The opening round of the Historic Rally Car Register's Clubmans Rally Championship, the Tour of Cheshire, attracted an entry of nearly 70 crews led away by last year's winners, Paul Hernaman and Ray Crowther in their 1972 Porsche 911.
Organised by Knutsford and district motor club, competitors set off from the rally HQ at Cranage Hall, near Holmes Chapel, for a series of road regularity sections and short special tests at venues ranging from stately homes to a sewage works.
The club also invited a host of well-known names from historic rallying to act as celebrity marshals, including former works BMC driver Roy Fidler, ex-British rally champion Russell Brookes and professional co-driver Mike Broad.
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But the highlight of the rally was an 18-mile test around Swynnerton Camp, run with 30 mph timed-to-the-minute road rally timing through 27 controls which took 150 marshals to man and over thirty minutes to complete.
Overall victory went to Bob and Jeanne Taylor who claimed their first ever outright win, 21 seconds ahead of Roy Gillingham/Andy Gibson in an MGA.
The event was also a fundraiser for the North West Air Ambulance and club president Duncan Wild presented the charity with a cheque for £2500 at the prizegiving ceremony.
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