October Autotest

The season started on a good note with 8 competitors eager to battle for the winter series championship. Martin and Peter Dorey entered a ‘new’ Metro sporting a hydraulic handbrake plus plenty of weight saving rust holes. Times were close all afternoon between the brothers but Championship holder Peter lost 10 points on test 3, which gave the afternoons win to (Bimbo) Martin. Eric Trump campaigned his ‘new’ cut down Mini Special gaining 3^rd place after adding 10 penalty points on test 3 and a wrong test on test 7 to his score. Peter Jory in a Rover 200 closely followed him less than 6 seconds adrift.

Tim Torode who has not attempted autotests for a few years drove an unfamiliar Hyundai Accent into 5^th place closely followed by Scott Rayson (sharing the Rover 200) less than 6 seconds behind. Nigel Ozanne (sharing the Hyundai) was only 16 seconds behind after gaining a wrong test and 20 penalty points in his exuberance