K & R Mitsubishi Stages Rally

K & R Mitsubishi Stages Rally 30/31 January 2010

Next years event is scheduled
for
January 22nd/23rd 2011

An event supporting
"Help for Heroes"

News: This year event raised £2,115 towards "Help for Heroes"

Saturday 30th / Sunday 31st
January 2010 @ Brean Lesiure Park

Peter Lloyd/Graham Handley - Impreza S12 WRC wins !

Congratulations to Peter Lloyd/Graham Handley in their very rapid Subaru Impreza WRC for taking victory on the 2010 K&R Mitsubishi Stages Rally by an impressive 42 second margin over eventual runner up pairing of David Kynaston/ Andy Russell in their equally awesome Audi A3 Quatro.The intense battle for overall victory raged on over the weekends 12 special stages with the top 5 finishers amazingly ending the event line astern in their original starting order.

All our hearts go out to overall winner Peter Lloyd who barely had chance to savour the victors laurels before learning that cruely his business had been broken into back home ! We can only hope that the perpetrators are caught soon and the goods retrieved.

Glorious bright winter sunshine greeted the competitors for Saturday's first leg of 6 special stages although the surface was deceptively slippy with the sub zero temperatures early on. 48 competitors entering parc ferme at the end of the days proceedings. Sunday dawned a little overcast with the overnight leader Peter Lloyd continuing to set the pace from the start of leg 2. The crew of car 42 deciding to hot things up a little bit too literally further down the order with an under bonnet fire ! quickly extinguished by the efficiant marshals the fire was out but unfortunetly so was the car. Thankfully both the driver and Co-driver completely unhurt by the incident.. Local crew of Andrew Hicks/ Richard Bliss were also having an unintentional extra eventfull day at one point temporarily parking the front of their Peugeot 106 (car 47)on top of a rock! on the side of grass verge, however they quickly recovered their compsure on their way to 35th overall.

The organising team Club RallySport West extend thanks to all for the fantastic support given throughout this weekends K&R Mitsubishi stages. Everyone present in whatever capacity, Venue Staff, Sponsors, Competitors, Marshals, Officials, Media, Spectators, all revelled in the event's enjoyable party style atmosphere. Also many thanks to the generosity of the donations to the "Help for Heroes" cause, The final amounts are still being totted up and there will be a Cheque handover presentation to the charity organisers within the next few weeks.

Final Top 10 Positions

1 1 Peter Lloyd/ Graham Handley - Impreza S12 WRC
2 2 David Kynaston /Andy Russell - Audi A3
3 3 Steve Furzeland /Yvonne Furzeland - Impreza WRC
4 4 Karl Broad/ Roger Grant - Metro 6R4
5 5 James Harvey/ Paul Arberry - Impreza
6 9 Neil Weaver /Bonnie Fishburn - Darrian T9
7 14 Jim Munden /Tony Munden - Escort
8 11 Julian Wilkes/ Will Rutherford - Vauxhall Nova
9 12 Geffry Bennett/ John Billet- Escort Mk2
10 19 Richard Baker/ Dave Perrott - Escort

Full results and award winners available on the Results page

Details of the 2011 event will be announced shortly
.

Video footage above courtesy of Julian Wilkes http://www.wilkes-motorsport.com

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