1:41pm Tuesday 16th June 2009
A MAXIMUM-point haul in the Weeton Stages, the eighth round of the GPM/Kirkby Lonsdale Motor Club Stage Rally Championship,has handed Keith and Jacqui Richardson a nine-point lead in the Drivers Championship.
The Frizington pairing put in a flawless drive in the Escort Cosworth to take third overall on the event - avoiding the puddles, kerbs, potholes and mechanical failures that claimed a third of the 64-car field.
Ken Jackson made a late surge into 13th place in the 1600 Escort MkII.
Unfortunately Martin Lynch and son Shaun did not continue their good run. After brake problems, they damaged the wishbone in the Talbot Sunbeam after sliding wide and clattering the one of the infamous kerbs.
With the local Greystoke Stages in three weeks and the Stobart Rail Pendragon Stages at the end of August there is still plenty of mileage for the championship to see another leader.
Kendal’s Escort Cosworth powered Paul Miller and Windermere’s Pip Simpson and Gary Tomlinson in the Kanku Subaru still could be in the frame before the forest rounds that start the final third of the season’s event.
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