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Bill Gwynne Motorsport Stages 2005

Sponsored by Bill Gwynne Rally School + Motorsport

Kidderminster Motor Club

13th August 2005

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Pre-event favourite Shaun Gardener more than met expectation when he won the Bill Gwynne Stages with a victory margin of almost four minutes.

The Kidderminster MC event saw crews tackle nine stages in the rain at Sweet Lamb.

Gardener, having his first outing since his Somerset Stages accident in March and partnered by Andrew Sankey, took fastest by 15 seconds on SS1; by SS5 his lead was two minutes and he’d doubled this by the end.

The only driver to be remotely in touch with the winners was Dave Jenkins, he was comfortably holding second when a turbo fire put his Escort WRC out on SS5. Andrew Bowen was then promoted to second and went on to finish fifty second ahead of a close battle for third.

This fight was eventually won by Steve Joel, he’d run one stage without anti-lag but came through to claim third and the Group N win from Michael O'Brien. The Irish driver had been slowed when a turbo pipe had broken but otherwise had a clear run to fourth. Ian Campbell had a front diff explode at the end of SS5 but got the part changed and went to finish in fifth.

Matt Barker had been as high as third in his 205 during the day, but struggled against the 4WD opposition in the wetter afternoon condition, he finished seventh.

Justin Fowler-Bishop led the 1600cc Class until an off saw him take a stage maximum on SS4. He fought back but just failed to catch Anthony Palmer for the class win at the end.

Grant Rees led Class A initially but fell to third after a shaft broke on SS5, however he charged through the afternoon stages to reclaim the class win and fourteenth overall. Arwel Parry, in his very standard Peugeot, took the runner up spot.

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OVERALL RESULTS

	Pos	Driver	Navigator	Car	Penalty
	1	Shaun Gardener	Andrew Sankey	Mitsubishi Lancer E5	53m 48s
	2	Andrew Bowen	Mark Ammonds	Ford Escort Mk3	57m 42s
	3	Steve Joel	Neil Capstick	Mitsubishi Lancer E4	58m 35s
	4	Michael O’Brien	Matthew Pearce	Subaru Impreza	58m 49s
	5	Ian Campbell	Richard Wardle	Mitsubishi Lancer E5	58m 49s
	6	Peter Gwynne	Sarah Weston	Subaru Impreza	59m 11s
	7	Matt Barker	Dave Lucas	Peugeot 205 GTi	59m 24s
	8	David Robinson	Kath Rumney	Ford Escort WRC	59m 24s
	9	Scott Bennett	James Bennett	Mitsubishi Lancer E6	1h 00m 08s
	10	Paul Hall	Howard Pridmore	Ford Escort	1h 01m 47s
	11	Dennis Parry	Mathew Parry	Subaru Impreza	1h 01m 48s
	12	Harold Morley	Nick Morley	Subaru Impreza	1h 02m 08s
	13	Philip Edwards	Jon Edwards	Subaru Impreza	1h 02m 10s
	14	Tom Graham	Mike Bailey	Mitsubishi Lancer E6	1h 03m 56s
	15	Grant Rees	Emyr Morgan	VW Polo	1h 04m 09s
	16	Ian Barnard	Martin Gould	Ford Escort	1h 04m 20s
	17	Arwel Parry	Iestyn Williams	Peugeot 106	1h 04m 31s
	18	Anthony Palmer	David Bromley	Peugeot 205 GTi	1h 04m 45s
	19	Adrian Baker	Andrew Gough	Ford Escort	1h 05m 00s
	20	Andrew Davies	Peter Davies	Peugeot 205 GTi	1h 05m 15s
	21	Richard Warne	Ed Britton	Ford Escort	1h 05m 23s
	22	Huw Jones	Richard Morris	MG ZR	1h 06m 12s
	23	Matthew Owen	Ian Bevan	Peugeot 206	1h 06m 13s
	24	Dominic Hodge	Simon Moore	Peugeot 205	1h 06m 36s
	25	Justin Fowler-Bishop	Neil Bevan	Peugeot 205 GTi	1h 06m 44s
	26	Christopher Leach	Alan Pettitt	Peugeot 205 GTi	1h 07m 27s
	27	Mark Turner	Mark Oliver	Peugeot 206 XSi	1h 08m 40s
	28	Martyn Harper	Simon Cornwall	Subaru Impreza	1h 08m 48s
	29	Ian Sutton	Kevin Haven	Hyundai Coupe	1h 08m 51s
	30	Mark Whitlock	Toby Garrett	Peugeot 205 GTi	1h 09m 18s
	31	Chris Woodward	Liam Bowen	Peugeot 205 GTi	1h 10m 28s
	32	Adam Tomlinson	Ian Tomlinson	MG Midget	1h 11m 36s
	33	Geoff Whiston	Gary Matthews	Ford Escort	1h 12m 58s
	34	David Evans	Dylan Lewis	Vauxhall Nova	1h 14m 16s
	35	Steven Knott	Dai Roberts	Peugeot 205 GTi	1h 15m 12s
	36	Gareth Vickers	Mike Warmington	Talbot Sunbeam	1h 18m 14s

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