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Welsh Endurance Rally 2003

Amman & District Motor Club supported by The Endurance Rallying Association

11h-13th July 2003

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An experimental type of event, an Endurnace Rally, a mixture of road rally sections and test, was won by Owen Turner/Andrew Dadswell in a Rover Metro.

The event was based on a format pioneered by Philip Young on the World Cup Rally in 2002. It organised by Amman & District MC, with support form Young's ERA organisation, which had run the World Cup Rally. Entry was restricted to cars of under 1400cc, with only limited modifications allowed.

It was based in Cardiff and used a series of tests, or Primes, and road rally time control style sections. The start, from Cardiff's Moat House Hotel, was at 22:00 on Friday evening. Crews tackled six primes at Caerwent, before returning to the start venue at 01:00. There were three tests at the MoD site, one was almost a mile long, while the other two were two and half miles in length. They were all attempted twice.

On Saturday the action initially moved to Walters Arena for two tests, used twice, plus one at near by Cefn Coed Forest. There were then six primes on the Epynt Ranges, using a mixture of gravel and tarmac roads. The rally reached its northernmost point late in the afternoon, with three tests at Sweet Lamb.

There was a two hour dinner halt at Llandrindod Wells, before crews returned to Epynt for four more primes. There then followed the road rally section, this started at 22:30 near Abergwesyn, ran up the Devils Staircase and around the Llyn Briane Loop. A prime in Crychan Forest, was followed by another TC section on the roads and tracks of Epynt.

Two more short primes, at the Water Works and the Irish Village, led to the final section, a series of time controls finishing at the top of the Dual Carriageway. The Finish was back at the Cardiff Moat House, the first car arriving there at 03:00.

Turner/Dadswell were fastest on Prime 1 and took a lead they weren't to loose. They arrived back at Cardiff at the end of the Leg with a lead of 32 seconds. Second place at that point was held by Christopher Armstrong/Leigh Armstrong (Peugeot 106 Rallye). This was the high point of the rally for them. They received a wrong test penalty on the first Walters Arena prime; they recovered from this to get back into the top ten, when they suffered a gearbox failure.

Pat Flynn/Nathan Parry (Peugeot 205 XS) were fastest on three of the Caerwent primes, but a wrong test on Prime 2 meant that they received a test maximum and they found themselves in 24th place at the overnight halt. On Saturday they picked up several cone faults and another wrong test at the Irish Village Prime, this left them in 13th place at the Finish.

John Cotton/Jill Cotton took fastest time on Prime 7, the first on Saturday morning. This, plus two further fastest times, moved them into a secure second place from Walters Arena until the Finish. They, like Turner/Dadswell, dropped just 20 seconds on the road rally sections. They ended the event, 1m 21s behind the winners.

The father and son pairing of Paul Heal/Matt Heal (Proton Compact), on the navigator's first rally, finished in third and won the 1001cc to 1300cc Class. Consistently in the top ten fastest on the primes, they had only picked up 40 seconds on the time control sections.

There were six starters in the Up To 1000cc Class. The category was won by the Toyota Yaris of Clive Baty/Dave Thomas, who finished in eighth place overall.

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OVERALL RESULTS

	Pos	Driver	Navigator	Car	Penalty
	1	Owen Turner	Andrew Dadswell	Rover Metro	1h 05m 58s
	2	John Cotton	Gill Cotton	Citroen AX GT	1h 07m 19s
	3	Paul Heal	Matt Heal	Proton Compact	1h 09m 49s
	4	Nick West	Philip Peak	Skoda Felicia	1h 10m 12s
	5	Steve Blunt	Bob Duck	Skoda Felicia	1h 10m 16s
	6	David Goodliffe	Michael Levett	Nissan Micra	1h 10m 17s
	7	David Johnson	Nigel Banks	Proton Satria	1h 10m 24s
	8	Clive Baty	Dave Thomas	Toyota Yaris	1h 10m 46s
	9	Gareth Duncan	Wayne Duncan	Vauxhall Corsa	1h 11m 09s
	10	Adrian Robinson	Nicholas Kennedy	VW Polo	1h 11m 31s
	11	Stephen Cooper	Aggie Foster	Suzuki Swift	1h 11m 31s
	12	Frank Fennell	John Bateson	VW Polo	1h 13m 22s
	13	Pat Flynn	Nathan Parry	Peugeot 205 XS	1h 13m 57s
	14	Jane Edgington	Gary Edgington	Citroen AX	1h 14m 15s
	15	David Maryon	Bob Rutherford	Peugeot 206	1h 14m 24s
	16	Rory McNeile	Paul Johns	Peugeot 106 Rallye	1h 14m 48s
	17	Chris Wood	Steve Wyatt	Peugeot 106 Rallye	1h 15m 19s
	18	James Parman	Mark Hamilton	Skoda Rapid	1h 16m 33s
	19	Ben Skinner	Trevor Skinner	Nissan Micra	1h 19m 41s
	20	Simon Weir	Brian Weir	Skoda Felicia	1h 21m 43s
	21	Matt Dickson	Ian Wilmshurst	Peugeot 106 Rallye	1h 23m 12s
	22	Charlene Gibson	Ian Perry	Fiat Seicento	1h 26m 21s
	23	Karen Young	Nigel Young	Perodua Kelisa	1h 32m 32s
	24	Adrian Grinsted	Stuart Malpas	Rover 214i	1h 38m 06s
	25	James Owens	Justin John	Vauxhall Nova	1h 44m 02s
	26	Sue Rugg	Andrew Rugg	Peugeot 206	1h 45m 55s
	27	Nigel Wakeling	Andy Bown	Peugeot 106 XS	1h 49m 48s
	28	Andy Lane	Ade Bennett	Citroen AX GT	2h 02m 17s
	29	Eddie Grayson	John Ball	Austin Metro	2h 12m 11s
	30	David Walker	Mark Taylor	VW Polo	2h 12m 25s
	31	Alan Anstis	Sue Anstis	Vauxhall Nova	2h 27m 30s
	32	Simon Rickard	Peter Rickard-Green	VW Polo	2h 29m 38s
	33	John Upton	Jon Senior	Peugeot 205 Rallye	2h 38m 05s
	34	Duncan Williams	Alison Dwelle	Proton Compact	6h 19m 31s
	35	Judy Lucas	John Goff	Trabant	8h 41m 05s
	36	Hannah Morgan	Lisa Whitney	Vauxhall Nova	9h 20m 34s
	37	Mark Isger	Mike Turner	Peugeot 106 Rallye	9h 36m 39s

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