MSA British Championships
MSA British Sporting Trials Championship
Duncan Stephens won a very closely contested Charles Pollard
ahead of a three way tie for second won by John Fack. In extremely
dry conditions John and Julian Fack led at lunch but, with
an error free afternoon, Stephens finished victorious bringing
to an end John Fack's winning run of four events. Monty Peters
won the intermediate class with an excellent fifth overall
ahead of David Rance who dropped a very costly eight just
after lunch. Mark Seward debuted his new homebuilt car and
won the novice class from Bill Sherras in sixteenth overall.
RESULTS
Winner - Duncan Stephens - Crosslé - 4 marks lost
2nd - John Fack - Crosslé - 5 marks lost
3rd - Julian Fack - X-Facktor - 5 marks lost
Sporting Trials Championship positions
1 John Fack - 29 points
= Duncan Stephens - 29
3 Ian Wright - 23
4 Steve Courts - 22
5 Roland Uglow - 19
Pirelli MSA Gravel Rally Championship
Defending ANCRO Champion Marcus Dodd claimed an unprecedented
sixth victory on the Bournemouth-based Rallye Sunseeker, the
opening round of the 2008 MSA Pirelli Gravel Rally Championship.
Driving the HPM Motorsport Hyundai Accent WRC along with co
driver Andrew Bargery, the local ace overcame clutch problems
and a broken paddle-shift to take a deserved victory some
43 seconds ahead of Andrew Burton's Peugeot Cosworth. Burton
and co-driver Shelley Rogerson had problems of their own with
a broken exhaust manifold on the final loop of stages, but
held off Irish newcomer Stephen Moore and co-driver Tony McHugh,
who brought their ex Henning Solberg Ford Focus WRC home in
third place, ahead of Jon Ingram and Ian Allsop.
RESULTS
1 Marcus Dodd/Andrew Bargery (Hyundai Accent WRC)
2 Andrew Burton/Shelley Rogerson (Peugeot Cosworth)
3 Stephen Moore/Tony McHugh (Ford Focus WRC)
Pirelli MSA Gravel Championship positions
1 Marcus Dodd - 25pts
2 Andrew Burton - 22
3 Stephen Moore - 20
4 Jon Ingram - 19
5 Will Nicholls - 18
6 David Bogie - 17
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