8 MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIPS ONE Membership Gives Access to More Than 100 Events Including the Famous GOLD, SILVER & BRONZE Stars
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As a self-confessed petrolhead, it was Baz’s 7 Events 7 Events involvement in rallying that culminated in the Jordan Road Surfacing sponsorship 20 Classes including 1400’s & Historic 12 Classes he BTRDA started life in 1938 At dawn, the event changed back to of the BTRDA Rally Series which features 2018 Champion Driver: Matt Edwards 2018 Champion Driver: Jason Pritchard as the British Trial Drivers' a stage event and ran six stages in seven of the best forest rallies that England 2018 Champion Co Driver: Darren Garrod 2018 Champion Co Driver: Phil Clarke TAssociation (BTDA) but Sherwood Forest before a lunchtime and Wales have to offer. as motoring and the availability finish at the Olde Bell at Barnby Baz’s love of motorsport, both on two of cars developed, there were Moor. wheels and four, dates back to his teens. many competitors who wished Interestingly, on this event in 1968, Allied to a particular affinity with Ford to participate in longer and more Escorts, this led to his first rally car arriving arduous motorsport events. To meet the leader was Brian Bell until he crashed out during the last of the as a result of a part-exchange deal when BTRDA CAR TRIAL DEMON TWEEKS BTRDA AUTOTEST this demand, the BTRDA Rallies he was 18. Committee was formed in 1953 and 1991 GS Holfield night-time selectives. Fast-forward CHAMPIONSHIP CHAMPIONSHIP created the BTRDA Gold Star and 51 years and he is still actively His initial foray into the world of competition Silver Star Rally Championships. competing on BTRDA Rally Series occurred not far from home on a single 10 Events 12 Events Star, Motoring News and RAC Rally events! venue event held at the former RAF base at 4 Classes 9 Classes The original championship events championships in a Mk1 Lotus Fulbeck in 1985. We’re not privy to how he included the RAC Rally, Circuit Cortina. As a reward for his British The 1970s fared but it was the beginning of an active 2018 Champion: Mark Hoppe 2018 Champion: Malcolm Livingston of Ireland, Morecambe Rally, love affair with the sport! title, Bullough got one of the first By 1970, competitors and cars Scarborough Rally, Scottish Rally Escort Twin Cams for 1968. During the past 30 years, many Escorts and Rally of the Dams. These were were beginning to specialise and 1972 was the last Gold Star Rally have passed through Baz’s hands, not the most challenging rallies in the This was a period when British to mention examples of each of the 10 UK at the time and were mostly long rallying was moving from road to Championship to use both stage and road events. The last of the different Mitsubishi Lancer Evos and a distance, endurance road events. stage rallies and Bullough showed Subaru Impreza formerly driven by 1991 that he was part of that change by multi-tasking champions were Will TOYO TYRES/AUTOSPORT INTERNATIONAL BTRDA SPORTING TRIALS Sparrow and Nigel Raeburn in their and 1993 World Rally Champion, Juha This was the era of British sports finishing third on the RAC Rally that Kankkunen. BTRDA CLUBMANS RALLYCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP cars such as the Triumph and the year, thus helping Ford to win the Mini Cooper S. Austin Healey. At the end of the European manufacturers' title. None of them have spent more than a year CHAMPIONSHIP 24 Events 1950s, a very young Stuart Turner From 1973, the Gold Star in the Jordan stable before being moved Championship was contested 8 Events 6 Classes was the champion navigator for In the mid 1960s, some events on but, when a deal for a Ford Focus three successive years. As the started to incorporate timed ‘Special exclusively on stage rallies, whilst World Rally Car fell through, it prompted 12 Classes 2018 Champion: Roland Uglow championship developed, the events Stages’ in addition to a competitive the Silver Star Championship the purchase of an ‘historic’ specification were changed to include many of night road rally. A typical example continued for road rally competitors Hillman Avenger. 2018 Champion: Luke Constantine and often ran alongside and the most competitive night-time of these combined road and stage Not possessing a particularly illustrious road rallies in the UK including the events was the 1968 Dukeries Rally. complemented the Motoring News Road Rally Championship. pedigree in terms of competition, no great Express & Star, Mini Miglia and the hopes were attached to its arrival but, four London Rally. This started on the Saturday evening with six special stages using private Both these championships were very years and 68 rallies later, it’s still there! roads (including a then unused popular throughout the 1970s and BTRDA AUTOSOLO BTRDA ALLROUNDERS 1980s with good events and huge A 100 per cent finishing record on all seven The 1960s Donington Park). A brief supper rounds of the 2017 BTRDA Rally Series CHAMPIONSHIP CHAMPIONSHIP By the 1960s, most of the rally halt was followed by a full 200-mile entries attracting some of the best saw the Avenger finish third overall in the cars being used were a reflection Derbyshire / Staffordshire road rally competitors from around the UK. two-wheel drive category, only beaten by a 20 Events ALL BTRDA Events qualify for the Allrounders of the cars being sold on the high with ‘selectives’ timed to the second. couple of far more powerful Ford Escorts. 5 Classes Championship. street, but with relatively simple Sponsors This year Baz and co-driver Paul Wakely 2018 Champion: Neil Jones modifications to make them more Commercial sponsors have been 2018 Champion: Jamie Yapp have concentrated on the Historic section suitable for use on night-time road an important element of stage rally of the series, winning their class by a rallies. Moving through the decade, championships since the 1970s. country mile and finishing runners-up in the the most successful rally cars were The original title sponsor of the category overall – and the smiles are still Ford Anglias and Mini Coopers, BTRDA Gold Star Championship in evident! through the Cortina GTs to the Lotus the 1970s and 1980s was Esso and Cortinas and early MkI Escorts. Esso Uniflow followed by European In 1967, Jim Bullough and navigator Motorsport. Don Barrow won the BTRDA Gold In the 1990s, it was Ashley JOINING US...? GO TO BTRDA.COM 1992 GS Steve Petch JULY 2019 pacenotes | 33 DRIVER THOUGHTS ON BTRDA 1997 GS Littler 2001 GS Wetton 2002 GS Perrott Graham Middleton Competition Exhausts followed ubiquitous MkII Ford Escort was Ron Crellin, Phil Short, Chris Lord, Former Gold, Silver & by Peugeot Sport. Since then, used to win this title. Stephen Bye, Mike Sones and Jon 1400 Champion! Clear System Solutions, Dunlop, Ballinger have all had a big influence Silverstone Tyres, Get Connected, In 1983, an Audi Quattro driven on the work of the Rallies Committee REIS Insurance, Ravenol and now by Darryl Weidner became the over the years. “My best memory was in the early ‘80s first four-wheel drive car to win a when I competed in the Woodpecker Jordan Road Surfacing have all backed the series. BTRDA Rally Championship, but The idea of ‘reverse seeding’, which Stages which was my first forest rally. was followed by three years of Gold was first used in the mid 1980s, I had been doing the Motoring News Their financial support has Star Champions all driving Opels; came about at the BTRDA Rally and Welsh Championship road rallies enabled the BTRDA Stage Rally 1994 Clinton Smith / Stuart Dytham Committee from a suggestion by so it was quite a bit different to what I Championships to develop and (Ascona 400), 1995 Vince Wetton / Phil Short.