| Dilworth flounders in Kinross | 2003
Event Reports
Richard Kershaw opens the 2003 championship by showing the same form that he displayed in 2002. Andrew West took modified production honours despite a roll in his Discovery. DriffieldKershaw wins again, but is chased hard by an on-form Tim Dilworth. Colin Read astounds onlookers with an incredible 8th overall for the Mitsubishi Shogun Pinin. KinrossRichard Kershaw takes his third outright win of the season, but is assisted by Dilworth striking electrical problems. Finally Tim Dilworth's day, having wowed the Hillrally world with his back-to-back victories Tim takes his first "British" victory. Andrew West pushed his Discovery into an amazing fifth overall. EllesmereKershaw wins his forth championship event this year to win a dominant second Goodyear MSA British Off Road title. A well deserved winner after another thoughtful drive. |
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 Winner of the Scottish Hillrally, the second round of the Goodyear
NationalHillrally Championship, Tim Dilworth was intent on regaining the initiative in the Goodyear British Off Road Championship round at Kinross the following weekend. The Scottish moorland terrain brings another completely different challenge to the championship, giving the competitors, their vehicles and the Goodyear Wrangler MT/R control tyres a thorough workout. Mixed weather conditions over the weekend meant that the versatile Goodyear tyres had to contend with everything from bone dry rocky tracks to slippery heather and deep mud. Dilworth took a whole twenty-four seconds out of Richard Kershaw, the reigning champion and dominent force this year on the five mile opening test. It was Alec Lofthouse, though, who took second place ahead of Kershaw. Unfortunately Lofthouse's bid for victory on terrain that suits both him and his vehicle, ended on lap two when he collided with a wall early on in the lap collecting a puncture in the process. A later accidental coming together with another competitor further hindered their progress, nonetheless Alec put in a blinding final run to take third place by a mere eighteen seconds from an unusually consistent David Eggington. Tim Dilworth's run of luck was ended on run two when a wiring fault on the Simmbugghini's fuel injection halted his progress only 100 yards in to the section. A maximum stage time for run 2 was compounded by a similar result on run 3 when the supposedly fixed fault re-occured. Tim then put in a blistering series of laps, recording fastest times on eleven of the remaining thirteen stages, to place him in an amazing fifth overall giving him a useful championship points haul.
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Top ten results 1. Richard Kershaw Amaterati 2h01m01s
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Mitsubishi works driver Colin Read in the Shogun Pinin took another
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