Crossborder Rally 1993

Barum Rally 1994

The event started from Taunton Deane services, where 13 teams of 3 crews gathered. The cars entered reflected the range of vehicles on the road rally scene today, ranging from Andy Juniper and Andy Watson's Ford Orion (which was to break a driveshaft on the way home having survived a 'straight on at T') to the immaculate Escort of Gareth Lloyd & Ryland Jones (which was to be found dripping oil in the finish car park).

The route promised 180 miles of West Country lanes. As usual for ASWMC events there was a bare minimum of link/neutral/transport sections with a total 'standard' mileage of about 170! Into these 170 mile the organisers had placed 76 controls (ie one about every 2-3 miles!) splitting the sections into Regularity and Standard. With a lot of the route regularity crews had to be careful to avoid Fails for stopping within sight of a control, and some crews were also penalised for not having their codeboards correctly signed off !

To test the navigators Bob Davis had devised one of the most time consuming sets of route instructions imaginable. Nothing was particularly difficult (bar the usual 'don't go vias' and circular herringbone) but there was so much to plot that the navigators were hard pressed to find the end of the sections before the drivers did! The navigators however took this in their stride as witnessed by the winners score of 35 minutes.

Doug Kingsley & PRAR sportingly stopped to retrieve Mick Smith's Sunbeam from a stream where he had parked it. They were somewhat miffed later when Mick did the job properly and planted it into a hedge, halfway between the road and the field 10' lower! Quote from breakfast: "Should have left them in the stream!". Doug/PRAR were lucky to avoid a similar incident after Doug's cavalier shed all its brake fluid into the rear drums. They completed the last 10 miles with no brakes at all due to the fluid rendering the hand brake inoperative. They were just able to avoid OTL and finished 10th O/A.

Other cars in trouble included the TVR of John Upham (Broken throttle cable) and Dean Taylor, the 205 of Mark Wagstaff & John Chadwick which arrived at the finish with a modified front wing (the same one they had 'adjusted' with a tree on the Cascade earlier in the year!). Mike Biss found that the extra 6" that his estate has over the standard Sierra lead to an expensive corner smashing exercise. His hand brake turn was otherwise faultless! Marshall Allen & Drew Todd over from Ireland in the big Triumph struggled on with a broken shock absorber mount. Their press on regardless style helped ANICC to net 3rd overall (after a recount).

Eventually, battle scarred and weary, the crews arrived at the Post House Hotel, where the best breakfasts of the year were served. Even though the majority of crews could be classified as Masters the results still took some calculation (with some scores looking more like cricket scored). Eventually John Quenby was wheeled out to present the awards, prior to dashing off to see more carnage at Donnington Park and he paid tribute to the results of the winners in light of the severity of the route.

With the team competition decided on the total score of the three cars entered these retirements left the teams somewhat depleted - notably the ASWMC and ACSMC had two crews in the top ten and one retirement!

PRAR

Final Results:

Team Positions:

  Team          Fails Minutes 

1 AEMC           7      376
2 LCAMC         14      433
3 ANICC         14      599
4 AWMMC         15      354
5 EMAMC         18      293
6 ANEMMC A      20      335
7 ANEMMC B      45      669

Overall Positions:

   Driver/Navigator                 Team       Fails Min

 1 Barry Luxton/Phil Luxton         ASWMC A          35
 2 Derek Drayton/Paul Waterton      ASWMC A          39
 3 Gavin Rodgers/Adrew Bargery      AEMC             48
 4 Graeme Presswell/Pete Tilling    LCAMC            54
 5 Pete Cattle/David Campbell       ANEMMC A         88
 6 Alan McGann/Philip Murray        ANICC           130
 7 Terry Schraider/Chas Davies      ACSMC A      1   53
 8 Mike Biss/Cath Woodman           LCAMC        1   82
 9 Andy Watson/Andy Juniper         ACSMC A      1   85
10 Doug Kingsley/PRAR               ACSMC B      1  105
11 Mike Monaghan/Robert Duck        ANEMMC A     2   60
12 Steve Pashley/Richard Pashley    EMAMC        2   87
13 Laurie Hole/Tom Jefferis         ASWMC C      2   93
14 Paul Sharp/Richard Dix           AEMC         2  117
15 Mike Bowler/Peter Davies         AWMMC        2  120
16 Martin Payne/Brian Stott         EMAMC        3   50
17 Robert Jamison/Ivor Copeland     ANICC        3  177
18 Sean Kukula/Graham Ford          AWMMC        5   69
19 Tony Micheal/Paul Barrett        AEMC         5  211
20 Chris Beer/Adrian Beer           ASWMC B      6  154
21 Barry Williams/Paul Goffron      ASWMC C      6  256
22 Steven Webster/Alex Holt         ANEMMC B     7  132
23 Martyn Harris/Martin Saunders    AWMMC        8  165
24 Gareth Lloyd/Ryland James        WAMC         9  240
25 Marshall Allen/Drew Todd         ANICC       11  292
26 John Upham/Dean Taylor           ACSMC B     12  109
27 Mark Wagstaff/John Chadwick      EMAMC       13  156
28 Malcolm Barber/Brian Chamberlain LCAMC       13  297
29 Barbara Carter/Calvin Fenwick    ASWMC C     14  251
30 ?? Oliver/?? Collins             ANEMMC B    15  193
31 Lee Mathews/Duncan Littler       WAMC        16  341
32 Paul Davis/John Pickavance       ANEMMC A    18  187
33 Phil Foster/Aggie Foster         ANEMMC B    23  344