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Borders Trek for De Lacy Crew. Starting tomorrow for one day, crews will be tackling the classic roads in and around Duns in the Scottish Borders on the Jim Clark Reivers Rally, [ run in conjunction with the National Rally]. Amongst a large field of competitors will be Jake Briggs co-driven by Harry Walshaw, in the seeded at 112 beautifully turned out and prepared Ford Escort MKII. We all wish them well and a safe return. Follow the event live on Special Stage live on Facebook and via the official website here.

All the live results for the Reivers Rally 2023 will be available here.

Heritage Run returns next week! Come along next Sunday 4th June and see the cars assemble for this the first post pandemic run, so join us for breakfast at the Sherburn Aero Club. [///brightens.visa.swung]

Started in the 50th anniversary year of De Lacy Motor Club moving to its new home at Brotherton [see club history page here], this social run continues to be a firm favourite of our Club Members and the local branch of the Triumph Stag owner's Club. The first event was run in 2014 and this will be the 7th edition. Once again it promises a pleasant social drive through the North Yorkshire Countryside, with built in refreshment stops along the way. Our thanks go to Mike Brownlow for organising once again this year.

For all the information about De Lacy Motor Club's Heritage Run go to the event page here.

Long trek south for our two youngest competitors, Saturday saw Corey Powell Jones and Harry Walshaw make their inaugural appearance as co drivers on the MGJ Engineering Brands Hatch Winter Stages. Both of them riding in the "silly seat" of a Mitsubishi EVO; Corey sitting alongside Ian Jarvis and Harry sitting in with Tony Davis. The 2023 event offered up to eight stages with approximately 45 sealed surface stage miles, with a short length of unsealed surface per stage. It will ran in a similar format to previous years making the most of the circuit and paddock areas available as well as the short circuit. Unfortunately both teams didn't complete the day with just Ian and Corey making it into the results which you can find here. Well done to both teams and its great to see the youngsters having such a good time, keep it up boys.

Obituary: Ken Block 1967 - 2023 - The motorsport world was shocked last week by the sudden death of Ken Block in a freak tragic snowmobile accident. Ken was with a group of friends, when he separated from them. It is believed that the snowmobile which he was piloting flipped over, trapping him underneath. By the time anyone reached him he had sadly passed away. He will be badly missed, being due to take part in a number of WRC rounds in 2023. Ken was always prepared to push the boundaries of what appeared possible in a car, in particular if you've not seen it then visit you tube and search for his electric Audi run in Las Vegas. Visit this link here to get a taste of his fantastic driving ability.

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In the latest issue of the StreetCar newsletter, we speak to Liona Theobald about her journey from AutoSOLOs to Ginetta, we head to Snetterton for a Taster Tarmac Autotest, and we team up with The Intercooler to put the brand new Kia EV6 GT through its paces.

If we don't see you at an event before the end of the year, wishing you and your loved ones a merry Christmas and a happy new year.

Kind regards,

The StreetCar Team

ANCC have kindly passed this invite to compete on the 2023 East Riding Stages Please read:

" Your invitation, for your members to compete in The Reed Group ERSR 2023.

On 26th February 2023, Beverley & District Motor Club are again holding an Interclub Permit, Closed Road Special Stages Rally.

‘The Reed Group East Riding Stages Rally 2023’ will held under the General Regulations of Motorsport UK (incorporating the provisions of the International Sporting Code of the FIA).

There will be a maximum of 140 cars taking part in the event.

The ceremonial start will be at ‘The Saturday Market’ Beverley Market Place, Beverley. The event will be using approximately 82 miles of road sections with approximately 48 Stage Miles on Closed Public Roads comprising of four stages, all of which will be run twice. Regulations will be available online on Christmas day, Entries will open the first week in January 2023.

Motorsport UK. Permit Number: 126896

De Lacy Crews have a busy weekend: -

Well a cracking weekend at Cadwell Park in the JBB Motorsport MK2 Escort it was a very enjoyable day sat with Jake Briggs who peddled the car very well after a while out since his last rally at Leconfield earlier this year he was on it straight out the blocks and found a nice pace to work with, a big thank you to Barry Briggs for building, prepping and servicing the car that never put a foot wrong all day which is a testament to Baz’s preparation, I‘d also like to thank Mark Dowker for putting a shift in on the jokes from start to finish as well as servicing for us and also thanks to Papa Sanchez for helping out.

Thanks to everybody who came and supported us I hope you all enjoyed your day and that we put on a good show for you all.
Full event results available here.

NIGHT BEAVER AN EXPLORATION OF MAP 101 - Featuring Ken Quinn, Arthur Heaton and the bright yellow Yaris.

