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Personal
Name:	Clive Jenkins
Age:	** 37
Marital status:	Married
Children:	** 1 girl - Anwen aged 4 months
Occupation:	Projects Engineering Manager
Place of birth:	Llanidloes, Mid-Wales
Country or county where you live:	Sedgley, West Midlands
Does your spouse / partner like rallying?	** Yes
Any other hobbies?	Just don't have time for anything else - try to get out on my mountain bike as often as I can.
Your opinions
Favourite food:	I love all good food, I honestly could not choose a favourite
Favourite drink:	Blackcurrant squash
Favourite motorsport paper / magazine:	Motorsport News
Favourite sports person (other than rallying):	** Paula Radcliffe
Favourite film star:	** Pierce Brosnan
Favourite holiday destination:	Don't have one, but rallying has taken me to many wonderful places in the world, which I would like to return to when I've got more time.
Which TV sports programmes do you watch?	Any programmes featuring motor sport when I’m at home
Starting out
How did you start out?	My parents used to marshal on road rallies. My brothers and I were taken to them whether we liked it or not. Joined the local motor club and started doing 12 car rallies. Began by driving with my younger brother Carl on the maps but switched to navigating when he passed his driving test.
First driver you sat with:	Wynne Jenkins
First event:	Holrus road rally
Rallying background
Type of licence held:	International
Which motor club do you belong to?	W&SSCC
Do you contribute towards your rallying?	No, not directly
Have you ever driven on a rally?	No, not since those early 12 car events
Did you ever marshal on events? When and where?	Yes, frequently but not very often now due to work and rally commitments
How many events do you get to watch? (eg. per year)	Very few, usually just the ones which I retire from
How many rallies do you take part in? (eg. per year)	Typically around 15
Have you competed abroad? Where and when?	Belgium, Corsica, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, Spain, Qatar & Yugoslavia ** Norway and Turkey
Your opinions (rallying)
Favourite rally car:	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 6
Favourite rally driver:	Sebastien Loeb
Favourite rally co-driver:	Philip Mills
Favourite bit of road or forest:	** Inohori - Greece
Do you prefer pace notes or map reading events?	Pace Notes, but maps are very satisfying when you get it right
Things you dislike about rallying?	That dedicated amateur enthusiasts and unpaid volunteers are expected to organise events to a professional standard for highly paid professional drivers and teams for little reward or gratitude.
Who do you think will win the World Rally Championship in 2002?	Petter Solberg
.. and in 2003?	** Marcus Gronholm but I'd like to see Petter Solberg win
Rallying history
Drivers you have sat with:	Martin Stenshorne, Guy Wilks, Martin Sansom, Andrea Hall, Brian Bell, Mark Lawn, Mark Fisher, Miles Johnston, Adam Kent, Roger Davies, Stuart Coupe, Tony Davies, Jon Joannides, Peter Stephenson, Richard Stoodley, Pauline Churchill, Karl Jones, Steve Egglestone, Jon Stratford, Don Kettleborough, Philip Mills, Wynne Jenkins & many more…….
Best driver you have ever sat with?	Could not possible say without fear of offending some very talented drivers, however Mark Fisher's commitment on tarmac was truly memorable, and making Ice Notes with David Llewelyn on the 96 RAC taught me a lot.
