Tees crew Chris Roe and Bob McKenzie have won their race against the clock to be ready for this weekend’s MEM Malton Forest Rally.
Driver Roe, from Redcar and his Skelton navigator go into the event on Sunday challenging for three ANCC Championship titles. But they’ve had their work cut out getting their Vauxhall Nova ready after suffering a number of problems in the Trackrod Rally last time out.
“It’s been a race against time to get the car ready after finding a differential fault on the car after the last round, coupled with a damaged engine mounting and a few other problems meant we had plenty to sort before the event,” explained Roe.
“But having rebuilt the damaged diff and repaired all the other problems, we are ready to head out to fight for championship honours.
“We’re still in with a chance of fighting for not just the (1400cc) class championship but the forest championship and the overall championship as well.
“At the start of the year and my first full season in the driving seat did I think I’d be in this position at the end of the year?
“No not at all! We have performed far better than I’d expected for our first season.
“At the start of the year we had no plans in place other than just doing a few events but as the year progressed we have built up a championship challange. Whatever happens from here on in we can surely be pleased with how the year has gone, and hopefully we can maintain the challange to the end.
“We have been seeded as 1400 class runners for this weekend but if there are long straights then we are sure to struggle with gear ratios as we are still gathering funds to repair our damaged gearbox from Croft.”
Ollie Mellors (Proton Satria Neo) is the top seed but Billingham businessman Peter Stephenson (Ford Focus) is likely to be a challenger.
Stages in Langdale, Cropton and Gale Rigg forests will be used, and the event will be based at Adderstone Field in Dalby Forest.
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