So, our favourite road rally has reappeared, the first one I ever drove on some 30 years ago, the Beaver, organised very well by Beverly & District motor club. Ken has a long history on this event as well.

The start venue was at the North Yorkshire Water Park, Wykeham, a great venue, where the coffee was fresh was really good with waitress service and spotless-even the loos!

Of course, we were first in the scrutineering queue, so Mark gave us yellow tape for earth lead, and pointed out a couple of things that needed sorting before the next event.

One of these was a very salient one about how the shoulder straps should be mounted to the cage, (there apparently has been a recent bulletin about this).

The event format was plot and bash to petrol, and then pre plot.

There was a lot of hanging about and catching up to do before the briefing and our MTC at 23.14, when we had an hour to do the pre-plot in a nice warm cafe.

MTC1 brought us a hand out to STC8, with plenty of time to plot on run to NTC2, which took us up the white, south of Staxton, (it was rough as an Ursine Stern*). We took it steady and got caught be our minute man, passed a stricken Darren Moon ,whose engine had gone “big bang” It was then that we realised we had a problem, which turned out to a slow puncture. We dropped at least 12 minutes keeping some air in it before we changed it at petrol!

The route after used the usual mixture of out of order Grid lines, spot heights, grid squares (with avoids), and simple herringbones most of which could be plotted on the move.

There were of course a few NAMs and code boards on SGWs. We wended our way westwards, passing through Foxholes, turning south near Sherburn to the bottom of the map, before heading north east and south again to The Kilham. Thence in the general direction of Hunmanby including a slippy slot left near Burton Agnes.

After petrol, the pre plot took us north into Wykeham Forest, then up Troutsdale, (that would make a good tarmac stage),a loop around Harwood Dale and to Scalby. I nearly had to walk home from here as a misplot didn't take us around a triangle, but thankfully Ken spotted the control, so we looped round and still cleaned the section!

The sting in the tail took us through part of the old Wykeham East stage and back to an excellent breakfast where we found we missed second in class by 14 seconds! What could have been! My navigation was bit hesitant due to rust, and the puncture didn't help, but wouldn't have missed the rally for anything!

[*Editor Note: - basically as rough as a Bear's rear end!]
Please note that our regular road rally crew Mark Jones and Corey Powell Jones finished the event 14th overall

StreetCar arrives at DeLacy: -De Lacy Motor Club are proud to announce that after hard work by our Motorsport committee, we have been accepted into the MSUK StreetCar initiative. This means that we will now be marketing ourselves as a StreetCar recognised club on all our correspondence. This initiative has been designed to encourage more people into Motorsport, who might not have the resources to participate other than with their own cars.
We will be promoting this through the local press as well as by our various social media feeds. We hope to attract more new members.

Most race wins in a row: Just shortly after being crowned as the F1 World Champion for the second consecutive year, Max Verstappen claimed his 14th race win of the season. This surpasses a record previously held b y the Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel. His first place in Mexico also takes him past Lewis Hamilton's record points tally in a season set back in 2019. This win set against the ongoing saga of Red Bull being penalised for the first ever cost capping in F1. Part of the penalty for next season is the team's inability to use wind tunnel facilities to aid car development for next season.

Obituary John Forrest: British Rallying lost proud Yorkshireman and Bradford car dealer John Forrest on 10th October aged 88.
John and his brother Jeff ran a well-known family car dealership, Forrest Motors in Bradford for many years which was often frequented by rally enthusiasts from all over the county. John was a very competitive driver in the late 60s and 70s and rallied various Ford Cortinas and Escorts, often winning his class on local rallies, as did his brother. He won two rallies as a driver, the 1965 Shipley and District Ondura Rally and also the tough Moss Tyres Rally in 1968 organised by York Motor Club. John also competed in Autocross and once had to race his brother. The pair were neck and neck, neither willing to give any space to the other. Eventually John kept the inside line around one tricky bend and Jeff on the outside found the negative camber too tricky and rolled several times leaving John to win the race.

