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Forest Rally Marshals News
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North Humberside Forest Rally2010 NHFRFollowing negotiation with the Forestry
Commission in North Yorkshire, it has become apparent that it will not be
possible for North Humberside MC's North Humberside Forest Rally to run on 31
January 2010, and it seems unlikely (due to lack of available dates) that a
suitable alternative date can be found later in the year. Ian James (Clerk of the Course)
commented: "It is with regret that the organisers have decided not to
continue with the 2010 event. However we still intend to promote a similar event
in 2011 within the North Yorkshire forests". For the reasons expanded on below the
Forestry Commission is not able to offer sufficient stage mileage in a small
enough number of venues to the NHFR organisers for them to believe that it is
economically viable to run an event that has no major championships other than
regional association championships and would therefore be expecting no more than
60 entries in 2010. The Forestry Commission's decision to
withdraw the use of stages accessed via the Dalby Forest Drive from all events
other than Rally Yorkshire has meant that event organisers have been forced to
use other forests more intensively. Also in order to attract competitors in
these times of economic uncertainty organisers have reduced the number of venues
and increased second usage in order to reduce forest charges and the high fixed
costs (rescue, recovery, doctor and timing equipment) that each additional venue
needs. These costs form the major part of the organising club's costs for a
forest event. This has meant that stages have become
longer so as to provide the mileage in the most effective way and in so doing
the larger forest areas are used more heavily. This has been the case in all of
Langdale, Cropton and Gale Rigg forests. The surface of the tracks has suffered
in Langdale and Cropton thereby restricting the available mileage and in Gale
Rigg the mileage is restricted by the need to put roads used for harvesting out
of bounds to rallies. In the last quarter of 2009, Langdale was
used by all three of Rally Yorkshire, the Malton Forest Rally and the Roger
Albert Clark Rally. The NHFR is a non-sponsored event and the costs involved in running an event to the format dictated by the mileage available (that would be mainly single usage) could not be passed on to the competitor. The entry fee would be too high to be attractive for the mileage offered and the club cannot afford to pay costs that could not be passed on to competitors.
2009 NHFR - CancelledThe NHFR organising team had been prepared to run the event on 28th February at a considerable financial loss but by Sunday 22nd February there were insufficient entries to make such loss acceptable. For this reason we regret that the event has been cancelled. North Humberside Motor Club would like to thank those competitors who have supported the event with entries, the stage commanders, marshals, rescue units, recovery units, doctors and paramedics who committed their time to supporting the event, the landowners and those members of the organising team , particularly Ian and David James, who have been working on event preparation for the last several months.
2008 NHFRThe 2008 event was won by Steve Perez (photo). For full results (PDF) please click here or follow the link on the events own website. Top ten finishers are listed below:-
For further event information please visit the events own web-site.
We have been sent some links to video clips of action in the forests - to view click here and here.
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