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Saint Wilfrid's Road Rally 2002

Sponsored by Monkton Moor Garage

Ripon Motor Sports Club

3th/4th August 2002

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Ripon Motor Sport Club laid out a 130 mile route with an entirely plot 'n bash format for 41 starters on their St Wilfrid's Rally. The event is a round of the Northern, East Midlands and SD34MSG Championships. In addition it was a counter towards three Historic Championships, including the HRCR series.

Sponsorship for the event came from Monkton Moor Garage, a 24 hour light and heavy recovery and rally preparation centre in Harrogate.

Heavy rain on the Thursday prior to the rally caused widespread flooding around the River Ure but two days of dry weather and a large amount of work by the organising team to remove silt from some fords and whites meant no route changes had to be made.

After a number of top five results over the previous few months, Jamie Turner/Graham Raeburn took their first outright rally win on a modern road rally. They brought their Rover Metro home just ten seconds ahead of the Subaru Impreza of John Haden/Iain Tullie. Turner/Raeburn sealed their win by being the only crew to clean the second section, all other crews dropped at least a minute. Top seeds Simon Randall/Charlie Wheeldon took third place, forty seconds behind, in their Ford Escort.

Terry Martin/Simon Bentley were fourth, a result that moved them back into contention in the ANCC Championship. Tullie's second place meant that he headed the navigators' table. Gavin Smith/Michael Ogram, who had led prior to the St Wilfrids, only managed fourteenth place on the Yorkshire event. With Malcolm Holdsworth/Richard Holdsworth finshing eighth and Sandie Taylor/Paul Taylor not starting, there were still a number of crews in contention for overall honours in the Northern Championship with just four rounds remaining.

Turner/Raeburn's win strengthened their position in the East Midlands Championship with the only other leading crew to finish being Jamie Gratton-Smith/Richard Hage, who were sixth. Two other EMAMC contenders failed to make the Finish; Bob Marshall/Roger Hage retired after breaking the exhaust on their Corsa, while Steve Webster/Steve Porter withdrew having missed a code board on the Grinton Moor section.

The leading Novice crew were Simon Tate/Kerry Thornton who finished fifth in their Opel Manta, well clear of their nearest class rivals.

The Historic Rally was won by the Triumph TR3 of Terry Pickering/Paul Robinson, who were seventh overall. Peter Noad/Peter Cox were second in their Audi 80 GT, seventeenth overall, with the Lancia Fulvia of Peter Baker/Andy Gibson third, they were twentieth overall and the last crew to finish free of fails.

There was some interesting machinery at the front of the Novice contenders of the Historic section, with the class winners being Pam Butterworth/Shon Gosling in their Series IIA Land Rover, they were followed home by the Daimler SP250B of Jeremy Ford/Stephen Meyer.

Of the 41 starters, 11 of them in the Historic Rally, 35 made if back to the Finish at Ripon.

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OVERALL RESULTS (Positions in bold indicate an Historic Rally contender)

	Pos	Driver	Navigator	Car	Penalty
	1	Jamie Turner	Graham Raeburn	Rover Metro	5m 32s
	2	John Haden	Iain Tullie	Subaru Impreza	5m 42s
	3	Simon Randall	Charlie Wheeldon	Ford Escort	6m 19s
	4	Terry Martin	Simon Bentley	Peugeot 205 GTi	7m 46s
	5	Simon Tate	Kerry Thornton	Opel Manta	9m 18s
	6	Jamie Gratton-Smith	Richard Hage	Peugeot 205 GTi	9m 36s
	7	Terry Pickering	Paul Robinson	Triumph TR3	10m 59s
	8	Malcolm Holdsworth	Richard Holdsworth	Toyota Corolla	12m 12s
	9	David Williams	Richard Booth	Renault Clio	12m 20s
	10	Graham Nunn	Paul Nelson	Peugeot 205	12m 47s
	11	Neil Bye	Stephen Bye	Peugeot 205 GTi	13m 20s
	12	Dave Chapman	David Taylor	Vauxhall Astra	14m 01s
	13	Bill Chadwick	Alan Edwards	Toyota Celica GT	15m 47s
	14	Gavin Smith	Mike Ogram	Peugeot 205 GTi	15m 55s
	15	Martin Chinnery	Andy Coshan	Opel Manta	16m 16s
	16	Abe Shenker	Steve Brown	Peugeot 205 GTi	18m 37s
	17	Peter Noad	Peter Cox	Audi 80 GT	19m 21s
	18	Chris Pullan	John Thornton	Peugeot 205 GTi	23m 11s
	19	Peter Baker	Andy Gibson	Lancia Fulvia HF	23m 17s
	20	Dave Hughes	Richard Dix	Volvo Amazon	25m 38s
	21	Martin Betts	Mick Fern	Ford Escort	1F 11m 34s
	22	Rob Pilcher	Roger Burkhill	Lotus Cortina	1F 14m 57s
	23	Wes Massam	Bernard Northmore	Volvo PV444	1F 16m 10s
	24	Andy Beaumont	Matt Blood	Proton Satria	1F 19m 54s
	25	Dick Appleton	Mike Gray	Mini Cooper S	1F 32m 43s
	26	Steve Featherstone	Rodney Jackson	Ford Sierra	2F 14m 07s
	27	Brook	James Haigh	TBA	2F 36m 19s
	28	Phil Shingler	Eric Richardson	Mini	2F 43m 41s
	29	Pam Butterworth	Shon Gosling	Land Rover	3F 44m 49s
	30	Jeremy Ford	Stephen Myers	Daimler SP250	5F 57m 10s
	31	Paul Metcalfe	Stuart Wright	Vauxhall Nova	6F 35m 05s
	32	Antony Baren	A Chandler	Peugeot 205	7F 4m 11s
	33	Cameron Colls	Neil Colls	Honda Civic	9F 47m 32s
	34	A Davidson	A Scrimgour	Peugeot 205 GTi	10F 59m 00s
	35	Mark Casey	Glyn Casey	Vauxhall Nova	32F 70m 29s

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