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Eagle Road Rally 2002

Newtown & District Automobile Club

15th/16th June 2002

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After three years of running as a daylight road rally entirely within the Sweet Lamb Complex, the Eagle Rally moved to the Hafren Forest and night time for the 2002 event.

In addition to the 40 miles of forest track, some of the surrounding public roads were used for competitive motoring as well. Two loops of the forest were used, the two halves being split by a petrol halt.

It proved to be a tough test for navigators even though the full route was provided for them on photocopied maps. Many crews struggled initially to get to grips with the format however most learnt quickly and were comfortable by the second half.

Time was dropped at a large number of controls and the eventual winners, Howard Price/Carl Williamson, finished with total time penalties of 9m 37s. They were over a minute clear of the Escort DB4 of Michael Pedley/David Pedley who were second and ruing the choice of tarmac tyres.

The fastest crew of the night were Phil Turner/Owen Dodd who would have won the event but missed the very first Passage Control in the forest. The resulting ten minute penalty dropped them to seventh at the Finish, although they did collect the Standard Production Award. Their performance was particularly worthy as they were running on road tyres and struggled with a slipping clutch for most of the rally.

Paul Tod/Iestyn ap Daffydd, who had led briefly at one point, were another crew to miss out on a top finishing place by missing a PC, they would have been second but for the error.

All the leading Semi-Experts missed at least one Passage Control but the eventual winners were Jon Stobbs/Gary Robbins who took twelfth place overall in their Toyota Corolla. It was their second award in two weekends.

The class leaders at the halfway halt had been Chris Bolver/Denny Harris in their venerable Ford Anglia, at that point they had been in ninth position overall. Unfortunately for them they lost seven minutes early in the second half when the car boiled and then missed a PC to drop them to third in class at the Finish.

The leading novice crew were Gareth Jones/Iwan Jones, they had been as high as seventh place overall at one point but dropped back to a still magnificent tenth place at the Finish, thirteen minutes clear of their nearest class rival.

Neal Arden/Giles Corbett, who have put in consistently good performances on previous Eagle Rallies, were one of the earliest retirements as their wipers failed on the first section. Among the other retirements were John Jones/Alan Thompson (gearbox), Antony Williams/Tim Gill (off), Len Giles/Steve Roderick (cambelt), and Lee Evans/Antony Williams (broken back beam).

There was a disappointing entry of just 39 starters but of these 31 made it back to the finish at Trefeglwys.

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OVERALL RESULTS

	Pos	Driver	Navigator	Car	Penalty
	1	Howard Price	Carl Williamson	Toyota Corolla	9m 37s
	2	Michael Pedley	David Pedley	Ford Escort DB4	10m 45s
	3	Wayne Morris	Paul Middleton	Ford Escort	12m 33s
	4	Martyn O'Connor	Peter Collins	Vauxhall Astra GTE	12m 36s
	5	Glyn Price	Huw Jones	Ford Escort	13m 07s
	6	Gerwyn Jones	Ceri Davies	Ford Escort	17m 05s
	7	Phil Turner	Owen Dodd	VW Golf GTi	18m 56s
	8	Paul Tod	Iestyn ap Dafydd	Peugeot 205 GTi	20m 41s
	9	Baron Glaze	Pete Davies	Ford Escort	21m 49s
	10	Gareth Jones	Iwan Jones	Vauxhall Astra	24m 02s
	11	Wayne Elliott	Nigel Nelson	Ford Escort RS2000	25m 00s
	12	Jon Stobbs	Gary Robbins	Toyota Corolla	28m 25s
	13	Aled Williams	Don James	Peugeot 205 GTi	29m 50s
	14	Keith Jenkins	Gwawr Hughes	Saab 96 V4	30m 28s
	15	Owen Llwyd Edwards	Dorian Davies	Vauxhall Astra	32m 53s
	16	Roger Davidson	Mike East	Peugeot 205 GTi	37m 10s
	17	Paul Davies	Wyn Lewis	Talbot Sunbeam	37m 58s
	18	Chris Bolver	Denny Harris	Ford Anglia	41m 59s
	19	Steve Wynn	Chris Wynn	Ford Escort	43m 41s
	20	Julian Smith	Chris Short	Toyota Corolla	49m 07s
	21	Mike Cartwright	Steve Warrington	Vauxhall Nova	52m 10s
	22	Dave Edwards	Andrew Edwards	Ford Escort	56m 27s
	23	Berwyn Roberts	Richard Jackson	Vauxhall Nova	58m 21s
	24	Terry Micklethwaite	Chris Rowlands	VW Golf GTi	61m 17s
	25	Dafydd Roberts	Gavin Richards	Vauxhall Nova	65m 42s
	26	Alan Bradbury	Geoff Evanson	Ford Escort	75m 20s
	27	Glyn Williams	David Jones	Ford Escort RS	77m 35s
	28	Kevin Nunns	Nigel Roberts	Ford Sierra	5F 137mm 58s
	29	Adrian Hodgson	Chris Lightburn	Renault 18	10F 24m 42s
	30	Alun Davies	Anthony Davies	Ford Escort	12F 341m 57s
	31	Jonathan Harrison	Jonathan Jones	Toyorta Starlet	13F 63m 50s

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