Cambrian thanks
On behalf of the organising team of the 2018 Cambrian Rally I would like to say a big thank you to all the marshals, rescue crews, recovery crews and medical teams who supported this year’s event.
This year we were blessed with better weather than in 2017, but nevertheless we as a team still had several challenges to overcome before the event and on the day.
Sadly we had a serious incident which caused a delay, but due to the excellent work of all those involved in the incident, the crew were quickly attended to and taken to hospital and the crew were later discharged from hospital and are now making a steady recovery.
The day was a busy one for the recovery crews as we had many retirements and they were working until very late getting everyone out to be collected by their service crews, so once again many thanks to them for all their hard work.
Last but not least, a thank you to all the radio crews who did a great job in tracking all the competitors through the stages and ensuring everyone’s position was recorded.
Without all the above we have no event, so once again many thanks.
Finally some people have complained about the condition of certain stages, please remember that we had severe weather leading up to the event which made the roads extremely wet, which would result in them getting cut up very quickly.
As for the Elsi stage, Natural Resources Wales had not regraded the roads since the Cambrian Rally last used them in 2016 and were not prepared to do any pre-event repairs to the road unless the event paid. We were reminded by NRW that the forestry roads are part of a working forest.
Motorsport events must accept the roads on an ‘as found’ basis.
There may be some urgent late fixes that have to take place, and NRW will deal with these as appropriate, but the standards remain the same: forestry purposes. Alyn Edwards Clerk of the course Cambrian Rally