Competitors' Round-up

Roger Binyon
will be taking to DAM 4100 to RAF Abingdon for a weekend of competition. On the Saturday is a sprint and on the Sunday the same venue will be used for a single venue which he will be doing with Catherine Phillipson. Hopefully her timekeeping will be spot on as they are running car 1. He is then back into the Montego and off to Lyddon for some more rallycrossing.

John Blaber/Alan Jamieson
continue their Mintex campaign with a trip to the fleshpots of Llandrindod Wells for the Kerridge. Having missed the Manx and DNF'd on the Granite they are thinking of trying some Belgian events later in the year rather than pressing on with the Mintex.

Paul Carter
navigated C Drake to 8th in class and 36th overall on the Southdown stages.

Neil Cloughley
will be out with Simon Catling on the WouldBeGood stages in a new Fiesta. The colour scheme is promised to be even more eye-catching than the Clio's was.

Susan Duell
navigated Colin Taylor to 10th in class and 27th overall on the Southdown Stages.

Colin Early/Colin Hutchings
were out on the OS Bloodhound Stages at FAR Swinderby in Lincolnshire. They came 31st overall and 8th out of 40 in class. Stage 4 saw them in big trouble with a puncture, a rapidly-disappearing second gear and a broken rear arm. However, 40 minutes of intensive welding by some helpful mechanics got them back together again and they picked up another 7 places on the final stage.

Lee Earnshaw
competed on the JVC Southdown stages and came 2nd in class 2 and 8th overall. He really enjoyed the event as the fast stages suited his car, using 5th gear several times and not needing the handbrake once.

Ellya Gold
will be out on Azimghur if he finds a co-driver in time (hint hint).

Vanessa Linley/Joe White
came 28th overall and 11th in class on the Southdown Stages - and first and only lady driver.

George Matkin/Judy Matkin
came 2nd in class and 22nd overall on the Southdown Stages.

Justin Northage
came second in N3 and 20th overall on the Scottish International. After a hard-fought battle with Wayne Sissons and Marty Beckon (a fellow Australian) he was first in class going into the last stage but his second broken driveshaft of the event thirteen miles from the end of the stage dropped him three minutes.

Sue Orchard/Graham Morris
are out on the much-publicised Jim Clark on July 4th/5th for a large amount of closed-road night driving. Lucky them!

Richard Phillipson/Graham Davey
visited most corners of map 175 on the Windsor Don't Panic Scatter, a round of the Five Maps scatter championship. They scored 827 points from a possible 1000 to come 2nd semi-expert and 8th overall from 19 entries.

Richard Phillipson/Catherine Phillipson
are out on the Kerridge which is also the fourth round of the Welsh National Forestry Championship. Having missed the Vauxhall the pair are lying second in N3 and need to beat the current leader to stay in contention.

James Potter/Graham Morris
are also out on the Kerridge as it is a round of the ACSMC Forest Championship.

Nick Starkey
did the 24 hours of Nurburgring in a GpN+ Escort. He came 104th but as he had not completed 60% of the distance they weren't officially placed. At one point the track control arm broke, stranding him out on the far side of the circuit. Peter Morse in an Astra went into the pits to pick up tools and parts, dropped them off, and a mere 2½ hours later he was underway again. A disintegrating gear box finally finished off his challenge but he went out in 4th gear only for the final lap and was pushed over the line by the Astra, to great cheers from the crowd. His next outing is Ypres.

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