by Gary Simpson / Songasport
Andrew Burton and Shelley Rogerson will return to competition this weekend when they contest the Bulldog National Rally, the final round of the 2007 MSA National Gravel Rally championship.
On their last event together, September's Plains Rally, Burton and Rogerson finished in second place - six seconds behind the Subaru Impreza WRC of Jon Ingram.
With Ingram also entered on the Bulldog the target for the Peugeot Cosworth crew is to go one better than their Plains result.
However, as well as Ingram the top of the entry list also features Marcus Dodd and Steve Perez, both of whom have had close battles with Burton and Rogerson in 2007.
“It is likely to be extremely close, the cars and crews are so evenly matched that every second is vital,” said Shelley. “It should be a great battle for the spectators to watch and I'm hopeful that we will get a good result, ideally a victory of course!
“The rally uses some of the same forests as the Plains Rally so we know we've got the pace, if we have a trouble-free run then we should be near the top of the leader-board.”
Rogerson will be contesting the event for the second time, having taken victory in Group N with Julian Reynolds on last year's event. Burton has contested the event several times with a best result of third overall in 2003.
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