vallance managed to hold the rest of the field at TC3 to allow Popps and Jaggsie to set out the rest fo the code-boards.
Both Andy Merchant & Chris Par-menter, and Nick & Lizzie Pope, running as experts, managed to get behind the Brewertons as course closer in the early stages but were soon back on track again as you would expect.
3 crews, including Ed Scott & Gavin Leech, missed the very first codeboard by wrong slotting off the A134, and section 4 foxed a couple of crews, including Trevor Suckling & Chris Long who didn’t believe the white was a goer and missed TC4 as a result. Charlotte Landon & Irene Lewsey retired on the last section with
engine fade, later put down to cambelt issues, but were recovered by their spouses when they had finished mar-shalling.
5 crews were fail-free, which shows the improvement of our beginners over the season, and Mike Thomas & Rich Baker managed to clean the course for time too, taking a deserved first overall. Results are below.
I had a ball organising the event, and was glad to welcome you all to my part of South Suffolk. Thanks go to brother Peter for his assistance in route planning and closing course car, to Brian Jaggs and Gordon Popperwell for checking the route and putting out the codeboards, and all the marshals who once again did the club proud.
Paul Brewerton
March Hare 12 Car Rally
A Quiet Time Rallying
Posn Drive r Na viga tor Cla ss Ca r Fa ils M ins1 M ike Thom as Rich Baker Beg ? 0 02 Adam Conboy John Conboy Beg Pug 0 23 Kevin Jarvis Dave Church Beg S ierra 0 64 Nick Pope Lizz ie Pope Exp Lanc ia 0 235 Chris Parm enter Andy M erchant Exp M aes tro 0 246 Shaun W illingham Kevin Sm ith Nov ? 0 287 Ed Scott Gavin Leech Nov Nova 1 28 Dave Thom pson Jarrod Thom pson Beg ? 1 89 Keith Lane Eddie Call Nov Fies ta 1 1410 Trevor Suck ling Chris Long Beg Sunny 2 1311 David Earthy Dale Russell Beg Saxo 3 512 Charlotte Landon Irene Lewsey Beg Nova 4 11
M a rch Ha re 12 Ca r Ra lly 2007 - Re sults
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Posn Driver Navigator Class Car Fails Mins1 Pat Tierney Jon Wilson Nov Rover BRM 0 82 Mike Thomas Richard Easter Beg ? 0 93 Trevor Suckling Chris Long Beg Sunny 0 264 Peter Valentine Dennis Ockendon Beg Rover 1 145 Eddie Call Shaun Bragg Beg ? 1 256 Ed Scott Ben Scott Nov Nova 3 87 Peter Brewerton Paul Brewerton Nov Dolly 3 228 Adam Conboy John Conboy Beg Pug 5 209 Shaun Willingham Kevin Smith Nov ? 6 2810 David Earthy Dale Russell Beg Saxo 10 2711 Charlotte Landon Irene Lewsey Beg Nova 12 2912 Tom Vallance Laurie Barnsley Beg Nova 20 25
April Blossom 12 Car Rally 2007 - Results
the event, thanks to you all for your comments, and I and Sue ‘enjoyed’ an ‘interesting’ meal at the finish venue. One of the additional tasks to be added to the list, should I be asked to organ-ise another scatter, is to find the finish venue first!
Onto the 12 car, the April Blossom on Friday the 13th April. The usual idea about 60+ miles 18 controls (Chief marshal Brian refused!), so I reduced to 10, and recceing some of the tighter lanes, avoiding the villages and speed restrictions wherever possible keeping it nice and local so that my wonderful chauffeuse would not need to drive too far each time. The original route was set before the January Jaunt so after that ran, it required a revisit to the recceing and introduced a number of re-routes to reduce the clashes. The greatest difficulty an organiser faces is not setting navigation to a degree of difficulty that crews would struggle, and with such loooong sections keep-
ing the navigation instructions man-ageable both from the organiser but also the navigator viewpoint. The more instructions the more chance for error and I hate lots of instructions when navigating. Having done the navigation I liaised with my Chief Mar-shal (Friday of the event high noon in down town swinging Chelmsford) and we agreed that we would blame each other for any issues later that day. The Teflon two are back!
