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Y2K Five Road Rally 2005

Clwb Modur Cymru

10th/11th December 2005

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There was a three way battle for the win on the final round of the Welsh Championship which used, for its most part, the roads and tracks of the Epynt Ranges.

The event opened wth a 27 mile Jogularity that began at the Brecon Leisure Centre start line. It wound its way to the east, then north of the rally's base, before ending on the Ranges at the Irish Village. There were five timing points and these were the only controls that were timed to the second in the entire route.

Robert Wilson/Dylan Jenkins emerged with the least penalties, dropping just a single second, while Holrus winners Martin Leonard/Kevin Chaffey were on two seconds. Merfyn Hughes/Graham Dance were in third with a total of four seconds.

The remainder of the event was a series of time controls all timed to the minute. There were 16 TCs on the Ranges before the first petrol halt, which was taken at Llandovery. There was then another 16 TC section; this one on the public roads of the Towy Valley.

These made little difference to the top places as the majority of the front runners cleaned all of the TCs. The first Epynt loop did see the demise of Brian Jones/Michael Hardwick, whose Escort suffered a clutch failure.

After a second Llandovery petrol halt the rally concluded with a final visit to Epynt, where there were 23 TCs tackled, many with target times of less then four minutes. To add to the challenge a thick fog had decended over the hills.

The difficulties caused most crews to add minutes to their totals. Hughes/Dance fell from third to sixth at the Finish, having accumalated eleven minutes of extra penalties. Tim Evans/Alun Probert (Nissan Micra), who had been the runners up on the Holrus, run a few weeks earlier on Epynt, finished in fourth having dropped four minutes on the final loop. One place behind them were Gary Jones/Matthew Maidment, who were on eight minutes, plus the ten they'd collected on the Jogularity.

Three crews emerged as masters of the conditions - Wilson/Jenkins, Leonard/Chaffey and Gerwyn Jones/Ceri Davies were still clean of any TC penalties until TC45. This control was located in a car park to the side of the Dual Carriage, just before the route turned on to Route 60. The fog was particularly thick here and the entrance was hard to spot.

All three were a minute late here, but this was the only time lost by any of them on any of the TC sections, so it was their penalties on the Jogularity that decided the final top three places. Thus Wilson/Jenkins claimed a one second victory margin over Leonard/Chaffey, with Jones/Davies three seconds further back.

The Welsh Retrospective, the final round of the HRCR Nocturnal Challenge, ran alongside the Y2K. It was led after the Jogularity by Chris Jenkins/Tony Brookes, but they, like all the other Historic crews struggled through the TCs and they fell to fifth at the Finish. It was therefore the Porsche 356 of Paul Cornwell/Mick Valentine that claimed the win.

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OVERALL RESULTS

	Pos	Driver	Navigator	Car	Penalty
	1	Robert Wilson	Dylan Jenkins	Peugeot 205	1m 01s
	2	Martin Leonard	Kevin Chaffey	VW Golf GTi	1m 02s
	3	Gerwyn Jones	Ceri Davies	Ford Escort	1m 05s
	4	Tim Evans	Alun Probert	Nissan Micra	4m 05s
	5	Gary 'Shonkey' Jones	Matthew Maidment	Toyota Corolla	8m 10s
	6	Merfyn Hughes	Graham Dance	Subaru Impreza	11m 04s
	7	Anthony Gluyas	Richard Preece	Opel Manta	16m 05s
	8	Pete Johnson	Andy Berry	Vauxhall Astra	17m 35s
	9	David Jones	Glyn Price	Peugeot 205 GTi	23m 10s
	10	Garyl Evans	Anthony Davies	Vauxhall Astra	28m 32s
	11	Worth Birkhill	David Harris	Vauxhall Corsa	31m 19s
	12	Matthew Jones	Richard Morris	Vauxhall Astra	47m 33s
	13	Granville Cottle	Ian Cooke	Subaru Impreza	53m 07s
	14	Glyn Price	Iwan Jones	Ford Escort	57m 28s
	15	Robert Brown	Alex Gill	Peugeot 309 GTi	81m 07s
	16	Matthew Wood-Griffiths	Thomas Henderson	Peugeot 205 GTi	86m 25s
	17	Gareth Reed	David Bradley	Toyota Corolla	132m 43s
	18	Roger Powley	Leigh Powley	Toyota Corolla	142m 50s
	19	Andy Sheppard	Paul Hardy	Peugeot 205 GTi	309m 00s
	20	Cliff Jones	Jason Reynolds	Vauxhall Nova	340m 09s
	21	Andrew Lewis	Ivor James	Peugeot 205 GTi	358m 56s
	22	Kirsty Gulluch	Kevin Tweedy	Peugeot 205 GTi	49m 14s
	23	Gareth Edwards	Andrew Edwards	Suzuki Swift GTi	492m 14s
	24	Edryd Evans	Richard Briddon	VW Golf	556m 04s
	25	Annette Bolver	Andy Falconer	Ford Escort	589m 59s
	26	Sterling Jenkins	Katie Briddon	Vauxhall Nova	685m 22s
	27	Michael Jones	Kevin Tweedy	Peugeot 205 GTi	768m 51s
	28	David Evans	Rhys Watkins	Peugeot 205 GTi	924m 56s
	29	Huw Griffiths	Stephen Walters	Peugeot 205	944m 36s
	30	Stephen Hier	Daniel Hier	Vauxhall Nova	1020m 00s
	31	Alwyn Arrowsmith	Will Arrowsmith	Peugeot 205	34F 487m 48s
	Welsh Rally Retrospective
	1	Paul Cornwell	Mick Valentine	Porsche 356	28m 00s
	2	Keith Jenkins	Matt Fowle	Saab 96 V4	40m 30s
	3	Robin Eyre Mansell	Cath Woodman	Sunbeam Alpine	41m 08s
	4	Wes Massam	Shon Gosling	Volvo Amazon	66m 38s
	5	Chris Jenkins	Tony Brooks	Austin Mini	83m 15s
	6	David Mustarde	Mike Burrows	Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint	186m 36s
	7	Brian Cope	Graham Carter	Hillman Imp Super	398m 31s

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