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Posted: July 18, 2008 3:16 PM

QUINTON WIN FOR PEREZ / MCAULEY

Posted: July 10, 2008 3:04 PM

For the second time this season, Kick Energy rally driver Steve Perez romped to victory on a BTRDA Championship event as after winning the North Humberside Forest Rally back in March, he added today's Quinton Stages to his ever-increasing list.

Driving the Ford Focus WRC, the Chesterfield driver was reunited with Irishman Stephen McAuley, with whom he had won last autumn's Trackrod National Rally, and the pair made a steady start on the Llandovery-based event which used some of the forests made famous by Wales Rally GB in recent years.

On the opening test in Halfway, Perez stopped the clocks just a second down on Will Nicholls' Subaru and dropped a couple more seconds on SS2 (Monument 1). However, on SS3, Perez hit the front by a single second but SS4 in Caeo was where the 2004 National Champion asserted his authority and he increased his lead to thirteen seconds.

Perez headed into the second loop of stages in confident mood and continued to set fastest times on the remaining three tests to end up some 39 seconds clear of runners up Damian Cole and Paul Morris (Hyundai Accent WRC) at the finish.

"If I'd registered for this championship, I may have been in with a shout!" exclaimed Perez afterwards meaning Cole and Morris took maximum BTRDA points on the event. "After driving a 1975, 2 wheel drive car recently, the transition to a 2005, 4 wheel drive car suited me just fine. It's only the second time Stephen and I have competed together and we have won on both occasions so that's a good omen. I thoroughly enjoyed the event and thanks to the marshals and organisers" concluded the former British Historic Champion.

Perez is next in action on the Swansea Bay Stages which forms round five of the 2008 MSA Pirelli Gravel Rally Championship on Saturday 19th July.

Full Results and Times

Posted: July 10, 2008 3:00 PM

Results
1, Steve Perez/Stephen McAuley - Ford Focus WRC 03 - 0:41:43
2, Damian Cole/Paul Morris - Hyundai Accent WRC - 0:42:22
3, Hugh Hunter/Andy Marchbank - Ford Focus WRC- 0:42:22
4, Nigel Griffiths/Josh Burton - Subaru Impreza - 0:42:51
5, Danny Barry/Mark Bowens - Mitsubishi EVO9 - 0:42:59
6, Michael O'Brien/Ian Allsop - Ford Focus WRC 02 - 0:43:27
7, Dave Weston/Neil Shanks - Subaru Impreza - 0:43:31
8, Stephen Simpson/Patrick Walsh - Hyundai Accent - 0:43:32
9, Tristan Pye/Kirsty Riddick - Subaru Impreza - 0:43:34
10, Matt Edwards/John H. Roberts - Subaru Impreza - 0:43:59

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