The event started and finished at Birchangar services with a fully stocked event of appropriate course cars and 12 competitors on the night. The usual Blows format of competitive-ness ensured no clean sheets on the night, and a very tight finish with only one minute separating the top two crews. The quality of the crews has much improved over the last year or so and is an excellent reflection on both crews and Club in their contribution to Motorsport. A big thank you to all the
marshals who assisted, without you nothing would be possible.
After that, I thought a bit of rest, butno such luck. More Pheasant Plucker recceing and an ‘invitation’ to help Tony ‘Mr Results’ Michael on theEast Anglian Classic one week after the 12 car, with an added spice of ‘oh you are doing Gymkhana results too because I am going to compete’ – yeah right! (I shall be assisting but it is still him - OK?) - and now I find I am having to be a sack of spuds too as Car 1. Now he’ll blame me for not winning – watch this space.
Please get your diaries out now, thePheasant Plucker is planned for 28th /29th October with just under 200 miles, so if you are not competing please come out and marshal, PR and or or-ganise?
Still at least I haven’t been decorat-ing!
Bob Blows
Would just like to say how much I enjoyed the Scatter rally. To see so many people out and all enjoying the chase roundthe countryside was just fantastic. There were quiet a few youngsters out including my own daughter, Ashleigh. She gotreally into it and with a little help sorting out some of the clues managed to plot many of the points. Then we just did a dotto dot route concentrating on one side of the map.
As a first ever bit of map reading she was incredibly good knowing where we were on the map and guiding me roundour route. I don't think we missed a slot. It seems its something to do with the young minds because all of the teenagersseemed so exceptional. Considering there were no marshals needed, no PR issues, no insurance requirement and no limit
Posn Crew Points1 Tony Michael & Tom Peddle2 Christine Crowther & "CROW"3 Jim Bowie & Matt Endean4 Neal & Ashleigh Allsopp5 Dave & Tracey Thompson6 Dean Clayton & Craig Marven7 Rich Baker & Greg Clark8 Keith & Martin Lane9 Irene & Richard Lewsey and Charlotte Landon10 Mike Thomsa & Greg Mint11 Gavin & Jacqui Leech (Hindered by Christopher & Maria)12 Ian Andrews & Richard Millbank 150
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on entry numbers, this seems a great way to run a low-key CMC event. I know it’s been a long time since CMC have run ascatter rally but I hope we can run a few more soon. Congratulations to Bob and Sue for doing all the hard work, bringingscatter rallies back and giving lots of people a enjoyable night out.
Neal Allsopp
Wickford Auto Club Ltd
Are proud to announce:-The 2007 Essex Charity Stages Rally
In Aid of the Essex Air AmbulanceSunday 1st July
Photo : The Air Ambulance with crew and officials from WAC
The ONLY multi-venue Stage Rally in East Anglia.45 mixed surface stage miles, with some new and old stages.
Entries Secretary - Steve Fleming 01702 207152 [email protected] Chief Marshal - Charlotte Landon 07754 877191 [email protected]
New Classes Added - Class A1 up to 1000cc and Class F endurance spec stage prepared tyre free
Events run by competitors for competitors
Essex Charity Stages
Once again CMC have again been asked to run a stage on this event organised by Wickford AC.The event will run as above on the Dengie peninsular between Bradwell on Sea and Burnham on Crouch.
Anyone interested in marshalling please contact:-Dave Judd on 01245 357887 or 07801 723412 [email protected]
Jim Bowie [email protected]
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On the weekend of the 20th April Jamie and I entered our first rally in his new car. The Citroen C2R2 cup is part of the British Rally Championship this year and the first round was the Pirelli International run out of Carlisle.
The rally consisted of 100 miles of rough and rocky gravel stages through Kershope and Keilder forests. Four stages were run in the darkness on Friday night and the remaining twelve ran on Saturday.
We had tested the car two weeks before the rally but had made some changes since the test and hadn’t driven the car in this set up. The rally started in Carlisle town centre where Jamie managed to start his own fan club with a group of teenage fans, much to the amusement of the Pirelli girls they were stood behind!