Best result:	1^st in class on Neste 1000 Lakes 1996 1^st in class on Deutschland Rally 2001 3^rd Super 1600 on Acropolis 2001
Worst result:	Leading the 1995 Quinton Stages outright in a Gp4 Escort RS, half a mile from the finish of the last stage the engine threw a rod, coasted to the FF and into retirement. Neste 1000 Lakes 1995 - retired with engine failure whilst leading the class by 8 minutes. Crashing out of last stage of Monte Carlo 2003. Having to withdraw from Turkey 2003 having contracted Gastroenteritis
Championships contested:	Astra/Nova Cup Lada Challenge Welsh AWMMC BTRDA Peugeot Challenge Escort RS2000 Challenge Colway 1400 Metro Cup Micra Challenge Ford Ka Championship Ford Puma Championship ANCRO BRC WRC Super 1600
Best Championship result:	1^st ANCRO F2 1996 Roger Davies 2^nd NISSAN MICRA CHALLENGE 1997 Mark Fisher 1^st FORD KA CHALLENGE 1998 Andrea Hall 1^st ANCRO F2 1999 Andrea Hall 2^nd FORD PUMA CUP 2001 Guy Wilks 6^th WRC Super 1600 2001 Martin Stenshorne
Best rally memory:	I have dozens of great memories from many events; Donegal 1997 with Mark Fisher comes to mind. Despite planting the car on top of a stone wall for 6 minutes on SS1, the fight back through the field to a podium position was stunning, the carnival atmosphere for the whole of the event was just fantastic.
Strangest incident on a rally:	Kerridge 1998 Rolled into fir trees in Myherin leaving me trapped upside down in a Ford Ka in pitch dark with Andrea Hall and no spectators around.
Biggest accident:	Woodpecker Stages 2000 with Martin Sansom
Achievements gained from rallying:	Travelled to some interesting parts of the world, sat with great drivers, been in some great teams and together scored some great results
Your current performance
Your current driver(s) and events or Championships being contested in 2002	Martin Stenshorne Junior World Rally Championship
... and in 2003?	** Martin Stenshorne - Chris Birkbeck Rallysport Junior World Rally Championship
How could you improve your ‘own’ current performance?	Stop my day job so that I could concentrate on rallying, event preparation and personal fitness
How could you improve your current driver’s performance?	!
If you had £50,000 to spend on rallying, what would you do?	** This would allow me to give up the day job for a while to concentrate on making it as a profession.
Your future in rallying
Where would you most like to compete (in the world):	Australia, New Zealand & North America
Which rally would you most like to compete in?	** New Zealand , The Dakar
Which driver(s) would you most like to co-drive for?	The one that's going to win next year's world championship
Ambition in rallying for the future:	Turn my hobby into my profession
What would you like to put back into rallying?	Supporting young competitors in any way that I can
The future of rallying
Which up-and-coming rally driver can you recommend?	Guy Wilks
Which up-and-coming rally co-driver can you recommend?	Phil Pugh / Ian Windress
What would be the best tip you could give to other co-drivers?	Start competing as young as you can, compete on as many events as you can, get out on WRC events as soon you can, work hard, prepare thoroughly, be totally committed, sit with lots of drivers & do the lottery
Any other comments	Further news of our progress in the JWRC this year can be viewed at www.stenshorne.no
posted 9/5/02 updated 27/5/03 (items marked **)

Clive's news
The next event for Martin and I is the WRC Acropolis next week, the 3rd round of the Junior World Rally Championship. Keep in touch with all the news. Clive 27/5/03
Clive taken to hospital during WRC Turkey
Before the start of leg 2 of Rally Turkey (March 1st), Martin Stenshorne withdrew from the rally; co-driver Clive Jenkins had been taken to hospital with gastroenteritis. Read all the news from the event Email from Clive: I'm back home now but still feeling a little fragile. My own doctor's got me a new course of drugs so I'll be taking it easy for the next few days. Yes and I'm desperately disappointed for being the cause of our retirement from Rally Turkey and especially for Martin and the CBR Team after they put so much hard work into the event. On the positive side though, our early times showed that we can challenge for overall honours and Guy's result shows that the car is competitive, strong and reliable which gives us a lot of hope for the next round in Greece. As for Rally Turkey, given their circumstances the organisers put on a good rally which was very tough, but thank God it didn't rain! Clive 5/3/03
Pardon?
Don't think much of the Ford press release announcing that Phil Pugh's wife had a daughter the night before the Monte Carlo rally........ It should be "Clive Jenkins's wife". Believe me, I know - I was there..... However, she'll never make a co-driver - she booked in 8 weeks early, 4 lb 13 oz. We've called her Anwen. Helen Jenkins 26/1/03 Monte Carlo news