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Buglass Trophy Rally 2004
Berwick & District Motor Club
21st/22nd February 2004
Clerk of the Course: Robin Scott
Route: 90 Miles
Maps: 75 & 81
Starters: 21
Winners: Chris Dodds/Richard Holdsworth (Peugeot 205 Rallye)
Chris Dodds/Richard Holdsworth (Peugeot 205 Rallye) took victory on Berwick & District MC’s Buglass Trophy Rally.
The event saw crews tackling a 90 mile route in northern Northumberland. The rally consisted of eleven sections. It used three whites and two fords, those at Abbeywick and Evlinson.
James Tyson/Neil Harrison finished the rally with the least time penalties, they’d dropped just four minutes, but a missed code board meant that fifteen minutes was added to their total and put them in the runner up spot. Holdsworth was a last minute substitute in the role of Dodds’ navigator, but this didn’t prevent them from having a clean run and finishing with a comfortable winning margin.
Andy Whittaker/Charlie Tynan were another crew to miss a codeboard, they finished in third. Top seeds Malcolm Holdsworth/Chris Pringle failed to start the rally after the driver went down with a bout of flu.
The Newcomer and Historic class crews were provided with easier navigation and were therefore classified seperately to the main event. John Straughan/John Rowley (Colt) won the well supported Newcomer Class. Stuart Bankier/David Alexander (Volvo Amazon) took a clear win in the Historic category, on what was the navigator's first road rally in 20 years.
Nineteen of the twenty-one starters made it to the Finish; Neil Morrison/Matt van de Mere were one of the retirements, forced out when the navigator became unwell.
OVERALL RESULTS
| Pos | Driver | Navigator | Car | Penalty | |
| 1 | Christopher Dodds | Richard Holdsworth | Peugeot 205 Rallye | 8m 00s | |
| 2 | James Tyson | Neil Harrison | Mini 1275GT | 19m 00s | |
| 3 | Andy Whittaker | Charlie Tynan | Peugeot 205 GTi | 24m 00s | |
| 4 | Michael Deans | Tony Hume | Colt GTi | 48m 00s | |
| 5 | Monty Pearson | Ewan Lemming | VW Golf V6R | 52m 00s | |
| Newcomer Class | |||||
| 1 | John Straughan | Jonathan Roley | Colt | 03m 00s | |
| 2 | John Bertram | Guy Flannigan | Colt GTi | 43m 00s | |
| 3 | Barry Clough | Mark Clough | Ford Escort | 49m 00s | |
| 4 | Dave Bell | Chris Roper | Honda Civic | 50m 00s | |
| 5 | Neil Walker | Roy Hewitt | Ford Escort | 53m 00s | |
| 6 | George Swift | Chris Swift | Roadster | 61m 00s | |
| 7 | Ellen Jackson | Will Jackson | Subaru Impreza | 92m 00s | |
| 8 | Craig Short | John Short | Peugeot 205D | 97m 00s | |
| 9 | David Sandiforth | Ronnie Hush | Ford Escort RS | 193m 00s | |
| 10 | Darren Smith | Neil Birgham | Ford Ka | 203m 00s | |
| Historic Class | |||||
| 1 | Stuart Bankier | David Alexander | Volvo Amazon | 08m 00s | |
| 2 | David Thomson | Charles Sansom | Sunbeam Rapier | 96m 00s | |
| 3 | Dave Wright | Liam Lines | Triumph TR5 | 178m 00s | |