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Greenleaves Rally 2002

Sixty & Worcestershire Motor Club

23rd/24th March 2002

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The Greenleaves Rally for 2002 proved to be a tricky event with only two crews completing the course free of any fails.

The vast majority of competitors, twenty-seven out of thirty-seven starters, were in trouble almost from the competitive start as they picked up a fail at the first intermediate time control, T2RS, a small triangle control.

Mark Appleton/Anthony Preston took a cautious approach to this first section and got the critical control right. They then completed the rest of the event without incident and took victory in their Peugeot 106 Rallye. The only other car to be fail free at the finish was the novice crew of Andrew James/Alec Morris, they took the runner up spot fifteen minutes down on the winners.

Sixty & Worcestershire MC had introduced a 100% pre-plot format for the first time on the 2002 event, this was an attempt to increase the number of entries, however it was a disappointing 37 starters that made the trek to Builth Wells for the rally.

The rally was Round Four of the Welsh Road Rally Championship and Round Three of the West Midlands series. The route was just 95 miles with no fuel halt

Despite the pre-plot format, a route ammendment was issued 30 seconds before crews started the first section. This ammendment detailed the three metre controls and it was this that caught out so many crews, T2RS being the last in the sequence of three.

Third place was a three way tie that had to be decided on engine capacity with the VW Polo of Steve Roger/Paul Jones heading the Honda Civic of top seeds Alyson Acreman/Byron Jones, with Pete Cotton/Steve Warton in their two-litre Astra being demoted to fifth. Cotton reported that having worked on the brakes he was happier with the car than he had been on the Moonbeam, where it had been almost undrivable. The plan was now to address issues with the suspension.

Top Semi-Experts were Lee Bartlett/Richard Edwards who were sixth overall in their Peugeot 309.

A number of crews who had avoided the error at T2RS failed to capitalise on their good start. David Wilmer/Mark Powell were leading at the halfway point, however two missed PCs in the second half meant that they finished fifteenth. Jason Stone/Paul Holmberg were also looking likely winners until that is alternator problems on their Peugeot 205; they had to cut to the Finish with two sections remaining. They were classified thirty-second.

Islwyn Watkins/Martin Jones were lying third at halfway but then had a driveshaft fail on their Astra. Gremlin winners Gerwyn Jones/Ceri Davies were fail free until they missed a passage control in the second half, they finished eighth although this was enough to promote them in the Welsh title race.

Jeremy Evans/Ian Cooke were going well in their 998cc Mini until a they visited a ditch. They were towed out by fellow Blackwood MC members Jonathan Harrison/Jonathan Jones but had lost over twenty minutes in the incident.

Bro Caron Novice Class winners Criss Lewis/Bryan Thomas had a less successful outing on the Greenleaves after a lowering block broke on their Escort causing handling difficulties for most of the rally.

Top Welsh Championship contenders Huw Evans/Patrick Walsh, Dennis Quinn/Rob Richardson, Howard Price/Carl Williamson and Gary Jones/Gwyn Williams all fell foul of T2RS and then all picked up further fails during the night. None finished in the top ten. Despite this, Evans/Walsh still led the championship as it reached its halfway point with the Night Owl.

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OVERALL RESULTS

	Pos	Driver	Navigator	Car	Penalty
	1	Mark Appleton	Anthony Preston	Peugeot 106 Rallye	2m 56s
	2	Andrew James	Alec Morris	Ford Escort	16m 06s
	3	Steve Rogers	Paul Jones	VW Polo GTi	1F 1m 00s
	4	Alyson Acreman	Byron Jones	Honda Civic	1F 1m 00s
	5	Pete Cotton	Steve Warton	Vauxhall Astra GTE	1F 1m 00s
	6	Lee Bartlett	Richard Edwards	Peugeot 309 GTi	1F 3m 00s
	7	Andrew Williams	Wyn Davies	Vauxhall Astra	1F 3m 00s
	8	Gerwyn Jones	Ceri Davies	Ford Escort	1F 3m 20s
	9	Wayne Elliott	Nigel Nelson	Toyota Celica GT	1F 4m 00s
	10	Mike Herring	Fred Harris	Vauxhall Astra	1F 15m 10s
	11	Roger Hunt	Pete Barnard	Peugeot 205 GTi	2F 00m 00s
	12	Gary Jones	Gwyn Williams	Toyota Corolla	2F 01m 00s
	13	Howard Price	Carl Williamson	Toyota Corolla	2F 01m 00s
	14	Huw Evans	Patrick Walsh	Ford Escort	2F 01m 00s
	15	Dave Wilmer	Mark Powell	Ford Escort	2F 01m 34s
	16	Paul Webb	Justin Brooks	Vauxhall Astra	2F 02m 00s
	17	Dennis Quinn	Rob Richardson	Ford Escort	2F 03m 00s
	18	Ashley Morris	Michael Cartwright	Peugeot 205 GTi	2F 03m 00s
	19	Gary Jenkins	Eric Tong	Peugeot 205 GTi	2F 05m 00s
	20	Criss Lewis	Bryan Thomas	Ford Escort	2F 18m 00s
	21	Dominic Taylor	Phil Baines	Mazda 323	2F 21m 00s
	22	Julian Smith	Chris Short	Toyota Corolla	2F 35m 04s
	23	Keith Collier	Paul Jenkins	Peugeot 205 GTi	3F 01m 00s
	24	Paul Todd	Iestyn ap Dafydd	Peugeot 205 GTi	3F 01m 00s
	25	Alun Probert	Raymond Davies	Ford Sierra XR4i	3F 05m 00s
	26	Sheldon Ware	Jason Hayes	MG 25 180	4F 04m 00s
	27	Van-Roy Barber	Timo Rumary	Ford Escort	4F 06m 00s
	28	Martin Perris	Dean Davies	Vauxhall Astra	5F 12m 00s
	29	Christian Prynne	Doody Farmer	Peugeot 205 GTi	6F 08m 00s
	30	Mark Coleman	Christian Male	Ford Escort	7F 36m 05s
	31	Jeremy Evans	Ian Cooke	Mini	9F 03m 00s
	32	Jason Stone	Paul Holmberg	Peugeot 205 GTi	19F 05m 42s
	33	Robert Evans	Mark Wakefield	Ford Escort	20F 18m 09s
	34	Mark Harris	Neil Bevan	Peugeot 205 GTi	28F 03m 00s
	35	Jonathan Harrison	Jonathan Jones	Toyota Starlet	28F 29m 00s

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