The opening round of the British Historic Rally Championship got underway at the Riponian Stages with Dan Mennell and John Roberts taking the Category 3 and opening round win of 2025 in there MK2 Escort.
In wet and foggy conditions, setting a benchmark time on stage 1 was going to be crucial for the rest of the day and David Crossen did just that.
A brutal opening stage seen retirements for Robinson, Lepley and Squires amongst others. But David Crossen set the pace over the 7 mile Gale Rigg with Daniel Mennell and Ben Friend giving chase.
Mennell stormed into the lead on SS2 and extend that in Boltby with a storming run. Crossen suffered a half spin but the race was still on for round 1 glory and it’s close for the podium.
With two stages to Mennell was in control but there was a huge battle for the podium behind with Crossen comfortable in 2nd but Friend and Henderson have a charging Hetherington to contend with.
Dan Mennell and John Roberts took the win finishing 20 seconds ahead of David Crossen and Ben Teggart with Adrian Hetherington & Ronan O’Neill edging out Henderson and Lees in that final podium position.
Next stop on the BHRC Calendar is Carlisle Stages on April 12th.
