Evans ends year on a high

July 7, 2014

Gwyndaf Evans completed his first season of historic rallying with an emphatic victory on the Roger Albert Clark Rally. Evans and co-driver John Millington, in a Ford Escort Mk2 run by Phil Mills’ Viking Motorsport team, emerged from four days of forest rallying with a margin of more than four minutes.

Evans (left) battled early on with Martin McCormack and Steve Bannister, also in Escorts, but McCormack suffered a blown engine and Bannister lost time in a ditch in Kielder. Evans set a searing pace and was a commanding winner when the crews arrived at the Carlisle finish. “I’m very happy for the team; they built a beautiful car,” he said.

Jeremy Easson, partnered by Alun Cook, maintained his superb record on the event with second, while Paul Griffiths/Sam Collis took third. Further back, Le Mans winner Guy Smith completed only his third rally in his Escort MkI.

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Paul Lawrence

Here is a man who goes racing every weekend from March to October. Paul’s passion for the sport goes back to when he was a child of the 1960s. He has organised, competed in and marshalled on scores of events, and has written about the subject for 20 years. He is as at home in the paddock at Brands Hatch as in a Welsh forest or at Shelsley Walsh.

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