Once into the stages and feeling a bit more serious, we discovered the new set up took a bit of learning and in the darkness with fog coming down in patches we found our-selves struggling. After two stages we were ninth in class and fifth of six Citroens. At this point we made the decision to make sure we got through the night and ensure we had a chance of learning the car properly in daylight.
At the start of stage three, the road was blocked queuing for the stage start. It was George Thomas who was the runner up in last years Fiesta championship and had been driving very quickly from the start. His clutch had let him down and we came close to burning our clutch out trying to get past him through the scrub at the side. In the stage we past two more Citroens parked up and to our amazement at the end of the night we had moved to fifth in class and lead the Citroen cup.
The Saturday was dry and bright and we decided it was time to take the car and drive it properly. The Citroen C2R2 is a less powerful version of the full super1600 Citroen C2 and we discovered if driven hard and fast it becomes much more stable and predictable. On the first stage of the day James Wozencroft’s Suzuki Swift was parked up with a suspension problem. That moved us to fourth in class. In three stages we halved the minute lead Lorna Smith had over us in the other Suzuki.
Next we passed a Fiesta having gone off in a ditch andwe took another 25 seconds from Lorna Smith, we were thirdin class and on the edge of the top ten in our first interna-tional rally together. We were now leading the Citroen cup byfour minutes. Leading the class was Vesa Mikkola in hisHonda. Vesa is Hannu’s son and appears to be following inhis fathers footsteps. He had a huge lead over us so wedecided second in class would be a pretty good start to theseason. On a long straight on the second loop of the morningJamie’s confidence was showing as he yelled into the inter-com “f___ this is fast!” I reminded him to concentrate on theroad!
On the third loop of stages I looked up and saw Mikkolalimping along with smoke coming out of his car, he retiredwith a broken diff at the next service. We then punctured andrather than stop on stage drove four miles on the damagedtyre which cost us 30 seconds and we were now 27 behindLorna Smith for the class win with a loop of 22 miles to go.This was a repeat of the stages where we had taken 30seconds off her this morning.
The first of the three stages we took 12 seconds, on thesecond we took 19 seconds and knew we were just in thelead and that Lorna’s less powerful Suzuki would not be ableto pass us at that pace.
With just four miles of the stage left we exited a hairpinand there was a loud bang followed by a vibration though thecar. Jamie called he had no oil pressure and we rolled up theslope and found a wider bit of track to pull off into so as notto block the road.
We were able to recover the car back to parc ferme andsuperrally rules gave us a ten minute penalty for not com-pleting the last stage. This was enough to make us thesecond Citroen and third in class which might prove to beuseful championship points.
So that was it, we nearly finished ninth and took a classwin at our first attempt at the British Championship. We’llhave to do better at the Jim Clark on May Bank Holiday.
Tom Ward.
Pictures courtesy of Geoff Mayes Media and RP Photography.
Pirelli International - Tom Ward
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Our ex Mike Marshall Escort is a March 1970 Hailwood built RS1600 which was dealer registered DGU888H, and then taken over by the Ford AVO factory where it then became a Test & development car in the later part of 1970.
At the AVO factory the car was fitted with the bubble arch flares, turret kits and all the goodies that were available at the time. The car was later stolen and stripped by a Ford employee. The Police located all the stolen parts at his home. We have Ford archive photos of the car at the AVO factory 1970. The production of RS1600’s at the AVO fac-tory started around Oct 1970
It’s time at Ford from 1971 to mid ’72 is still being researched, hoping that some more information will come to light. The request to the Chelmsford Car Club for more information on whether Mike Hibbert drove the car on the 1972 Britvic Rally produced a reply from Mike Hibbert which did indeed confirm that he did use this car. It ties up with another article written after Mike Marshall had just pur-chased the vehicle.
Mike Marshall went to England with the help of Ray Stone, purchased the car from Ford UK one week prior to his first Rally in England, the Dukeries Rally. By this stage the car was a fully prepared Rally car but really tired looking and well used. Mike was in the privileged position of being able to take the car to the Boreham workshops where he worked on the car with the help of the Works Escorts mechanics. A quote from Jeremy Walton: “the usually scath-ing Boreham mechanics referred to Mike Marshall as ‘the NZ Roger Clark’ and an ‘ok guy’ ”. These were great compli-ments coming from them.
