19th - 22nd November 05 - Roger Albert Clark Rally 2005 By Matt Rudd

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The Roger Albert Clark (November 19th-22nd) is probably one of the most well known events in the British rally calendar. Last year the rally was resurrected by the Delacy Motor Club and following a great success, the rally returned once again this year. And with a stage at Bramham Park near Leeds on day 2 of the 4 day rally spectacular, I just had to attend.

The rally attracted a wide range of top class rally drivers, past and present, for instance in an old 911 we had Jimmy Mcrae, father of 1995 World Rally Champion, Colin Mcrae. As well as the slightly older generation of rallying greats, we had the likes of this year's British Rally Champion Mark Higgins in an Escort RS1800. Other top names included Stig Blomqvist (Escort Mk2 RS), Jeremy Easson (Escort RS 2000 16V) and finally, in the extremely rare Lancia Stratos, Steve Perez.

In the open rally which was running along side of the main event, top drivers included Butterwick's Steve Bannister (Escort Mk2), Jason Lepley in his Prefab Motorsport's prepared Escort Mk2 RS 1800, the legendry (maybe not for his driving) Dave Hemingway made an appearance in his Mk2 Escort, complete with ice cream chimes. ITV Formula 1 reporter Tony Jardine was also competing in a Skoda Fabia.

As the stage setup was similar to that of the Premier Rally in which both stages use the same track at the same time, we only had one position throughout the morning which was a 90° left which had been tightened using some bales. The first two cars which formed the historic rally weren't too spectacular however both were remarkably fast. Also, Rob Pilcher was sporting a Pudsey Bear on the roof of his Porche 911S.

Then a five minute gap until the brilliant sounding Escort Mk2 RS of last year's winner Stig Blomquist. Stig went for the slow entry, fast exit approach to the corner. Mark Higgins, this year's British Rally Champion got the beautiful Eddie Stobart backed Escort sideways round the corner. Then the superb Lancia Stratos of Steve Perez just missed the bales on the outside of the corner. Jeremy Easson, who was next on the road, just clipped the bales slightly.

Butterwick's Steve Bannister got very sideways on the exit, hitting the bales which widened the track by a few centimetres. After 5 or 6 more cars the Historic Rally drivers came back through for the second time on the stage. After a few cars still on run one, Stig came through again, this time a lot more sideways, nearly going off on the previous corner to us.

Higgins once again was sideways while Perez, on his second run, seemed much more confident with the car and much quicker. Hull's Chris Green on his first run looked brilliant powering out of the corner doing some sideways on the exit too.

Car 23, David Cobb had a large off on the previous corner, overshooting into the bales which lost him a good minute, while marshals and spectators helped get the car on track. This led to Phil Squires losing a bit of time as he had to slow down with people on the track. When Cobb passed us in his Toyota Corolla 1600 GT he did have large body damage to the front wing of the car.

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