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2nd Lombard Revival Rally

Endurance Rally Association

24th-27th November 2005

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Jamie Turner/Graham Dance took a last minute victory on the second running of the Lombard Revival Rally. The battle for the win was in doubt throughout the four day event, with a number of crews taking their turn at the lead.

The 126 starters that left Oxford City FC’s Kassam Stadium on Thursday faced a tough challenge, a 1,200 mile route which included 52 selectifs. As they set out the coldest weather for some years hit Wales, where the meat of the event was to be found.

Leg 1 - The Prologue

Competitive motoring started in the early evening with four short tests in the Didcot area. The main outcome of these tests was to confirm the pre-event prediction that the Turner brothers would be the pace setters. They returned to start venue in the top two places, Owen seven seconds ahead of Jamie. However it was noted that the relatively inexperienced crew of Dale Glover/Sean Ward, on only their fourth rally, were in third, and would have held second but for a cone penalty.

For two crews the rally was already over; John Hall/Simon Brown broke a drive shaft on their Polo, while Neil Lloyd/Robert Lloyd had the engine fail on their Volvo, the latter navigator had been the youngest competitor on the rally.

Leg 2 - Oxford to Chester

There was a close battle for the lead throughout the second day as crews tackled fourteen selectifs. Owen Turner/Andrew Dadwell stayed at the front until the third Silverstone test when Jamie Turner/Graham Dance took charge. The two crews swapped the lead over the next four tests. At the very slippery Morkery Wood it was Carl Hawkins/Iain Tullie who took their turn at leading; they had had a bad start to the day, sliding into a tyre barrier at Finmere. They then made a major effort over the next few tests, finding the longer open tests more to their liking and they held first place through Morkery and Twyford Woods.

Owen Turner then got back in front on the first run thorough Woolaton Park, a position he and Dadswell were to retain until the overnight halt. However things weren’t as rosy as they might have seemed, the Metro’s gearbox had started to make ominous noises and by Chester Glover/Ward were just one second behind.

Andy Rowe/Cat Lund had been within the top five when a rear wheel-bearing problem caused them to miss the Morkery Wood test. Graham Parkinson/Andrew Duerden got their Astra lodged on a bank at Bruntingthorpe, they lost five minutes and held up Garry Preston/Mike Sones and John Cotton/Jill Cotton in the process. The Cottons still managed to hold seventh place at Chester.

James Tyson/Neil Harrison and Iain Freestone/Nick Kennedy were both lying inside the top ten when their cars failed them – Tyson with electrical failure and Freestone with a broken gearbox.

Kevin Wilson/Paul Gaunt had been amongst the pre-event favourites, however they only got as far as Silverstone before a ball joint pulled out on their AX. They fitted a new drive shaft and cut to Chester, but their rally ended with transmission failure early on Saturday morning.

Leg 3 – Chester to Newport

For the first two days crews had run in the order that their entries had been received, for the third leg they were re-seeded according to their positions at lunchtime on Day Two. Due to an erroneous penalty Glover/Ward had been in 70th place on the set of results used for the re-seeding. The mistake was rectified but by that time the starting positions for Day Three had been determined and the pair were to run well down the field.

Wales had been hit by heavy snow on Thursday night and then a hard frost on Friday, this meant that conditions in the Llandegla, Ceri and Radnor Forests were decidedly difficult. Crews were faced with fifteen selectifs during the day, ending with a long run through Caerwent.

The first test of the day, Llandegla, was to be decisive. Later runners obviously had an easier time through the wood, with all top ten times for the selectif coming from crews running in the second half of the field. Glover/Ward, 70th on the road, took full advantage, they secured the fastest time of all, twenty seconds ahead of anyone else and, more importantly, two minutes up on Owen Turner and a minute faster than Jamie Turner.

However the Kings Lynn pairing were unaware of their position and kept up the pace, beating the test bogey at Radnor and Ceri, where once again later runners had the advantage. They had a three minute lead by the lunch halt and maintained that margin for the rest of the day, even though running later on the road was a handicap in the afternoon as the frost returned.

