Jim Bowie

Submitted by jimbowie on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 18:05

CMC Committee Member since 1988

Preston Chief Marshal since 1997

Midsummer Endurance Rally Asst C of C

Club Autotest Champion 2004-2006

Quiz Organiser

Currently trying a bit of tarmac stage driving in an old 1.4 106 XSi

Live in Leigh on Sea with 2 grown up children that strangely do not drive!

Started navigating in 1969 ( aged 16 ) Craven Motor Club in Reading ( home team! ). Lots of road rallying & stage co driving until 1984 - slightly less active since!! Also been a SCCON & WSMC member during my years.

2006-7

Chelmsford MC Winter 12 Car Series 2006-2007

12 Car Winter Series 2006/7 Championship Table

Award winners:

Eddie Call 	64 points	1st Overall
Keith Lane	60 points	1st Novice
Neal Allsopp	53 points	2nd Novice
Jon Wilson	62 points	1st Beginner
Kevin Jarvis    53 points	2nd Beginner
David Church	53 points	2nd Beginner

We have run a series of Introduction to Road Rallying evenings.

EAC 2005

East Anglian Classic Gymkhana
7th May 2005 - RAF West Raynham

Results:

Overall Results
Results by Class

Test Times
Positions after each test

Class Awards
Team Results

Gutted!

Submitted by tomw on Mon, 23/04/2007 - 18:20

We ran the C2 on the Pirelli International this weekend. Our first competitive outing in the car and since our test we had made some changes to the car.

The first four stages were run on friday night and we struggled to find any real speed in the car but were lucky when many of our C2 rivals had problems and we emerged 5th in class and leading the C2 cup.

First Time Out

Submitted by shoveitpusher on Wed, 18/04/2007 - 09:50

once the decision had been made to compete on the sccon stages at Sculthorpe, Michelle and I departed for our anniversary holiday in New Zealand (yes i do have complete faith in the Canada Garage team)

Greetings from NZ

Submitted by shoveitpusher on Tue, 03/04/2007 - 10:08

Mrs S-P here, down two bottles of wine and I have invaded the executive business office centre of our hotel opposite the skytower in Auckland. Wish you were all here as we have had a wonderful time so far, jet boating at Queenstown and a flight round Mount Cook (our hotel was overlooking the aforsaid mount!). Me S-P taking over blog as I am too drunk apparantly!

note Me should be Mr - she really is pissed!!!

sad fact our coach driver for the south island is the c of c for Rally NZ in the South, a guy who took us for a short trip round Dunedin drives the closing car.

C2R2 Test

Submitted by tomw on Sun, 01/04/2007 - 22:25

Well the new car was finished (mostly) last week and this weekend Jamie Hickman and I tested it in Wales.
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We hired a small area of forest near Lampter in mid Wales for the day and had our very own rally stage about 1.5 miles in length. At each end was enough room to pull the handbrake and go back the other way. Our 'stage' had a hairpin and a square corner as well as some high speed bends and a varying surface with some rough and smooth bits. The venue was exactly what we needed to shake down the car.

VK - DERBYSHIRE 31/3/07-1/4/07

Submitted by jaggsie on Sun, 01/04/2007 - 17:14

Gordon and went up to do the VK as the Greenleaves in Wales was that extra 3 hours travelling time. We had a good run up with the car on the trailer, around 3 hours door to door. Had a fish and chip supper in Chesterfield and was through noise, scrutineering and signed on and plotted by 9pm so had a couple of hours shut eye. We were seeded car 28 and left the start 00:13 hours. Overall the rally was pretty uneventful for us, the organisers clocks on the event were slightly different to ours which was set at the start so we found we were coming in often seconds into the next minute.

The tour of Caerwent

Submitted by redz on Sat, 31/03/2007 - 11:07

84 cars entered the rally but sadly only 41 managed to finish. The event lived up to its reputation as a bit of a car breaker with 8 stages cover 80 miles we knew we were in for a long hard days rallying, but what a great venue a bit like a massive west Rayham with tight single track, good quality tarmac roads, deadly kerbs, hundreds of derelict buildings, old ammo bungers and railway lines. This was going to be a very technical rally with lots of braking and low gear shifting on every 90 turn and there were hundreds of them.

Targa Rallies

& Gymkhanas

CMC ran Javalin's Jumbo Jymkhana at West Raynham Airfield in Norfolk for many years while it was available, and then Gymkhanas at Woodbridge, Bentwaters, Honington, and Debden Airfields in Suffolk & Essex. The events included driving tests similar to our historic and endurance road rallies.

Targa Rallies are a new category of event introduced in 2013, which just involve driving tests on private land - this allows us to continue to run single-venue tests events WITHOUT any skill tests.

Upcoming events: