NATHAN AND JOHN ARE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!

After a fifth straight class win and victory in the prestigious Two-Wheel Drive Challenge on the Swansea Bay Rally, Quinton Motor Club’s Nathan Crewe and John Connor have been declared winners of both categories in the Pirelli MSA National Gravel Championship. 

 

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Out of the extreme weather conditions in the forests high on the Epynt Ranges in Mid-Wales, it was Steve Perez in his Ford Focus WRC who emerged as the winner of this year’s Quinton Stages Rally.  With new Quinton Motor Club member Stephen McAuley from Belfast sitting alongside him in the co-driver’s seat, the Vodka Kick boss and former British Historic Champion Perez finally claimed his first victory on the event by some 39 seconds over the cream of British Clubman’s regulars.

After rain in the previous week, the day started clear and sunny, drying the stages made famous by Wales Rally GB in recent years and dust even started to cause visibility problems for following crews in the morning stages.  However, with the wind rising to gale force, torrential rain set in for the afternoon, making the track conditions slippery and very tricky.
On the opening test in Halfway, Perez stopped the clocks just a second down on reigning BTRDA Champion Will Nicholls in his Subaru and was a couple more seconds down on SS2 - Monument 1 - after a time-consuming spin.  “It’s taking some getting used to,” gasped Chesterfield’s Perez, “switching back to the Focus from my Lancia Stratos.”  However, after SS3 – Route 60 -, Perez hit the front by a single second and then the 2004 National Champion asserted his authority on SS4 in Caeo, increasing his lead to thirteen seconds.

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QUINTON MEMBERS CLIMB ONTO THE PODIUM AGAIN!

At the end of the two-day RBS International Manx Rally, the latest round of the MSA Pirelli National Gravel Championships, Quinton Motor Club members again found themselves – in one case rather surprisingly – on the podium, the iconic event having seen stunning, but not untroubled, performances from both crews.  Their success on this event, that as usual drew the best crews from both the UK and Ireland, meant they have retained their leads in the overall championships.

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    Ian Allsop, Quinton’s leading co-driver, was back with his regular partner Jon Ingram, but as the Subaru Impreza WRC that they normally use had been seriously damaged in a crash in the recent Killarney Rally of the Lakes, the pair had to accustom themselves at short notice to an older – and somewhat slower – Impreza S9 in a brief 10-minute test prior to the start of the event.  With many of the controls and the handling totally different from their usual car, not least that this was a right-hand drive car rather than the left-hander that they are used, things did not bode well for the pair, who have previously been impressive on the extremely fast yet tortuous roads of the Isle of Man.

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QUINTON CREWS OUT IN FORCE!

An astonishing total of 21 Quinton Motor Club crews faced up to many of the UK’s best single-venue rally competitors amongst the capacity entry of 75 cars at the MIRA Proving Ground near Nuneaton on a day when the varying weather conditions affected the final results on Quinton’s own Horiba D’Isis Stages Rally

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ALLSOP ON THE PODIUM AGAIN!

Quinton Motor Club’s Champion Co-driver Ian Allsop achieved another podium finish after an excellent performance with driver Michael O’Brien on the latest round of the National BTRDA Series - the BETTA Somerset Stages Rally.  After a long day of some 12 stages covering nearly 45 miles, the pair finished 3rd in their Ford Focus WRC 02 against top-class opposition and would have finished 2nd but for an irritating stall at a hairpin on Stage 7 that lost them some 28 seconds......Click Here for the full report

QUINTON STARS LEAD NATIONAL GRAVEL CHAMPIONSHIP

After the latest round of the MSA Pirelli National Gravel Championships - the Brick and Steel Border Counties Rally – Quinton Motor Club members hold top spots in this, the pinnacle series for off-road rally crews in the UK.

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QUINTON STARS – AT BOTH ENDS OF THE COUNTRY!

 

Quinton Motor Club’s leading co-driver Ian Allsop had something of a surprise outing on the latest round of the BTRDA Championship as, with a weekend free from his duties with usual driver Jon Ingram, Michael O’Brien invited him to fill an unexpected vacancy alongside him in his Ford Focus WRC 02 on the North Humberside Rally.  Neither disappointed their new partners, with the pair coming home 2^nd overall behind Vodka Kick boss and Allsop’s old rival Steve Perez, who was returning to the forests after finally recovering from his accident on last year’s East African Safari Classic.

