HRCR Clubman's Rally Championship

David Bramhill David Bramhill - Email

Chief Road Marshals Co-Ordinator
M-07976 911 446

Dale Cox Dale Cox - Email

Chief Test Marshals Co-Ordinator
M-07786 569 388

The Tour of Cheshire Historic Road Rally

March 6th 2027 - A date to Remember

Dear Marshals

We hope you don't think that we have lost our marbles but we just wanted to let you know that The Tour of Cheshire Historic Road Rally 2027 will take place on Saturday March 6th.

I know a lot of you like to make plans well in advance so we thought it would be good to let you know the date at this very early stage.

We are also on a Marshal Recruitment Mission, trying to encourage more marshals to join our team. We are particularly interested in recruiting marshals that have time keeping skills or want to become clock marshals. So if you know of anyone that would like to join us it would be great. We can provide training. Please contact David Bramhill any time on 07976 911446.

Thank you for everything that you do to make the Tour of Cheshire a great event.

Best regards

David Bramhill - Road Marshal Co-ordinator & Dale Cox Test Marshal Co-ordinator

17-08-2026

2026
Another busy day at the HRCR Gaydon open-day
Lorna Harrison & the Team setting up

Once again we will be using Liege Timers, they are easy to use once you have familiarised yourself with the procedures

Liege Clock Timing

To help refresh yourselves here is an excellent video, produced by the Bramhill family, of how Liege Timers work and how you operate them

Marshals Info

5 Day Area Weather Forecasts

Once again, we had acting as Marshals an elite band of ECF - VIPs from the Golden Days of Rallying.

ECF Member Some of our regular ECF members ECF Member

Sue Bloxham - Carol & Robin Tyler-Morris
Peter Valentine - Cec Offley - Ray Dale

What is ECF
or
ECURIE COD FILLET

From the inception of the Tour of Cheshire Rally Rally in 2004; Ecurie Cod Fillet members have been an annual unique feature of the event, assisting with the organisation, marshalling and social aspects. ECF is an invitation-only Club formed in the 50s by Roy Fidler and John Hopwood for leading British rallyists. Indeed the bulk of the membership was formed in the 1960 era through participating in the Motoring News Championship, which bred some formidable crews from competing in those epic 200-plus mile night rallies.

Initially it was primarily for British rallyists but famous names from other countries - Erik Carlsson, Timo Makinen, Rauno Aaltonen, Simo Lampinen and Hannu Mikkola (all winners of the RAC Rally) - soon became members! Today's membership is still an exclusive "under 300" and is a veritable 'who's who' of the good old days of British rallying in the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. Messrs Fidler and Hopwood also started the first "closed-road" rally when they founded the Manx Trophy Rally (Won by Reg McBrride & Don Barrow) in 1963.

Reunions are held every two years, the most recent being in November 2025 at the Cranage Business Centre, Holmes Chapel. The Tour of Cheshire again look forward to welcoming a good number of these rallyists of old to the 2026 Tour of Cheshire.

Sadly as each year passes the ECF membership diminishes in numbers but the old traditional spirit of Press on Regardless lives on.

I became an ECF member in 1959 and I can certainly claim to be the longest serving member to date.

Don Barrow - December 2025.

Don Barrow - Photo by Tony Large
Russell Brookes, Will Sparrow, Tony Mason, Neil Wilson, Tony Davies, Roy Fidler, Tony Fall & Alan Jolley.

Don Barrow - A few members of Ecurie Cod Fillet ECF officiating on the 2006 Tour of Cheshire Historic Rally
John Bloxham, Rob Lyall, Toney Cox, Roy Fidler, Stuart Turner, Alan Jolley, John Hopwood, Russell Brookes & Peter Bryant


John Parsons, Mike Harrison, Howard Warren - Porsche 911 - Cath Woodman, Duncan Wild, Peter Valentine & Alan Jolley

Other ECF members who have officiated on the Tour of Cheshire Rally since 2004.

Roy Fidler, John Hopwood, Alan Jolley, Barrie 'Whizzo' Williams, Bob Redhead, Carolyn Tyler-Morris, Cec Offley, Christopher Knowles-Fitton, Deryck Pickup, Don Barrow, Geoff Awde, Geoff Breakall, John Bloxham, John Brown, John Nixey, John Parsons, John Waddington, John Wadsworth, John Wood, Mike Broad, Mike Sones, Mike Wood, Neil Wilson, Nigel Raeburn, Norman Salt, Peter Bryant, Peter Valentine, Peter Ward, Ray Dale, Richard Harper, Rob Lyall, Rodney Spokes, Roy Mapple, Russell Brookes, Stuart Turner, Terry Harrison, Toney Cox, Tony Fall, Tony Mason, Will Sparrow & many more.

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