Image coursty of Tom Banks

May 2006
Round two win for Reid in the Pirelli Trophy.

Inverurie based junior rally driver Chris Reid took victory again in last weekends Pirelli Troph Rally, the second round of this years Peugeot 205 scholarship.

Reid, fresh from a round one win on the Malcolm Wilson rally back in March, made a slow start; setting fourth fastest time through the opening 5 mile stage a front puncture near the end of the stage did not help matters. Reid soon got into the flow of things on stage two, posting fastest scholarship time moving him into the lead.

Stage 3 once again saw Reid and re-acquainted co-driver Phil Peak, setting the fastest time by 13seconds to AB Motorsport team mate Stefan Davis.
‘’that stage was awesome, we were pulling over 100mph in places, the AB Motorsport team have done a superb job in setting the car up and it gives me a lot of confidence on the faster parts of the stage’’ commented Reid at service.

After a short service it was on to stages 4 and 5 where Reid set equal fastest then fastest times respectively to hold a comfortable lead. Going into the last 1.5mile spectator stage, the PZero, amazingly Reid was fastest by just 0.2 seconds from a hard pushing team mate, and just 2seconds slower than the fastest more modern and powerful Fiesta cup car!

In the end Chris Reid and Phil Peak won the 205 scholarship with a winning margin of 33seconds, taking 9th overall in the Trophy Rally and 2nd in class.

The next round of the championships, the Rally Marketing Mid Wales Stages is on 25th June.

Chris would like to thank Andy Baker and all at AB Motorsport for doing a faultless job in preparing the car for the event, also a big thank you to Phil for stepping in at the last minute to navigate and for doing such a superb job on the day.

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