The car was rebuilt and updated prior to the start of the 1972 RAC Rally when it first ran with the Woolmark spon-sorship and also his regular NZ co-driver, Arthur McWatt. The spec of the car then was a 1780cc all steel BDA, rocket box, 2 link rear suspension etc. Mike was having clutch problems early on in the RAC and crashed the car heavily into a stone wall on the Great Orme stage, putting Mike in hospital. (Apparently Mike wasn’t wearing his seatbelts??). The badly damaged car was then returned to the Boreham workshops and stripped. Mike bought a brand new old spec. Works/ Gomm shell from Boreham. The car was rebuilt into this shell with the latest Works dash setup and Lockheed servo’s that were also being fitted to the 1973 Monte Carlo
Works Escorts. We still retain this original body shell with itsCompetition Dept. body tag.
With the re-shelled and updated car finished in early 1973,Mike competed in 2 more Rallies, (Snowman and the Circuitof Galway), all with Woolmark sponsorship. Mike’s best resultwas 3rd over-all to Roger Clark in the Snowman Rally. The car was then shipped back to New Zealand.
The first Rally Mike competed in NZ in this car was the1973 Shell Triple 100 in the South Island, which he won,followed by a win in the 1973 Woodhill Rally. I also competedin this Rally in my 1600cc 105E Anglia.
Early 1973 planning was well in progress for the 1973 NZHeatway International Rally.
Heatway were a Company that manufactured electricalheaters and appliances.
Through Ray Stone/Ford NZ, 3 brand new AVO specialbuild RS1600’s were built and sent to NZ for the HeatwayRally. These Special build RS1600’s had the bubble arches,turret kits, 2 link suspension, atlas axles, bilsteins etc but stillhad standard engines. These cars were intended to be theFord/Woolmark team cars but this changed with the availabil-ity of 2 ex Safari Works Escorts XPU 217L/218L which werestill in Mombasa.
Ford sold 2 of the AVO cars due to the availability of the 2Works cars.
The two Works Escorts were held up in Mombasa due toshipping problems so the cars were then air-freighted toEngland, refurbished then air-freighted to NZ. With the carslate arrival very close to the start of the Heatway Rally, MikeMarshall opted not to drive the LHD XPU217L as he had notenough time to practice in it or convert it to RHD.
The decision was made by Ford to lease Mike’s own RHDcar and transferred all the mechanicals out of XPU217L, e.g.,2litre alloy BDA, 5 speed ZF etc into his Escort, GL9897. MickJones, chief mechanic from Boreham, was brought out tohelp out oversee the service requirements for the team duringthe Rally.
With Hannu Mikkola in XPU218L, Marshall in GL9897 andBlair Robson in GK780, these cars made up the WoolmarkFord Team winning the Trade team prize for the Rally.
Marshall, Robson and Jim Richards were entered as theFord NZ Team, coming 2nd to Nissan for the Manufacturersprize. Mikkola was first o/a and Marshall was 2nd.
After the Heatway Rally the Works XPU mechanicals werethen transferred out of Mike’s car back into XPU217L whichwas then converted to RHD and re-registered HC2168. Thiswas Mike's car that he used for several years until the Mk2 in1975.
GL9897 was then sold to ex Saloon car champion, DaveSimpson in 1974 still with the original 1780 BDA. XPU218Lwas then sold to Ford Australia.
In 1996 we purchased GL9897. It was still in its originalWorks shell but unfortunately was left outside under a coverfor 8 years and allowed to rust. I have since reshelled the carback to its original period spec’s and it is still currently underrestoration using many of the original parts.
Several semi- Works cars were built and prepared fromBoreham’s guest bay e.g. Mike Marshall’s car. I also havephotos of a RS1600 which was being built alongside Mike’scar with the same specifications. This car was for South Africa.
Hopefully this article may jog some memories from oldermembers and may produce some photos. Restorationprogress can be seen on my website.
