17-07-2025
- Automotive
- Powys County Times
Sweet Lamb hosts successful Grooms Garage Rally Time Trial
Newtown & District Automobile Club Ltd organised the fourth running of the Grooms Garage Sweet Lamb Rally Time Trial, which was held entirely within the Sweet Lamb Motorsport Complex near Llangurig.
This year, in addition to the Rally Car event, they also ran an event for Cross Cars.
Both events consisted of a four mile stage run three times in each direction, along with a low speed convoy recce run in the competition car before the first competitive run in each direction to offer a total stage mileage of 24 miles, not including the sighting runs.
A near full capacity of 60 cars was greeted by light drizzle and a misty sky and the sun remained absent despite the collective hopes of crews.
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Seeded at car one was last year's runner up, Liam Clark and Harry Stubbs, hoping to finish one place higher than the previous year.
The duo would set the fastest stage time on SS1 alongside Kyle White and Osian Pryce who made the trip over from Ireland to have some additional tuition from Pryce in the co-driving seat.
These two would battle for overall honours with Clark and Stubbs taking the outright win by 14 seconds from White and Pryce.
Local interest came from the main sponsor's son, Daniel Jones and co-driver Clive Jones in a Subaru who ended 13th following an electrical issue.
Ian Beamond co-drive for Andy Davies in his recently purchased Historic mk2 and use the event as a test ahead of the RAC later in the year to finish 16th overall.
The pairing of Geraint Mills and Jonny Evans joined up for the first time in over 10 years having competed alongside each other many times and the Evans Windows backed Opel Manta 400 would finish 18th overall.
Other Newtown crews were also in action with Phil Jones and Alun Horn 20th overall, just ahead of Gareth Edwards and Dylan Andrew in 22nd while Alun Jones and Abbie-Jade Bubb were 28th and Chris Gittins and Chris Arnott ended 37th.
