The 2005 Trackrod Rally Yorkshire - 8th to 9th October 05 By Matt Rudd

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Yorkshire's biggest off road motor sport event returned to the forests of North Yorkshire on October 8th and 9th. This was of course Rally Yorkshire the penultimate round of the Kwik Fit Pirelli British Rally Championship. Apart from the BRC cars which ran both days the rally incorporated many almost support rallies these included the Landrover Challenge, British Historic's, The Stars Of The Future, which was within the National event and then on the second day of the rally it was the turn of the Clubman event.

The rally prompted the return of 2 times British Champion, Jonny Milner to make a welcome return in the championship using Ryan Champion's Mitsubishi Lancer which forced Ryan to use a S1600 Puma. Other top names in the rally included last years winner Mark Higgins, 18 year old rally sensation Matt Wilson, Steve' VK' Perez and Hannu Mikkola's son Vesa.

In the National and Clubman events top names included John Bannister, Donovan Jenkin and Tim Pearcey. Finally, top names in the Historic event included Steven Smith and Dessie Nutt in their Porsche 911's, Hull's Chris Green, Brian Bell and Peter Slights.

Day One:

We went to the Dalby Forest complex - unfortunately a bit too late for the Givendale stage so we had to wait over 30 minutes until the Housedale stage became live. Almost as soon as we had the first few Historics past us, the heavens opened and almost never stopped all day. Because obviously the Historic cars are mainly rear wheel drive, it did prove a real struggle for them to get round the 90º right on to the tarmac section of Housedale.

Most of the cars did have problems with under steer and were using all of the road. Surprisingly however, only one of the Escorts went on to the grass at the outside of the corner and it was quickly recovered. By then the Historics were over and before the BRC's we had a massive gap to fill in so, yes, we went walking down the stage and after the Speccy Control car past us we decided to stand at a tight right hand hairpin going up-hill, which before the cars reached they had a good 2 miles of straight and top gear corners.

The first car was Matt Wilson. He went very deep into the exit of the corner but the Focus WRC's four wheel drive soon got him up to pace again which meant he lost hardly any time. Steve Perez in his Focus also went deep into the corner, while local hero Jonny Milner clipped the bank on the exit of the corner. Last year's winner Higgins had the tightest line through the corner but he did brake a lot earlier.

John Lloyd also went in to the hairpin too hot and had a big slide; Ryan Champion had a massive sideways moment which did result in a few seconds time loss as the front wheel drive Puma struggled for grip. The Grp N Impreza of Rob Swann was very wide on the exit. After struggling to control the slide, Kate Heath ended up stalling on the corner and lost a good 6 or 7 seconds getting the car going once more. Rob Gill, who had rolled somewhere earlier in the day had lots of body damage and was very slow through the corner.

Then the Landrovers, most of them driven by the Army were next on the road and we were joined by some of their colleagues who were spectating. Most of the Landrovers did have wide exit lines and therefore hit the outside banking. One of them came in too hot mid-point in the corner and overshot the corner forcing him to reverse. Then, yet again another gap until the British Rally Championship's Star's Of The Future which was part of the National Rally.

The first car was the bright yellow Suzuki Ignis of James Wozencroft. As usual, he was driving on the limit. Phil Morton in the Datsun 120 Coupe took a very wide sideways line through the corner. Dom Mernock was very slow though the corner then Tom Walster's 205 got stuck in gear during the corner which made him struggle immensely up the hill on the exit. He retired at the end of the stage. You guessed it, yet another gap until the National event.

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