George Lepley and Matthew Robinson were the big winners on a muddy and slippery Riponian Stages as the British Historic Rally Championship season opened in North Yorkshire.
While Lepley and Dale Bowen took a commanding overall historic victory in their Mitsubishi Galant VR4, Robinson and Sam Collis scooped maximum championship points in their Ford Escort Mk2 after fending off a determined challenge from the similar BDG-powered cars of Adrian Hetherington/ Ronan O’Neill and Ben
