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Rali Cilwendeg 2002

Sponsored by West Wales Rally Spares

Teifi Valley Motor Club

20th-22nd September 2002

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Teifi Valley MC introduced a new format to modern road rallying with the Rali Cilwendeg - a two night road rally. The event used a 270 miles route, split between Friday and Saturday night. The rally was based at the magnificent Castell Malgwyn Hotel at Llechryd. In total crews tackled fourteen sections in the Cardigan/Newcastle Emlyn area. The route was very demanding, especially on Friday night, with many farm tracks being utilised to augment the already complex maze of lanes in the area.

Unusually for Welsh events, the second night opened with a Jogularity section, which was defined by tulip diagrams. Despite the unusual format, most crews picked up very few penalties at the two timing points.

The leaders after the first section around Cwm were Elgan Jones/Elgan Davies, who dropped only 18 seconds, compared to the next fastest crew, Martyn O'Connor/Peter Collins. Unfortunately Jones/Davies then rolled their Astra on the second section. They lost fifteen minutes in the incident but recovered and rejoined, however they were to roll again soon after the first petrol halt. The second accident put them out of the rally.

O'Connor/Collins now took the lead but they fell victim to the tricky fifth section, which used the lanes and tracks directly North of Newcastle Emlyn. They wrong slotted twice and dropped three minutes. They survived to eventually finish in fourth place. Daniel Jones/Owen Dodd also lost time investigating an incorrect route around the same point but this was their only indiscretion and, despite a pinking engine, they finished the event in the runner up spot.

The rally then settled in to a two way battle between the Ford Sierra of 2000 winners Toby Adam/Byron Jones and the Mitsubishi Lancer of Alun 'Timo' Evans/Rob Richardson. The latter pairing were to finish the rally with the quickest time but they picked up a fail at a triangle control and this dropped them from first to twenty-ninth.

Adam/Jones were using the Sierra after the driver had severely damaged his regular Mark One Escort on the previous weekend's Wexford Rally in Ireland. The Sierra had been hastly put together in the week prior to the Cilwendeg. They had to struggle with a slipping clutch for most of the event, the problem being so severe at points that they had difficulties on uphill sections. However they nursed the car to the Finish and, despite getting stuck on a triangle on Saturday night, came through to take their second succesive win on the rally.

The surprise of the rally was the speed of Car 47, the Renault Clio of Delfryn Owens/Jeff James. They were inside the top ten from the first section onwards and held third place from the fifth section until the Finish. They were well clear of any other Semi-Expert crew.

Fifth place went to Arwyn Thomas/Patrick Walsh, the navigator managing to compete on the Plains Rally during the day on Saturday, in between two stints on the Cilwendeg. Owen Llwyd Edwards/Dorian Davies had a clear run to sixth place. Hefin George/Dilwyn John were competing in a VW Golf purchased on Friday, after their regular Nissan Sunny suffered a head gasket failure. Despite losing over four minutes with a puncture on a tight section, they completed the rally in seventh place. Simon Cottrell/Marcus Watmough made the long journey to West Wales and were rewarded with eighth place despite an off that caused superficial damage to their Impreza.

A slippery farmyard and a treacherously placed milk stand combined to cause problems for a number of crews on Friday. Ceri Richards/Aled Jones and Howard Price/Cyril Jones survived with damaged rear three quarter panels on their cars, however Iain Scott/Jez Harris retired due to the damage to their Corolla. Richard/Jones continued but struggled with a slipping clutch, and then a sticking throttle before total elctrical failure halted them on Saturday night. Price/Jones completed the event in tenth place, their Corolla's engine went onto three cylinders later on the Friday sections but cleared on Saturday.

