Bumper Entry for Jim Clark Rally

27 June 2005

Next month's Jim Clark rally is set to be a massive affair as it prepares to stage Britain's biggest rallying weekend of the year.

With three weeks yet to go, the organisers from the Berwick and District Motor Club and the Border Ecosse Car Club have already received some 250 entries for the various events being staged over the Jim Clark weekend from Friday 8th to Sunday 10th July.

The 35th running of the Jim Clark, which features rounds of the Kwik-Fit Pirelli British Rally Championship, the Pirelli Irish Tarmac Rally Championship and the County Saab Scottish Rally Championship, as well as providing one of the most popular rounds of the Mitsubishi Ralliart Evolution Challenge, seems to be about to buck the trend of recent major rallies by stretching the organisers' skills to fit everyone into its schedules!

Several entries are still expected following rounds of the British and Irish Championships in Dumfries and Donegal, but the Jim Clark organisers are already preparing to adjust the balance between the International event and the National event which follows the same route.  The National event has proved particularly popular and has been officially oversubscribed for some weeks.  Adjustments are now being made to accept more National competitors and enable around 150 crews to take part in the two main events taking place on the Friday and Saturday.

With Sunday's Reivers Rally, a round in the Scottish Championship, already approaching its extended maximum of 120 entries, the Jim Clark could see its biggest ever field of competitors tackling the testing Berwickshire lanes in mainland Britain's only closed public road event.

Delighted Rally Manager Colin Pagan said:  "Not only are we looking forward to seeing Mark Higgins and the rest of the BRC competitors pitting their skills against the flying Irishmen in the International field, but there is serious competition in the National and Reivers Rallies.  Once again we have attracted the British Isles' best international, national and club competitors.  Whatever the weather, it's certain to be a summer scorcher on the roads of Berwickshire!"

Details of the entry and how and where to get a supporters rallypack can be found on the rally's website at www.jimclarkrally.com

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