Meirion Evans and Jonathan Jackson on their way to another strong result on the Killarney Rally of the Lakes (Rnc Rally-pics)
The weekend of the 24th or April and 1st of May saw the fourth round of the Irish tarmac rally championship take place with the Killarney and district motor club rally of the lakes. The rally would include fourteen stages over the course of the two days giving 240 kilometres of competitive mileage. Once again Meirion Evans and Jonathan Jackson would be competing in an attempt to score a good haul of points for their Irish tarmac championship bid, and would again be using their R5 specification VW polo GTI. They were seeded at car 4 on the 127 car entry.
Marc Hughes guides Lewis Morgan around to a top 10 on the NIght owl (Joseph John Gilbertson)
Once again it had been a very busy weekend for club members over the 23rd and 24th of April, with action taking place in the welsh lanes on the Aberystwyth motor club organised Tomos Lewis Body Repairs Night Owl Road Rally. This ever popular event starting from Aberystwyth would include some 80 miles of competition over OS maps 135 and 146. The event attracted a full entry of 75 cars and included several names from Lampter and district motor club. First on the entry was Marc Hughes who was navigating for Lewis Morgan in a Mk2 ford escort. Lewis is a former winner of the event and with Marc Hughes their local knowledge would put them among the favorites on the entry. They were seeded at number 2. Next was Cadog Davies who once again was navigating for George Williams in George’s familiar Mk2 ford escort, this pairing have enjoyed great success with each other and would no doubt be one of the favorites here too. They would start at number 5. Another navigator followed at 10, this was Dorian Evans who for this rally would be sat with Steven John Williams, they are both very successful competitors with a number of wins to each of their names and would also be in contention of victory here. They were also using the ever popular Mk2 Ford escort. At 23 was Alan Gaunt in a Peugeot 206 GTI, he had Kieran Price navigating for him. Huw Rowcliffe and Edryd Evans were at 29 in Huw’s Toyota corolla, and at 32 was Andrew Davies who would be navigating for Ben Ruff in Ben’s Vauxhall corsa. Rounding off club members was Arthur Jones at 69 in his Ford fiesta. He had Tudur Williams navigating for him.
Wayne "Tar" Jones and Rhys Jones on their way to an excellent class win on the Tour of Epynt (Aneurin James)
The weekend of the 15th and 16th of April saw the third round of the Irish tarmac rally championship take place, the Wastewater Solutions Circuit of Ireland. This very famous event, organised by the Ulster Automobile club would once again see the top club competitors from the UK, Ireland and further afield take on some of the most exciting stages on the rallying calendar.
Among the 75 car entry were Meirion Evans and Jonathan Jackson who would once again be using their R5 specification Volkswagen Polo GTI. They were seeded at car 4 and once again hoping for a good result to secure points for their championship bid. The rally would be made up of two days of competition with the first leg consisting of six stages totalling some 93 kilometres of competitive motoring followed by 5 more stages and another 98 kilometres of stages on the following leg. The opening leg would be made up of two stages, Orra Lodge and Lisles Hill, repeated 3 times.
Gareth Bevan and Dafydd Evans sliding their way to a class win on the AGBO (IF images Cymru)
The weekend of the 19th/20th of March saw a welcome return of the Mervyn Hughes memorial Rali Llyn to the rallying calendar. Organised by Harlech and district motor club, this popular event, sponsored by Motorsport-tools, saw a 110 mile route on OS map 123. Entries filled very quickly with a large selection of well known faces in the road rallying community were among those entered.