 

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AIP MOTORSPORT – A TEAM THAT IS GOING PLACES!

 

Successful Redditch businessman Mike Jones has created a new arm to his company to incorporate his lifelong interest in motorsport and now AIP Motorsport is to be the force behind his entry into the prestigious FIA Baja Championship – the world’s grand prix series of cross-country events. 

 

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AIP MOTORSPORT – A TEAM THAT IS GOING PLACES!
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Chipping Campden’s Mike Jones has established himself in the motorsport world over the years, competing successfully in all sorts of on and off-road events in an interesting variety of motor vehicles. But with ‘challenge’ and ‘endurance’ being the watchwords for his motoring activities, Mike is now establishing a new team – AIP Motorsport

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QUINTON CARS SUCCESSFULLY SEEK THE SUN

 

Quinton Motor Club competitors in the Pirelli MSA National Gravel Rally Championship made a flying start to the new season on the Rallye Sunseeker with three class podium places and a fourth overall after a furious two days’ rallying in the Bournemouth and New Forest area. After a couple of quiet seasons, Nathan Crewe and John Connor have fitted a new engine..................................................................

 

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QUINTON’S MIKKELSEN SETS ANOTHER ‘YOUNGEST-EVER’ RECORD

 

Just a week after becoming the youngest-ever driver to win points in the World Rally Championship, by dint of his superb fifth place on the WRC Rally Sweden, Andreas Mikkelsen and his co-driver, fellow Quinton member Ola Floene, were back in their home country of Norway to compete in the next round of their national championship – the Finnskog Rally, in an area used by the WRC Rally Norway.

 

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QUINTON SUPERSTAR IS YOUNGEST EVER TO TAKE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS

 

Quinton Motor Club member Andreas Mikkelsen changed the history books when, with his Norwegian fellow member and co-driver Ola Floene, he took 5^th place on the Uddeholm Swedish Rally – the latest round of the World Rally Championship.

 

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LING FLIES WITH RED KITE

 

Quinton Motor Club member Sebastian Ling scored his first outright rally win and rewarded his co-driver Aled Rees with the perfect birthday present on their opening event of the year – the Red Kite Stages in mid-Wales.

Driving his Mitsubishi Evo 9, which has been fully rebuilt over the winter, this was the ideal shakedown for the car before the crew concentrate on their main focus of the year – the Mitsubishi Evo Challenge

 

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MIXED FORTUNES FOR ALLSOP ON THE BULLDOG

 

After a momentous victory on the Plains Rally last month, Quinton Motor Club’s Ian Allsop and driver Jon Ingram were optimistic as they looked forward to a return to the mid-Wales forests, this time on the prestigious Bulldog Rally, the last round of the MSA Hankook National Gravel Rally Championship.

 

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ALLSOP AND INGRAM PLAINLY BETTER

 

Quinton Motor Club’s Ian Allsop and driver Jon Ingram scored a momentous victory on the prestigious Plains Rally in mid-Wales and celebrated the first outing in a British forest of a Subaru Impreza S11 by beating mid-Wales maestro Andrew Burton by some 6 seconds at the end of a day of cut and thrust between the two crews over 45 miles of prime forest roads.

 

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QUINTON CREWS PACK IN A FULL WOODPECKER WEEKEND

 

Many of Quinton Motor Club’s regular competitive crews competed in the prestigious Woodpecker Stages Rally, the latest round of the national BTRDA series, in the borderland forests of Shropshire and Radnorshire – and not without considerable success.

 

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ALLSOP SPLASHES TO CORACLE WIN (13/8/07) 

 

After success on the Quinton Stages Rally a month ago with driver Graham Middleton, Quinton Motor Club’s leading co-driver, Ian Allsop, returned to sit alongside regular driver Jon Ingram in his Ford Focus WRC on The Bill Gwynne Rallyschool and Motorsport Coracle Stages at the Sweet Lamb forest complex in mid-Wales.

 

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QUINTON STARS DO IT ACROSS THE COUNTRY  (31st July 2007)

After recently showing their prowess in event organisation on the highly acclaimed Quinton Stages Rally, it was Quinton Motor Club’s elite competitive members who were making the headlines across the country after a weekend of national and international events in South Wales and on the Isle of Man.

 

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