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Vokes Imp Scoops Top Marks Again on Tour of Cheshire

While the 2010 Tour of Cheshire was won by the non-championship pairing of Howard Warren and Cath Woodman, the father and son team of Mike and Matthew Vokes again scooped the maximum championship points in their Hillman Imp to consolidate their position at the top of the championship leaderboard. 

From a 75-car entry there were an amazing 40 crews chasing championship points and registrations taken at the start took the number of registered championship contenders over the 100 mark. 2010 is developing into a great year for the Richard Egger Insurance HRCR Clubmans Rally Championship. 

The Tour of Cheshire was organised to the usual high standard by Knutsford MC and incorporated six regularity sections and 12 special tests.  Although all route instructions were issued with time for navigators to pre-plot the regularity sections, many made errors resulting in missed regularity controls and wrong approaches.   

1.  Howard Warren/Cath Woodman (Porsche 911) 695
2.  Mike Vokes/Matthew Vokes (Hillman Imp) 730
3.  Roger Bricknell/Ryan Pickering (Triumph TR4) 792
4.  Peter Keel/Paul Maynard (Triumph Dolomite Sprint) 797
5.  Ron Kendall/Les McGuffog (Ford Anglia) 818
6.  Paul Wignall/Fred Bent (Porsche 911S) 838
7.  Roy Gillingham/Andy Gibson (MGA) 845
8.  Jayne Wignall/Peter Rushforth (Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint) 876
9.  Wesley Coleman/Neil Guyett (Austin Mini GT) 899
10. Jim Deacon/Ian Doble (MGB Roadster) 906

Full results can be found on the Tour of Cheshire website: www.tourofcheshire.co.uk

Winners Warren/Woodman

• Tour of Cheshire Championship Points
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Added: 8th March 2010 [permalink]

Ilkley Jubilee Historic Rally

Added: 3rd March 2010 [permalink]

Tour of Anglesey win for Vokes' Imp

The first round of 2010 proved to be a much tougher navigational challenge than we've become used to in the HRCR Clubmans Rally Championship for a long while.  All credit is due to Mike Vokes' 18 year old navigator son Matthew, who solved the rally's plot-and-bash route instructions and got the Imp around to finish in first place.  Veteran master navigator Nigel Raeburn guided Ian Crammond's Mercedes to the runner-up spot.

Special tests on Anglesey's racing circuit, at the Anglesey Showground and a couple of other venues gave some enjoyment to the drivers but had little bearing on the overall results.  However some local stars in a Ford Escort Estate, who finished the rally last overall, showed up all the championship crews by taking the award for fastest on the tests.

While the experts mostly enjoyed the navigational challenge, novice crews who found the plot-and-bash route solving rather too difficult can be assured that the forthcoming established rounds of the 2010 championship will be considerably less demanding on the navigators.

1.  Mike Vokes / Matthew Vokes (Hillman Imp)  0:34:24
2.  Ian Crammond / Nigel Raeburn (Mercedes-Benz 280SL) 0:37:39
3.  John Sykes / Nick Cooper (Austin Mini Estate) 0:39:48 

Richard Dix, who navigated on the rally in David Mustarde's Alfa and finished 8th, has written a report on the Tour of Anglesey - see the link below.  The day after receiving this report we heard that Richard had suffered a heart attack whilst at work, but are relieved to hear that he was swiftly rushed to hospital for surgery and is now well on the way to recovery.

• Tour of Anglesey points
• Tour of Anglesey Report by Richard Dix
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Added: 22nd February 2010 [permalink]

Clubmans Registrations Up for 2010

The Richard Egger Insurance HRCR Clubmans Rally Championship got off to a good start at the annual HRCR Open Day at Gaydon on Saturday (16 January 2010). By the end of the day we had taken 42 registrations, a significantly higher number than in recent years. It was particularly encouraging that 12 of those registrations were from competitors new to the championship.

Nine of the eleven events in the 2010 championship were represented at the Open Day and all reported strong interest from existing and new competitors.

• January Clubmans Newsletter
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Added: 20th January 2010 [permalink]

Clubmans Opener sees a Return to Anglesey

The first round of the 2010 Richard Egger Insurance Clubmans Rally Championship takes HRCR competitors back to the North Wales Island of Anglesey on the weekend of 13-14th February.  Last time it was in a HRCR championship it was a combined day and night event, but now the Caernarvonshire & Anglesey Motor Club's historic rally has gone back to a daytime only format. The majority of the event takes place on the Sunday, with just the first two special tests on Saturday after scrutineering at the Anglesey Showground. Sunday sees tests at the Anglesey racing circuit and other venues, as well as several public road regularity sections.

Regulations and entry forms for the Tour of Anglesey can be downloaded from the website WelshMotorsport.org  

Competitors may register for the championship when they arrive on Anglesey, or at the HRCR Open Day at Gaydon on 16th January, or by downloading and submitting the registration form from the link below.  Last year the HRCR reduced the cost of registering to just £10 and the same fee has been held for 2010.

• Clubmans Registration Form
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Added: 9th January 2010 [permalink]

Hancox & Lambley Triumph on the Regis

On a rather wet day in West Sussex, Jonathan Hancox and Richard Lambley in their Triumph TR4 performed well in both the regularity sections and special tests of the Regis Rally to gain a long overdue outright win in the Richard Egger Insurance HRCR Clubmans Rally Championship. The 2008 Clubmans champions built up a clear winning margin of 30 seconds over their challengers. 

Ian Crammond and  Nigel Raeburn in the Mercedes 280SL had been looking for a win to complete a hat trick of wins for Nigel, but had to settle for second place.  

Dave Hughes and Andy Gibson in the MG Midget, having won the Regis Rally for the last three years and hoping for a fourth win, instead came home fourth behind Hughes Rally winners James Griffiths and James Howell in their Mini 1275GT. 

Two new test venues had been added to the Regis regulars Goodwood and Tangmere, with an autosolo course at Southdown College proving most enjoyable. Best performance on the tests came from the Mini Cooper S of Geoff Twigg & Peter Blackett by 5 seconds from the Escort RS2000 of Mike & Liz Jordan.    

Top 10 finishers 

Full results can be found on the Regis Rally website.

Click on the 'General' tab above to find and download the final championship standings.

Added: 26th October 2009 [permalink]

Neal & Briggs are Clubmans Champions

Martin Neal and Mick Briggs have won the 2009 Richard Egger Insurance HRCR Clubmans Rally Championship, despite not being able to compete in the final round this weekend.  As organisers of the Regis Rally they can now relax without the temptation to sabotage any championship opponents! 

The cancellation of the Cloverleaf means that the championship becomes decided on the best 4 scores from 7 rounds.  Having taken their Austin-Healey Sprite to one outright win (East Anglian Classic), two second overalls (Tour of Cheshire and Ilkley Jubilee) and one 5th overall placing (Leukaemia), the Bognor Regis based pair are in an unbeatable position whatever happens on the Regis. 

Added: 22nd October 2009 [permalink]

Cloverleaf Rally Cancelled

News has just emerged that the planned final round of the 2009 Richard Egger Insurance HRCR Clubmans Rally Championship will unfortunately not now be run in 2009.  The West Essex Car Club's Cloverleaf Rally was due to run on Saturday 21st November.

With no replacement event available, the Regis Rally on 24th October will therefore be the seventh and final round of the 2009 Championship.  Each contender's best four scores will therefore be counted for championship awards.

Added: 14th October 2009 [permalink]

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