Endurance Road Rally Championship 2009

 
Welcome to the 2009 AudiSouthwest.com Endurance Rally.
 
During the course of the event we hope to bring you the very latest results as they happen.
 
Hopefully if connections are working then we will hope to get something on-line after the various timecard collection points: 12:01pm (Racecourse); 16:00 (Okehampton), 19:00 (Ashwater rest halt), and finally 22:00 (Novotel).Lees/

Apologies for the lack of service during the event major technical issues meant we had to stop them as wer were getiing behind with rally stuff hopefully will be sorted for the EACs.
 
Final 01.10
1. Harris / Aldridge 3.06.532. O. Turner / Dadswell 3.07.433. Hawkins / Tullie 3.10.484. D.Smith/ M Turner 3.13.255. Lees / Lassam 3.15.586. Clarke /Rutherford 3.16.097. Reynolds / Stringer 3.16.248. Appleby / Collings 3.19.069. Glover /Peters 3.20.1910. Camp /Lacey 3.20.38
56 Starters/37 Finishers

Update 2310
 The cars have now reached the rest halt at Ashwater where there’s many a tale of woe in Fernworthy forest. Easy retirements include Martin Wedge and South African Lee. All selectifs have run but the equipment van held up in Fernworthy meaning the rally is currently running half an hour late.Many cars have had moments in the snow including Jamie Turner running first car on the road was the trail blazer but had an off, he’s worked his way back up the field and was on a mission and took 37 seconds out of Mark Appleton and ten out of brother Owen.Phil Harris has a manifold problem but his catchy slowly policy looks to be working. Early leaders Andy Stewart are going well but had a mud splattering moment in Fernworthy.Gary White and Alf Chanter ended up in a ditch but lost minimal time after Brian Weir stopped to give them a tow. Carl Hawkins and Ian Tullie got caught in a queue after one car blocked the selectif after getting stuck.More when we have it.... Hawkins/Tullie  44:11Harris / Turner  45:12Glover / Peters  45:21O.Turner / Dadswell 45:32Lees / Lassam  45:35Kernahan / Hitchcock 45:38Camp / Lacey  45:42Smith / Turner  46:11J.Turner / Harrison 46:51Clark / Rutherford 47:18Kevin and Claire Sherlock off in Witherdon, they’ve regained the road in the garish green Toyota Starlet  however they have a knocking suspension noise and may not return in the morning.
 

Update 13:22
All cars through selectif 1 Owen Turner wants new brakes but is smiling and Phil Harris has a slow time of 2 mins 24=
Andy Stewart/ Nigel Hewett take a one second lead 1:50 after selectif 1.
 
After Sel 1Hawkins/Tullie 1:51Turner/Harrison 1:52Abrey/Fowle 1:52Biss/Woodman 1:52Smith/Turner: 1:53Sherlock/Sherlock: 1:53Evett/Heap: 1:53Lees/Lassam: 1:54

08:00 Newton Abbot Racecourse: Bright, breezy and a crisp morning here at the racecourse. Competitors starting to arrive and I’ve just had my first hug of the weekend from Jamie and Dan.
New fluorescent numbers look good and hopefully we should be in for a good day. The weather report varies with the snow melting in the sunshine but in the shade it could be fun! The overnight frost not as bad as predicted.