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08/07/2026

Throw back to July 2019 when Frank Bird / Jack Morton took the 07 Focus WRC to a win on Greystoke stages.
This was only Frank’s 5th rally, his first on gravel, making it 2 wins from 5 events. Frank and Jack took 10 wins in the Focus before switching to a Fiesta Rally2 in 2021 and came straight out to win the Ford Parts Cheviot Stages.
Hager PBM Racing Team
Jack Morton - Co-Driver
M-Sport

05/07/2026

Barbados was meant to be stress free this year. Heading out with the Beatson Motorsport BMW ready for the rally. We were all arriving on Tuesday afternoon so a bit of beach time was expected before the start on Friday night. A txt message on Tuesday night changed that.
Kyle Gregg had a big accident (rolling and sliding into a rock face) on the King of the Hill rally sprint. This event ran the same weekend as the Jim Clark. He asked if I would be able to help Brett and the Pro Auto works team, who look after his car is Barbados, get the car ready for the start. This lead to a very busy time in the workshop and no beach for me.
Just as Kyle’s car was being finished at 4pm Barbados time (9pm UK) on Thursday a head gasket issue raised its head on another Fiesta in Brett’s workshop. A few calls and someone from M-Sport went in to leave a head gasket and parts out to be collected.
Remember George who took the BMW to Heathrow for us? He is a retired farm manager and was helping someone with the silage when he got a call,
Hi George can you go to M-sport collect a head gasket, then to Newcastle airport fly to Heathrow and then out to Barbados? When Neil? You need to be in Newcastle airport by 4am tomorrow so now really.
Silage trailer parked, quick change and George headed off to M-Sport on Leg 1 of his trip.
Mid day Friday Kyle’s car finished and tested, it was back to get the BMW ready for the start for John and Craig. Friday night was One super special at Bushy park and as the start drew closer the clouds did the same. Just as John left service on slicks a downpour started. Welcome to Barbados John, your first stage on slicks in the rain.
George also made an appearance with the head gasket at this point. Once again asked to help the Pro Auto works team change the head gasket on the fiesta after the first stage made for a late night / early morning. 3 hrs later the fiesta was on the circuit running to check the data.
With central service this year it meant a double shift, a service on Kyle’s fiesta then across to do a service on the BMW.
John and Craig lost around a minute on Saturday when a clutch slave cylinder failed. They managed to get the car back to service and have the cylinder changed. This was the only issue for the BMW during the event.
At the end of the event Kyle Gregg / Kreigg Yearwood finished 10.6s behind Stuart Maloney / Kristian Yearwood in 2nd. Our other customers who are ran by Pro Auto Works, Jeff Panton / Matt Edwards were 6th, Tarik Minott / Harry Walshaw 17th with John Marshall / Craig Wallace finishing 49th on their first trip to the island.
All that’s was left to do was pack up and get everything ready to fly home and then have a day by the pool.

28/06/2026

Finally have some downtime so I can put together a post or 2 about what we have been up to.
The Manx National Rally at the beginning of May seems a long time ago. We headed to the Manx with Darrell Taylor/Martin Brady and new customer Steve Simpson/Mark Glennerster.
Steve and Mark had pop off valve issues and dropped a lot of time. They then decided to use the rally as a test for the upcoming Jim Clark 2 weeks later and only did some of the Saturday stages.
The tragedy that happened on the first stage will never be forgotten

The next weekend we were at Knockhill for the next round of the Scottish Classic sports and saloon championship with John Marshall and his immaculate BMW E30 DTM spec M3. With no practice or warm up it was straight into one qualifying session. John claimed 2nd on the grid for the first race on Sunday. Typically Knockhill weather wasn’t the best and a damp first race end with John 2nd O/A but first championship registered competitor.
That weather turned again with hail and heavy rain just before the 2nd race. This time John got ahead and then controlled the race to claim the win and take maximum championship points from the weekend.

Next up was our home event the borders competition Jim Clark memorial rally. Steve Simpson / Mark Glennerster were out again in the rally2 fiesta and John Marshall / Craig Wallace were in a historic BMW M3.
Steve again had pop off issues but this was resolved in Service and the pair started to put some competitive times in. John had a power steering pump fail that was replaced and he settled in to the event enjoying the stages.
Steve and John’s cars were re-prepared and scrutineered after the main rally ready for the Borders Competition Jim Clark Reivers rally which ran on the Sunday. Also doing this rally were David Lapsley / Brian Foggo in his mk2 historic es**rt and Derick Hall and Liam Charlton in a Subaru. Steve and John both had a good clean rally bring a good end to the weekend. David hasn’t done many rallies and finished a creditable 53rd O/a as he builds experience. Derick on the other hand was doing his first event and brought the car back unmarked to get a finish.
That wasn’t the end of the weekend though. It was back to Hassington once the roads opened and pack up the spares, tyres tools etc then load John’s own BMW onto the trailer for it to depart at 7pm to be at the Heathrow early Monday morning ready for its flight to Barbados on Tuesday.

21/06/2026

Gartrac prepared Mk 1 Es**rt Shell inc all panels for sale.

This shell was originally prepared from a road car by Gartrac for Dom Buckley IRS in the late 80’s for a customer who intended to do the 25th anniversary London to Sydney rally in 1993.
Unfortunately the customer decided not to go ahead with the event after the shell had been prepared.
It has never been built into a rally car but recently a respray had been started before the decision to sell was taken.
Prepared to Gartrac’s high standards to an original Safari spec including seem welding, double skin floor and bulkhead for strength. The roll cage also comes through under the wing to pick up the bull bars.
It is the perfect example of a mk1 shell with no rust that hasn’t rallied.

Please get in touch with Neil on 07917519002

24/05/2026

9 x Michelin M21 18” for sale at Jim Clark all in good condition.
07917519002

16/05/2026

This week we are at Knockhill for the next round of the Scottish Classic Sports and Saloons championship with John Marshall in the Beatson's Motorsport BMW m3 DTM car. Qualifying this afternoon with 2 races tomorrow afternoon.

10/05/2026

Not a post we would ever want to write after a rally but following the tragic passing of Darrell Taylor on Friday during the Manx National Rally we would like to send our condolences and deepest Sympathy to his family and friends at this difficult time.
Having been a customer for several years, his loud outgoing personality always made the service area an interesting place to be.
I personally will miss working with him and still can’t believe I won’t be getting the post event Monday morning call.

I would like to thank the medics and Marshalls at the scene and also everyone else in the wider rallying community who offered help, it was greatly appreciated.

08/05/2026

Manx National Rally this weekend with 170 cars taking to the roads on the island.
Steve Simpson/Mark Glennerster start car 11 and Darrell Taylor/Martin Brady start car 54.
Ahead of them are 10 stages 60mile today and a further 12 stages 76.5mile tomorrow.

24/04/2026

No events for us this weekend so a throw back to 1981.
Photo credit Frank Love

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