John regularly had battles with Colin ‘Mad Dan’ Grewer, the pairing becoming great friends and ended up competing together on national and international rallies with John in the co-driver’s seat. Their best result together was probably the 1976 Firestone Rally in Spain when the pair finished an incredible 7th overall in an ex-works Opel Ascona.
John’s co-driving skills were regularly in demand. He once told the story of Porsche dealer Jack Tordoff phoning him on the Friday asking if he would like to join Jack in Spain to compete on the Firestone Rally on the Saturday. They took a last-minute flight over and finished the rally 8th overall in a completely standard Porsche 911 Carerra RS demonstrator.
John’s connections in the trade led to him becoming good friends with many other car dealers including Toyota specialist, John Midgely and the pairing enjoyed many fine national and international results in the 1970s together. John also co-drove for Nottinghamshire rallycross legend and occasional rally driver, Jumping Jeff Williamson in various cars and enjoyed taking a class win in Gp1 on the ‘76 Lombard RAC Rally using a Hillman Avenger. Another car dealer, Phil Shaw also asked John to accompany him on various national events in his BDA Escort.
Although John loved driving rear wheel drive cars in rallies, he was delighted when Phil Cooper offered him a free entry on a rally in Norway, when Phil had to withdraw the last minute. John had the pleasure of using the very rare and famous ex works World Cup Rally Mini Clubman which he brought home in one piece much to Phil’s relief.
John and his late wife Rene were very proud of their four sons, Michael, Jonathan, Andrew and Jamie, who all competed at one time or another, and John even co-drove for two of them. He never lost his passion for motor sport competing into his 80s. He belonged to Shipley Motor Club and was President for a period and had also belonged to Airedale and Pennine Motor Club and latterly Ilkley and District Motor Club.
John was a very kind, generous and modest person always willing to help people. He was a great story teller and had a wonderful, cheeky sense of humour.
His funeral will be held on Thursday 27 October at Nabwood Crematorium, BD18 4BG and the wake will be at Bingley St Ives Golf Club, BD16 1AT. Family flowers only, but if you would like to donate then the family are raising funds for the Calder Rally Rescue Unit which is self-funded; you can donate here.

The Fuchs Lubricants British Historic Rally Championship will crown its 2022 champions at this weekend’s Carlisle Stages Rally [22 October].

After five action-packed rounds of the season so far, the coveted title will be decided over six stages in the English and Scottish Borders as Kielder Forest hosts the thrilling concluding chapter of the year.
It’s been a stellar fight for top honours but just two drivers will be in-line to engrave their name on the BHRC trophy as all eyes will be on the battle between Matt Edwards in his FIAT 131 Abarth and Ford Escort MKII ace Henri Grehan.
Heading into the weekend it’s Grehan in the pound seat as he and co-driver Dan Petrie enjoy a 26-point lead in the series. However, with dropped scores and bonus points for starting to be factored in, there is still a chance for Edwards to make history with a back-to-back BRC and BHRC crown.
Simply put, Edwards and co-driver Hamish Campbell must win in Carlisle regardless. But if Grehan finishes fourth or higher, then he will seal the deal. Nail-biting stuff.

Bob Bean and Mike Curry have already sown up the Category One [cars up to 1968] title but will head out in their Lotus Cortina to enjoy the final championship round of the season. In the FIA Category K class, Rudi Lancaster will likely seal the crown without even attending, as nearest challenger Simon Crook has yet to place an entry for the weekend.
For more information on any of the Championships promoted by the RACMRC, please visit:
www.racrmc.org

Round three De Lacy Motor Club 12 Car Winter Challenge: Continuing the ongoing 2022/23 12 car series, round three started from the Clubhouse on Friday 14th October and once again utilised a series of misleading yellows on Maps 105 and 111. This event , put together by Corey Powell Jones and Mark Jones, had an entry of 8 cars due to some crews attending the Rally of Mull. The run out to STC1 from the Clubhouse through Knottingley had crews playing catch up frown the very beginning after wrong slotting down a misleading white. Eventually all cars made the first set of time controls within their permitted lateness. After a series of sections timed to the second around Womersley, cars were slowed considerably by the fiendish use of code boards and their locations. A few cars were caught out after one code board close to Balne and ended up arriving WD at a secret control, with many sitting and scratching their heads as to where they had gone awry. After a couple of hours of tricky navigation and tight timing all surviving crews returned back to the Clubhouse where the father and son duo of Roger Burkhill (Driving) and Adam Burkhill (Navigating) came out the winners with the De Lacy crew of Allan Norton, being navigated around by his daughter Clare, in the absence of his regular co driver, coming home in second place. Full results and up to date points table can be found here. Next round 25th November

Marshals Required

North Humberside Cadwell Stages Rally 20^th November 2022

Planning is well underway for our Cadwell event on the 20^th November.

We will be looking for marshals in all disciplines to help us run the event safely.

We would be especially grateful if anybody would like to help in the running of the event, particularly in being part of the stage set up teams. Any volunteers would be placed with experienced set up crews.

We would also welcome people willing to shadow officials on the event to help and learn for future events.

