Second overall and 1st Masters class for George and Cadog (Joseph John Gilbertson)

The 12th and 13th of September would see the running of the ever popular Carmarthen and District motor club organised Autumn road rally once again take its spot in the rallying calendar, this year making up the seventh round of the Welsh championship. Rally HQ would once again be the cattlemart ground just outside of the rally’s hometown, and this year a route of some 100 miles was laid out for competitors, over OS maps 145, 146, 158 and 159. The organisers provided map cuts in the finals so all navigators could cut and paste one map together before the night. 

Being a fairly local event and a round of the clubs own championship it would come of no surprise to see a handful of club members scattered among the entry list. Car 1 was due to be last year’s winning navigator Marc Hughes who for this year was going to be sat with Meirion Evans., but sadly the car failed scrutineering with new stricter advertising rules coming into place, At 3 would be George Williams and Cadog Davies in their Mk2 Ford escort, they have two previous wins on this event and were hoping for a third this year. Behind them at number 4 would be Andy Davies who would again have Kieran Price at his side, in Andy’s Subaru impreza IDZ, Andy making his way over after competing on the Woodpecker stages earlier that day. At number 7 would be Arwyn Jones and Mathew Pryce in their Mk2 Ford escort fresh after its class winning performance on the Rali Ceredigion.