At the front of the field the crews were left guessing as to how Glover/Ward were getting along. However it was immaterial to Owen Turner, the gearbox on his Metro finally failed on Radnor, a broken bearing allowing the oil to drain out. They missed the rest of day while affecting a repair and returned for Day Four.

Hawkins/Tullie had established themselves in second, this was despite the fact that running on 14 inch wheels they didn’t have the option of running on narrow tyres on the icy forests. Matt Fowle/Peter Joy were on 13 inch wheels and changed tyres in time to tackle Ceri, Jamie Turner/Graham Dance did the same for Radnor.

By the end of the day Hawkins/Tullie were three minutes behind Glover/Ward, but a minute ahead of Turner/Dance, who in turn were three in front of Fowle/Joy, the latter being the leaders in the 1300cc class.

There had been in close battle for the lead of the 1000cc class. Jane Edington/Gary Edington and Colin Bound/Shaun O’Gorman had swapped the lead a number of times, before Edington hit a log and broke a shaft in Athelston’s Wood, she had to miss out the Chepstow test before repairs allowed her to tackle Caerwent, but any chance of a class win had been lost.

Caerwent saw John Cotton/Gill Cotton take a maximum after a drive shaft broke, however the Banhams service team were able to replace the item and they survived to tackle Day Four.

Leg 4 – Newport to Llandudno

The final day proved to be the sting in the tail, crews had to contend with an icy return to Caerwent and then frozen snow at Halfway and over Epynt, even some of the road sections were a challenge. To a certain extent the event was more reminiscent of a 1950s Monte rather than the RAC. One corner at the Mid Wales Activity Centre caused particular problems with virtually every crew that tackled the test hitting the Armco; the test was eventually stopped.

As in 2004, there was to be a dramatic final day to the Revival. Due to the problems with the road timing the organisers had been forced to issue amendments to the time schdule throughout the event, a new schedule for Day Four was issued at Newport. Glover/Ward were to fall foul of the change.

Having maintained their comfortable lead through the first four tests of the day, they left the Brecon Time Control at the original planned time, this was in fact 18 minutes early, they thus incurred a 36 minute penalty and dropped out of the top ten. It’s unlikely that this incident actually lost them the win, they drowned out in the ford at Sweet Lamb, losing two minutes. Combined with other times, it seems that they would have finished second.

The battle for the lead was now between Hawkins/Tullie and Turner/Dance. They were separated by a minute at the start of the day and this margin was maintain until the eighth test, when Turner pulled 30 seconds back, on the next test he was in the lead. Hawkins wasn’t beaten yet though and re-took first place on the Sweet Lamb selectif, but it was for only one test, Turner took the top spot back on the very next test. The gap was just 15 seconds when they entered Legends Park, Hawkins was charging, perhaps a little too hard, during the test a hard landing cracked the sump on his Corsa and he was out.

Turner/Dance survived the remaining two tests to take the win, finishing ten minutes ahead of Fowle/Joy. The 2004 winners were fortunate to finish as their 106's head gasket failed on the final test.

Ninety-four crews made it to the Finish, of these only a dozen had managed to complete the whole route without either missing at least one selectif or taking a test maximum.

