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Tuesday 28th October meeting

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wendysloper

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Richard Sykes, who campaigns a Citroen C2 R200 in the British Rally Championship, will talk about the ups and downs of competition. At the Whittington, 8.00 pm start.

www.rallybrc.co.uk/competitors.html?id=153:richard-sykes&catid=35
 
This Tuesday monthly meeting is at our normal venue, the Whittington, where we will have a local rally driver who competes in the British Rally Championship.
Normal meeting time 7.30 for 8
Please find a little about Richards racing and rallying career to date.
He has been actively competing in motorsport since 1987, where he started in auto grass racing as a 20 year old, moving on after 4 enjoyable seasons of that to rally cross where he managed to win his first British championship in 1991. After 4 season s of rally cross h moved into stage rallying and has been rallying since 1996.
He started in clubmen rallying and moved up to the British rally championship, since 2000 he has been at the sharp end of whatever series he has competed in .
He recently won the British Championship Challenge series in 2012 and has been a close runner up the last 2 years.
He has raced with and against some of the current crop of World Rally Championship drivers and co drivers such as Sebastian Loeb, Chris Meek and more recently Elfyn Evans together with their co drivers.
Since he retired from other young man sports such and rugby and squash he has enjoy his rallying more than ever
 
He sounds like an interesting guy. I hope the room is big enough and that everyone has a seat.
 
Local rally driver Richard Sykes gave us a fascinating and enthusiastic talk. Richard currently campaigns a Citroen C2 R2 Max in the British Rally Championship, having first got into motor sport in 1987, competing in autograss racing with a modified Mini, which he described as the real "grass roots" of competition. He then converted his Mini for rallycross and in 1990 won the BTRDA championship.

A much modified Vauxhall Nova followed, used first for rallycross and then for his first season of rallying in 1996. The Nova was then replaced by a Peugeot 106, to compete in the 1999 season of the Peugeot Cup. By 2009 he was campaigning a Suzuki Swift, finishing third in the championship after breaking a drive shaft on the last event.

Richard now competes in the British Rally Championship Challenge Trophy using a Citroen C2, powered by a 1600cc, 16 valve engine delivering 200 bhp via a 5 speed sequential gearbox, in a car weighing 1030 kg and costing about £50,000 to build. His most successful season in the Citroen was in 2012, when he won all of the events except the last one to win the championship by a clear margin. The secret of his success? "Rallying is about finishing, points win championships, so whatever happens I try to finish the rally even if I am well down the field". This year he has a lady co-driver, Emma Morrison, for the first time, after his long term navigator Simon Taylor injured his back when they had an off-road excursion in a rally in Ireland last year.

Some hair raising in-car footage finished off the evening, see this Youtube link to see the exciting footage for yourself.

http://youtu.be/YBRKejdjqyo
 
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