One of the early entries for the Team GMF Wyedean Forest Rally comes from 2012 BTRDA Rally First Champions Cameron Davies and Alistair Dodd. The Llandovery driver is moving up to an all-out assault on the Millers Oils 1400 Championship this year and has replaced his successful Nissan Micra with a Toyota Aygo. Although they missed last year's Wyedean Forest Rally, Davies/Dodd went on to take maximum scores on four of the remaining seven rounds of the series on their way to clinching the title.

Contenders for the 1400 Championship run at the front of the field on each of the BTRDA Rally Series rounds and, although the cars may only have small capacity engines, the competition amongst them is always very hot! Former 1400 Champion Darren Pinchin (Cheltenham) and co-driver Kaz Watts, who lives in the Forest of Dean, are another crew to have committed to the event in their Proton Satria.

Those present in the Forest of Dean last February will remember the snow that greeted competitors as they headed out to the special stages and, on a day when power could be viewed as something of an embarrassment, Julian Wilkes put in a fantastic performance to bring his 1400cc Vauxhall Nova back to the finish in Chepstow in third place overall.

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