Just slow down will you video

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Fantastic Forest Win

Leighrallying took it's first step into the Btrda 1400 championship this weekend.

With an early start the crew turned out and to be honest, both driver (Darren Pinchin) and co-driver (Rob Leigh) were feeling a little bit nervous as this was the first time out in the new car, as they only picked it up the week before.

The day was set to be glorious sunshine a major improvement on last year, as it had snowed. The aim for the day was to get to the finish as the car from the previous owner hadn't finished a rally in 5 starts, they were hoping to get a top 5 finish.

The crew set off to the first stage Cheptow Park running 5th on the road. At the start all the nerves went away and they set off. The first mile was catching out driver and co-driver as things seemed to coming at them a lot faster than usual. With both the crew trying hard to get to grips with things they started to get into a rhythm until they entered a square right a little to fast and ended up stalling the engine. With 3 or 4 seconds lost they carried on to the finish setting a second fasted time, only 4 seconds behind Julian Wilks, the crew were stunned at the time and the performance of the car.

Stage 2 Serridge saw the crew pushing hard but in doing that made a few little mistakes, stalling the car again and not quite getting around the acute right onto the tarmac, with the car bogging down they struggled to get going again. As they were nearing the end of the stage they hit a crest a little off line, which sent the car flying in the air with Darren desperately trying to get hold of the car, as it bounced around he managed to get control thankfully, as we were probably doing in excess of 80mph at the time and would have made a big mess of the car. At the end of the stage they had set another 2nd fasted time and unknown to the crew were leading the 1400 class.

Stage 3 saw the crew ease off a little after their scare from the previous stage, in which the lost a little time, but still had the lead.





Stage 4 was a short run around the race course in which they took a cautious approach to as there were some really big hay bales which can do a lot of damage so a few seconds were lost, but coming into service they still had a lead of over 11 seconds.

Stages 5 and 6 saw the crew push hard again to try and keep ahead, but another competitor had a flyer and had drewn level for the lead. Stage 6 saw the crew respond and they set a flyer of their own and pulled out a 18 second lead, coming into the last stage.

With a comfortable 18 second lead Stage 7 was just a case of not pushing too hard, and not making any mistakes, they cruised home to a class win by 10 seconds, an outstanding finish.

Photo's of new car

Some pictures of the new car in Gallery

Wyedean Seeding

Rob and Darren have been seeded 206 So have a look out for us you can't miss us we'll be in the bright Yellow Proton.

New Car New Championship

Leighrallying is about to embark on a new challenge, the BTRDA 1400 championship.

A new Proton has arrived with a nice new John Beattie all steel 1400 lump. just for the record it sounds awesome. The car only arrivied on Friday, which gives us only 1 week to pull it apart and put it back together.

The Wyedean Rally is on the 9th Feb if you see us come and say Hello, we are going to need as much support as we can get.