Peter & Jill Bryan, NZ. www.peter.bryan.org.nz
Ford Escort DGU888H (GL9897) - Peter & Jill Bryan
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Posn Driver Navigator Car Penalties1 Paul Hernaman Ray Crowther Carrera 9112 Jim Deacon Dave Wilson Escort RS20003 Warren Chmura Jean Chmura Citroes DS4 Martin Neal Michael Briggs Healey Sprite5 Gordon Popperwell Brian Jaggs Escort Mexico6 Linda Orme Richard Dix Escort Mexico7 Roger Ray Paul Ray Amazon 122S8 Emma Henchoz Rob Henchoz Volvo PV5449 David Mustarde Mike Burrows Giulia Sprint GT10 Geoff Twigg Andy Gibson Mini Cooper
East Anglian Classic 21st April 2007 - Results
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39 Crews made it to the start of this year’s East Anglian Classic, which featured many changes. These included a new start / finish venue the Butterfly Hotel in Kings Lynn, this allowed the event to move closer to Sculthorpe airfield ()
This year’s event was the first to run to a day only format following recent trends within the HRCR and historic road-rallying scene. The format of the event proved to be popular with competitors, although a few did comment on the length of the event, I guess they didn’t realise that the route was being set by a endurance competitor!
There were many CMC crews entered and in a sprit of the event in a great variety of cars, including our chairman Brian Jaggs & Gordon Popperwell out in their Escort, Paul & Roger Ray in the Volvo, Nick & Lizzie Pope in their Lancia and another family crew Peter & Paul Brewerton out playing with Dolly (whoever she may be)!, Charlotte Lan-don & Irene Lewsey in their (now for sale) MGB GT and finally not forgetting probably our furthest travelling crew Isaac & Sarah Zamarti in their Mini.
The route consisted of 130 miles of regularities, inter-spersed with driving tests at a Sculthorpe, Brandiston and Oulton Street airfields, these showed the potential of the Escort of Popperwell and Jaggs who were 3rd fastest overall on the driving tests.
Once again Norfolk gave us a sunny day (when was the last wet EAC?, answers on a postcard) [Now you have said
that Matt, bring your wellies next year – Ed] and this was thankful for the army of marshals who came up to help on theevent – many thanks for your work !
The crews returned to the hotel rather tired but withsmiles on their faces for an evening meal and the evenquicker results service (thanks to Tony Michael and Bob Blows). The event was won by the Porsche 911 of Paul Hernaman & ‘CROW’ by the closest margin on an EAC ever, just 4 seconds separating the top two!!! CMC crewsfaired very well with Brian Jaggs & Gordon Popperwellcoming in top CMC crew and fifth overall, Roger & Paul Ray not far behind in 7th overall and 2nd in class, Issac & Sarah Zarmati proved the Mini is still a good car for the event taking 13th overall and first in class, Nick & Lizzie Popeavoided the bullets this time and came home in 16th overall, next CMC crews were the Dolly boys Peter & Paul coming in 21st overall and setting some very good test times. Final CMC crew was the mother & daughter team of Charlotte Landon & Irene Lewsey who were seen to be laughing throughout most of the event and finished 29th overall.
Once again I would like to thank all the marshals whocame out to help and the team (Gavin & Jacqui L, Michael J,Tony M, Mark A, Tony C, Rob R, Dave J, Geoff L, Chris H,Trevor S and Chris L) who made the event the success itwas.
Matt Endean - Clerk of the Course
All photographs courtesy of M&H Photography - www.mandh-photography.co.uk
Paul Hernaman / Ray Crowther Gordon Popperwell / Brian Jaggs
Warren & Jean Chmura
The event this year raised£400.00 for the
East Anglian Air Ambulance
East Anglian Classic Historic Rally - 21st April 2007
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Rallying on foot? What will probably spring to mind is the sport of orienteering: running through woods clutching a map and compass, confirming your route with route checks and covering the course in the quickest time possible. If you are trying to imitate conventional road rallies or stage rallies, the analogy fits.
Orienteering is fine if you are slim as a pole and fit as a greyhound, but if you want a less energetic form of foot rallying, which has little to do with physical ability, try Pegu-larities instead.
