Rally Archive
1000 Lanes Rally
Sponsored by Brace's Bakery
Heads of the Valleys Auto Club
21st/22nd June 2008
Clerk of the Course: Byron Jones & Dave Howells
Route: 185 Miles
Maps: 160 & 161 + Walters Arena
Starters: 70
Winners: Matthew Jones/Richard Morris (Vauxhall Astra)
Matthew Jones/Richard Morris won one of the toughest road rallies to run in recent times. Torrential rain, two visits to Walter’s Arena and a demanding road section saw only 30 of the 70 starters make the Finish and of these only seven were free of fails.
Adrian Jones/Dylan Jenkins had been the pace setters for two-thirds of the event and had a three minute at lead at Petrol, but they then wrong slotted into a field and lost so much time that they finished almost ten minutes behind the winners. However this was still sufficient to take the runner up spot.
Gary Jones/Dale Furniss, Gerwyn Jones/Ceri Davies and Richard Jerman/Iwan Jones all finished with fewer time penalties than the winners but were amongst a large number of crews who missed to spot one particular code board.
The cars of both the top two seeds - Matthew Maidment/Garth Powell and John Davies/Eurig Davies - succumbed to mechanical failure in Walter’s Arena.
RESULTS
- Overall Positions
- Award Winners
- Time Penalty Details
- Fails and PC/RC Penalties
- Positions at MC2
- Positions at MC4
- Positions at Petrol