RALLY NEWS NO5 Live From The Prodrive Banbury Rally

RALLY NEWS NO.5 Banbury..service..Saturday 5pm

UNOFFICIAL FORMULA RALLY L/BOARD AFTER SS10 ENSTONE
1st (1) Justin Dale/Andrew Bargery (Peugeot) 36.49.2
2nd (7) David Higgins/Mike Gibson (VW Polo) 36.51.2
3rd (2) Martin Rowe/Chris Wood (Ford) 37.05.4
4th (11) Simon Mauger/Andy Street (Proton) 37.45.6
5th (6) Max McKillen/Nicky Beech (Saxo) 37.52.1
6th (4) Martin Sansom/Phil Wells (Peugeot) 38.04.0

UNOFFICIAL FORMULA RALLY L/BOARD AFTER SS12 GREAT TEW
1st (1) Justin Dale/Andrew Bargery (Peugeot) 43.49.7
2nd (7) David Higgins/Mike Gibson (VW Polo) 44.04.2
3rd (2) Martin Rowe/Chris Wood (Ford) 44.09.8
4th (11) Simon Mauger/Andy Street (Proton) 44.59.6
5th (6) Max McKillen/Nicky Beech (Saxo) 45.08.4
6th (4) Martin Sansom/Phil Wells (Peugeot) 45.14.3

UNOFFICIAL PEUGEOT SUPER 106 CUP AFTER SS12
1st (16) Rory Galligan/Paul Nagle (Peugeot) 45.19.1
2nd (14) Garry Jennings/James O'Brien (Peugeot) 45.36.9
3rd (15) Ryan Champion/Cliff Simmons (Peugeot) 45.52.7
No times yet for Kris Meeke - the Dungannon man took an extra 7 minutes on the road (unpenalised) to fix something on the car at the roadside.

Out at the front of the rally the Super 1600 cars are battling for every second now, with Justin Dale hanging on by the skin of his teeth to his lead, looking over his shoulder at both David Higgins and Martin Rowe. Dale reports no problems, and if he can maintain his position through the 2 Silverstone tests he will take the Formula Rally championship, but anything can still happen. David Higgins has been hampered once again by a misfire, and indeed had to stop his Polo in Enstone, switch off the masterswitch, switch on again to reset the computer. Martin Rowe demolished the timing light at the end of stage 11, which has caused a little concern over the stage times. Martin has also had a problem with a leaky radiator - it was something to do with a
piece of plastic rubbing against the matrix, Martin was able to sort it himself.

In the Peugeot Super 106 Cup - Rory Galligan told us he is still attacking hard, and said "Garry Jennings has a reputation for coming back at you towards the end!"
In the Ford Puma championmship category of the rally Norwegian visitor Alexander Foss, one of John Haugland's star pupils, increased his lead after service to 16s over Guy Wilks, with David Henderson 3rd.

In the Volkswagen Polo Challenge Clive Wheeler led at the halfway mark from Lorna Smith with Adrian Kermode 3rd and George Philipedes 4th.
Back to Formula Rally and Simon Mauger, now the leading privateer, had an alternator problem, no volts, coming into service. Ian Barrett's reason for retirement earlier was broken transmission.

More after Silverstone...BRIAN & LIZ PATTERSON