Escort Rally Special
Couvin Belgium 2018
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Having
worked for Roger Clark and Ford Boreham Competition
at the start of the Ford Escorts and worked on the BD series engine for 40
years, it was great to attend the Escort Rally Special event in Couvin Belgium,
140 of the best Escorts in Europe, competed in a Tarmac Rally as well as twelve hybrid
2.5 litre Escorts |
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Osian Pryce/
Jessica Hockly
1st place Historic, Great Drive, 2nd Overall to Frank & Lauren Kelly
2.5 hybrid Escort
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The rally
started well for us with Osian Pryce fastest on the first stage in the Historic,
4 seconds down to Frank Kelly in his Escort hybrid 2.5, Fred Caprasse was
2nd Historic and Florian Conon 3rd Historic, after stage 2 we were still 1st
& 2nd in the Historic and Osian took 5 seconds off Frank Kelly to take the
Overall lead. Christophe Jacob had a
puncture costing him 5 minutes, then Florian retired with gearbox. Fred needed a gearbox change and then the
pressure plate broke on the clutch, so gearbox was out again, good work by
Grant Shand and the mechanics to keep him in the rally. Fred eventually finished 7th in the Historic
followed by Simon Webster who had a good rally to finish in 8th place. Whilst Osian Pryce was fastest on stages 1, 2
and 3 in the Historic and was lying 2nd overall by .22 second going into the
last stage, only to have an ignition coil fail and loosing
power but managed to get to the finish to win the Historic. With 3 in the top 10 and 5 in the top 15 it
was a good event for us.
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Fred Caprasse/ Geoffrey Razzi 7th
place well done, setting 2nd fastest
times on 2 stages
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Simon
Webster /Jez Rogers, 8th place 2nd UK crew, Well done
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Marc Duez/ Ludovic Blaton demonstration
drive, not a scratch on the car, 1st
class driver
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Florian
Conon/ MichelHorgnies retired 2nd place with gearbox
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Thank you to the Belgium people and
all our customers for their hospitality in making us very welcome, also to
Christophe Jacob for organising such a successful and memorable event for the
Ford Escorts. Well done to the motor
club and all the volunteers
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