Ross and District Motor Sports Club organised the nineteenth Ross Traders Historic Tour on July 9th, using a 148 miles route in the Welsh Marches. The event is a round of the HRCR Clubmans Championship and 51 crews, with competitors from as far afield as Cornwall, North Wales, Kent and North Yorkshire, made the journey to Ross for one of the toughest rounds of the year. The pre-1974 historic cars tackled six long regularity sections where maintaining a pre-determined average speed, set safely according to the road width and conditions, is vital. Secret Time Controls are positioned on the route to test their time-keeping ability to the second. The best lost a total of just 64 seconds over 33 controls in a distance of 125 miles. The crews also drove fourteen Special Tests against the clock on private estate land. The event was won by Worth Birkill (from Dorset) and Cath Woodman (Nottingham) in a Morris Mini Cooper by three seconds from Jon Wood and Kevin Savage from Yorkshire in a similar car.

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