Image courtesy of Rob Large

June 2006
Three in a row for Reid.

Round three of the Peugeot 205 scholarship took place on Sunday with the Rally Marketing Mid Wales Stages, based in Newtown, mid Wales, the third round of this years Peugeot 205 scholarship

Junior rally driver Chris Reid started this event full of confidence after winning the first two rounds of the championship. After stage one, only one second separated Reid from his closest rival and ABmotorsport team mate Stefan Davies, but by stage two Reid and his new navigator for the event Lee Burgess had started to work well together and posted the fastest scholarship time to move into the lead by six seconds.
 
Dust coming into the car seemed to be the only problem the crew had to deal with. They completed the next short stage before heading back to service with an increased lead, after setting fastest time, of 19seconds.

Next up was the longest stage of the rally, all was going well until around 3 miles into a 9 mile stage when Reid hit a rock lying in the middle of the road, ‘’I was fully committed into a fast left hander when I noticed a rock that must have been disturbed by the previous car, there was no way of avoiding it and we hit it with the underside of the car’’ commented Reid at service.
The resultant damage caused the car to splutter and cut-out through the remaining 6 miles, and caused Reid a few heart stopping moments as he pushed to the limit trying not to loose his lead.
Back in service the ABmotorsport team managed to sort out all problems in less than 30minutes, sending the car back out in first class order for the remaining 5mile stage.

Again Reid went fastest in the last stage and set 10th fastest time overall on the rally out of 120 starters including many more powerful group N Subaru’s and Mitsubishi’s. Reid finished the day with a lead of 33 seconds from team mate Stefan Davies and only trailing 17seconds from Simon Moore in the modified class.

The third win puts Reid in a very commanding position in the championship going into the next round in Swansea next month.

Chris would like to thank Lee for doing an excellent job on their first event together, ABmotorsport team for doing another faultless job in preparing the car and also to fellow competitor Simon Moore and his father Ken for sharing chase car.

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