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Although the 2017 championship is very much in draft mode at the moment as we await MSA approval, the first three rallies are already taking shape.\u00a0\u00a0As usual we will kick off the new year\u2019s championship with a rally in the old year \u2013 the\u00a0Swift Signs<\/strong>\u00a0Christmas Stages Rally.\u00a0\u00a0Run at Croft Circuit on Tuesday 27th<\/sup>December, it\u2019s the ideal excuse to get away from the Christmas festivities and get a fix of some top class rallying.\u00a0\u00a0Entries for this popular rally opened a few weeks ago and quickly passed the maximum permitted number of 90 starters.\u00a0\u00a0The organisers plan to seed the lucky ones after the 9th<\/sup>\u00a0December so keep an eye on the event website of\u00a0http:\/\/www.northallerton-ac.co.uk\/xmas\/<\/a>\u00a0for further updates.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The next rally will be the aptly named Jack Frost Stages that is scheduled for Sunday 15th<\/sup>\u00a0January.\u00a0\u00a0Darlington and District Motor Club are planning another rally similar to the Christmas Stages in that they will utilise the same venue and we can expect similar competitive mileage.\u00a0\u00a0The weather is often a little wintry on this rally and it throws up some unexpected conditions, driving and results.\u00a0\u00a0The rally organisers are still awaiting a permit from the MSA but do hope to have this sorted out very soon and therefore are planning to open entries on\u00a0Monday 12th<\/sup>\u00a0December at 19:00<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0The link for this rally is\u00a0http:\/\/www.darlington-motor-club.org.uk\/series_home.php?seriesid=61<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And finally for now, a quick mention about round 3 of the championship, the 20th<\/sup>\u00a0running of the\u00a0Legend Fires<\/strong>\u00a0North West Stages.\u00a0\u00a0Plans are well under way for this rally that will continue to be based at the Norbreck Castle Hotel in Blackpool.\u00a0\u00a0There has been a change of date this time and the event will run 3 weeks later than usual meaning the action takes place on Friday 24th<\/sup>and Saturday 25th<\/sup>\u00a0February.\u00a0\u00a0The rally is expected to retain a similar format to 2016 and the Regulations have just been published.\u00a0\u00a0However, we do know that the on-line entries system will be available on\u00a0Saturday 10th<\/sup>\u00a0December 2016 at 09:00 hours<\/strong>. The event is extremely popular and has historically filled very quickly, so get your entry in early.\u00a0\u00a0There\u2019s more athttp:\/\/www.nwstages.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Although the 2017 championship is very much in draft mode at the moment as we await MSA approval, the first three rallies are already taking shape.\u00a0\u00a0As usual we will kick off the new year\u2019s championship with a rally in the…<\/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":[15,12,14,25,36,35,13,8,42,34,7],"post_series":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asperformance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970"}],"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=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asperformance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":972,"href":"https:\/\/asperformance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asperformance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asperformance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asperformance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asperformance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}