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Three Swans Rally 2003

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Selby & District Motor Club

23rd/24th August 2003

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Andy Beaumont/Mike Petch achieved their first rally win by taking victory on the Three Swans Rally in Yorkshire.

The event, a round of both the ANCC and ANEMMC Championships, used a 120 mile route, with less than a mile of unsurfaced tracks. Despite running on a Bank Holiday weekend, the rally attracted 27 starters, of whom, 24 made the Finish.

Plot 'n bash navigation was used throughout. A number of different route instructions were used, including grid lines, tracings and herring bones. This proved popular with Expert crews, although the Novices seemed to struggle.

All crews dropped time at STC3; this section used the lanes between Barlow and Selby, including a run alongside the River Ouse. Four crews finished the first time card with just a one minute penalty, all picked up the penalty at STC3. The cars were Beaumont/Petch, Graham Nunn/Paul Nelson (Peugeot 205 GTi), Malcolm Holdsworth/Richard Holdsworth (Toyota Corolla) and Adrian Green/Mick Fern (Seat Ibiza).

Jon Lawson/Chris Pringle (Subaru Legacy) dropped two minutes at STC3. However they added five minutes to their total when they missed to pick up the code board at PC13. This meant that they ended up in seventh place at the Finish, although they were the fastest team through the tie-breaker section on Time Card 2. Despite this result, Lawson still led the ANCC Drivers' Championship.

Sandie Taylor/Paul Taylor (Peugeot 205 GTi) failed to make it to the end of the first time. There were two other retirements duirng the night. Mark Casey/Glyn Casey (Vauxhall Nova) went out when a fuel pump inlet pipe cracked and Jonathan Byard/Glyn Byard (Peugeot 205) lost all of their car's brake fluid.

The second time card included the tie breaker, where the seconds lost were only referred to if there was a tie from the timed-to-the-minute sections. It used a series of lanes to the north-west of Bugthorpe and navigation was by a herring bone. Of the four leaders, Beaumont/Petch were quickest here.

By the Finish this became immaterial as Beaumont/Petch dropped just one more minute on the third card, this was at STC25, on a section across Yearsley Moor and past Newburgh Priory. This separated them from their rivals, without recourse to the tie-breaker. They arrived back at Selby to claim their maiden rally victory.

Ade Green/Mick Fern were two minutes late at STC25 and then dropped a further minute on the herring bone defined run to STC29. Thus they finished with a total of four minutes and the runner up spot.

Malcolm Holdsworth/Richard Holdsworth added five minutes to their total on Card Three. This meant that they finished on six minutes, the same as Stan Featherstone/Mike Ogram, who were the only crew to clean Card Three, and John Haden/Roger Hage. The tie-breaker separated these three in the order Haden, Featherstone and Holdsworth.

The top seeds Jamie Gratton-Smith/Richard Hage had a miserable night, they were 26 minutes late at STC25 after a massive wrong slot.

John Ross/Oliver Ross (Subaru Impreza) were the clear winners in the Novice Class, finishing in eighth place overall.

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OVERALL RESULTS

	Pos	Driver	Navigator	Car	Penalty
	1	Andy Beaumont	Mike Petch	Proton Satria	2m 29s
	2	Adrian Green	Mick Fern	Seat Ibiza	4m 43s
	3	John Haden	Roger Hage	Subaru Impreza Estate	6m 33s
	4	Stan Featherstone	Mike Ogram	Ford Sierra	6m 35s
	5	Malcolm Holdsworth	Richard Holdsworth	Toyota Corolla	6m 45s
	6	David Williams	Richard Booth	Renault Clio	9m 00s
	7	Jon Lawson	Chris Pringle	Subaru Legacy	11m 04s
	8	John Ross	Oliver Ross	Subaru Impreza	11m 06s
	9	Andy Whittaker	Charlie Tynan	Peugeot 205 GTi	13m 01s
	10	Graham Nunn	Paul Nelson	Peugeot 205 GTi	13m 55s
	11	David Howell	Steve Taylor	Opel Manta	15m 00s
	12	David Chapman	David Wilson	Peugeot 205 GTi	16m 22s
	13	Bill Chadwick	Alan Edwards	Peugeot 205 GTi	17m 22s
	14	Trevor Faulkner	Chris Faulkner	Ford Orion	24m 40s
	15	Guy Waddington	Dave Hemmingway	Renault Clio	25m 28s
	16	Bernie Watkins	Adam Roper	Vauxhall Cavalier	29m 11s
	17	Paul Metcalfe	Stuart Wright	Mini Sprite	33m 48s
	18	Simon Tate	Richard Wilson	Opel Manta	38m 58s
	19	James Carter	Jonathan Stockdale	Ford Escort	42m 25s
	20	Jamie Gratton-Smith	Richard Hage	Peugeot 309 GTi	49m 42s
	21	Robert Pilcher	Dick Wardle	Lotus Cortina	1F 24m 08s
	22	Frank Evans	Dan Spittlehouse	Toyota Corolla GT	1F 41m 04s
	23	Lee Curtis	Roger Stoneley	Vauxhall Astra	5F 103m 20s
	24	Antony Baren	Gareth Frank	Peugeot 205 GTi	7F 62m 04s

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