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Pheasant Plucker Rally 2002

Guildford Motor Club & Basingstoke Motor Club

9th/10th November 2002

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Guildford and Basingstoke MCs combined once again to organise The Pheasant Plucker Rally. The event used a 170 mile route starting and finishing at Blacknest Golf Club near Guildford but ventured as far south as Petersfield. The lanes were extremely slippery with a combination of wet mud and leaves making the going treacherous. This was particularly true of the sections in the Barnetside area. Rain fell throughout the night.

Despite a late change of date the rally attracted thirty-two starters. Navigation was straight forward but set out in such a way that navigators were kept busy at all times.

The rally proved a triumph for Dominic Worsfold/Matt Fowle who, having finished second on the Powerush, went one better and won the Pheasant Plucker, it was a first rally win for both crew members.

The rally turned out to be a battle between Worsfold/Fowle and pre-event favourites Mike Biss/Cath Woodman. Both crews dropped just three minutes over all sections bar the one between TC16 and TC17, this included a hard to find triangle control, Worsfold/Fowle spent four minutes finding the correct route and visiting the route check, Biss/Woodman missed the control and the result was decided. Worsfold/Fowle finished with seven minutes penalty, while Biss/Woodman picked up a twenty minute penalty for a missed board and ened up on twenty-three minutes. In fact only four crews found the board.

Phil Collings/Mark Collings continued their successful year by finishing third, while Rob Dance/Graham Dance finished fourth to make it a Peugeot 205 1-2-3-4. The latter crew had spent some minutes stuck on the muddy triangle that most other crews missed.

The Pheasant Plucker was a round of the 2002 South East/Central Southern Road Rally Championship. Dance/Dance led the series prior to the rally and maintained that position, although Biss/Woodman closed the gap with just two rounds to go. Due to other commitments the latter pairing would be unable to contest the final round, so the series would be decided on the Nightwatchman, where Biss/Woodman had to finish two places clear of Dance/Dance to deny the Bournemouth pairing the title.

Ken Pape/John Stringer were the first non-Peugeot in fifth, while another of the French marque took sixth, this being the 309 of Phil Kendall/David Coles. Allan Sayers/Bob Stokoe were seventh, while a tie breaker of furtherest clean had to be used to seperate Peter Noad/Peter Cox and Mike Cawthra/Brian Cammack. Noad/Cox took the placing having lost a large amount of time in a ditch after moving over to let on coming traffic pass. Andy Coshan/Zip Zerahan completed the top ten in their Sunbeam.

The leading Semi-Expert crew were Chris Shackleton/Ian Collings, who finished in eleventh place overall in their Vauxhall Nova.

Mike East, partenered by Roger Davison, was looking for a hat trick of wins on the Pheasant Plucker, Davison having guided him to victory in 2001. However they had a short but miserable event. Navigator illness, fading brakes and getting stuck on a muddy triangle meant that their rally was over by the third section.

Doug Kingsley/Ben Greenfield had an even short event, a bolt on their Nova snapped allowing the camshaft to come loose, this in turn threw off the cam belt and altenator belt, all the loose bits then flew off into the scenery never to be seen again. The disappointed crew had covered less then three miles.

The Novices and Clubman classes were amalgamated and, due to being given easier navigation, competitors in these classes were not eligible for overall awards. Tom Brooks/Tony Brooks emerged as winners of the class, leading home Sam Collins/Olly North and Rob Astle/Paul Spencer.

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OVERALL RESULTS

	Pos	Driver	Navigator	Car	Penalty
	1	Dominic Worsfold	Matt Fowle	Peugeot 205 GTi	7m 00s
	2	Mike Biss	Cath Woodman	Peugeot 205 GTi	23m 00s
	3	Phil Collings	Mark Collings	Peugeot 205 GTi	52m 00s
	4	Rob Dance	Graham Dance	Peugeot 205 GTi	58m 00s
	5	Ken Pape	John Stringer	Ford EScort	62m 00s
	6	Phil Kendall	David Coles	Peugeot 309 GTi	8m 00s
	7	Allan Sayers	Bob Stokoe	Ford Fiesta XR2	91m 00s
	8	Peter Noad	Peter Cox	Audi 90 Quattro	100m 00s
	9	Mike Cawthra	Brian Cammack	Subaru Impreza	100m 00s
	10	Andy Coshan	Zip Zerihan	Talbot Sunbeam	117m 00s
	11	Chris Shackleton	Ian Collings	Vauxhall Nova	120m 00s
	12	Mark Butler	Peter Barnard	Peugeot 205 GTi	212m 00s
	13	Paul Swindells	Dick Howatt	Peugeot 309 GTi	243m 00s
	14	Rob Reynolds	Alan Collyer	Mazda 323	1F 169m 00s
	15	Graham Child	Kevin Ablitt	Ford Escort Mexico	2F 116m 00s
	16	Bob Wisniewski	Paul Lettington	Vauxhall Nova	4F 261m 00s
	17	Olly Smith	Susan Broughall	Mini	9F 192m 00s
	18	Clive Anstey	Verity Anstey	Vauxhall Nova	11F 453m 00s
	19	Matthew Hole	Jonathan Charlesson	Peugeot 106	12F 527m 00s
	20	Dominic Taylor	Phil Haines	Mazda 323 Turbo	77m 00s
	Clubman Rally
	1	Tom Brooks	Tony Brooks	Saab Sonett	116m 00s
	2	Sam Collins	Oli North	VW Golf GTi	211m 00s
	3	Rob Aslett	Paul Spencer	Peugeot 205 GTi	6F 491m 00s
	4	Ian Orford	Damien Bigden	Mazda 323	8F 783m 00s
	5	John Murdoch	Ian Young	Peugeot 205 Rallye	10F 397m 00s
	6	Ben Smith	Mark Lodder	Vauxhall Astra	15F 600m 00s
	7	N J Woolmore	S M Champion	Vauxhall Nova SR	18F 769m 00s

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