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OVERALL RESULTS

	Pos	Driver	Navigator	Car	Penalty
	1	Jamie Turner	Graham Dance	Rover Metro	5h 21m 10s
	2	Matt Fowle	Peter Joy	Peugeot 106 Rallye	5h 30m 48s
	3	Mike Biss	Cath Woodman	Vauxhall Corsa	5h 37m 42s
	4	Steve Pashley	Richard Pashley	Vauxhall Corsa Sport	5h 40m 57s
	5	Duncan Williams	Nick Darkin	Peugeot 106 XSi	5h 41m 38s
	6	Graham Parkinson	Andrew Duerden	Vauxhall Astra	5h 43m 10s
	7	Dave Smith	Pete Johnson	Vauxhall Astra	5h 45m 24s
	8	Ray Gravestock	Tim Ball	Vauxhall Nova SRi	5h 46m 10s
	9	Paul Heal	Mathew Heal	MG ZR	5h 47m 55s
	10	Keith Farrance	Dick Lines	Peugeot 106 Rallye	5h 49m 29s
	11	Colin Bound	Shaun O’Gorman	Nissan Micra	5h 50m 04s
	12	Freddy Camp	Stuart Wood	Ford Puma	5h 50m 55s
	13	Robert Evett	Paul White	Vauxhall Nova	5h 52m 14s
	14	Andrew Actman	Paul Draycott	Daihatsu Sirion	5h 53m 49s
	15	Nigel Green	Emmett O’Duffy	MG ZR	5h 53m 50s
	16	Nick Pollitt	Andrew Lees	Peugeot 106 XSi	5h 54m 33s
	17	Andrew Smith	Alan Hill	Peugeot 106 XSi	5h 54m 52s
	18	Paul Cunningham	Lisa Roberts	MG ZR	5h 56m 57s
	19	John Cotton	Gill Cotton	Citroen AX GTi	5h 56m 58s
	20	Stephen Sawley	Rob Johnson	Peugeot 106 Rallye	5h 57m 36s
	21	Dale Glover	Sean Ward	Vauxhall Nova SR	6h 00m 06s
	22	Martin Flight	Paul Lewis	VW Polo	6h 00m 23s
	23	Richard Sandilands	Jon Sandilands	Nissan Micra	6h 01m 54s
	24	Garry Preston	Mike Sones	Vauxhall Nova	6h 03m 06s
	25	David Lomax	Nigel Long	Peugeot 106 Rallye	6h 07m 35s
	26	Nick Payne	Anthony Preston	Ford Fiesta	6h 08m 05s
	27	Peter Barker	Willy Cave	Rover Mini Cooper	6h 09m 57s
	28	Karen Young	Nigel Young	Perodua Kelisa	6h 11m 00s
	29	Andy Rowe	Cat Lund	Peugeot 205 Rallye	6h 12m 25s
	30	Peter Morgan	James Savage	Suzuki Swift GTi	6h 14m 41s
	31	Steven Powell	Alan Thomas	VW Polo	6h 16m 22s
	32	Rob Reynolds	David Coles	Peugeot 106 Rallye	6h 16m 26s
	33	Martin Kernahan	Bill Hitchcock	MG ZR 105	6h 16m 31s
	34	Christian Vaughan	Stuart Leach	Peugeot 205 Rallye	6h 16m 31s
	35	Alan Pettit	Alex Back	Rover Metro GTi	6h 19m 15s
	36	Alastair Barnes	Simon Ayris	Peugeot 106 XSi	6h 19m 37s
	37	Alan Wakeman	Ian Perry	Citroen AX	6h 20m 57s
	38	James Campbell	Thomas Campbell	Proton Satria	6h 21m 03s
	39	Paul Rowland	John Stanger-Leathes	Citroen AX GT	6h 21m 25s
	40	Roger Stevens	Michael Stevens	Seat Arosa	6h 22m 41s
	41	Peter Gregory	Graeme Presswell	Vauxhall Corsa SRi	6h 24m 04s
	42	Marc Tipping	Tony Jolly	VW Polo	6h 24m 50s
	43	Michael Byrom	Jason Byrom	Rover Metro	6h 26m 52s
	44	Alastair Caldwell	Saskia Koning	Peugeot 205 Rallye	6h 29m 29s
	45	Stephen Hodge	Jonathan Soames-Waring	Vauxhall Corsa	6h 30m 46s
	46	Mark Banham	Paul Haylock	Suzuki Ignis	6h 30m 47s
	47	Ian Jones	David Jones	Vauxhall Corsa SRi	6h 32m 19s
