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Championship Countdown to the Cheviot.\u00a0 As we now look forward to the final rally of our championship year, the Cheviot Keith Knox Stages Rally will once again decide who will be our champions.\u00a0 Will it be new names on the top trophies for 2014 or will it be our current champions taking the honours yet again ?<\/p>\n
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With the championship positions after the recent Pendragon Stages now final, a closer look at the sharp end of the overall tables show that the driver\u2019s title will be decided in favour of one of three men.\u00a0 Darren Doherty stands in the lead by 8 points from Barry Lindsay with Ian Forgan another 5 further adrift.\u00a0 Darren\u2019s season didn\u2019t start until the North West Stages but he\u2019s scored well in his Subaru Impreza on every event that he\u2019s started this year.\u00a0 On the other hand, Barry got off to a flyer on the opening 2 rallies at Croft and was comfortably leading the championship.\u00a0 However, he\u2019s only started half of the 6 events since January and therefore slipped up a little in the race.\u00a0 Ian is new to us and only kicked off his campaign in Blackpool but he\u2019s contested all 6 rallies since February and picked up handy points consistently.<\/p>\n
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And while Barry is our current champion with his little Peugeot 106 (something he\u2019s managed on 5 previous occasions too), Ian joined as the reigning Scottish Tarmack champion.\u00a0 So it\u2019s clear to see that Darren\u2019s in good company with men who know how to win championships \u2026<\/p>\n
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The championship Regulations state that contenders can count their 6 best scores of the year and although Ian has started 6 rallies his non-finish on the Tyneside Stages due to a diff failure on his Ford Ka mean the zero points awarded for round 6 will automatically be dropped after the Cheviot.\u00a0 Meanwhile as Darren and Barry have only started 5 events, whatever scores they achieve on the Cheviot will be added to their current total.\u00a0 All 3 drivers have already used their Jokers this year so there\u2019s no possible hidden surprises to come for anyone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Across in the co-driver\u2019s section it\u2019s less complicated as Michael Lindsay heads Kathryn Forgan by just 6 points.\u00a0 Both have played their Jokers as well and also have to rely on other family members to help decide matters.\u00a0 In Michael\u2019s case it\u2019s his son Barry doing the driving while for Kathryn, it\u2019s her husband Ian pushing the pedals and holding the wheel that she\u2019s relying on for the good finish.\u00a0 Or could it be that really it\u2019s the drivers that are relying on their co-driver\u2019s to get them the finish that decides it all ?<\/p>\n
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So that\u2019s the overall tables but let\u2019s not forget the classes as there are still a few \u2018winners\u2019 to be decided on the Cheviot.<\/p>\n
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This year\u2019s rally will have new sponsors in\u00a0ALM Engineering Solutions and FordPartsUK<\/strong>.\u00a0 The Regulations have just been released and tell us that Hadrian Motor Sports Club and Whickham Motor Club are this year offering 80 competitive miles in 9 special stages run over a total distance of 140 miles on the infamous Otterburn military ranges.\u00a0 A\u00a0Recce of the stages and Scrutineering will take place on the Ranges and then followed by Documentation at Otterburn Village Hall on Saturday 8th<\/sup>November.\u00a0 The competition starts at 8:30 the next day with the Organisers planning that the rally will finish in daylight too.\u00a0 The results are expected to be published at\u00a0the Otterburn Castle Country House Hotel. \u00a0 There\u2019s lots more information about the rally available online at\u00a0 www.cheviotstages.org.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And to finish off for the moment, there\u2019s been an update to our\u00a0History<\/strong>\u00a0page on the championship website.\u00a0 A reminder in images of our champion from a couple of years ago showing everyone a clean Escort back bumper \u2026\u00a0 for more go to www.nerallychamp.com\/page?history<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Championship Countdown to the Cheviot.\u00a0 As we now look forward to the final rally of our championship year, the Cheviot Keith Knox Stages Rally will once again decide who will be our champions.\u00a0 Will it be new names on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,25,8,7],"post_series":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asperformance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asperformance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asperformance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asperformance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asperformance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asperformance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/asperformance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asperformance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asperformance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asperformance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asperformance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}