Darlington & District Motor Club has attracted another top quality field for the ninth running of The Jack Frost Stages Rally at Croft Circuit this forthcoming Sunday [January 13] and with another capacity entry the action is bound to be fast and furious.
Utilising all of the tarmac roads around the popular North East venue, including some unique variations around the twisty service roads, the event comprises qualifying rounds of the 2008 Tyrespot North of England Tarmacadam Rally Championship, SG Petch ANECCC Stage Rally Championship and ANCC Stage Rally Championship.
Attempting to claim a second successive victory is local driver Chris Wise who will once again have Tracey Taylor-West on the maps in their Autogas MG Metro 6R4. Having claimed a podium placing on last week's Specsavers Christmas Stages Rally, they know their way around the North Yorkshire track and will be one of the favourites to repeat their win of twelve months ago.
But there are a number of crews planning on giving the defending champions a run for their money including Lancastrians John Stone and Lee Carter who took an easy victory on the Christmas Stages and they return in their Legend Fires MG Metro 6R4. Stone was controversially denied victory due to a technical infringement a couple of years ago on this event and has publicly stated he'd trade his Specsavers win for the winner's trophy on the Jack Frost.
DDMC driver David Jones, along with TDMC's David Soulsby will be hoping for a good result in their Mitsubishis and so too will Tyneside Subaru drivers George Grieve and Keith Taylor, both of whom posted top ten finishes last time out at
Croft.
An interesting entry has come from Newcastle's Lee Tindall in the Skoda Octavia WRC in which he usually co drives for leading driver Andy Fenwick but on this occasion, he takes to the wheel himself.
![John Price / Caroline Price. MG Metro 6R4. Sligo Stages Rally. July 13 2008. [Pic credit: CMWI / actionphotos.ie]](http://pix.crash.net/thumbs/467687.jpg)
