November saw the Isle Of Wight’s first closed-roads running of the Weaver Brothers Island Stages Rally. The event run over 7 stages saw Rob & Steve come out as overall winners by 18 seconds.
SCMC had a number of crews competing on the event, results below
Driver/Navigator Finish o/all Class
Will Nicholls/Nick Broom Fiesta R5 5th 5th
Darrell Taylor/Jonathon Kennedy Fiesta R5 7th 7th
Sean Quigley/Colin Quigley Fiesta R5 4th 4th
John Peck/Jon Barratt Evo 5 DNF
Mark Fisher/Peter Spalding Escort DNF
Lewis Arkison/Pete Bold Escort DNF
Scott Stutchbury/Darren Stutchbury Clio 35th 9th
At the other end of the speed scale Keith and Angelica had their annual outing on the London to Brighton veteran car run aboard their 1904 Orient Buckboard and finished yet again. Despite some electrical issues which delayed progress they still managed to get to Brighton by 3:30pm.
Other club member results in November include:-
Declan Dear co-driving Matthew Hirst in their Skoda to a win on the Wyedean Stages and in turn winning the Welsh Rally championship for the 4th time in a row. Rob Dennis also had an excellent result on the same event finishing 16th o/all, 2nd in class.
The NHMC Cadwell Stages also saw a number of club members competing with the following results
Driver/Navigator Finish o/all Class
Jamie McBain/Jordine Crooks 205 10th 3rd
Sam Cox/Georgia Russell Clio 19th 7th
Neil Beaumont/Dylan Thomas Evo 25th 5th
David Martin/Kelan Watkins 205 DNF