Welsh Road Rally Championship : Dylan drifts to snow win


Snow was to be the main subject last Saturday night on the Lampeter & District Motor Club run Rali Bro Caron. With a capacity entry of 90 competing cars and a reserve list the event got underway from the Black Lion Hotel Lampeter at midnight, the organising team decided to scrap SS1 through Parc – y - Rhos on safety grounds with the roads coated with a layer of snow and frozen ice, competitors were then sent directly to SS2 on a loop around Cellan and the top of Ffarmers.
		With the event going on fine roughly an hour and a half into the event the heavens opened and with heavy falling snow reducing visibility drastically the organisers immediately decided to call an early finish on safety grounds to the rally at the petrol halt in Aberaeron where the results would stand to that given point. Fifty six crews were classified at the finish and many praised the organising team for putting on a demanding event navigational wise, with all marshals’ parked spot-on in their relevant locations.
Overall winning crew by just 11 seconds were Dylan Davies / Dale Furniss in an Escort Mk2 making it two Bro Caron wins on the trot. Class 1 masters would be won by Hywel Davies / Richard Morris in another Escort with Daniel Jones / Graham Dance just 6 seconds adrift in yet another Escort Mk2. Former Bro Caron winning crew Gary Davies (Dylan Davies father ) would this year take 3rd in the masters class a mere 5 seconds down on Daniel Jones. Class 2 Experts was won by Richard James / Nigel Davies in a Rover MGZR with the Escort of Arwyn Thomas / Richard Hughes finishing as runners up. Class 3 Semi Experts wining crew were Gareth Harries / Craig Davies in a Ford Sierra with Justin Jones / Andrew Gaunt finishing second in the class in Jones newly built Escort Mk2. Class 4 Novices was again a local winning crew with Stefan Davies / Mark Rodway in a Escort Mk2 finishing ahead of Gareth Hughes / Andrew Ling in a Peugeot 205, 3rd went to Daniel James / Jason Thomas Fiat Punto. Best mixed crew went to Gareth Lloyd / Llinos Jones Davies while the Under 1400 cc award went to Richard Williams / Mark Hughes. © Images Gary Jones