The word is derived from Pe(destrian) (re)gularity and its invention comes from regularity sections on daylight historic road rallies (think East Anglian Classic) where you attempt to consistently maintain an average speed in your rally car.
The similarity ends there, since the rally organisers set the average speed; on a Pegularity the competitors set their own target average speed.
Despite this self-determination, maintaining an average speed unaided is not as easy as it sounds and requires a completely new discipline of time and distance awareness. Accuracy is paramount because the competitive element of Pegularities will bring penalties for arriving too early or late at the timing check points. These are placed at undisclosed distances, so competitors cannot pre-calculate their ideal arrival time. Timepieces are allowed, but not personal GPS devices and pedometers, and on the varied kind of terrain you might encounter on a Pegularity they would not be accurate enough.
The compelling attraction of a Pegularity is that anyone can take part: strollers, power walkers or joggers, and that covers everyone from pensioners to club runners.
Remember, it’s primarily a mind game; physical effort and endurance, on modest distance events, will be secondary. A runner trying to maintain 8 mph could be competing against her brisk-walking father at 4 mph, and her grandmother ambling at 2 mph. This really is a level playing field contest for pedestrians.
The nature of competition does not demand a sophisti-cated start/finish venue. If granny comes along for her am-ble, it’s improbable that she will need to change into shorts and T-shirt and require a shower before she goes home; toilets will be mandatory though. A village hall, a sports centre, even a pub would be a good choice as long there was adequate parking for the expected entry.
For beginners who perhaps have no idea what their normal average speed might be, a short calibration course should be made available. It need only be, say, a 100 metres long and competitors should be instructed to walk the length at the kind of pace they might comfortably maintain on the Pegularity. They time how long it takes them, and then refer to a tabulation of speed against time. For example, taking 52 seconds for 100 metres equates to 4.3 mph.
It is customary on a Pegularity to start competitors – like their rallying equivalents – at one-minute intervals. The ter-rain should be interesting; quiet country lanes are fine, but trails and footpaths through parks and woods is better.
The simplest form of event is a single Pegularity that runs in a loop from the start to the same place finish. To record performances the start/finish marshal needs a work sheet with six columns:
1 - Competitor number/name2 - Start time. Keep it simple: number 1 starts at 11:01;
number 2 at 11:02 etc.3 - The competitor’s Nominated Average Speed (NAS) to
one decimal place, which they register with the start marshal
before departing. The NAS will need to have a minimumvalue like 1.0 mph, to limit the duration of the competition.
4 - Calculated ideal finish time, based upon the course distance and NAS. It’s useful to prepare a spreadsheetshowing a table of NAS’s and ideal times.
5 - Actual finish time.6 - Penalty based upon the difference between 4) and 5).The competitors must not know the exact distance; other-
wise they would be able to calculate their ideal elapsed time.However, organisers will need to give some indication ofdistance, say within plus or minus 20 per cent, and the typeof terrain to be used, so that competitors can estimate theirNAS as accurately as possible. Statements like:“approximately 0.5 miles on surfaced roads, 1.2 miles ongrassland and 0.7 miles on gravel tracks” would be sufficient.
Of course, the organisers will need to know an exact distance, and because the route might use wooded areasthe distance will be best measured with a trundle wheelrather than a less accurate clear-sky-seeking GPS device.
It is possible that lazy or unscrupulous entrants might not follow the full course, and merely use the approximate dis-tance to get close to an ideal arrival time. Such malpracticeis easily overcome by incorporating one or more manned orunmanned checkpoints along the defined route. If they aremanned, a convenient way of proving a visit is to collect atoken, like a small piece of coloured card, which must bepresented at the finish. Less convenient are unmannedcheckpoints. These can take the form of recording detailsfrom landmarks such as signposts, although this does meanthat the competitor will need to carry a pen and paper.
Defining the route to be followed can take various forms. Keeping the route secret and then handing out individualmaps as each person starts is a possibility; or the routeinstructions could be descriptive or slightly cryptic to add apuzzle solving element.
