JCB Photography was again at Cadwell Park Circuit, this time for the single venue stage rally, the Alan Healy Memorial Rally on Sunday 6th April 2025.
The event is organized by the Border Motor Club and was round eight of the 2024/25 Protyre Circuit Rally Championship along with several other Stage Rally Championships including the Autoshop, MG3 Rally Challenge 2025.
Using the Cadwell Park Circuit and some of the access and service roads, with around 44 stages miles over nine Special Stages all within the confines of the Circuit but also using some of the access roads around the track.
With a real mix bag of competing clubman rally cars such as the Ford Fiesta, Ford Escort MkII’s, Nissan Micra’s, Mazda MX5, Mitsubishi Evo’s, Subaru Impreza’s and a variety of BMW's, and Peugeot's. With 97 entries, car number one Michael Igoe driving his Citroen C3 Rally 2 with Will Atkins sitting in the co-driver's seat took to the first special stage at 9 o’clock.
The crews would have to complete a couple of laps of the track with chicanes and would also include a number of merges and split points along the route, this could result in several rally cars been on the same part of the track at the same time, which is quite unusual for rally crews in the open forestry commission stages.
Out of the 97 entries only 63 cars were classified as finishers, almost a third of the field did not see the finish. We did see two cars go off into the armco but managed to carry on, however two competitors did roll again in-front of the camera and many more had mechanical issues.
The winners of the 2025 Alan Healy Memorial Rally held at Cadwell Park Circuit were Michael Igoe and co-driver Will Atkins driving a Citroen C3 Rally 2. John Griffiths and co-driver Emma Morrison driving a Skoda Fabia R5, were 2nd and 3rd was Chris West and co-driver Keith Hounslow driving a Peugeot 306 Maxi Kit Car.
Full Results and stage times for the Alan Healy Memorial Rally can be found here:
https://www.ewrc-results.com/final/91782-alan-healy-memorial-rally-2025/
The final round of the 2024/25 Protyre Circuit Rally Championship will be the Altratech SMC Stages at Anglesey Circuit on Sunday 13th April.