Jenkins builds for Roger Albert Clark Rally

The 2009 Roger Albert Clark Rally

Dave Jenkins is the latest high-profile driver to confirm plans to enter the 2009 Roger Albert Clark Rally. The former winner of the Wyedean Rally is well advanced with the build of a Ford Escort Mk2 ahead of tackling the November event for the first time.
 
Having more recently competed in a Ford Escort WRC, Jenkins says that he will be going back to his rallying roots by driving a Mk2 Escort and competing on maps rather than notes.
 
"It's in the spec we used to build them," said Forest of Dean-based Jenkins, who has been rallying for 30 years. He was a West Midlands champion in the 1980s and won the 1996 Wyedean Rally in an Escort Cosworth. He sold his Escort WRC after this year's Wyedean.
 
Jenkins will rally the Group 4 specification Escort in memory of his old friend and rally preparation ace Rex Paddock, who died in a microlight accident in April. Paddock started the initial work on Jenkins' new car before his death.
 
He says that he will fulfil a long-held ambition when he competes on the Roger Albert Clark Rally. "It's something I've wanted to do for a long time," he said. Back in 1985, Jenkins drove his Escort as course car for the Forest of Dean stages of the Lombard RAC Rally and set top 10 times against the Group B cars. "Rex was alongside me that day, although I did know where I was going," said Jenkins.
 
The fresh Mk2 is the first historic rally car from Dave Jenkins Motorsport, and they already have a second shell under preparation.
 
For more details about the Roger Albert Clark Rally, please visit www.rogeralbertclarkrally.org