Well today was the day I belatedly headed north to near Whitby to do some rally car driving with Chris Birkbecks rally school outfit. Chris has quite strong links with Peugeot – His early success as a team operator came while running the Simmonite sisters, Stephanie and co-driver Rachel for Peugeot.
Although the Simmonites real success came when they signed for Ford in 1996 and responsibility for their brand new Escort was handed to Chris. They acheived a 100% finishing record to clinch the British Ladies title and finished fourth overall in the British Championship.
For 1997, the sisters upgraded to an Escort Super Rally car, kept their 100% finishing record and scored maximum points on all six events to claim the British Ladies two years in a row.
Getting a Ford Focus dirty
Wet gravel stage
A great day of driving Ford Focus cars on the private test track environment and practicing those gravel driving techniques.
I liked the roof vents on this Fiesta
It was also a great chance to look at some of the very interesting cars in the workshop and get some inspiration…
I think this was an Opel Manta GTE
Rallye Project 
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