If you are available to marshal, or are interested in helping in other roles, please contact John Newlove or Carl Thompson marshals@NHMCCadwellStages.org.uk

To keep updated with the event please visit https://www.nhmccadwellstages.org.uk/index.shtml

Event dates announced for 2022/23 Season: After many recent meetings at which the recently formed Motorsport sub committee discussed the 2022 / 23 season, they are pleased to announce that the following events are planned for the end of 2022 and into 2023. The winter twelve car series will come to a conclusion in December, then the 2023 championship will start again in January, we have enrolled some new organisers for the remaining fixtures and into the New Year

Additionally, the Club have agreed that they will be organising at least one single venue rally during 2023., with a longer half night road rally in the first half of 2023, the date of which we aim to announce shortly.

These events come in addition to those which we already organise;, such as the Targa Rally, which is likely to run in June. The Heritage Run which has been a fixture since 2013, will return but in a slightly changed format open to other motor clubs and driving groups with as date yet to be decided.

The Cub Committee believe that they have put an attractive list of events together for you to participate in.

Also watch out for an announcement about a Club Open Day/ Auto Jumble hopefully this year if we can get the Clubhouse and the car park looking ship shape - a request for help in this will be going out soon. The twelve car dates are below;

Last three remaining rounds of 2022: Friday 14th October, Friday 25th November, Friday 16th December

First three rounds of 2023: Friday 13th January, Friday 17th February, Friday 17th March

Half Night Road Rally: April/May 2023 Single Venue Stage Rally: May 2023 or October 2023. Targa Rally: June/July 2023

So, save the dates now . The regulations for the October 12 car will be out soon. We will also require Marshals, so please volunteer when the shout goes out.

Rainworth Skoda Stages 2022 Leconfield; After nearly a 2 month break from rallying it was finally time to go again and I was feeling great after collecting my exam results on the Thursday and enrolling in the course I wanted on Friday without having to re-sit any subjects.

I had my maps printed and was excited to get back out in the BMW with Bob Walker who had now got into the flow and was now more sideways in the corners than when we started! Once again at Leconfield (a venue we both enjoy and would like to return to) we had high hopes of a good finishing position after coming second in class at our last adventure around the base, since which Bob had discovered a broken crank sensor and replacing it increased the power from 160 bhp to 235 bhp.

At the event we would be 1 of 4 crews with De lacy Members being Harry Walshaw who would once again venture out in the 2 litre Escort of Barry and Jake Briggs with Barry driving this time. Andy Walshaw sitting in with the Army rally team who seem to have renamed him "Barbara". The final De Lacy member was Ian “Pip” Coulson with Jonathon Haynes alongside him in the stunning Martini liveried Ford Focus, albeit entered under the Dukeries Club banner.

On the Saturday of the event we were up packing the van ready to go meet Bob and his other half Collette at the venue for three o'clock and we set up service alongside car 47, the BMW e36 328i of David Moynes and Jonathan Kerr who we had met at the same venue earlier in the year. By half one in the afternoon, we had set off and were well on the way to Leconfield and I could feel the excitement building. Upon arriving at the venue there was once again more soldiers with guns as we collected our passes and entered the venue. We pulled into the trailer park and unloaded the BMW which was once again immaculate thanks to the hard work of Bob and my grandad Mark Jones, we then found a spot in the service park and set up before going to noise test and scrutineering , where we spotted a beautiful 6r4 in the queue! During scrutineering we found out the extinguisher pull had seized so after getting and fitting a replacement from Rob Brooker of Clubman Motorsport, we were ready to go.

As usual it was an early start on Sunday morning, with bacon butties, attending the drivers briefing and getting suited up ready for the rally on our brand-new set of maxsports. We had been seeded 52 and had an arrival time of 9:24 at ATC 1, we arrived on time and were now on the start with 30 seconds to go and I could feel the adrenaline in my veins as I counted 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, ... GO! To which the car responded by throwing me backwards into my seat as we zoomed towards the first corner.

Stage 1 was more of a test to make sure the set up was good and the tyres where grippy, the reversed layout from the previous event created a wonderful flowing circuit and this time we had more launch off the jump than last time and we ended stage 1 in position 34! Stage 2 was a much faster pace on the same layout as we trusted the set up and tyres now and were the quickest of the De Lacy crews, and we finished Stage 2 in position 33. There was then a long break as the layouts were changed and then we were ready to go for

Stage 3.

Stage 3 began really well and we were flying round the stage, but then disaster struck as we suffered a front right puncture and had to pull over and replace it, however we then discovered an issue that the jack wasn't lifting the car high enough to fit the spare on, at this point 3 marshals of what i believe was post 16 (apologies if that's not right as we were between 16 and 18) came to our rescue and we owe them a huge thank you for their help, as they manged to help us lift the car high enough to get the punctured wheel under so we could fit the spare and get to the end, unfortunately by the time we had done this we had to take a stage maximum of 16 minutes which dropped us down to position 58, but at least we were still in the rally!

