Border 200 Rally
Sponsored by Philip Paul Car Centre
Welsh Border Car Club
4th/5th/6th May 2018
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
- Overall Positions
- Award Winners
- Time Penalty Details
- Positions at First Petrol
- Positions at End of Night One
- Positions at Second Petrol
- Top Ten Positions at the En dof Each Section
- Class Positions
- List of Starters
- Non-Finishers
Border Trophy Rally
Sponsored by Philip Paul Car Centre
Welsh Border Car Club
5th/6th May 2018
Winners: Andy Davies/Michael Gilbey (Subaru Impreza)
Photograph: Joseph John Gilbertson
- Overall Positions
- Award Winners
- Time Penalty Details
- Positions at Petrol
- Class Positions
- List of Starters