Elliot Payne and Patrick Walsh won the modern section of the Carlisle Stages Rally by 39 seconds from Stephen Petch and Michael Wilkinson at the end of the rally, but that didn’t tell the whole story of a day in Kielder.
Six stages made up the day with service after three, with rain falling heavily for most of the event. Payne and Walsh had spent the opening loop swapping times with fellow Fiesta Rally2 crew David Henderson and