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PK Memorial Rally 2005

Sponsored by Polyroof

Bala & District Motor Club

2nd/3rd July 2005

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The Rhug Estate, near Corwen, provided the start venue for the PK Memorial, with 75 cars lining up to take the start of this ANWCC and AWMMC counter.

The field faced a 130 mile route in the traditional PK area, with competition commencing not far from the start, at Cymro Gate. A fairly easy beginning took the route to the west of Llandrillo before the most decisive sector of the night was tackled, this was in the forest to the south-east of Llandderfel. The route entered the woods at Tyddyninco, regained the tarmac at Caecynddelw, then turned left at the B-road, where there was an ITC, then re-entered the forest for a loop around Cefn Coch. There was a second ITC before the end of the track.

The top seeds and 2004 winners, Tony Gush/Gareth Price (Peugeot 205 GTi), blasted the opposition here; they dropped 59 seconds, while their nearest challengers, Baz Green/Rob Jones (Peugeot 205 GTi), were on 2m 40s.

There were a couple of retirements on the section; Huw Myfyr/Gwawr Hughes severely damaged their VW Golf after hitting a tree, while Simon Harrison/David Pedley (Ford Escort RS2000) withdrew after the driver became unwell.

There was a long first half which took in the critical opening regularity, which was then followed by five standard sections, with most TCs timed to the minute. Petrol was taken at Glasfryn.

By the time that crews reached the halt Gush/Price had extended their lead to over two minutes, with Green/Jones in a clear second place, over a minute ahead of Mark Whitford/Mick Fern. The latter pair had survived an off at the infamous 'Gorse' section just before the halt. Unfortunately, they were to retired soon after the restart when the engine failed on their Escort. A blown engine had already stopped the Peugeot 205 GTi of Steven Roberts/Paul Roberts.

A more serious crash totalled the Subaru Impreza of Mark Price/Brynmor Pierce, who went off on a fast 60 right near Hendre Arddwyfaen.

There was already a high attrition rate, amongst those out of the running were two Peugeots that failed to make the halfway halt, these were the 205 of Dave Fuller/Carwyn Evans, which broke a drive shaft, and the similar car of Mark Jones/Warren Cardwell, which had its sump guard break.

The second half of the event was shorter and, for leading crews, not too demanding. It was largely within, or just south, of the Clocaenog Forest, and it was split into three sections.

Green/Jones narrowed the gap to the leaders by 17 seconds, but were still 1m49s behind at the end of the event. Thus Gush/Price held on to make it a PK Memorial double.

After Whitford's retirement, Andy Sheppard/Patrick Walsh (Ford Escort), who hadn’t competed together for some time, came through and took third place, although 4m21s behind the winners.

Mark 'GT' Roberts/Steve Price (VW Golf GTi) were well ahead in the Expert Class; they had been in eighth place at Petrol, and, despite having a wheel bearing fail towards the end, moved up to fifth place at the Finish. They only missed out to Steve Head/Graham Raeburn (Vauxhall Nova GTE) for fourth overall on a tie break.

Aled Owen/Gareth Jones (Seat Ibiza GTi) finished in thirteenth place and took the Semi-Expert Award; they ended exactly a minute ahead of their nearest rivals, Arwel Thomas/Ianto Fon Jones (Vauxhall Nova). The leading Novice crew were Phil Evans/Richard Morris (Ford Escort), they were 20 minutes clear of the second placed Novice.

There was a high attrition rate, with only 37 of the 75 starters making the Finish, this was largely due to heavy rain during the event which made the roads extremely slippery.

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OVERALL RESULTS

	Pos	Driver	Navigator	Car	Penalty
	1	Tony Gush	Gareth Price	Peugeot 205 GTi	6m 53s
	2	Baz Green	Rob Jones	Peugeot 205 GTi	8m 42s
	3	Andy Sheppard	Patrick Walsh	Ford Escort	11m 14s
	4	Steve Head	Graham Raeburn	Vauxhall Nova GTE	12m 33s
	5	Mark 'GT' Roberts	Steve Price	VW Golf GTi	12m 33s
	6	Ian 'Dude' Roberts	Owen Dodd	VW Golf GTi	12m 56s
	7	Dave Jones	Ian Vale	Subaru Impreza	13m 09s
	8	Mei Jones	Michael Hughes	Vauxhall Astra	13m 53s
	9	Stuart Kelso	Eilir Jones	Peugeot 205 GTi	13m 57s
	10	Dewi Williams	Darren Garrod	Vauxhall Nova	14m 52s
	11	Elfyn Richards	Alan Williams	VW Golf GTi	16m 09s
	12	Rhys Lloyd Jones	Alwyn Ieuan Roberts	Peugeot 205	18m 15s
	13	Aled Owen	Gareth Jones	Seat Ibiza GTi	18m 53s
	14	Arwel Thomas	Ianto Fon Jones	Vauxhall Nova	19m 53s
	15	Bryn Jones	Rob Guest	Ford Sierra	20m 21s
	16	Neil Roberts	Dale Furniss	Peugeot 205 GTi	20m 32s
	17	Rhys Roberts	Phil Todd	Toyota Corolla	23m 19s
	18	Peter Roberts	Wyn Roberts	Peugeot 205 GTi	23m 47s
	19	Phil Evans	Richard Morris	Ford Escort	25m 55s
	20	John Jones	Steve Davies	Renault 11 Turbo	25m 56s
	21	Robin Jones	Chris Worsley	Ford Escort	45m 12s
	22	Will Edwards	Andrew Edwards	Subaru Impreza	1F 23m 30s
	23	Sion Dillon	Simon Rogers	Ford Escort	1F 27m 09s
	24	Roger Powley	Leigh Powley	Hillman Imp	1F 30m 41s
	25	Glyn Price	Iwan Jones	Ford Escort	2F 13m 04s
	26	Matthew Jones	Gareth Stephens	Vauxhall Cavalier	2F 25m 14s
	27	Sheila Reynolds-Jones	Pete Dale	Peugeot 205 GTi	2F 33m 23s
	28	Paul Edwards	Carl Pearce	Vauxhall Nova GSi	3F 29m 10s
	29	Mark Carter	Colin Cresswell	MG Maestro	3F 40m 56s
	30	Keith Gush	Lynn Gush	Vauxhall Nova GTE	4F 17m 31s
	31	Mark Davies	Allan Roberts	VW Golf	4F 29m 57s
	32	Steve Guest	Andrew Guest	VW Golf	5F 15m 38s
	33	Ben Wain	Shaun Hughes	Peugeot 205 Rallye	5F 23m 07s
	34	Philip Rock	Phil Drew	Subaru Impreza WRX	5F 28m 06s
	35	Simon Naughton	Gareth Thomas	Ford Escort	6F 40m 00s
	36	Trefor Roberts	Nigel Stephenson	Peugeot 205 GTi	14F 19m 33s
	37	Aidan Richards	Angharad Davies	Peugeot 205 GTi	15F 28m 03s

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