Once we were back in service we changed the 2 front tyres and set out to prove we had the pace. Jumping back into Stage 4 we were now 5 cars from the back of the pack, but we began to give it our all and started to overtake cars ahead of us and put in every ounce of effort we had, pushing the car to its limit - making the marshals at post 5 flinch as we flew off the big jump and bounced the rear of the car upon landing doing 20 meters down the ramp on our front wheels, making up 2 positions to end at 56!

On Stage 5 we then overtook a further 2 more cars on stage and set a time good enough to match the front runners, making up another 3 positions to end at 53. Unfortunately Stage 6 was cancelled before we got our final run due to a car crashing (I understand the crew were both ok), which was an unfortunate end to the day. However, even with all the drama this was my favourite event so far and I can’t wait to get back out with Bob after the fantastic drive he put in at Leconfield as he really showed what we could do - and we spent more time sideways than forward!

Our thanks go to the hard-working marshals who managed all the stage turnarounds quickly and did a great job all day.

Finally, a big thank you and well done to SHMC for a great event once again at Leconfield.

Corey Powell-Jones

The Fuchs Lubricants British Historic Rally Championship makes a welcome return after the summer break as it heads to the Phil Price Memorial Woodpecker Rally for the first time next weekend [3rd September] .The Ludlow based event will offer crews some of the best forest stages on both sides of the Welsh and English border as fan favourites such as Radnor and Haye Park lie ahead for the one-day gravel blast. With three events down on the BHRC calendar so far in 2022 it’s a fitting event to re-start the season after a three-month break, as Ludlow resident Henri Grehan heads to his home rally in the lead of the hotly contested series. With unrivalled knowledge of the stages used on the Woodpecker, Grehan and co-driver Dan Petrie will be well placed to capitalise on their eight-point advantage in the standings and could well hammer home a maiden BHRC victory on home soil.

For the full press release follow the link here

Motorsport UK and Williams are set to host an Esports Experience at the state-of-the-art Williams Esports Lounge in Wantage on August 6 and 20 2022 with bookings now open.

This unique experience is open to Motorsport UK members and will provide an opportunity to visit the Williams F1 Headquarters, have a tour of the team’s museum, see the professional Esports setup and race against fellow attendees.

Morning and afternoon slots are available to book on both dates, with 20 spaces per session available at a price of £99 per entry.

Click here to reserve your space now.

Twelve car series 2022/23 continues. With two rounds already held this year, the competition sub-committee met recently to discuss the remaining rounds of the 2022/23 twelve car series. The following dates were agreed:

Friday 14th October 2022
Friday 25th November 2022
Friday 16th December 2022
Friday 13th January 2023
Friday 17th February 2023
Friday 17th March 2023

Most of the rounds have organisers, but there are a couple of dates still available if you feel you'd like to have a go. Get these dates in your diaries and keep watching here and also our Facebook page.

Exciting Times lay ahead: At a sub committee meeting on Friday night discussions were held about the future path of the Motorsport side of De Lacy Motor Club.
The group planned out a rough diary of events, which we will publish in full shortly, which outlines future events being planned.

Firstly there is the twelve car series for 2022/23 to finalise, with number of members coming forward to offer their help in organising and running the remaining rounds.
Plans for a half night road rally followed by a full night event.
A single venue rally
The Targa rally

So once again it's a great time to be a member of this Club. We will bring you more details once we have them.

Motorsport UK launches Street car initiative - The all new Street Car initiative launched by our governing body encompasses a number of disciplines, including Autotest, and Rally. We here at De Lacy are approaching MSUK to get hold of the promotional material so that we can promote this alongside our recent upsurge in competition which is set to continue
throughout this year and into 2023. (PS if anyone knows of a landowner who is willing to host a club night autotest then contact the webmaster here).
For further information follow the link here to the article in this months "Revolution" magazine.

Members at it again - DST Leconfield Stages rally review - 1st May, 2022. Corey Powell-Jones and Bob Walker.
This was the second time I’ve had the opportunity to sit in with Bob Walker in his BMW e36 Compact but this time we were stepping into the world of tarmac rallying – a first for both of us as we had decided to find a rally that was mostly tarmac to assess the ideal set up for the BMW as intended by its builder Ricky Crone, and this would guide us in the future for the most suitable rallies to get the most out of the BMW. On arriving at the Leconfield base after going through security (with soldiers with scarily big rifles on the gate!) we unloaded the car and set up the service area, and then straight to noise and scrutineering passing with flying colours, after some last minute checks on the car and bleeding the brakes it was time to relax, chat, food, then early night ready for an early start - for only our second time out we’d been given a surprisingly high seeding number of 27, (which led to a time loss later down the line) and a start time of 9:11 amongst the more experienced cars which was quite daunting. The next morning we were all up and ready by 7 and by then our fellow De Lacey Club members Jake Briggs and Harry Walshaw had also arrived on site to compete in Jake’s Ford Escort.

