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SWANSEA BAY RALLY 2005-07-25
Hankook 205 Challenge
McVay went mad on the 6 mile Tyle stage blitzing everyone
by 9 seconds to take the rally lead, Winstanley flew too,
While the leaderboard was refreshed with Geno Cook/Tudor Jenkins,
plus Rob Wilson/Dylan Jenkins getting on the pace.
After SS2 McVay , led from Hancke, Bayliss, Wilson and Johnston,
Winstanley was now fighting back up the board.
Into the 11.5 mile Resolven stage, Bayliss took fastest while
he waited, at the finish, news filtered through that McVay
had crashed heavily and rolled, undeterred Phil and Nik, gathered
spectators got the car out of the bog, and made service, Andy
Hebron/Simon Illsley rolled out of the Beginner category lead
here. Luckily both OK. At the front, Wilson, took 2nd fastest
followed by Winstanley, While Andy Davison/Sandie Taylor got
it together to take 4th, with Gaz Nutt/Kevin haven, taking
5th
Into Stage 4 the classic Walters Arena, the new Hankook course
car, flew through just to show the 4,000 spectators gathered
at this popular venue what was in store from the spectacular
205s.
Nutt/Haven took fastest by just 0.3 over Bayliss/Mason, With
Wilson, Hancke, Winstanley, Davison and Johnston all very
close.
Hancke was dominating the novice category, but Andy Davies/Tim
Young and Craig Pearce/Rob Humble were now flying to put Hancke
under pressure, In their turn they could not let up as, Shaun
Hattersley/Paul Briggs, Lee Jones/Phil Martin, soon to retire
Si Rees/Dan Mayo, and Will Parry/Iestyn Leyshon were all pressurising
for places in this very competitive category, Derby boys Chris
Paulson/Andy Dover also made their move here!
The rally moved to the final stage without Ray Stevenson/Arthur
King, or McVay who had suffered too much damage.
Going into the final stage Bayliss led by 16 secs from Wilson,
Winstanley was 29secs behind While Hancke, Nutt, Davison,
Johnston all looked to improve .
Geno Cook/Tudor Jenkins flew as did Winstanley & Nutt,
it was very tense at the end, as it was Obvious Winstanley/Bye
had driven on the limit on the last stage. Bayliss’s
face went white, but then turned to joy as he realised that
he and Mark had taken the win by just 1.1 seconds, after over
3000 seconds of competitive Motorsport it was just 1.1 seconds.!!!Poor
Davison/Taylor dropped out of a top 6 when they lost 6 minute
in a ditch!
Nutt had managed to elevate himself to 4th with that fine
drive, while Cook leapfrogged to 6th.
Having a few problems on the way, but getting
fine finishes were Rodel/Walker, while father & son Goodman
team had a good top 20 placing, Sartain got a worthy finish
on his first forest event while teammate Instance retired
on the last stage, Benson/Benson, had a great finish on their
first forest event.
Pete Thompson/Charly West took the beginners, from Jez Rogers/Neil
Billingham, after front runner Tom Jones/Kev Winslade retired.
Poor Jonah Nuttgens/Phil Jones crashed on the final stage
1/ Bayliss/Mason 52.09.5
2/Winstanley/Bye 52.10.6
3/Wilson/Jenkins 52.19.8
4/Nutt/Haven 52.30.9
5/Hancke/Millard 52.32.6 [1st Novice]
6/Cook/Jenkins 52.55.3 [inc 30 secs penalty]
7/Robinson/Youd 53.45.3
8/Johnston/ApDafydd 53.49.1
9/Pearce/Humble 54.41.6[2nd Novice]
10/Davies/Young 55.34.7 [3rd novice]
11/Parry/Leyshon 56.42.7[ Hankook hero award]
12/Hattersley/Briggs 56.56.3
13/Paulson/Dover 57.00.3
14/Jones/Martin 57.07.5
15/Benson/Benson 57.26.6
16/Davison /Taylor 59.39.4
17/Rodel/Nigel 60.02.9 [inc 30 sec penalty]
18/Thompson/West 60.46.2 [1st Beginner]
19/Goodman/Goodman 61.49.1
20/Rogers/Billingham 62.03.3[2nd beginner]
21/Moffat/Davies 64.25.1 [inc 60 secs penalty and roll]
22/Sartain/Greenaway 65.42.6[3rd beginner]
23/ Bramwell-Kings 67.05 [inc 10mins 50 sec pen and roll,
Spirit of the rally]
HANKOOK 1400 CHALLENGE
Running within the Clubmans rally were the 1400
Junior cars,
Paul Dark/Marc williams had joint lead of the championship
with Craig Golder/Steve McPhee and Yasayuki Munakata/Stefan
Arndt. This battle carried on all day, however Andy Chalmers/Gemma
Cantrell, and Mike Rhodes/Andy Juniper took the battle to
them.
SS1 saw Golder fastest just from Chalmers, Dark, Rhodes and
Munakata, while teenagers, Harley/Ward took 6th.
Stage 2 saw Chalmers pull a second back from Golder, while
Dark and Munakata were very close, after SS£ Paul Dark
took fastest , but Chalmers was in 2nd, so the leaderboard
was Chalmers/Cantrell , then Dark +5secs, Golder +11. Munakata
+ 21, Rhodes + 23.
However Chalmers picked up a road penalty of 2mins, plus had
an off on SS4, Poor Paul Smith/Chris Moore, crashed their
Ti Motorsport 1400 on ss4, retiring on the spot. While Harley/Ward
also retired with a broken bottom arm.
However Dark took the lead here, Golder was flying but took
a 1 minute road penalty to give Dark the chance to ease off
for the final stage Munakata continued to push hard. While
Rhodes chased him all the way, Barry Tottie /Holly Bailey
had a scare when running in the dust, they left the road and
luckily skidded to a halt feet from a lake!!!
So the final results saw Paul Dark/Marc Williams, take the
win and beat many of the new 206 cup runners, but he had a
hell of a battle, with Golder, Chalmers, Munakata, and Rhodes,
these 5 crews traded times all day, never more than a few
seconds apart.
1/ Dark/Williams57.18.0
2/Golder/McPhee 57.24.0 [inc 60 secs penalty]
3/Munakata/Arndt 58.43.0
4/Rhodes/Juniper 61.03.4
5/Tottie/Bailey 63.52.3
6/Chalmers/Cantrell 65.12 [inc 3 mins 20 penalty]
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