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RALLY NEWS NO.4
Grandstand
- Saturday 11am
UNOFFICIAL LEADERBOARD AFTER
STAGE 8 MONTPELIER
1ST (6) Melvyn Evans/Alun
Davies (Escort WRC) 1.03.19.5
2ND (7) Mark Perrott/Garry
Mansell (Escort WRC) 1.03.35.9
3rd (2) John Price/Caroline
Price (Metro 6R4) 1.03.42.2
4th (3) David Mann/Alun
Cook (Impreza) 1.03.50.6
5th (23) Phil
Collins/Howard Davies (Escort)
1.04.02.3
6th (8) Roger
Duckworth/Mark Broomfield (Impreza)
1.04.10.3
7th (26) John Dalton/Gwynfor
Jones (Darrian) 1.04.37.1
8th (20) Steve Hendy/Mark
Milton (Esc.Cos) 1.04.45.9
9th (4) Tony Davies/Brian
Hardie (Metro 6R4) 1.04.51.6
10th (9) Nigel Worswick/Clive
Molyneaux (Escort WRC)
1.05.27.6
11th Arthurs: 12th Watson 13th
Cannell
Melvyn Evans arrived in here to
service after stage 8 having
increased his lead over Mark
Perrott and commented
"Everything is going well
although the tyres were
starting to lose their grip
before the end of that
loop". MarkPerrott
commented "Not bad not
bad, but it's difficult to
judge how hard to go, at the
end of the day I have to look
after the ANCRO championship
points". (Melvyn
Evans is contesting the Get
Connected series). John
Price has held on to 3rd,
saying "The car's good,
singing and dancing over the
bumps, but my tyre choice could
have been better."
Phil Collins maintains 4th
after a superb time in stage 8.
Phil did have a small
problem in stage 6 when his
Escort throttle jammed open.
As regards the stage 8
time, he said "That was
our piece de resistance - down
Baldwin". David Mann
is moving up the order despite
still settling into his rebuilt
Subaru and also adjusting
suspension. John Dalton
in the Darrian had a spin in
stage 2. Roger Duckworth is
another in suspension trouble.
He reckons he was 10s
slower through the Curraghs
than 2 years ago, and in stage
8 his Subaru hit a bump wrong
and threw the car into a bank.
Group N leader Bob Fowden went
straight off at one corner,
into a field, spun the car
around and out again, dropping
about 15s. He told us he
went off at the same corner 5
years ago, but the gate was
closed the last time.
Kenny McKinstry set a fantastic
time through stage 8, 20s
faster than anyone else, but
says his Subaru is
"handling like a bag of
s…"
Kenny
is now up to 20th or
thereabouts from 35th
overnight.
Steve Fleck has crashed his
Subaru up at Brandywell - hit
the bank on a fast right hander
and the car went on to it's
side and broke a wheel.
Other stories include….Robert
Watson setting a scorching pace
in his Nova Kit Car, but told
us that it is running out of
revs at high speed. Could
do with a 6 speed dog box
instead of the 5 cog synchro
strapped on the end of the
engine at the moment. Steve
Hendy has been going hard over
the last couple of stages.
We had Hendy 4th
overnight, but he had been
credited with a time 1m too
fast on stage 3, although he
did set fastest time in stage
4. More news later..BRIAN
& LIZ PATTERSON
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