After the usual last minute prep we headed off for the first stage, while lining up for stage one we experienced a problem with the intercom but that had levelled itself out before we reached the start line and happy it was all ok we set off, however mid-stage the intercom cut out meaning Bob and I had no communication (not a good thing when the driver can’t hear the directions!), added to this was an issue with the tyres we had on which caused us to have 3 close calls – hair-raising stuff!

Despite all the drama we ended the day being placed 2^nd in class and manged to stay facing forward all day – but then it wouldn’t be a rally without a bit of drama would it! Jake and Harry had an amazing finish after being seeded at 63 they ended up 12^th overall – don’t think they’ll be getting that seeding again!

Sorry this report was late being submitted but I’m in the middle of doing my GCSE’s so have been a bit preoccupied the last few weeks and am taking a break while I do them – well until the next rally which will be the Flying Fortress Stages in June (when most of my exams will be over!).

Thank you for reading

Corey Powell-Jones (co-driver car 27)

Targa Rally planning is well underway; This year's Targa rally organising team are paying another visit to the location on 24th April, (three months to the day), to finalise the tests and HQ locations. The Clerk of the Course, David Walmsley says,

"This is the last chance we have to get the route finalised, we intend to try the tests for real on Sunday and to try out the Rally App Live, now that we have decided to use it on the day. We have applied for our permit and things are well on track. The event regulations will be ready for download on May 8th"

Keep watching this news page for more info of the event page itself

Youngsters continue a busy season: De Lacy junior club member Cory Powell Jones with his Grandfather Mark Jones have been in road rallying action during the last couple of months. Additionally Cory has competed on two stage events; Cadwell Park with Harry Walshaw in his Ford Ka and at Melbourne on the Lookout Stages sitting alongside Bob walker. Additionally he also helped out on the last 12 car of the spring section of the 12 car challenge. Please read his reports here.

Members in action again: Its been a busy couple of months for our members taking part in a number of different rallies. On Sunday 13th March Jake Briggs with his dad Barry in the hot seat and Ian Coulson and co driver Jonathon Haynes competed at Donington Park on the Northside Stages. Jake came home 5th in class and 22nd overall. Ian brought his Ford Focus home 13th in class and an overall placing of 47th Overall, a substantial improvement from his seeded start position of 71.

Well done to them all.

Twelve car is go:- the second twelve car of the year is all set for tomorrow, 25th March, with a somewhat disappointing entry of 8 cars. However the weather seems set fair for everyone with a chance of a nip in the air. Signing on and assembly will be at the Admiral Hawke Public house at Boston Spa any time from 6:30PM. The first car will leave MTC1 at 20:01 and will weave its way back to the finish close to the clubhouse at sometime around 22:15. With a route of about 68 miles and some tricky navigation, it appears that all should have a great evening. [Image opposite from February's event]

Harry's Game: With the first ever fully closed road rally in Yorkshire at the weekend it was also the first outing for Harry Walshaw in his lovely little ex Ford KA Challenge car. Fresh from passing his driving test at the first time of asking, Harry, co driven by John Cunningham set out from Cherry Burton on Sunday morning to tackle the 8 special stages of the East Riding Stages running last on the road. Unfortunately the day wasn't going to end how we had all wished it to, with the crew having an altercation with a very large bale, (SS2), which put them into a hedge, right under the window of the commentary box. The impact left John with a slight cut to his nose, but otherwise unscathed. The car had panel damage to the passenger side...its a left hand drive...and a bent steering rack.
Having re-scrutineered back at service, they went out again only to be plagued with an electrical issue which ended up side-lining them for the rest of the event.
Never mind boys, the whole club are behind you and it was a great first attempt at a multi stage rally. See their collision here.

Harry's quest for success: You may remember that recently we mentioned that our other junior member, Harry Walshaw had been successful in securing an entry for the all new closed road event in East Yorkshire, Sunday 27th February. You may also remember that this was reliant upon him passing his driving test. well, we are pleased to report that he managed that first time and is therefore ready to roll in a couple of weeks time. His team have been working hard recently preparing the car. Apart from the decals and a bit of brake fettling the car is ready to go now [see picture opposite]. There are still spaces up for grabs on the "roof of fame" so if you would like to make a donation and buy a space then you can contact the team here. Or alternatively, visit their crowdfunding page here.

They are hoping to bring the car to the clubhouse for people to see prior to the rally, watch this page or our Facebook page for further details.