	48	Andy Bown	Michael Knott	Peugeot 106 XSi	6h 39m 40s
	49	Terry Douce	Philip Douce	Vauxhall Nova	6h 41m 33s
	50	Matthew Endean	Jon Taylor	Fiat Uno Start	6h 43m 52s
	51	Jeff Orford	David Muir	Proton Satria	6h 50m 01s
	52	Stephen Palmer	Malcolm McFall	Nissan Micra	6h 56m 06s
	53	Rob Navin	Ian Varney	Nissan Micra	6h 57m 13s
	54	Ted Howles	Mike Gray	MG ZR	6h 58m 24s
	55	Jeremy Hunter	Peter Moss	Citroen AX	7h 02m 23s
	56	John Rees	Wyn Jones	Peugeot 106 Rallye	7h 07m 17s
	57	James Matthews	Matthew Green	Skoda Felicia LXi Plus	7h 08m 31s
	58	Philip Swain	Oliver Swain	Suzuki Swift GTi	7h 10m 22s
	59	Mark Ensoll	John Banks	Mazda 323 LXi	7h 10m 54s
	60	Julian Rhodes	Jonathan Belford	Renault Megane Coupe	7h 14m 12s
	61	Trevor Skinner	Laura Skinner	Nissan Micra	7h 19m 36s
	62	John Flynn	Richard Wise	Citroen AX GT	7h 19m 53s
	63	Ray Johnson-Wood	Tony Brooks	MG ZR	7h 21m 55s
	64	Owen Turner	Andrew Dadswell	Rover Metro	7h 23m 44s
	65	Kim Eaton	Clive Martin	Renault Clio	7h 27m 10s
	66	Charlie Campey	Faye Campey	Peugeot 106 XSi	7h 28m 24s
	67	Nigel Gray	Christine Gray	Vauxhall Corsa Sport	7h 29m 01s
	68	Jerry Flint	Paul Flint	Rover 25	7h 30m 11s
	69	Andrew Beaumont	Roger Waters	Peugeot 205 XS	7h 39m 01s
	70	Oliver Chappell	Dennis Watts	Peugeot 205 XR	7h 43m 51s
	71	Robert Stein-Rostaing	Gordon McCree	Peugeot 106 Rallye	7h 45m 04s
	72	Stuart Cariss	Linda Cariss	Ford Escort Sport	7h 50m 33s
	73	James Parman	Mark Hamilton	Skoda Favorit	7h 51m 54s
	74	Andy Glossop	Chris Taylor	Ford Puma	7h 51m 56s
	75	Richard Dipple	Bob Dipple	Peugeot 106 XSi	7h 59m 27s
	76	Roger Stanford	Paul Train	Skoda Felicia	8h 03m 28s
	77	Robert Belcher	Robert Francis	VW Polo	8h 03m 52s
	78	Steven McIlroy	Stephen Woodward	Peugeot 106 Rallye	8h 08m 42s
	79	Ann Weir	Brian Weir	Skoda Felicia	8h 13m 39s
	80	Mike Hall	Andy Hall	Vauxhall Astra	8h 15m 13s
	81	Geoff Lobb	Chris Holliday	Vauxhall Corsa	8h 18m 51s
	82	Jeremy Coulter	Angus Watt	Seat Ibiza	8h 19m 10s
	83	Andy Griffiths	Richard Warren	Peugeot 106 XSi	8h 24m 48s
	84	Clare Rhodes	Fiona Leggate	MG ZR	8h 25m 16s
	85	Clive Alcock	Bob Hargreaves	Peugeot 205 Rallye	8h 27m 01s
	86	Jane Eddington	Gary Eddington	Citroen AX	8h 30m 28s
	87	Doug Brown	Robert Ellis	Vauxhall Nova SR	8h 31m 15s
	88	Peter Engel	Emmerson Engel	Vauxhall Nova SR	8h 48m 30s
	89	Simon Banham	Craig Grist	Citroen AX GTi	8h 50m 30s
	90	Martyn Baker	Mark Johnson	Citroen AX GTi	8h 55m 18s
	91	Neil Wilson	Tony Davies	Ford Puma	9h 01m 15s
	92	Martin Holdsworth	Richard Mellor	Peugeot 205	9h 16m 29s
	93	Alan Shrimpton	Richard Briddon	Peugeot 106 Rallye	13h 21m 11s
	94	Nicky Porter	Colin Francis	Mitsubishi Spacestar	15h 39m 34s

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