A more varied extension to an event is to have several shorter Pegularities. One long Pegularity is a single chancesituation particularly for beginners, who might like to knowtheir RAS (Real Average Speed) after each Pegularity tobetter judge their NAS on the next.
A favourite format is to run a couple of Pegularities late morning, break for lunch, and then run a couple more.
If there is a convenient area, perhaps at the start/finish venue, another variant to try is the Memory Pegularity. Attheir scheduled start time, a competitor is shown a copy ofthe Pegularity route, which they have to memorise. A large(empty) car park or a field laid out with cones makes an idealtest. Watching Pegularitists draw shapes or letters aroundcones – particularly when backwards walking is perhaps arequirement – can be an amusing finale to a day’s worth ofPegularities.
A Pegularity does not have to be a formal competition; organising one for a rural social occasion on a summer’s daymakes for a novel event. Simply start from your front garden,send your guests on tours of the local footpaths and finishwith a Memory Pegularity on your lawn. The only equipmentyou need is a digital clock/stopwatch for timing and a trundlewheel for measuring distances, both of which can be ob-tained at bargain prices on eBay.
Every year I run a couple of Pegularity days for charity, so take a look at http://2007.pegularity.org.uk if you are inter-ested in taking part. And if you considering entering theCloverleaf Historic Rally on August 12 the event will includetwo short Pegularities for the navigators.
Pegularities - Ray Crowther
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The Cloverleaf is back!Sunday 12th August 2007
West Essex Car Club are reviving one of the most popular road rallies from the 70’s
The 2006 HRCR Clubman’s Championship winners (1st O/A East Anglian Classic 2007) Paul Hernaman and Ray Crowther are masterminding the event, based in
Cambridgeshire. The dual permit event for historic and standard cars will include 110 miles of regularities and 12 brand new driving tests.
Put the date in your diary NOW and keep checking the web site for updates http://cloverleaf.wecc.co.uk
Raising money for the Multiple Sclerosis Society
FOR SALE
Serious offers in the region of £2200.00
This fully prepared road rally car comes complete and, although in need of a little TLC, is ready to go. MOT until January 2008. Taxed until end July 2007. On Car - 4 x White alloys with Yokahama A539’s (2
good, 2 OK). With Car - 4 x Silver alloys with knobblies (2 good, 2 crap). 4 x steel rims - 2 with OK tyres. 4 x very good Goodyear NTC5’s not on rims. Fitted with Evo 1/3 suspension (very good) and comes with
4 other struts which are a bit tired. The underside is fully guarded and protected. Spotlamps included. Front pads are EBC Green Stuff which have only done one 12 car rally. Fantastic fun to drive and revs right round to 7500. Mileage is approx 50,000. Reason for selling - This car deserves to be used, and I
want to get involved with historic rallying! With a little work this car would be very competitive as well as BIG FUN. Massive grins are a guarantee.
Contact Gavin Leech 07840 909376 or [email protected]
Proton Persona Coupe Evolution Road Rally Car
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After having a great day out at the East Anglian Classic we eventually arrived home cream crackered at 11pm on Saturday night. We got to Bradwell at 10am to find the autotest had already started (this was due to 20 odd unex-pected entries on the day and everyone else arriving early).
To my dismay it appears there had been a lack of com-munication - I was sure I was told it was Fancy Dress. Mind you there were some that I thought had dressed up only to be told that was there normal attire (Ed).
I think it was after the 2nd test Richard Nel had his little off (see below) which looked like he was approaching the finish box a bit quick and he seemed to skid over onto the grass, just missing the telegraph pole. You did sound like you were in pain Richard (and could get excluded for exces-sive noise - only joking), glad you were in one bit. Not be confused with Richard Preston who did manage to finish in his Dutton.
The weather turned out to be extremely hot so it was a case of sitting around chatting and watching in the sun. My Elder brother Alby turned up to have a watch so it made quite a family gathering (we are trying to entice him back in to motor sport). Glad to see lots of CMC crews out. Rambo (minus top) Kevin Jarvis looked like he was having some fun in his Serria. There was a lot of competition going on with the father & son team (Ed & Ben Scott) in their Nova. Father & Daughter (Richard Lewsey & Charlotte Landon) in our Escort – must say she seems to handle that beast very well. Roy Gravestock & Tim Ball looked like they to wereenjoying themselves – Tim looked good in his Army PE Kit.