Good luck Harry and John

New club members take on Welsh Road Rally: The crew of Cory Powell-Jones and his grandfather Mark joined the Club on Friday 4th February and on Saturday 5th February they were competing on the Broughton and Bretton Motor Club Rali Bryniau Clwyd road rally. Cory is a junior member of the club and he is in fact the winner of the the ANWCC novice navigators’ championship in 2021. Please read the report put together by Cory himself, by clicking the button below. The full event results can be found here.

Helping Hand: The Lookout Stages Rally will take place at Melbourne Airfield near York on Sunday 10 April where we aim to run at least 6 stages with a total distance around 45 miles. To minimise the amount of set up changes all stages will be run in the same direction.

As usual we require In Stage and Radio Marshals to run the event.

There will be no spectator access so if you want to be involved please come and Marshal. If you are able to assist us let me know.

We will be using a Sportity channel for Officials. I will circulate the code to Marshals when it becomes active.

Closer to the event I will send out more information and signing on forms for you to complete and bring to the event.

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Regards

Richard

Chief Marshal

Harry Walshaw secures entry on the inaugural East Riding Stages, which is being held on Sunday 27th February 2022. This is the first full closed road special stage rally to be held in Yorkshire and will take in a number of famous road rally roads in the east of the county. Harry is lucky to have secured a place for this event, as all entries were chosen by a random number generator. This has left a number of high profile Yorkshire crews in the reserve list. However just one thing stands in his way at the moment, successfully passing his driving test. Lets all support him in whatever way we can. He will be partnered in the co driver seat by John Cunningham.

Harry is keen to tell the website that there are numerous sponsorship opportunities available to get him underway on his first ever full special stage rally and for the rest of the year.

Forthcoming season and Sponsorship opportunities.

For 2022, Harry and his team have decided to tackle the EMAMC Stage Rally Championship. He will be joined by Russell Thompson who, although only being 14 years of age, already has a wealth of experience on the maps as co driver for his dad on road rallies. [The two of them competed on the DLMC Targa Rally in 2021].

As anyone can appreciate, the cost of tackling a full season of stage rallies can be a drain on resources So far, they have secured a couple of sponsors, whose details will be released once the car is finished ahead of the season start.

Additionally, they are looking for extra sponsorship and Harry has decided to offer a space on his "Roof of Fame" for any individual or company willing to put up £50. Each space on the roof will have the name of the donor in it. There are 50 of these spaces available on the roof of the car and he is pleased to tell us that two have already been sold.

In return for their money a donor will get full access to media coverage, pre event and on the event.

Harry wants to make it known that he will continue to support the Sick Children's Trust, who helped him and the family when he was very ill as a child.

So come on De Lacy, I'm sure we can find the money for at least one roof space.

[East Riding Stages details here and the full entry list for the event can be found here]

New Membership Forms: As a result of the Club renewing its membership with Motorsport UK, they have recommended that all clubs adopt a similar format from now on. The new membership forms were agreed at the Committee meeting on Tuesday evening, but they will need to be agreed at the AGM on the 19th January. The new forms can be found on the Membership pages here. In future all members will need to complete a new form when renewing their membership, but they should ensure that this is clearly shown by striking through the heading as appropriate.

Club rallying news: The competition committee met recently and agreed to move forward with a couple of things of note.
* The Targa Rally will return on Sunday 24th July. The event has a slight change of personnel with David Walmsley taking the reins as Clerk of the Course, due to the ongoing ill health of this year's Clerk. At a recent meeting the sporting committee agreed a number of new posts and committed to the 2022 Rally. There will be a number of new aspects to the 2022 Rally. Following a site visit last week, the committee are excited at the prospect of a new venue, which is dependant upon ongoing negotiations with the landowner. But if this is agreed, it will add an exciting option to the route. The event will still be based in and around Catterick Camp utilising the range roads, but will have new tests and a new HQ, start and finish locations. We look forward to welcoming you to help or compete.

* At the same meeting the committee also agreed to press ahead with two 12 car rallies. The first of these, organised by John Cunningham and Andy Walshaw will take place on Friday 28th January and will start and finish at the Clubhouse, where it is hoped that refreshments will be available to the participants. The route for this has been to the RLO and is ready to move to the next level. The second organised by Paul Williamson and Malcolm Higgins will be held on either, Friday 18th March or Friday 25th March. This one will start away from the Club and finish back there. The route for this has just been submitted. Regulations for both events will be available shortly.

Keep watching these pages for full details of these events.

