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Personal
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Name:
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Alun Cook
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Age:
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41
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Marital status:
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Separated
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Children:
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One - Josie
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Occupation:
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Operations Manager
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Place of birth:
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UK
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Country or county where you live:
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Wales
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Does your spouse / partner like rallying?
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Learning
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Any other hobbies?
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Squash, F1, Skiing, Computing
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Your opinions
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Favourite food:
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Curry
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Favourite drink:
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Alcohol
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Favourite motorsport paper / magazine:
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Motorsport News
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Favourite sports person (other than rallying):
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Iestyn Harris
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Favourite film star:
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Pierce Brosnan
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Favourite holiday destination:
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Anywhere Hot
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Which TV sports programmes do you watch?
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Scrum 5 Live, ITV F1, Y Clwb Rygbi
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Starting out
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How did you start out?
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Road rallying in the late 70s
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First driver you sat with:
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John Lewis |
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First event:
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Willowdene road rally organised
by Newport car club |
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Rallying background
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Type of licence held:
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International
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Which motor club do you belong to?
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IRDC & Ystrad Mynach
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Do you contribute towards your rallying?
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No
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Have you ever driven on a rally?
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Yes (Not very well though)
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Did you ever marshal on events? When and where?
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Yes
Local motor clubs organising road events during the 90’s
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How many events do you get to watch? (eg. per year)
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5 per year
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How many rallies do you take part in? (eg. per year)
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Between 8 & 12
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Have you competed abroad? Where and when?
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Yes
Spain in 1990, Belgium in 1995 & 96, France 1996
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Your opinions (rallying)
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Favourite rally car:
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Subaru Impreza Grp A and Ford Focus WRC
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Favourite rally driver:
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Colin McRae
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Favourite rally co-driver:
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Nicky Grist
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Favourite bit of road or forest:
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Dyfi & Pundershaw
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Do you prefer pace notes or map reading events?
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I like both equally as much
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Things you dislike about rallying?
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All the politics (work can be bad enough)
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Who do you think will win the World Rally Championship in 2002?
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Colin McRae
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Rallying history
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Drivers you have sat with:
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Jeremy Easson, Richard Moore, Tony Davies, Mike Pattison, Brian Lyall,
Ian Gwynne, Bill Gwynne, Eamonn Boland,
Glyn Jones, David Mann
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Best result:
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6th o/a, 1st Group N, 1st Amateur
1996 Network Q Rally
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Worst result:
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Finishing well down on the Bulldog 2000 because we just had to finish
to win the ANCRO Production Cup title
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Championships contested:
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ANCRO, Welsh National and BRC
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Best Championship result:
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3rd Overall Ancro 2000
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Best rally memory:
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Finishing 6th on the 1996 Network Q
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Strangest incident on a rally:
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Coming over a crest in 6th with Bryan Lyall on the Granite
City Rally to be confronted with a woman and a pushchair in the middle
of the road with ditches either side. Bryan was remarkable and very
composed in bringing us to a stop with minimum fuss.
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Biggest accident:
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Winter Rally (Now Rallye Sunseeker) 1990 with Jeremy Easson at the
end of an Avon Park stage, took the big crest flat in 5th,
hit another stationary rally car at over 3 figures
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Your current performance
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Your current driver(s) and events or Championships being contested
in 2002
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David Mann, The National Rally Championship (ANCRO)
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How could you improve your ‘own’ current performance?
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By contesting more events if time allowed and becoming more focused
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How could you improve your current driver’s performance?
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Again by contesting more events if time allowed
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If you had £50,000 to spend on rallying, what would you do?
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Discuss with David (Mann)
on the most efficient way of getting the most return out of the money.
Possibly invest some in a marketing strategy to get more sponsorship,
and use the rest to hire a suitable car for a suitable championship |
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Your future in rallying
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Where would you most like to compete (in the world):
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New Zealand
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Which rally would you most like to compete in?
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San Remo or Catalunia
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Which driver(s) would you most like to co-drive for?
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Colin McRae, Juha Kankunnen
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Ambition in rallying for the future:
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To win the ANCRO championship
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What would you like to put back into rallying?
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The experiences I have gained, by teaching new / up & coming
co-drivers of the things to look out for and the things most likely
to catch them out.
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future of rallying |
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Which up-and-coming rally driver can you recommend?
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Leon Pesticcio
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Which up-and-coming rally co-driver can you recommend?
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Nigel Gardner
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What would be the best tip you could give to other co-drivers?
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To make sure they understand exactly how their Driver would like
them to call the map or notes to ensure they gel as a team.
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posted 22/1/02
Contact
Alun by email
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