Pentraeth Kia Glyn Memorial Stages

The Glyn Memorial Stages was round 10 and final round of the Welsh Tarmac Championship. As we were leading the Welsh Championship but now required to drop scores our aim for this rally was to take top points. We had been seeded car two for this event.

After arriving at Anglesea for the first time in atrocious weather conditions we had forgotten the keys to the race shuttle and as co driver Kath could not make the event it was a bad start. We found a local co driver at short notice after previous problems.
We walked the course between showers and decided to go on a soft intermediate tyre for the first stage. We came away with equal fastest time. As worsening rain made the track very wet we dropped down the field over the next few stages. Stage seven was the first dark stage and we decided to push on as we knew we needed to set faster times. Stage eight being the final stage of the day we picked up a slight misfire and a high speed spin which resulted in us losing 27 seconds from the fastest stage time of this stage. Overall for the day we were lying in 5th place, 37 seconds off first overall and 3 seconds from the class lead.

Day two started again wet and we were still trying to improve times setting good times over stage nine and ten moving us up to 3rd overall. On stage twelve as the rain eased off we decided to push on but were caught out after aquaplaning on a open fast left which resulted in us dropping more time. Stage thirteen and fourteen went very well pushing us back up to the top 3 but on stage fifteen our rally came to an end with an electrical problem surrendering the fight and the Welsh Tarmac Championship.

Thank you to Barrie Jenkins, Karl Davies and Chris Davies. Also a massive thank you to Peredur Wyn Davies for jumping in at the last minute and doing a good job.
Also thank you to Rocky Photography for the photo's.

Peter Lloyd Stages Pembray

The Peter Lloyd stages were the 9 round of the Welsh Championship. We had a wet start to the day with further rain forecast. We has been seeded at car 6.

After walking part of the first stage we decided to run on a soft slick tyre for the opening stage. We had a good first stage coming away with joint fastest time with Bob Fowden. Stage two we kept the same tyre choice and although this stage included the beech road section we came away with a fastest stage time, taking the lead of the rally. Stage three was a repeat of stage two which gave us another quickest stage time and extended our lead to 15 seconds going into the lunch break.

Before stage four there was heavy rain so we changed to full wet tyres but a spin on the go kart track section dropped us 28 seconds on the stage. A repeat onto stage five still with heavy rain made it difficult to regain any lost time resulting in 1st in class, 2nd overall and 2nd Welsh Tarmac Contender.

Happy with the result considering the wet conditions. Thank you to Barrie Jenkins, Karl Davies, Chris Davies and Richard Roberts. Not forgetting another faultless performance from Kath Curzon in the co-drivers seat.
Also thank you to JMS photography and Scott Turner for the photo's.