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Border 200 Rally

Sponsored by Philip Paul Car Centre

Welsh Border Car Club

4th/5th/6th May 2018


Winners Photo
Winners: Daniel ‘Lwni’ Jones/Gerwyn Barry (Ford Escort)
Photograph: Joseph John Gilbertson

Organiser: Welsh Border Car Club

Date: 4th/5th/6th May 2018

Clerk of the Course: Iwan Jones & Robi Wood

Route: 220 Miles

Maps: 125, 126 & 136

Starters: 68


With three-quarters of the two-night Border 200 Road Rally behind them Mark ‘GT’ Roberts/Steve Price appeared to be cruising to a comfortable win, however it was Daniel Jones/Gerwyn Barry who were destined to take victory. Welsh Border Car Club members had long harboured a plan to run a road rally over two consecutive nights on their patch. It finally came to fruition last weekend and was executed with a superb level of organisation.

Roberts/Price led from the off and by the end of the Friday night held a lead of a minute over Jamie Jukes/Dale Bowen, with Jones/Barry close behind in third. By Petrol on Saturday night the Golf duo’s advantage was almost a minute and a half. Jukes had retired and Jones/Barry were clear in second. However it then all went wrong for the leaders; their car hit a large patch of water and faltered; a severe misfire caused them to drop over a minute. This allowed the winners to charge through to take a narrow win on, for them, unfamiliar territory.

The win gave Jones a remarkable double as he was also the winner of the last two-night rally, the Cilwendeg in 2003.

Andy Davies/Michael Gilbey had retired on Friday night, but came back to win the Trophy Rally, which ran alongside the second night of the main event.



RESULTS




Border Trophy Rally

Sponsored by Philip Paul Car Centre

Welsh Border Car Club

5th/6th May 2018


Winners Photo
Winners: Andy Davies/Michael Gilbey (Subaru Impreza)
Photograph: Joseph John Gilbertson