WMC have registered our interest to help out on the Nicky Grist Stages Rally on the 14th July which is a round of the BTRDA championship. To date I have had several people interested in attending. The event is based in Builth Wells with all the stages being run on the Epynt Ranges and the surrounding forests, Halfway and Crychan. It is likely to be an early start on the Saturday so have found a BB in Builth Wells (The Hollies http://www.theholliesbuilthwells.co.uk/ £35 per night BB) which will allow us to have a few beers and a curry after the rally and not have to drive all the way back the same day. If anyone is interested could you please let me know (  Gar...

By Tony King The first round of this year’s championship was organised by Lorraine Taylor & Tony King and ran across Wirral using OS Maps 108 & 117. It was disappointing that after all the time & effort put in to organising the event – it general takes 7 to 8 hours to actually put the plots out – only 4 crews entered. Finding 20 locations for the plots in such a compact and inhabited area was quite a challenge but the crews had a good night’s motorsport and enjoyed the “innovative selection of plots” even the one under the picnic table(although to be fair, it was the only picnic table at that location!) Unfortunately, last year’s champions, Steve Noble/J...

By Mike Taylor and Giles Dykes The previous weekend we were competing at Three Sisters in Wigan, which gave us a few issues to resolve. We had a strange misfire that appeared when we left service and disappeared when we went on stage, then fine when we came off, but reappeared when we left service for the stage. Back in the workshop we removed the plugs and found one black one and 3 normal ones so suspected injectors. We had the injectors tested and found a 25% spread injector to injector – we obviously had a bad batch of PICO injectors – probably Chinese sh1t. We sourced a new set and took the car back to Northampton Motorsport and had it re-mapped – gained 10BHP! ...

Random email sent in by Tony King showing some WMC members working hard to keep warm on the Malcolm Wilson Rally…

Mike Timmins from Knutsford MC has contacted WMC asking if Wallasey were going to help them with marshalling duties again on this year’s Plains Rally. His contact numbers are 0192 575 2282 or 0774 762 0009. Chief Marshall Neil Evans will be marshalling Garthenoig but we are still looking for men for other stages. If interested please contact Mike or Neil.

By Mike Taylor and Samantha Bartlett After a poor result at Anglesey on the Lee Holland stages due to the handling issues and a stage maximum, we were going over the Lotusbits Lotus Sunbeam to prepare it for the next rally at MIRA. We received a phone call from the SMC stages entry secretary asking if would we like a late entry for Weeton on Sunday. It is not like us to enter an event at the last minute – we normally set the schedule at the beginning of the year… It sounded a good idea but the rally was only 3 days away – we needed a co-driver and service crew at very short notice. Service crew Sam was up for it as his car was not ready for Santa Pod “run what you brun...

Anyone who attended this year’s dinner dance, I'm sure, will agree that as usual is was a cracking evening and great social event. It was great to see the usual suspects, and some new faces celebrating last year’s achievements in various forms of motorsport. This year, the guest speaker was ex-WRC winning co-driver, Phil Mills. Phil took a slightly different approach to after dinner speaking, and asked for all the tables to prepare some questions for a Q&A session after the meal rather than the traditional non interactive speech – which went down very well! Following the Q&A session, Phil also helped with the WMC awards, which were as follows….. The trophy tabl...

Subaru Impreza RA Tarmac Spec Rally Car For Sale   Originally supplied by TEG Sport (see www.tegsport.co.uk) this car is a previous class winner and has been prepared and serviced regardless of cost.   Engine Pace Alloy front mount intercooler/ radiator kit fitted Flowed heads Up rated ECU Alloy competition engine mounts Ultra lightweight alloy fly wheel Paddle Clutch 34 mm tagged turbo restrictor fitted Dump valve Big bore exhaust  (cat replacement pipe)   Suspension / Brakes / Running Gear Fully adjustable coil over suspension RA gearbox (recent full rebuild) and diffs Alloy Top Mounts Anti roll bar Four po...

Wallasey Motor Club have won their league division in the SD 34 Championship in its first full year of membership. Club members have scored points when they have participated in Championship qualifying events, similarly members who have marshalled on such events have also contributed to securing this award. Congratulations to all those members who competed and marshalled on behalf of the Club.

Back in early January, Neil Philpotts did a cracking job of organizing a rolling road day with a company that has recently opened on the Wallasey Dock Road. Normally the guy in charge, Dan, like to cut his teeth mapping cars and bikes, but on this gloomy Sunday he was well prepared to load various cars on to his hub dyno and blast through some power runs for the day. There was a great turnout, with 9 cars – road and race getting loaded on to the dyno. Top day out, with Dan giving some useful feedback on the cars performance, along with an email and print out of each cars performance for the respective owners. So a big thank you to Dan and Neil for sorting the day and ...