[ERC] JDS Machinery Rali Ceredigion 30.8-1.9.2024

[Steve Boyd]

Did every Manx from 82 thru to 89 as a marshal/spectator Steve

If I add spectating, servicing & timekeeping I've been involved with 33 of them since 1977 and 24 Nationals. I reckon I've spent around six months over there on rallies all told!

The point I was trying to make though is that even in the days of the co-efficient system holding a rally towards the end of the season when the title race was down to a handful of drivers with strong local competition on an event that not many of the ERC had previously done was not the strongest draw. Ceredigion being held only a couple of weeks after the biggest rally of the championship year probably hasnt helped either.

I think you're right, and I very much doubt that Ceredigion can offer the kind of financial incentives that the Manx could in its glory days when they struggled to attract top level Eurpoeans. The Manx did get some Europeans over, lower down the entry list. Most of them came from Holland and Germany (competitors & marshals), usually people involved with the West Euro Cup. They also managed to get the French Citröen AX Cup competitors over in 1992 as their "foreign" event, so again not premier league.