Riddicks are pushed hard for the 1600 class honours

Keith Riddick and Mairi Riddick dominated the 1600 class in their MG ZR with newcomer Robert Proudlock getting quicker each time out as he finished runnerup in his Vauxhall Adam with Steven Brown.

Scott Peacock and Craig

Wallace took third in class in their MG ZR as Justin Gunning and Steven Clark lost out with a punctured wheel. A jammed rock taking a gouge out of the Fiesta R2’s alloy rim.

Meghan O’Kane’s ‘lucky banana’ proved fruitful once again finishing top Lady Driver with dad John in her Fiesta.

She also scored fourth in the competitive 1600 class, whereas Ashleigh Morris and Martin Haggett had a most trying day indeed. It started with a rear puncture in SS2, a ‘straight-on’ at a 90-degree left junction, where an earlier car had removed the tape. Then they smacked a rock with the front offside corner on SS4 leaving the Fiesta R200 battered and bruised but still driving. Not so the Mitsubishi Lancer of

Aileen and John Forrest. She just got two wheels on to the loose on the final stage and a deep ditch beckoned.

Among the lucky escapes on the day was the BMW 325i of Ernie and Patricia Lee. The driver said: “We slid well off on the outside of a fast right hander and as a farmer I thought there is no way this will go back out the way it went in, so I just pinned it, clearing a ditch and vaulting a banking to rapturous applause from the spectators!”