OUMF!

OUMF team exultation at the finish of Ypres 2022!.JPG

The ARP fixings in the students project cars have ensured total reliability at the notoriously hard, 2 day WRC Ypres Rally on Aug 19 – 20th. They left for Belgium with no expectations in the WRC Rally support event, which was a round of the Belgian National Rally Championship, but shared the stages with the WRC cars. These all went through first, with their deep corner-cutting leaving the lanes covered in dust and rubble. Their 1965 Riley 1.5 was seeded last – number 228 – being around 30 – 40 years older than the rest of the powerful, modern field, but this young team overcame all odds to finish 16th Overall/30. 5 days later, they were back in the UK, with their other Riley 1.5 and the recently completed Sebring Sprite project in the HRDC Jack Sears Trophy and Allstars races at the famous Castle Combe circuit in Wiltshire. After a titanic but ultimately successful battle with a Lotus 26R, the OUMF Sebring took its second consecutive win in the GT Class and the OUMF Riley also won the Touring Greats Class in the Jack Sears Trophy.  A quite remarkable string of recent achievements, all underpinned by ARP!