Champion wins Roger Albert Clark Rally: After 5 days of rallying, which was severely disrupted by Storm Arwen, Ryan Champion and Craig Thorley brought home their beautiful Tuthill Porsche 911 ahead of a field, which at times seemed intent on destroying itself, to be the first non Ford Escort to take the spoils in the 14 event history. The event will go down in history with weather worse than the big freeze of 2010. this year crews had to contend with fallen trees in and snow in the special stages; some of them had to take shelter overnight in a local hostelry when the snow and trees blocked the route back to warmth of Carlisle. One day of the event was lost, whilst organisers rescued spectators and marshals from the stages. A fantastic well done goes to the organising team who once again delivered a first class event against the odds of nature.

Heritage Run is good to go!

After the pandemic and a couple of false starts, the cars entered in the Heritage Run will drive away from Sherburn Aero Club at 1000hrs on Sunday morning for a drive of approximately 90 miles through the North Yorkshire countryside.

Mike Brownlow, the Clerk of the Course told the website that he was completing a final recce of the route today, 30th September ahead of the event on the 3rd October; he said,

"After such a long time away from the calendar I will be glad to see the entrants set off on Sunday. I will have checked the route one last time so that there are no hidden surprises. I just hope that the weather is kind to us"

Final instructions and the entry list can be found on the Heritage Run page, click here.

Enjoy An Evening With Ari Vatanen and David Richards CBE:

Through the long-standing relationship that Motorsport UK has with the Royal Automobile Club it has secured 30 exclusive places for our members to attend a gala evening at the Royal Automobile Club’s historic Pall Mall clubhouse to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Ari Vatanen and David Richards winning their 1981 World Rally Championship for Drivers.

Join Ari and David, who are both great storytellers, for what will be an entertaining insight into their 1981 World Championship win and subsequent diverse careers. Their Rothmans Ford RS1800 championship-winning car will be in the Club’s rotunda to add to the spectacle of a fascinating evening you won’t want to miss.

The event is taking place Tuesday 19 October from 7pm – 10.30pm and will include a drinks reception, dinner and wine. Tickets are priced at £82.00 (plus booking fee) and can be purchased from the Royal Automobile Club Eventbrite page.

Tickets can be purchased here

Rod Parkin appointed new Chair of the British Motor Sports Training Trust:

Following the British Motor Sports Training Trust (BMSTT) trustee meeting on 19 August, Motorsport UK and the BMSTT would like to announce that Rod Parkin has been appointed as a new independent Trustee and will take up the position of Trust Chair with effect from 2 November 2021.

The BMSTT is an established UK Registered Charity formed to improve safety and volunteer officials training for Motorsport UK regulated competition. Mr Parkin from Leeds in West Yorkshire began his motorsport career in 1964 and since then has built up a wealth of motorsport experience, including becoming International FIA Steward, member of the FIA Historic Commission and since 1977, Clerk of the Course for Trackrod Rally Yorkshire.

Congratulations to Rod from the Committee of De Lacy Motor Club.
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Motorsport UK launch online training portal:

In an E mail received today, MSUK launched their new Learning Hub. The test of the Email is copied here for all our members to read;

"Motorsport UK is delighted to introduce The Learning Hub – the new, online learning platform for Motorsport UK members.

Whether you are an Official, Competitor, Marshal or Event Organiser, The Learning Hub aims to provide an easy to use and time-efficient online learning experience which will help you enhance your skills and prepare you for the role you have chosen to undertake.

The new platform will enable you to read articles, watch videos, complete knowledge exercises, interactive modules and much more.

We recognise that learning and development is key to our members’ enjoyment of the Sport – and it is imperative that we provide you with the appropriate knowledge and skills in order to carry out your role to the best of your ability. The Learning Hub is just one way in which we are committed to this.

The Learning Hub launched today with content aimed at Officials. Further content will be added each month, including specific content for Marshals, Event Organisers and Competitors.

Simply log in to your Members Area on the Motorsport UK website and follow the instructions from there.

If any members have any questions, please email us at training@motorsportuk.org

Motorsport UK Learning Hub now available:

"We are pleased to announce the launch of the new, online learning platform for Motorsport UK members – The Learning Hub. Whether you are an Official, Competitor, Marshal or Event Organiser, The Learning Hub aims to provide an easy to use and time-efficient online learning experience which will help you enhance your skills and prepare you for the role you have chosen to undertake.

The Learning Hub is already in use for the Rally and Cross Country Marshal Accreditation course, however on the 30th March 2020 we will be adding further content for Officials, including modules on:

• Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Safety Awareness

• Safeguarding in Motorsport

• Introduction to Officiating

• Introduction to Marshalling

• Motorsport Theory for Trainee Officials

As well as soft-skills training on topics including Effective Communication, Team Management, Leadership Skills and much more. To access the Learning Hub, please log in to the Motorsport UK website and follow the instructions."

Article posted 5th March 2020