Issue 133 May 2010 Hairpins & Your Insight Into the World of Rallying
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Handbrakes Issue 133 May 2010 Hairpins & your insight into the world of rallying Cover CASTROL TOYOTA TEAM AIMS FOR “HOME” VICTORY Events Events inside Events Jari Ketomaa claims Mitsubishis win at this week: S-WRC win in NZ Oregon Trail Rally Contents / Issue 133 04 News Welcome to H&H! • Burton wins Plains Rally Welcome to issue 133 of HANDBRAKES & • Podium for David Higgins in China HAIRPINS, your FREE weekly insight into • Jourdain aims for WRC the world of rallying! Inside this week, HANDBRAKES 08 Features & HAIRPINS is pleased to bring you 09 Lights, Camera... Action! a fantastic competition presented by Veloce Publishing. You stand a chance Latvala tames Nurburgring 10 to win a great rally book and readers of 11 Sun, duts, rain and mud: All to HANDBRAKES & HAIRPINS will enjoy a challenge the Champions! special discount of 25% off Veloce Books. 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Then home the winner’s trophy any time we got in the car after that was to check the fuel tank The Hankook MSA Welsh National Rally Championship was okay, not to set up for gravel, so we went into the event continued with the Plains Rally, supported by SJR Motorsport, blind as to how the car would react in comparison to the Evo9 and was won by a clearly delighted Andrew Burton in the we had last year.” crowd pleasing Peugeot Cosworth. During the opening superspecial stage the crew set Andrew Burton who admitted the car was in a a good time but the car ran wide, and the main stages on “thousand bits” on Wednesday stamped his authority on the Saturday got off to a good start, despite David feeling the car event on the nine mile opener Gartheiniog taking a twenty one set up was still too soft. second lead over the VK WRC Focus of Steve Perez. Burton “We were lying second overall when a damper broke went quickest on four of the seven stages extending his and the car went wide on the next bend, hitting a rock and winning margin to twenty fi ve seconds at the fi nish. pushing the body of the car onto the tyre,” explained David. On a day where conditions were near perfect David “We lost about one and a half minutes and dropped to fi fth. We Wright, in the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX, set fi ve top-three pushed back up to fourth overnight, then on the opening stage times to take deserved third overall and fi rst in class whilst on Sunday the rear diff broke on the car so we did the fi rst two Roger Chillman Jnr. took maximum championship points and stages in front wheel drive. fourth overall and fi rst GpN in the Impreza. Shaun Gardener “However, once we got sorted we did set the fastest pushed his Lancer Evolution V hard all day to take some useful time on the fi nal two stages, showing the car can do what it championship points and to fi nish three seconds ahead of Tom needs to if we have the right preparation for an event. If we Cave in the very well turned out Proton Satria Neo S2000, who had been able to test beforehand, we know we would have had took second GpN in the process. the best set up possible, and taken a much better result. Further down the top ten Alex Allingham fi nished “Us staying on in China to do more testing will give eighth overall in the N4 Subaru Impreza and taking third Welsh us a better chance on the next event - and hopefully the ash contender, having rebuilt the car since his roll on the Pirelli. cloud will be long gone by then too!” Championship leader Paul Davy took tenth overall and has now The Jiangning Rally was won by Mark Higgins, with built up a seventeen point lead in the overall standings. Jussi Valimaki second. In the Juniors Sara Williams put two non-fi nishes - Credit: www.rallybuzz.com behind her to take maximum points whilst Luke Francis after his big accident on the Bulldog was gaining in confi dence as Ken Block suffers tough weekend in the day progressed. Sion Matthews (Nova) Anglesey maintains his consistent performance and now leads the Junior category. Oregon after crashing out Ken Block and the Monster World Rally Team had a promising Overall Classifi cation: weekend at The Oregon Trail Rally end abruptly when Bock’s 01) A. Burton/R. Kellard Fiesta slid off course, while running Fir Mountain Long II (SS8), Peugeot Cosworth - 42m 39s and rolled down an embankment. Block and his co-driver Alex 02) S. Perez/P. Spooner Gelsomino were uninjured, but their MWRT Fiesta sustained Ford Focus WRC - 43m 04s signifi cant damage and was unable to continue. 03) D. Wright/M. Wilkinson Block recovered from a rocky start of a fl at tire during Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX - 44m 11s Friday’s Northwest Passage (SS1) to take the overall lead early 04) R. Chillman Jnr/A. Sankey Saturday on the Fir Mountain Long stage. Block started the Subaru Impreza N4 - 44m 26s day 23 seconds behind the leader, but had rebounded to take a 05) S. Gardener/B. Innes nine second advantage after six stages. Clearly Block’s Monster Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V - 44m 38s World Rally Team Fiesta was class of the fi eld and appeared 06) T. Cave/S. O’Gorman headed for a podium result if not victory. Proton Satria Neo S2000 - 44m 41s Unfortunately, Block fell victim to a particularly nasty corner, which earlier in the day claimed Vermont Motorsports The next round of the Welsh Rally Championship will be the driver and fellow championship contender Dave Mirra. Severn Valley Stages Rally on 05 June in Builth Wells. For Block and his team there is little time to dwell on the - Credit: www.rallybuzz.com frustrations of a DNF in Oregon as they prepare to head to Portugal for the WRC event 28 - 30 May. Next up for the Monster World Rally Team’s Rally America program is the Podium for David Higgins despite Susquehannock Trail Rally 04 - 05 June.