Antoine L’Estage and Nathalie Richard drove to a decisive win at the Pacific Forest Rally in Merritt, BC. Having lead from the start, the team finished more than a minute ahead of the competition, also taking a lead in the Canadian Rally Championship with just one event left on the calendar.

“This was a very important win, to give us the lead in the championship,” said L’Estage following the event. “Counting Rally America, we’ve won five of the last six rallies.”

For second place finishers Pat Richard and Alan Ockwell, the event was full of small issues. Electrical problems dogged the pair the first day, while transmission problems struck midway through Saturday. A gearbox swap in service and the team was back on track to charge through the Helmer stage until clipping a cow and then suffering a flat tire.

“The good thing is that Subaru is leading the manufacturer’s championship, which was my main goal here today,” said Richard.(...)
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Fast female Molly Taylor made it a second Swift Sport Cup win in a row on the Carlisle-based Pirelli International Rally at the weekend.

Australian Molly and Cumbrian co-driver Jemma Bellingham battled stages in the notorious ‘Killer Kielder’ and Kershope Forests in their Monster Sport Europe and Motorsport Insurance Services backed Suzuki Swift Sport.

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The Minis provided the best racing of the day as ever with a 16 car line up for Round three of the Minicross Drivers Associations Rallycross event on Bank holiday Monday held at Blyton Rallycross circuit.
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Bentham’s Shelley Rogerson, 22, suffered her first rally retirement since September 2006 when a broken crankshaft denied a chance of taking victory on last Saturday’s Somerset Stages rally.

Shelley was partnering Andrew Burton in his Peugeot Cosworth and their rally got off to a brilliant start when they set the fastest time on the opening three mile Broadwood stage. Two more forest stages followed with Burton and Rogerson once again setting the fastest time, taking a lead of eight seconds over second placed Damian Cole at the first service halt of the event.
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Bentham’s Shelley Rogerson will head north next weekend when she contests round 2 of the MSA Gravel Rally championship, the Jedburgh-based Brick and Steel Border Counties Rally.
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Bentham’s Shelley Rogerson will contest her second rally of 2008 when she heads to Bournemouth on Friday (22nd February) to compete on the Rallye Sunseeker. The rally is the opening round of the MSA Gravel Rally championship.Shelley, 22, will be partnering Kington’s Andrew Burton in his Peugeot Cosworth. After taking victory on the Wyedean Forest Rally recently the pairing are hoping for another good result on the Sunseeker although with several top crews in World Rally Cars also contesting the event the competition will be tough.”It’s going to be hard to repeat our Wyedean victory, we know from last year how close the competition can be in the Gravel Rally championship,” said Shelley.

“We’ll do our best to be on the pace though and hopefully get a good haul of points to kick-off the championship. I’d like to thank my sponsors Co-ordSport, Legend Fires, AMG TV, Nicky Grist and Songasport and my friends Gary, Tim and Jason for their support.”

The rally starts on Friday night with a short stage in Bournemouth town centre. The bulk of the competitive mileage is on Saturday with 70 miles of gravel tracks in Wareham and Ringwood forests and the grounds of Somerley Park.

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