With such a tough event there was always going to be a heavy retirement rate and thirty crews failed to make the Finish. Amongst these were: Dyfrig James/Emyr Jones - clutch failure; Gareth 'Factory' Evans/Gwynfor Jones - broken exhaust; Mark Williams/Alan Davies - head gasket; Gareth 'Gog' Jones/Eyrl Evans - steering problems; Gary Evans/Iestyn Leyshon - OTL after losing time with rear suspension failure; Jon Stobbs/Gary Robbins - failed rear brakes.

Dafydd Edwards/Haydn Williams retired after winning the 'Most Damage Inflicted in a Low Speed Accident' award, when they failed to get their Ford Sierra between two gateposts during Friday night.

The U1300 award was won by the Suzuki Swift of Mick Monaghan/Iain Tullie, who finished eleventh place although they struggled without spotlights from the first section onwards. They also lost three minutes after getting stuck in a field.

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OVERALL RESULTS

	Pos	Driver	Navigator	Car	Penalty
	1	Toby Adam	Byron Jones	Ford Sierra	8m 48s
	2	Daniel 'Lwni' Jones	Owen Dodd	Ford Escort	9m 22s
	3	Delfryn Owens	Jeff James	Reanult Clio	10m 13s
	4	Martyn O'Connor	Peter Collins	Vauxhall Astra	10m 23s
	5	Arwyn Thomas	Patrick Walsh	Ford Escort	11m 28s
	6	Owen Llwyd Edwards	Dorian Davies	Vauxhall Astra	15m 24s
	7	Hefin George	Dilwyn John	VW Golf	15m 42s
	8	Simon Cottrell	Marcus Watwough	Subaru Impreza	15m 47s
	9	Gareth 'Shonkey' Jones	Andy Oakes	Toyota Corolla	15m 59s
	10	Howard Price	Cyril Jones	Toyota Corolla	18m 11s
	11	Mick Monaghan	Iain Tullie	Suzuki Swift	18m 22s
	12	Barry Davies	Mark Davies	Peugeot 205	20m 16s
	13	Dafydd 'Budgie' Williams	John Hands	Chrysler Sunbeam	20m 59s
	14	Darren Williams	Dylan Jones	Vauxhall Astra	21m 10s
	15	Owen Turner	Andrew Dadswell	Hillman Imp	21m 51s
	16	Jerry Jones	Mark Robinson	Austin Mini	22m 11s
	17	David Pedley	Paul Holmberg	Ford Escort	22m 19s
	18	Richard Briddon	Edryd Evans	Toyota Starlet	23m 32s
	19	Baron Glaze	Peter Davies	Ford Escort	24m 27s
	20	Robert James	Eurig Davies	Rover 216	24m 29s
	21	Mike Cartwright	Steve Warrington	Vauxhall Nova	24m 36s
	22	Marc Jones	Bill Williams	Ford Sierra	25m 25s
	23	Andrew Thomas	Hefin Thomas	Peugeot 205	27m 57s
	24	Aled Garner	Dylan Garner	Toyota Corolla	28m 09s
	25	Ian Orford	Peter Barnard	Mazda 323	28m 20s
	26	Huw Myfyr	Darren Garrod	VW Golf	32m 26s
	27	Julian Smith	Chris Short	Toyota Corolla	33m 06s
	28	Gary Jenkins	Eric Tong	Peugeot 205	40m 04s
	29	Alun 'Timo' Evans	Rob Richardson	Mitsubishi Lancer	1F 8m 08s
	30	Richard James	Aled Johnson	Vauxhall Astra GTE	1F 35m 22s
	31	Robert Price	Mark Coleman	Vauxhall Astra	2F 26m 11s
	32	Gethin Morgan	Matthew Pugh	Ford Sierra	2F 50m 24s
	33	Geoff Williams	Stuart Oulton	Vauxhall Nova	11F 1h 09m 04s
	34	Kevin Evans	Owain Thomas	Vauxhall Nova	42F 54m 43s
	35	Hefin Owen	Iwan Williams	Peugeot 205	45F 38m 09s
	36	Wayne James	Chris Sinclair-James	Peugeot 205	84F 1h 59m 49s

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