Boys on the Black Stuff

It’s time to forget the muck and gravel of the forests as the West Wales Rally Spares HRCR Stage Masters Challenge moves onto the black stuff for the Dixies Challenge run over the infamous Epynt Ranges. A couple of forest regulars, Barry Stevenson-Wheeler and John Pickavance make the trip down to score some more points and have competed on Epynt before while Peter Jones and Gareth Davies ditch their forest Escort in favour of their Triumph TR7 V8.

Other crews making an appearance are Toby Adam and Ian Meakin in their rapid Mk1 Escort, this pairing are expected to go well and know the roads well. Huw Williams and Iorwerth Williams make their championship debut in their Peugeot 205 GTi and are another crew with some local knowledge. A very welcome addition to the challenge are two Mini crews, Andrew O’Hanlon and Kevin Hogan also have prior knowledge of Epynt, Andrew in particular has visited for many years and has tales to tell! Another stalwart Mini crew are Eric Davies and Russell Joseph and their pretty Clubman is more than capable of a decent run. Both of these crews and Barry Stevenson-Wheeler will have to be a little bit careful though as they are all contesting the Manx Rally two weeks later.

The Dixies Challenge uses the southern end of the ranges only which gives short sharp stages where there is no room for error and a clean run is essential to getting a good result. Spectators are welcome and information can be found here for the April 30^th event, Dixies Challenge – Forresters Car Club

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