I too gave the guys a run for their money in my left hand drive, automatic, 599cc, turbo, Smart Car - I am sure having the CD player on made the car go faster. Meatloaf ‘s (Bat out of Hell) got me my fastet time – unfortunately due to my Boy George hat flying off I ended up doing a couple of wrong test’s. Never mind I will try and beat hubby next time. Sorry if I have missed anyone off but I am still waiting for a copy of the results. I know Dan has been away on holiday.
Awards to:-FTD Richard LewseyClass 2 Roy Gravestock Neil JonesClass 3 Matt Ockendon Ben ScottClass 5 Karl ReedSpecials John Peterson Lady Driver Leanne StewartJunior Ross Westgath
Many thanks to all who entered we ended up with 34 entries, I do hope all you CMC drivers had a good time – we have booked the weather again for our next one.
Irene Lewsey.
As mentioned above, Richard Nel, a valued committee member, took his Westfield out for a spin and broke it. These arehis own words.....!!
“Blimey, news travels fast!!!! Autotests are supposed to be none car breaking but it proves I need to engage brain beforefoot next time. The venue is quite rough in places, and very loose, and that was really my undoing. The car has too muchpower and is too light for those conditions, without extreme care. Too much loud peddle, massive under steer, lifted, sorted,then stupidly hit the loud peddle again! Went straight on whilst on full right lock, just missed a telegraph pole, but found theconcrete block hidden in the long grass!!
Damaged the front nose cone & n/s indicator, broken exhaust bracket, destroyed rear arch, broken rad, bent n/s frontwish bone, broken thermostat housing, oh, and my pride. Thankfully it is all repairable and I have learnt a big lesson, evenat my age!!! What is strange though, in all the road and stage rallies that I have done in the past, I have done minimal 'crashrelated' damage”.
Richard Nel
Wickford Auto Club Autotest - 22nd April 2007
E=MC2 (Embaressment = More power than neccessary X Lack of Car Control)
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Congratulations to Eddie Call for winning the overall title with 74 points.
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At last, Murphy’s Law defined!
....and never give your car keys to Elizabeth Everett!
Is your rally car not performing as it should? Perhaps you could consider trimming the overall weight of the car / crew abit? We all find diets a bit boring so Michael Juniper has come up with the following 8 rules for removing the little extra thathas suddenly appeared around the waist.
Rallying Diet – Rules for Calorie Counting!1 - If you eat something and no one sees it, it has no calories.2 - If you drink a Diet Pepsi with a Mars bar, the calories in the Mars bar are cancelled out by the diet Pepsi.3 - When you eat with someone else, calories don’t count, if you don’t eat more than they do.4 - Food taken for medicinal purposes never counts such as hot sweet tea, brandy, toast and cheesecake.5 - Food purchased at cinemas does not have any calories because it is part of the entire entertainment package, not
one’s personal fuel eg: Butterkist, Poppets Malteasers and Cornettos.6 - Broken biscuit pieces contain no calories; the process of breaking causes calorie leakage.7 - Things licked off knives and spoons have no calories, if you are in the process of preparing something. Examples
are peanut butter (when preparing a sandwich) or ice cream (when preparing a hot fudge sundae).8 - Foods that are the same colour have the same number of calories. Examples are spinach and pistachio ice cream,
mushrooms and white chocolate.
Is your Rally Car a bit sluggish?
Rally Servicing the Irish Way
And Finally.....
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What is your membership type?NEW / RENEWAL - SINGLE / FAMILY
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WHAT DO YOU GET FOR YOUR TENNER?6 Issues of the club magazine Spotlight
8 Major events organised by one of the most experienced clubs in the area. 10 Club events including 12 car rallies, Autotests, PCT’s with many more in the pipeline.
12 organised and themed club nightsAnd finally, over 200 club members with a wealth of experience in all aspects of Motorsport.
HOW’S THAT FOR VALUE!
How to Join Chelmsford Motor Club
